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00:00 CONTEXT
01:48 SPONSOR CARD
01:59 PART 1 START (9/2020)
03:50 FINGER CHINGUS
05:03 TEFLON TAPE
06:05 QUICK TIP
07:08 WHY SO LOUD....
08:06 WTF MOMENT (MY BAD)
09:43 PART 2 START (2/2021)
11:05 USE YOUR SENSES
12:35 FOUND IT!
13:44 TRUST YOUR GUT
14:04 TEMPORARY FIX
14:50 123 PLEASE DON'T BLOW UP
22:01 BACK AGAIN
23:59 WTF MOMENT
24:46 FOUND IT
28:38 TOLD YOU I'D WIN
30:11 CLOSING WORDS

Let's start this out with just a brief description, i'm about to work on some glycol units: okay, um or power pack units beer line, chillers couple different names. The primary purpose of these units is to keep the beverage lines or beer lines in my case cold. From point a to point b: okay, you have a beer walk-in that stores 34 degree kegs of beer. Okay, but then you know across the building.

You have beer taps in the bar and when they start pouring the beer, all the sudden, the beer starts foaming and it's warm okay. So what they have to do. The problem is, is that those beer lines are running from the beer, walking all the way to the taps and they're warming up whether or not they're running through the attic or down through the the underground, either way we have a power pack or a glycol unit. That's essentially going to take like polypropylene lines, some kind of plastic lines and it's going to wrap around the beer lines and it's going to keep them chilled from the beer walking to the taps.

So that way, you can maintain a nice proper pour coming out of your beer taps, okay, basic understanding of how these beer glycol units work. I should say, okay and also some context, there's two parts to this video. This was actually two different service calls. The first part was in september of 2020.

I got a service call on these glycol units and i made a repair and it had some good quality footage in it, but it wasn't enough to make an entire video, so i actually just sat on it. Didn't do anything with it flash forward to february of 2021. I got another different service call on the same unit, and i figured you know what i'm going to put these two videos together. So there will be a break.

You'll see the first repair on the first service call and then you'll see the second repair on the second service call. Okay, so hopefully that makes sense for you. This video is brought to you by sportlin quality, integrity and tradition. We are back on this glycol unit.

I've been talking to the customer for a while, and they decided to go ahead and let me change out both of those pumps and pump motors. If you guys can recall this is the one that was frozen up and the glycol was really dirty um. I had a call on it again recently and what i found when i got here was is a long story short, but the customer had shut the unit off trying to defrost it and what they did was they shut off the pumps instead of shutting off the Condensing unit, so when i came, they turned it back on thinking they defrosted it. The unit was now frozen up because the condensing unit had been running without pumps, so i had to come out.

Do a proper defrost on it, which essentially just turned the condensed unit off. Let it sit for about an hour with just the pumps running, but again i told them that the pumps are going bad and they decided to go and let me do it and then, when i'm done tomorrow, they're going to get the beverage people out here to Change out that nasty glycol too, so it's also interesting that the glycol is not as bad now and they also had someone come out. Supposedly they already changed the glycol. But when i came out when it was frozen up, this stuff was black again after the pumps get really hot and stuff.
It just turned complete solid black um. So it's interesting that once it's been circulating, it clears up so hopefully after changing these pumps and then changing it, one more time it'll eliminate this problem. Now these pumps have mx conduit running all the way into there and it's super tight. So that's going to be a chore to get that out, but i think the easiest way is going to be to unhook it completely from here and pull the whole pump and motor out you guys and also i mistakenly call these things pumps.

This is the motor. This is the pump but the whole assembly. I just call it a pump. So forgive me, you guys know i'm really bad with names of things that pump came out rather easy with the conduit, like i said, still attached.

That'll make that easy. This one's a little bit more difficult. What i have is a little finger, chingus bit that will accept a quarter inch little guy like this uh. I got it from kmart many years ago.

I don't know where you can get it from now, but i got a quarter inch socket on there. You can also put a i'm sorry. I got a quarter inch ratchet, but you can put a socket wrench on there too, but that'll help me get that in there and then i can get it on the other side too. So sometimes these little tools, they save your life.

I think you can still get these at sears if there's any that are still open by you. I'm sure now that uh lowe's has picked up the craftsman line, you might be able to get it at lowe's. Now too, because it's a craftsman thing it's a 41380. Is the part number on it? It is so much easier doing this out here and then just having this to hook up inside and the fact that we have a ground ran in here.

We're not going to need this chassis ground right here, um, so i'll be able to just use the brackets so long as we've got. This is a dedicated ground right here. We're good and the unit's grounded so we'll remove that chassis ground and then, like i said so that way, i can just use the existing bracket. There's nothing worse than missing.

One thing i needed teflon tape. I didn't have any in my van. I had to go to the hardware store just to get, teflon tape seems silly. All right motors are installed, i i don't have them wired in yet we're gon na do the swap out on the pumps now um.

I've got a bucket over here. Usually, what i'll do is do it over a bucket, because you are going to get some glycol leaking out um. Hopefully i can get these ones off. I personally do not have the tool that does these special little crimps, so we got to be able to twist it off, but it looks like there's a hose clamp on that one hose clamps aren't ideal.
I know um, but that's what's already on there. So that'll be easy because i'll be able to undo that and then twist that one off and it's the same for this one, there's the crimp fitting and then a hose clamp. So if they were both crimped, then it would be a little bit more difficult. Unless you can actually twist the line, it's just one of those things, i don't do enough beverage work to justify, buying the tool and all the clips and stuff.

So sometimes you got to get creative, so this line is got positive, fluid coming out of it because the reservoir is above it. So it's coming out at a pretty good pressure, so i was able to shove my pin in there that has a rubber end on it until i can get the other side swapped out and getting put on. If i put it on the pump, you know if i just screwed that side into the pump, it would still come out the other side of the pump. So silly stuff you got to do all the insulation was extremely saturated, so i ripped it all the way back to this point right here and i'm going to re-insulate everything.

But this also gave me an opportunity. I dried everything up really good and then i've been letting it sit for about 10 minutes to make sure that i don't have any leaks. I can probably i'll probably go ahead and hook up the electrical and bump it too before i insulate it just to make sure that we don't have any leaks, all right, let's hope nothing blows up on me. I can safely.

Is that sit yeah, that's safe to be down there, so let's go ahead and turn one on we're allowed to run 6.1 amps that one's good okay and then i need to switch it over to the other one. Now here goes the next one. I don't know why it's making that rattling sound something's wrong there, nothing wrong with the pump it's or the motor. I think it's just the way that it's connected or something, but it's not over amping.

So i'm going to see if it quiets down, there's something wrong with that pump. I can't get it to quiet down, so i have another one at my shop and i have someone bringing me another pump right now. We'll have to take this one back. When i pull it apart, i'll make sure there's nothing stuck in it, but i don't want to pull it apart until i have a new pump on me just in case, so i went ahead and insulated everything as best as possible, except for that turned it on.

So that way we can bring their beer temperature down, but that fly call is nasty again it's after you turn it back on all the stuff eventually will settle, but they need to get that stuff, purged and cleaned and whatever the life lesson for you um, when I did these, i missed some crap okay, i missed that um. I swear that there i i know i pulled them out of both of them, but for some reason there was there must have been more shoved in that pump. So hopefully that was the noise. I have the other pump, but i don't think i'm going to need it so always got to double check that stuff.
It happens to the best of us. Hey. What do you know? It's whisper quiet now, all right, cool, good stuff. I'm gon na go and insulate that guy up - and hopefully we can be done with this back on and running almost down to temp, and i wanted to point something out to be clear: these pumps, they come with this little foam crap in them to keep stuff From getting stuck inside the pump - and i pulled some out but either it ripped or i there was two in there - i don't know because there's actually there was, i saw some lying around like a little piece of one.

So maybe i just didn't get it all, but okay, so this pump is still good. Nothing wrong with that and i'm gon na start cleaning up all my messes and then give them to go ahead to get the people out here, and so i need to make sure that i let them know when i got here this morning. That was clear, but it's when you shut it off and let it sit for a few minutes and then turn it back on it turns to pure mud. So that's what they need to understand.

I don't want you know. I got to make sure i let them know when the people get here, don't just pour glycol in there and say it's fine like they need to drain it flush it and redo it. But now we got new pumps insulated. All nice and good, no leaks things.

Just about down to temp all right, so that was the end of the first service call and we're gon na go ahead and transition to february of 2021. At this point now, hey check it out we're back. We've got a glycol unit, they're complaining that one of their glycol units isn't working. So i climbed up here and it has no power - and i can hear this one running so they're saying that half their bar is not working um.

I'm gon na turn off the power switches uh, because it's plugged into that and go see. If i can find a breaker, that's tripped more than likely we're gon na have a trip breaker. Well, i couldn't find a breaker trip, so we're gon na get in here and measure voltage we'll measure it here. First, we'll open up this see if we've got voltage in there i went through every breaker panel.

Nothing was tripped, that's interesting! Using the non-contact voltage. This guy has power, we've got no display or anything. Of course, i'm gon na verify with my meter leads, but that was just a quick check, so i don't see anything funky going on, but be careful because we could have wires that are loose and in fact what we're gon na do is cause it's a plug. Over there we're gon na go and unplug it.

So that way we don't make any fireworks happen while we're moving wires around. It's also disconcerting that this is flexing, as i'm stepping here on this wood, all right, i unplugged it now so now we can come over here and play with this and see if we can find any loose wires or or what here i'll pull all these covers Off so i loosen this and there is clearly burnt electrical in here. It's a very strong smell coming out of here. Again we have power, disconnected so we're safe.
So let's move some stuff around. Oh yeah, there you go, we've got some burnt wires down on this switch right here. This is burnt, it's toasted, so we're going to open up that switch compartment a little bit more so yeah, that's interesting! Look down here, looks like an electrical short burnt. The wires burnt a hole in the temperature controller.

This thing's toasted looks like maybe it started at that switch, and i bet you if you follow incoming voltage it like probably jumps from switch to switch and that's probably why we lost power completely. It's hard to say exactly what caused this. I guess it could be the contacts in the temperature controller shorting out too, but something caused something to get really hot and it melted everything in here. But it's interesting, though, because if you look at again remember everything's off these are pump switches.

It's not even the compressors that's burnt, like the switch, so i don't know i i think it might have been a pump switch overheating, maybe a bad switch or something back in there and it melted a hole in the temp control. That's my thought! So! Yeah, here's the culprit so main power comes in on this cord jumps to this wire right here and then, and it goes from control to control. But this wires right here. So, that's why this whole unit lost power, but these wires are just these units have probably been overheating because they're super brittle, so we're gon na have to do like a big epic rewire on this thing, get a new dixon controller and hope that there's no other Issues all right, i got a new dixon controller and i brought some wires and my wire connectors.

I'm thinking that these switches might still be good because the burnt wires are only on the line voltage side of the switches, not the load voltage. So we're gon na see but um, i'm gon na start by replacing the dxo controller and then just doing the wiring one at a time. I'm thinking the more i think about this - that we just had a loose connection on this one incoming wire for uh. From here you know, and then it started the daisy chain going to everyone and then that caused an overheat situation that melted, because it's not that it doesn't look like it's.

The contact portion that's burnt, and it's not down here so we'll see when we get it pulled apart. So when i got in here the bottom of these switches, they are pretty brittle, so we're gon na bypass the switches temporarily is what we're gon na do. Um yeah, they don't look good, so we're gon na go ahead and order all new switches, but i'm gon na bypass them for now and then hopefully get this thing up and running all right, um. I ended up having to uh use a giant wire nut because i got a lot of stuff going into that again.

This is just temporary um. That's all my hot wires! My neutrals are still just using a jumper or my common still just using a jumper. Everything else looks good, i don't see any problems and again i don't think. I think that we just had a burnt wire see because they use these jumper connectors and i think they just had a loose connection would be my thought.
I don't see any other reason see this temp control it's not actually burnt in the relay. It's just the top of the control, so i think it was just that loose wire heating up broke the wire off. I'm surprised it didn't trip the breaker, though that's kind of crazy. Well, let's turn it on and see what happens? Let's uh ready one.

Two three hope: nothing blows up. Right, connector looks fine. Here we go it's running, it's dirty. You can get the blower.

It's been a couple months since i was last here: 65 degrees compressors running. Both pumps are running, we'll get currents on everything start by verifying proper power, 117 volts incoming and then now we just need to get current draws off of everything to see if we're over amping on anything after the last time i worked on this, i replaced two Pumps on it i told them they had to get the glycol company out to change all the glycol and they did. It looks good and clean now. So that's a plus got good flow.

Okay. So let's go ahead and check the current draw. So that's the temp control, no biggie, that is a pump. We're allowed to run 6.1 we're running 5.3.

That is the condensing unit. It's running 11.73 amps and its rla is 10.5, but it is under a heavy load. So i'm going to give it some time to come down and then the last pump is running 5.2 and they're allowed to run 6.1. So i don't see a problem with the pumps they're running good, moving, fluid um.

It might be hard for you guys to see, but that's the sight, glass right there and it's clear. I don't see the need to put gauges on this unit or anything uh. The only thing i really need to do is we're going to order these switches just out of a precaution, um, and i need to set the dxo control because it's a universal control it automatically has defrost built in. So i have to go into the parameters and delete the defrost and then set it up for the right differential and everything we're gon na set this guy at 27 degrees with a three degree differential, probably maybe four degree, so they send a crappy like not even A manual with these controllers, but the cool thing is on the back side: there's a qr code.

So if i just hover over that with my camera, it'll take me to the full manual to set this guy up, so we'll do that right now, all right! I just set the defrost set up so that way it doesn't defrost at all. Uh put a four degree differential set it for 27 degrees. Pumps are doing good. Uh temperature is coming down, we're going to give it some time, i'm going to watch it, go ahead and drop to make sure everything is good, but the sight glass is still clear.
Condenser is not dirty um filter's a little bit dusty, but yeah. It's doing good. So yeah we're just going to watch it all right. It's taken quite a while to come down to temp, but i still don't think there's anything wrong with it.

We're still running a clear side: glass, i'm going to tell the customer uh or give the customer a quote. I want to replace those three switches: um we're going to go ahead and get those thermometers replaced too and then go from there uh. One thing that i will tell them is: if they want to serve beer right, quick, what they can do is clear the tap line, so these tap lines, look like they're going underground somewhere. I don't know where the beer walking's over there, so it goes into the beer, walk and then comes back probably on this one.

If they clear all the warm beer in those lines, then uh it'll come down to temperature even faster, so they run like one or two pitchers, maybe three pitchers of each beer on the tap system. They can clear out the warm beer and then you know, theoretically bring the cold beer from the walk-in directly into the lines and it'll help to bring these temperatures down. But as it stands, this unit could have been down for who knows how long couple days i don't know because they haven't been able to be open to the the restrictions right now. So this these lines could be nice and warm inside, hey i'm back and we're not.

We don't even have the parts yet um. It's only been like a couple days and we got another service call for a glycol unit. Not working so come out. Thinking that this one was going to be down - and no it's not now it's the other unit, but there's just a bunch of mass confusion.

So when i walked up, you can see the units clearly frozen up to the compressor one of the pumps was disconnected. Unfortunately, this pump's not hooked up to the switches which is a nightmare and uh. So the story goes is that they have some beers freeze or actually ginger beer, which is high water content. It froze more than likely because the restaurant's not open and they're, not using it and the temperature of the unit just sitting there probably froze the tap or something who knows - i don't know but um, so they called their beverage company and the beverage company told them To unplug everything, it's just a massive lack of communication, because you've got too many managers and it's not one manager's fault.

You know um, the beverage company should do better than to tell them just to unplug these units to defrost them, and i just had a conversation with the general manager on site and told them from now on. You don't unplug the units. You just turn off the compressor to defrost it. If it is frozen up, see what happens.

Sometimes, i've come up and it wasn't the case here. Well, it kind of was, but they realized that it wasn't on. So they were unplugging the units. You know again because this unit's not wired right.
I should fix that for them. So that way it makes it less confusing, but it's just a lot of miscommunication, and this is just you know, one of those things. So what i did was uh shut off the compressor when i got here turned on both of the pumps. So again, one of the pumps was not running so more than likely has something to do with it.

Freezing up so we're thawing everything out. There was no glycol flowing when i got here now it is flowing, so it's thawing the lines out, we're going to let it keep running and then we'll turn it on. I'm sure it's going to work fine, because, judging by the ice right there, the refrigeration circuit's working. So as far as i know, this unit is still 100 minus the switches that we bypassed.

So i turned the compressor back on. We got good flow and the glycol temperature is 65 degrees, which is what the thermometers are saying and the sight glass is clear, see if i can get you guys in there. I don't think i can, but the sight glass is clear, so i don't see a need to put on service gauges so we're going to let this guy run, see it drop in temp um and then go from there check the set points make sure it's actually Shutting off that kind of stuff, because i i'm assuming that the reason why they only had one thing that was frozen and it was their ginger beer. It wasn't an alcohol, it was just ginger beer, so my assumption is because they were closed for so long.

They went to go finally use it and the super high water content of the ginger beer probably couldn't withstand the low temperatures that we get these units we usually set them for 26 27 degrees for the glycol temperature. So more than likely that contributed to the freezing of the tap - and i bet you there's nothing wrong with the units in general, but then the way that they reacted via talking to the beverage company, which should know better telling them to shut them off. And you know all that good stuff led to i'm assuming this problem we're having. I am back again.

Hopefully we're gon na finish this up today, so we've got all new switches, uh new thermometers, down below all new switches for this one. I ordered them because uh the switches are flickering on and off um better be safe than sorry. I did some research too. These units are just, i think, they're just at 10 or 12 years old, so these things are pretty old, but they're still in decent shape, and then we're also going to repair that pump wiring that pump we're going to get rid of it being plugged into that Receptacle we're going to wire it back into the switches and then i'm going to come up with an action plan for the customer, because the customer will occasionally come up here when they have uh freeze up situations or whatever you know, the beverage company will direct them And the beverage company has been giving them that false information, so we're gon na direct them on how to properly shut these down if they do run into a freeze up condition, basically just shut off the compressor and leave the pumps running.
So i'm going to come up with an action plan for that too. But hopefully i got all my stuff and i don't have to go up and down i'm currently recovering from a pinched nerve. Uh, probably shouldn't be back to work today, but i was going stir crazy, so i figured i could do this one job the hardest part about this was getting my bag up here, which i am going to uh more than likely come up with a lighter bag. I'll still keep that one, but just going to be some situations where i'm not gon na use that um but yeah, so we're gon na get pulled apart.

I got ta get power turned off on this one, because i bypass the switches. I got ta unplug them. So getting ready to push this back in so what i did was, i grabbed all the wire that was damaged, cut it back and or replaced. It also got rid of the piggyback connectors as much as i could there's still some on the neutrals, but there's no more room on this little terminal block.

But up here on the hot leg, i had plenty of room on the terminal blocks, so i took off the piggyback connectors. You see right here and then just ran individual wires to the terminal block. Um we're going to slide this back in and then we're going to change out those thermometers down there. I'm at the point where i'm going to plug this guy in and hope that i didn't screw nothing up.

Okay, nothing blew up yet, let's step over here, see what we have to say here. Digital displays both work. That's a plus uh! I didn't wire something right. Well, no, i didn't wire something right, because the temp control is not calling.

So i've got to open this up and figure out where that error is and the lights aren't. Turning on on those switches, so i still need to figure that out, but these work, so that's a plus, but the compressor we need to figure that out and why that dixon is not turning on well. I opened it up and this neutral right here, which is the main neutral for the unit, had come loose. So i'm pretty sure that's my only problem um, so i put a new connector on it.

So it's a lot tighter and everything else looks to be okay. So we're gon na fire this guy back up and see if it works all right now we're actually powered up so we're gon na wait. Oh, the snowflake already turned on so when i turn this on compressor turned on condenser fan, motor turned on the light is illuminated pump. One light is illuminated pump two, so all of our lights are illuminated i'll show you guys.

You can actually see that way. Uh. We can give the customer proper direction on how to maintain these things now. Um we're gon na watch.

This thing come down to temp notice, they're both dropping pretty quick, that's good um, and then i'm gon na get working on this unit over here. Changing the switches and redoing that electrical for that pump, while this one's coming down all right for this one uh, the switches are flickering, it's probably not showing up on the camera but they're flickering on and off um, and i had pulled them apart and they looked Like they were, just you know, kind of starting to overheat, so we're changing them out of precaution. Of course the customer was made aware of all this and they made the decisions. But the other thing is: is this right here, this power cord goes to one of these pumps.
When someone had changed one, they didn't wire it back in we're gon na wire it back in so that way we don't have any issues with that. So all right got this guy pulled the car got power, disconnected um this one's even easier, because there's a connector right there i mean super easy, so i just got a strain relief connector right here boom, i'm just gon na cut the existing cord right here. Use that same cord run it right into that and wire it into the switch easy peasy, don't see an issue with that at all um. You can see where it went to the switch right here before this unit.

By the way, too, i can tell is a lot older um, judging by the serial number. I think this one might actually be 12 years old and i think the other one might be 10. uh 2007. I think you can also tell like it has quarter inch screws all on it instead of 5 16 and the the color scheme is different.

I think it's an 0 7.. I guess i can look at the compressor. No, it's a 2013. This is a newer unit.

Okay, that's an older unit. This is newer. I am. I was looking at the compressor, so this says 13 and that one says 13..

So i thought this was a perfect thing to show when you're doing electrical connections, you got to watch out for fly-aways. Look at that there's a fly away there. Let's get the camera to focus. Okay, that right there is an electrical short waiting to happen, see how the connector went in, but there's a single strand of wire, so you've got to watch out for those flyaways make sure you get a good twist on it and always inspect the wires as you're Doing it that way like this one is done no flyaways.

These cannibic suppliers are working really good right here, um for doing these switches because you got to click both sides of these little chinguses that hold them in and the canipix are able to get in there and get on both sides and pinch it. At the same time, win for the canifix for sure all right, how's the test, one pump, two pumps and compressor what happens there? We go turned on all right, as i'm leaving um in two places uh. So this is my ladder right here. When i come up.

The ladder i wrote, two notes number one right there, basically telling them. If the units are freezing the beer lines only shut off the red switches on each unit do not shut off the green switches and then i also wrote it right here. Okay, these guys, like i said they'll, regularly, have the uh beverage company come in here and uh or they'll call the beverage company before they call me if they're having beer issues and the beverage company will walk them through issues, and i don't know why. Maybe it's because they don't the beverage company doesn't know what type of units they have or what.
But for whatever reason, i've come out one too many times at several locations and found only the pump shut off and not the compressors. Then the glycol units will freeze up they flood back to the compressor cause issues that kind of stuff. So that's what i'm trying to prevent here. So i'm also going to instruct the management about these issues and hopefully between all these notes and letting the management know.

Maybe they'll stop this, i mean, i guess i guess i shouldn't be too worried about it, because i get to sell them a compressor. But again i like to treat these customers like this is my own equipment, and i want them to feel comfortable and have trust in me. So it's things like this me trying to educate them and instruct them and coach them on how to you know, handle their own equipment in my opinion, makes me look better in their eyes, so um yeah, that's just my two cents on the matter. All right.

You know the the trust with the customer is such a big issue to me. Okay, i i value my customers, trust so much, and i really really want them to have to feel comfortable when i come out to service their equipment. So it's taking them by the hand and walking them through some things to save a service call in the future or to save from themselves damaging their own equipment. Okay, yeah sure, if they continue to do the things that they do and turn the machines off the way that they do, and you know turning just the pumps off they're gon na flood out the compressor and they're gon na you know, ruin the compressor and yeah I'll get to sell them a new compressor, but guess what that sale? You know that that profit from installing a compressor one time is nothing compared to continued relationship with my customer over the next 5 10 20 years, if i'm lucky, so keeping that trust being honest and having integrity and and just treating them like you know, they're me, Like it's it's my my mom or something like that right, you know i just i want them to take care of their equipment so that way, yeah.

Of course, things are gon na break and i want them to call me for that, but if i could give them some advice to prevent them from breaking it or damaging it, then i'm gon na do that. Okay, so um two service calls in this one. The first one uh the pump issues - and you guys saw my mistake with the pump. I accidentally left that little foam piece in there and that's why it was making noise.

So you know we we got ta, look further: we don't just slap it in there and walk away because likely they would have had an issue with that. Okay and forbid that that foam got you know, pushed up into the glycol lines that would have been a nightmare right, because how could someone actually clear a line if that that little pump got or that little piece of foam actually got pushed into that line? That would be a nightmare okay, but mistakes happen. We learn from it. I probably won't ever make that mistake again.
You know always double check. We also changed in the second service call. We also changed the switches, the temp control. Now i don't think anything really was wrong with the temperature controller other than the housing got melted.

But i don't know what damage potentially could have happened because of that. I feel, like the temperature controller, was melted because of a faulty electrical connection up on the switch right above it, so i feel like the the damage really was on the switch overheating, probably because of a loose connection. You know that would be my assumption, because those little piggyback connectors i tried to eliminate as many of those piggyback connectors. When i went back in as possible, there was still a few, but i tried to move the wires over to a junction terminal strip up.

You know inside there also change those thermometers. The manager was really happy about me changing the thermometers because they use those for troubleshooting. You know so when they have a problem with the glycol unit. If they're going to call me or the beverage company they like to go up there, you know corporate procedures, they go up.

There check everything and they're like hey. You know what one of the units is high in temp, but if they don't have those thermometers working, then it's kind of hard for them to do that. Okay, you know again, i stress enough about leaving the notes. That's so important.

You know when possible. Of course, i'm not gon na you know that that's an area where nobody's ever gon na see that you have to climb up into there open a door. So it's not like i'm marking on the walls was gon na, be a big deal. That's actually doing them.

A service try to clean up after myself. Every time i go up in there. I think i've shown in videos before when i, when i first started going to this customer, it was just a mess up there. There was crap everywhere and you know i i like to treat it like it's my own.

You know really try to take care of it um. I really really appreciate you guys making it to the end of this. Video leave me some feedback down in the bottom. Like i already asked you to in the beginning, um and again i mentioned in the beginning, check out my website - hvacr videos.com hat shirts - all that good stuff on there.

If you guys are interested in supporting the channel okay uh remember, i do live streams on monday evenings at 5 p.m, pacific on youtube, uh work and injuries, permitting i'm still fighting this pinched nerve, but it's getting better! I'm! I can move my neck again, i'm you know able to do a few things, i'm just really sore, i'm still on medication, but been seeing the chiropractor too. So it's getting better. You know just just a slow process of working through it. Um also uh live streams.
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45 thoughts on “The beer is warm again…..”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Troy Belding says:

    I've had a deep fried safety switch on my lathe. No breaker blown. It happens.

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Luis new says:

    I've had the same switch on a mirco-matic let the blue smoke out. because of an electrical spike that fried a few other stand alone older refrigeration units..
    and my biggest issues with glycol chillers or bars is that the employees don't understand thermodynamics and electrical controls… I like your attention to detail, I spend more time than the other guys at work but I HATE call backs. I check everything two and three times. when they call the beverage company they get the guy that they don't trust on calls or an apprentice. integrity is the Key, I work as if God was watching me.

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jeff M says:

    Loose wires often don't trip a breaker as the current is lower. Loose wire being a source of resistance impeding the flow of current.

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Leonardo Morellato says:

    hi, I'm leo, get the spec sheets of those switches, i bet they cant handle 12 amps of the compressor and are just short for 6 amp for the pumps, plus you're daisy chaining the two pumps and the compressor and tree light and a controller on only one neutral connector, you must be over 23 amps on the connector, is too much, that's why they melt.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars SK Facilities says:

    That is like a wire nut in conduit fitting, dont ask…..

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars David says:

    Nipex? Do you also say K-nife?

    I stand corrected. Well played. Service area Barrhaven??

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jeff Saunders says:

    Why not set the temps to 33 to prevent freezing?

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Timothy Jerry says:

    Letโ€™s hope they can at least read ๐Ÿค”

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Brad Goodale says:

    the best thing we have mate is customer relations.Good man Chris really enjoy your footage the young one hopefully will learn alot from you.keep up the good work.

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars limpqizbuit says:

    Bro, that lady yelling scared the hell out of me.

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars TheGhettoLobster says:

    Its a big pain when you have to make multiple return trips to one location.

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dylan Dylan says:

    First thing I would have checked on the 2nd service is the pump motor start capacitor test- if itโ€™s gone bad it will over draw current and melt wiring. Hence the importance of a overload switch on the motor. Of course the over current draw will only occur when the motors start – not when running at speed.

    Wires and switches donโ€™t melt with no reason or cause unless loose or corroded – there is normally another symptom causing the over current draw

    And could have at least printed and laminated instructions for the pump vs compressor switch instructions – notes in marker on a wall… really ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ?

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Suzanne LeBizarre says:

    Always liked the craftsman tools…more than one pace sells them now…enjoy your videos…even if I don't work on them…

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jay Brooks says:

    Itโ€™s called a finger ratchetโ€ฆ lowes has sears tools now they purchased the line from sears. Advanced auto owns most of the automotive lines including die hard. Kenmore is dead and owned by ESL holdings. LXI is still owned by sears holdings.. amazingly enough

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mike J says:

    Lol I worked on the same exact machine on Thursday. No maintenance in 8 yrs compressor was trashed, freon leak and glycol leak. Service area Ottawa??

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars luis ramirez says:

    Awsome brother great content quick tip to prevent glycol from leaking out from the bath i use a pinch off tool to slighlty kink the line๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

  17. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars PRIZ ;] says:

    one line of beer is at room temperature
    another line of beer is completely frozen
    but on average, the beer is at the right temperature!

  18. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Robert Richards says:

    Chris, the reason for the blackness in Glycol is because the graphite itโ€™s in the pump recirculates through the system once the pump goes bad in the clutch and everything else.

  19. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars SOU6900 says:

    Seems like the beer is always warm…๐Ÿค” And now that I think about it the way this thing is wired up seems like a major fire waiting to happen. Are you in Kanata ?

  20. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Hvguy says:

    I used to work for a company that ran those same pumps for water cooling in high voltage equipment, we got away from them because of that loud cavitation that the pump makes, we went with a diaphragm pump that ran on a 24 volt circuit, world's quieter and it moved about the same flow rate Are you in Barrhaven ?

  21. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars joestarjeremiah hutto says:

    that form it there to protect from stuff getting in the pump yet they becomes something in the pump lol Are you in Nepean ?

  22. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars gd2329j says:

    Hi resistance crimp it's a common problem .

    Shit crimping with incorrect toot or crap crimps used
    ( under load they open up when hot ) .

    Invest in good crimping tools don't follow the pliers or multi-tool TOOLS !

  23. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Adam Spears says:

    That glycol unit has given you so much trouble, you should name it Ato because of the "Warmbier"
    ๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿคฆ
    Thanks for another Great Video, & please keep them coming. As a tech, I learn a lot from you!

  24. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Egon Freeman says:

    I think it's all about building respect — and most importantly, communicating that you respect both their time and their money, and expecting respect for your work in return. That's what an "honest business" will, or should, do. If you're taking your customer's side (in that you're not allowing them to serve themselves to you, sometimes called "handing someone enough rope to hang themselves with"), I would expect people will notice. Word-of-mouth that essentially says "This guy will go out of his way to have you do what is necessary and not simply convenient for him" should carry a lot of weight.

    Whenever I make a recommendation, I offer two ways of doing things: a way that is "proper" (how it theoretically should be done), and a way that takes the potential of what they already have into account — with the caveats that this will not be a "supported configuration" by any stretch, it will be prone to issues a bit more in general (though this doesn't always apply), and will require greater operator familiarity. People soon learn that if I press some issue, it's usually for a very good reason and not just because I make more if they do it that way (I usually don't, by the way — I don't get paid by commission).

    It all comes down to respect, for me: respect that your client isn't an idiot, respect that they actually want to make full use of what they already have, respect that they most likely want to use it properly. And finally, the respect that you show them by not ripping them off in a blatant fashion. Most "certified" service techs will order a replacement of X and call it done. I'm not that tech.

    You're not that tech.

    So, respect for that. Service area Nepean??

  25. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Egon Freeman says:

    Not sure if you meant to put your company name on the video like that…?

  26. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Coffreek says:

    Yeah, those spade connectors are a lot of fun. A couple times I've seen one that looked fair skookum, but when you gave it a little pull, the wire just pulled right out. My guess is something like that happened here, where the spade connector wasn't clamped down right on the wire, and time did the rest of the work. Obviously we'll never know, but it isn't a bad idea to really drill your techs about giving those connectors a bit of a pull after they clamp them down on the wire. Don't have to go full Millwright, just a little love tug.

  27. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars evan hart 38 says:

    I love the video from Evan in the UK

  28. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars apollo robb says:

    You should put compressor lockouts on them so if the pumps are shut off the compressor cuts off . And it's pronounced nippecks. Great video

  29. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Kevin Pfaehler says:

    2 things Mr. Chris. 1 Iโ€™ve switched to a MC bag for simple repairs instead of my bigger tech pac. 2 an idea for your tools channel is how you have those Stanleyโ€™s organized. What all types of bins an the likes Service area Orleans??

  30. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Cyborg sheep says:

    You're not wrong to call the whole motor and pump asembly as just a pump I often do the same

  31. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars James R says:

    Constantly recommending compressor replacement when is not needed is short term customer retention. Fixing customer's units with honesty & common sense is long term customer retention.

  32. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Craig Weir says:

    Why change the motors when the pumps are bad ?

  33. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Sergio Jimenez says:

    The beverage company should have given them clear service procedures for those scenarios . They could do better ๐Ÿ™„

  34. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Gonzalo Alcantar says:

    Loweโ€™s does carry those finger ratchets by craftsman. Picked one up a few weeks ago

  35. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars MTTech says:

    Should've also written the notes on a piece of paper next to the switches. Managers can easily miss the messages on the wall.

  36. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars WeirdoPepsiDude says:

    The glycol must flow.

  37. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Juan Todolรญ says:

    How % glycol dilution on this units? Are you in Orleans ?

  38. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars exploring peco says:

    Leave a instruction letter for shut down that anyone can do step by step and what too do if emergency too call you maybe would help but it's just a thought and great video… I just got too you leaveing a note on the wall too good great minds think alike but still they should have a letter for there operation manual that they forget they have…. but good deal ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป

  39. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars exploring peco says:

    I think the motors was grounded to the frame cause the motors are insulated from vibration from the frame and since they don't touch the did it as a fell safe too ground the motors to the box….

  40. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars devildog says:

    Its a pex connector and pex tool used on general plumbing there not that much cheap ones are like 30 bucks and ive beat mine alot

  41. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars AFX Gaming says:

    Lol i believe the brand is pronounced Ny-Pex instead of kanipex, but potato patato, they are the best tools around

  42. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars loloxych says:

    Greetings from Croatia. We make beer coolers for Micromatic and Haineken. Also some Postmix equipment. Great video.

  43. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars After_Tech_Industries says:

    I recently found this new connector company called "wago" and they make a connectors to replace wire-nuts and have proven to be safer as they don't "bite" into the wire and are reusable. I recommend them

  44. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mike says:

    Think snap on tools has something like that little tool , use a tool like that to take blower motor out of mack semi trucks

  45. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jim Spier says:

    That "sludge" in those glycol units is algae that grows in polypropylene glycol from too weak of a concentration (usually less than 35%). Typically over 35% that wont happen. A glycol tester is your friend!! Just curious why your company didn't change the glycol??

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