We had a service call late last night on the walk-in cooler. We've got the walk-in freezer condenser here and the walk-in cooler condenser over there. You can see. We've got some hail damage on that guy too, but it's not that big of a deal well.

Last night. It was actually yesterday afternoon they called us about four o'clock and they said that they're walking cooler was at 56 degrees by the time we got a technician out here. This is all the way out in Barstow California, so this is about two hours from our shop. By the time we've got a technician out here.

What we found was that there was an electrical short on the control circuit that wasn't allowing the system to come on. So we repaired the short and then we found some other issues. We found that the unit has got a bad electrical, disconnect, it's not making contact correctly and the knife is not sliding back in when the when the disconnect is. You know, closed turned back on.

We also found that the evaporator coils were very dirty, so what I'm gon na do today is I'm going to double-check the diagnosis on the disconnect double-check the electrical repair from yesterday, and then I'm gon na go through the system and completely evaluate it. Clean up the evaporators, if necessary and I'll see, if I can take you guys alone, I went ahead and pulled the cover off the disconnect. I had checked some numbers before when it was running and everything looked good before, because we had manually closed the disconnect yesterday. So I didn't really have any voltage drops.

I did have a temperature difference across the fuses online to 76 degrees on the top of the fuse 79 on the outlet, but everything else was good, but this disconnect is not making good contact and what's happening. It's got some corrosion going on inside where these knives. This is the blade and it goes up into there and it's not making good contact up in there and there's some corrosion. So what actually happens is when you try to turn the disconnect back on look at where the knives are.

They stop right there and they don't make contact. So you have to go downstairs. Turn the breaker off manually force those shut, that's what we had to do. Last night, to get it going, but even still that'll cause a problem, because it's not making good contact and more than likely what's wrong, is there's a sand all stuck up here in the mechanism and that Springs there's something stuck up in this mechanism right here.

It's not allowing it to slam itself shut, but I'm gon na go ahead and replace this disconnect and then we'll continue to diagnose further so far, everything else is looking good with the condensing unit. I got the disconnect replace watch out on these things, because what I actually did, if you notice you, can over tighten these lugs and I actually broke it. I was able to get an electrical fitting safely on there to where it still made good contact, but yeah. These things they can't take any real pressure, really not a super fan of these.

It's a Siemens disconnect, but my favorite anyway I'll get that the other thing I wanted to point out was this compressor contactor, I'm not here for this, but I can already see some of that white dust coming out of there. I'm gon na pull that apart and inspect the contactor points. I can pretty much guarantee you it's going to be time to replace that contact or two, and the other thing that was pointed out to me from yesterday is that this time clock really is jammed up. Like it's, it's full of sand, so I'm gon na place that time talk to all this before I even turn the thing on, but it's just you know things you can catch.

It's definitely time to replace that guy. It's gon na be hard to see this on camera, but it's all pitted out on the points up in there and then I don't even need to get my meter out. You can see the burning the arcing that had been going on inside that contactor, especially on that line to middle look. This is just the comer so with I don't even need to get my meter out to be able to know that it's time to replace that guy and the fact that it has this little c1 sticker on.

There actually tells me that this is a factory contactor. It's never been replaced and if we go over to the serial number of this unit is from 2008. So it's time this things aren't plugged, but they are pretty dusty. I can still see light through them.

These are the eve apps there's quite a bit of dust on there, so I'm going to get brushing on these. So unit has two coils. When you're cleaning these things you want to be conscious of the dirt. That's gon na fall off the evap coil.

I've got this pan down here to catch most of it, because you're always going to get a little bit more. Then you also want to be conscious of the dirt. That's gon na fall into the drain, pan that you can't get out, so I'm gon na flush. This guy with a hose and I'm all done, the other coil.

This was pretty dirty. You know, sometimes, when you're working in these things, you got to kind of learn to be an acrobat a little bit better, but I brushed it and then now I'm just flushing. It and flushing the drain, because there was a bunch of stuff that went into the pan that I couldn't get out. So I just want to make sure we flush enough hot water to push all that stuff through the drain.

Evaporators all cleaned up, gon na get ready to put the unit back together, refrigerant pressures, we're fine sight, glasses, clear, there's, no reason to believe that it's low on refrigerant as far as the headmaster goes or the winter charge, so we're good to go so all together. We change the disconnect compressor, contactor defrost time clock, went ahead and added some defrost into the system. So basically it's defrosting every four hours and then in the middle of the night they do a 45-minute defrost. The rest of them are 15 minutes time.

Clocks. I'm sorry! Defrost compressor, contactor, sorry fresh contactors back in clean the evaporators up and everything else is looking pretty good. It's always good. You know just to kind of try to take care of the roof.

I went ahead and marked all the equipment it wasn't marked when they got here. Just because I knew it, it is ice machine, ACS, walk-in freezer. I even marked the exhaust fans so that way, when another technician comes in, they know exactly what exhaust fans they are with the restaurants names I'm gon na bring up to them that their their ACS are looking a little dirty. It gets really really sandy and windy out here in Barstow, see open desert all around us, so I always like to bring to their attention that everything is dusty and needs to be cleaned, so right now we're in the month of April.

So it's going to be getting into cooling season. You know basically next week for out here and in the summertime they can regularly reach about a hundred and twenty hundred and twenty five out here. So it's very important that these ACS are in the most tip-top shape, especially since they're two hours away from our shop, so can't always drop everything to come out for an a/c service call, even though that's what they want us to do. So we try to keep them in good shape whenever we're out here.

So that way it doesn't turn into like last night, where we have to send a technician out here. You know late in the afternoon, so that's pretty much it all right, guys things! I wanted to bring up number one really pay attention to your climate and, where you're at not that it should be any different anywhere else. But we need to be extra extra, careful to make sure we have screws in every single panel, especially out here in my location, because it gets very windy. And the last thing that we want is a lawsuit because one of our panels blew onto the freeway and hit a car or hit someone in the head.

That's the one thing, and the second thing is especially for you younger guys that don't really think about this. Yet, when you're working, you need to think about yourself, you need to think about your body and how the way that you work can affect yourself, especially once you get older, I'm getting older, I'm very concerned about my knees, my back and my skin as corny as It sounds I'm in Southern California, it's sunny, you know 95 % of the year and we really do got to worry about skin cancer as corny as a sounds sunscreen or some kind of a hat. I wear a hat with a head scarf. I look like an idiot, but I really don't care because I don't want to look all cool and worry about that stuff and then end up with skin cancer.

Ten years down the line. Okay same thing: knee protection, kneeling pads, don't lift anything heavier than you should and lift the right way when you're young, your body is forgiving once you hit 30, it stops forgiving you and it really starts hurting you, and I know that there's guys that are older Than me, I'm thirty-five that can attest to that. You know the guys in their 40s and 50s. They'll really preach that to you.

You know it's easy to think that you're Superman and that you can just you know, power through it. I I'm still guilty of doing it. Sometimes, where I power through lunch, don't eat all day and then you know I don't eat breakfast as it is so then, by dinnertime you know I haven't eaten anything all day that stuff's not good for your body. You really got to think about your body, see I wear a stupid headscarf.

I look like an idiot, but you know what I really don't care because I have a shaved head. I have to worry about my head getting burnt. I have to worry about my skin. Getting burnt at the tops of my ears getting burnt, especially for someone with the complexion that I have.

It can really really start to affect you. So you know. Yes, you do want to be Superman to your company. You do want to be that technician that can fix everything, but you also want to be there tomorrow.

So working through the pain now worrying about your body isn't going to, let you be there tomorrow, just a little corny advice:.