Hi, i'm brian with the hvac school podcast in hvac our school comm. I want to talk to you today about the turbo easy start, which is a very innovative all-in-one. Hard start start capacitor potential relay combination, so not only does it have a potential relay and a start capacitor contained inside. It allows you to tap for multiple micro farad ratings in order to suit many different common compressor types.

Another nice thing about it is that it's a metal ice film capacitor, so it's been found to be much more reliable over the long run and also more reliable at different temperatures than the typical electrolytic capacitors that we see with start capacitors. All in all, it's a really great product has a magnet in the bottom, but today I want to show you how simple it is to wire up if you're familiar with the turbo 200. It's a very similar technology where you have multiple taps in order to set in the microfarad rating of the capacitor inside this capacitor, though it has many other innovations. It has a potential relay built right in.

It also has a metallized film capacitor, instead of an electrolytic capacitor, which makes it much more reliable and it has a nice strong, magnet built right into the base by jumping out various points on this capacitor, which are very easily described here. On the side, you can make it anywhere from a 108 to 130 micro, farad capacitor, all the way up to 270 to 324 micro farad's. They did multiple tests on the potential relay in a hard start kit. One of the most important things is that the potential relay is high quality and that the contact points aren't going to stick inside the capacitor.

So they ran cycle testing on this and he used the potential relay that they found was the most reliable over the long haul. So let me show you how to wire this up. First off you have to find out what the tonnage of the equipment is that you currently have. We've got a 24 ACC 460.

This is a 5 ton unit, so we're going to want to use the highest wiring on this, which is jump ring together. All of these outside terminals, so you always use black and white, so white goes to the herm terminal. Black goes to common on the capacitor to the C terminal on the run capacitor, and so these are wired across run and start unlike the old school capacitors that use the old five-to-one method where you had to have a separate wire that went too common. In this case, you're just running in between herm and the C terminal, which makes it very easy to wire up - and it's very similar to some other products that are on the market - I said before we wire this in.

I want to take a inrush amp reading. Without it in place and see what type of in rush amps we get before, we connect it and then see what type of in rushing. So we get after the connector. Now a key thing - and I've mentioned this in previous videos - is that when you have a compressor, that's at locked rotor.

What we're measuring with in rushing amps is really we're measuring over a period of time, because your meter isn't quick enough to measure that very first split second, that first split second, is dictated by the compressor winding and there's nothing at start to faster to do with It what does to our capacitor can do? Is it can speed up that period of that initial, starting in order to get it that compressor up to speed faster through a larger phase shift and we'll see that represented in the amp urges so first we're gon na go ahead and do it in rush? Amps? Put out all right so like I suspected, because this compressor had been having issues with starting it actually didn't even start at all. You can hear it trying to start it's not starting. So now, that's wire in the easy start and see what you get alright. So now, before we touch any of these terminals, we just want to use our 20,000 ohm 10 watt, resistor 5 watt, resistor 20,000 five watt resistor, you want to hold on to the insulated portion.

This is just the one side of the resistor, and it goes through to the other side make sure that everything is is charged now we're going to go ahead and we're in our easy start. So the black wire goes to common. The white wire goes to her. Now I'm gon na need up these wires here in a second, but before we do that, we just want to make sure that it starts and see what are in rushing amps to go to starts right up 77.2 amps.

That's what we're looking for. As you can see, using the American radionics, I am ready to start - is really easy to use it's an all-in-one kit. You can use it for many tonnage. -- is, and it's very easy to install with many different applications that really unique, i'm brian with hvac school.

Thanks for watching.