On this call...compressor not working, condenser fan motor not working, blower not working, blown fuse, no voltage at thermostat, broken thermostat wire... all in one video... SERIOUSLY!!! Take some popcorn and enjoy the show!
I agree with all the positive comments.. You have a calm, teachable voice. Although the problem(s) was getting severe, you didnt allow that to stress you or panic you. Well Done Sam! 👍
Sam, like another person (s) have said, you have a teaching voice/knack. If you ever got tired of what you do, you could get a job at a University and teach this stuff. You have the gift of the mind and the gift of the soul. Thank you again for this lesson on how to do it right and safe.
One of the very best training videos I've seen especially for a novice. Sam has a lot of patience 👍 and explains it thoroughly. The guy is a great teacher. Well done.
Your troubleshooting skill is outstanding, but most of all, your clear narration along with great video footage is excellent. Thank you for putting in the time to provide such great content.
Yo bro great videos man very thoroughly explained and shown no extra b.s. talking to throw techs in training off. I started out for years being an installer and wanted to get into service more so I always come on RU-vid for training and glad I found your channel and will recommend it to my younger homeys in the field keep up the great videos.
There may be a few genuine and ethical service men, after watching you step by step troubleshooting and servicing, I proudly can say you are the best helping and educating son this world needs. Thank you so much for serving the world. 👍👌🙏🏽
It's hard to be mindful of the next guy. I do it because many times I am the next guy! Honestly I do enjoy fixing the mess (sometimes)... because it's those situations that keep help you gain experience. Thank you for the feedback!
I have work on units for a while and I can tell you you man do a great job explaining step by step for some people it’s hard but you make it really easy great job and keep them coming for the rest of the people 👍🏼👍🏼
Great video! Clearly explained step-by-step diagnostics. Good that you cut the thermostat wiring back to where the yellow wire was cut, so you could wire things back up for standard color coding. Here's my theory on why the yellow wire broke: when the system was installed, the tool used by whoever stripped off the black cladding from around the low-voltage/thermostat multi-wire cable may have cut a little too deep, cutting into the yellow wire, but leaving maybe one of the yellow wire's strands uncut or just nicked, which would still allow current/voltage through it, but over time, that thin remaining strand eventually broke, maybe due to mechanical motion transferred to it each time the system ran and rumbled. At the outside unit, it looks like the wire nut holding the two halves of the blue wire together might have fallen off because it wasn't twisted on firmly enough, or was too large for the gauge of the wire, and eventually the mechanical motion of the unit, vibrating the nut and the wires, loosened the nut off of the wires.
Great video man. Aren't you ever worried that pushing the contactor in with your hand will get you shocked??? And new techs to the business really shouldn't do this!
You are an excellent teacher/trainer! Most way over my head, but I did like the contactor test - which mine has been stuck every since I cleaned out my condensor coils last fall - contactor was stuck down! Now working THANK GOD for helping me 'unstick it' without fear!
You are very professional and it’s not only that you does think about the other technicians and you try to make it easy for them behind you. Truly not every technician they think about other. Good job Sam! I am lucky finding you to learn from you 👍
Thank you for sharing your knowledge your help and you showing what you do helps me in my journey in learning the process that it takes to troubleshoot an ac unit Thank you so much stay blessed.
I knew Rocky Balboa worked as a meat processor and an enforcer for the mob. I had no idea that he was an HVAC EXPERT! I learned much from this video, thank you. I sincerely appreciated your tenacity and use of your IF/THAN logic to solve for the issue. 🧠🧠🧠🧠
Thanks for this video! It gave me so much direction! I learned that I had a heat pump with two sources of heat -- and that I probably need to fill my gas tank! My heater wasn't blowing heat and I discovered that my white wire was an aux wire by going out to my outside unit and looking under the cover. I also blew a fuse on my control board -- which I didn't even know existed. Thanks again!
I'm having the very same issue with my brother's 18 year old Lennox A/C. No 24v at the outside unit. This video gives me excellent clues on what and how to check the low voltage circuitry. I have not been able to find a fuse at the control board at the air handler but I will try again tomorrow.
Thinking about the next technician who might come after you with less experience is really good to see. Thanks for going the extra step and re-using the original Y wire.
Nice!! That is one of the true tough jobs you will run into, and you made it look simple. Wish I would of seen this before I ran into it for the first time in the field. Very good video for those in the field.
Thanks for the help. Mine ended up being a break in one of the t-stat wires going out to the condenser took me like 20 minutes to troubleshoot and fix the problem and now it works like a charm
I found you due to the scamdemic quarantine 2020 and can say that you are a great technician. You explain your thought process and tell us the step by step process of what you are doing! that's a great way to teach, Sam. Thanks for sharing, from Texas. J
Great video. Thank replaced an ac contact switch that was fried or faulty, it looked burned. Before that I replaced the capacitor( this was my first time trouble shooting our ac ) Replaced the single pole with 2 pole; it’s all I found at the store and found a video on how to wire a 2 pole as a single pole. Still nothing. Our house has a switch that feeds the thermostat; it was off. I switched it on, put the disconnect back on and went to the thermostat and set it to cool and Shazam… cold air. I can’t believe it. So relieved as I’m in Texas and now o even have a spare capacitor and extra ac contact ( too cheap to not have spares) and now I have no worries about wether it might fail in the summer which I doubt and if on the chance it does than I can fix it again. So if I can than you can too
Sam, You the man, You are definitely very knowledgeable and you also have very nice and easy way of explaining details. I just wish you were in the Northern VA area. I am just having the same issue my Contactor is not pulling in because of 24 volts but may be I am wrong because I was checking 24 volt DC but after watching your video it seems, it is 24 volt AC. Right now its raining like hell in northern VA so I can't confirm the voltage but When I press the plunger the condensing unit starts. Looks like, the issue is of 24 AC volts. Thanks for very detailed video on this topic, I really learned a lot.
The blue wire was working. I would have just left a note at the board. You had a short at the condenser and a blown wire coming into the mother board. I have seen this many times where a circuit wasn't reading the full voltage necessary to pull in the contactor. Also reading the flashes from the light...this is really helpful!
In all your videos you keep talking about fuses I still have to find one and I looked everywhere and I know I have a low voltage short but where??Thanks for all your videos!!
Excellent Video. You explain very clearly exactly what and why you are doing what you are doing. Diagnosis was done with perfection, great result. Thank you. I just subscribed.
Excellent VIDEO and clear explanation. Some techs when they strip wire instead of stripping from the end back 6-8 inches, they cut around the wire that far back and pull the sheathing off, and in so doing they may have cut the wire as you experienced.
Great videos SAM, the way you explain every detail. and how you take your time to do so you're awesome, and you are actually showing us with the problem happening on every day. thank you sir keep up the videos will keep 👍👍up good bless
Thank you! I truly to remind myself that I need to be mindful that one day I may need help or assistance and I don't want someone to rip me off by being deceitful! You'd be surprised if I told you the stories I run into as to how this or that company wanted to charge such and such unnecessarily.
thanks for the video. i have two questions: 1, once you manually pressed the contactor and the compressor and fan are working, why did you still want to check the contactor output voltage? 2, why didn’t you go to the furnace board directly but rather went to thermostat first?
I Should’ve gotten the popcorn like you said LOL.. However,, never would’ve learned as much as I did from any box office movie out there!! Thank you for helping us , I salute you 👏👏👏 QUESTION : Did you take a continuity test on the 24v while the coil had voltage on it or off ? Thanks you the MAN !
hi, when you were testing for continuity at 12:52 between R and W and the meter beeps. This is with the furnace switch pushed in, correct? If the furnace switch wasn't pushed in, then the meter should show OL, is this correct? thank you.
