Can I fix it? Portable Air Conditioner Repair (spoiler: Yes, I can!) 

Same.... I took mine completely apart,.cleaned it, looked for damaged wires, ext and it's still not kicking on. Makes me so angry, because I know it's an easy fix. I just can't figure out what the problem is

i know right 😀

DIY

cuase he doesnt want you as his neighbor ...lol j/k

Lol

No kidding. I was going to throw mine out until I saw where my unit is now $590!

Thank you for the truly inspiring words and recognizing the difficulty in making these videos.

There are small appliance places to fix .

lol

I don't know what's worse, having extra screws left over or not having enough screws (dropped one in the turbocharger?) Lemme tell ya. Last month I removed the heads off my Chevy Tahoe's engine to replace the lifters. Then I reinstalled them, only to find 2 extra bolts on my cart. They go under one of the heads. Pulled the head back off, had to get a new head gasket and head bolts.

Magik Dust have you fixed it?

@@SA-rz7fw yes, it is fixed, but I didn't really do any of the stuff on this video. I just opened the drain spout at the bottom, on the backside. There was absolutely no water to drip out, or anything, but ever since I've done that is worked fine. I think the drain plug must've been pushing on some wire, and making it so it wasn't connecting properly. Otherwise I don't see any reason that that would've fixed it...

Thanks. Heat gun takes too long. I have no patience.

Cool. I'm surprised how many people are having the same problem with that relay.

compressor works too. No cooling. I will have to take the plastic housing off.

Doing that does nothing to a cap. It will not hurt it in anyway. Who ever told you that was wrong.

Isn't it a great feeling when you fix something yourself and save a lot of money? I obsess over fixing things often, even when it's not worthwhile. Hedge clipper with a broken handle, $2 reading glasses, flip flips with a broken strap... Sometimes after spending hours on something, I realize it's just not worth fixing. But it's times like these where everything just works out right that keeps me doing it. I guess it's like being addicted to gambling. Good thing I don't gamble, at the casinos that is.

@@redneckoriental Exactly. I have also repaired my home made 1978 speakers. They each contain one 15" woofer, two mid-range drivers, and four tweeters. I had to rebuild the woofers since the outer foam rings had each turned to dust due to age. Repair cost was $27. And I repaired my 1978 HEATHKIT audio power amplifier after a few transistors had blown. Again just a few dollars to fix it. Plus I repaired my 1987 DENON DCD-900 CD player since it was skipping tracks. All it needed was a few drops of electric shaver oil on the slide mechanism that moves the LED across the CD. Then I repaired my microwave oven by picking up someone else's oven which was tossed onto the curb for disposal. All the electrical parts I needed to repair my oven were perfectly good in this trashed oven. Then years later on the oven turntable was not working. So I took the motor apart and fixed it. All it needed was a couple of drops of glue to stop the donut shaped magnet from spinning without spinning the gear that is supposed to be attached to it at the same time. And I repaired my electric shaver after the power adapter kicked the bucket. I replaced the adapter with another old adapter that I held on to from years ago that just needed a few modifications. Despite these items going back as far as 1978, they are all working as good as new to this day. But I also repaired my SAMSUNG TV which would simply not turn on. All it needed was for me to jiggle some internal connectors to remove oxidation, and bingo, it was up and going again. And I repaired both my DEVIL vacuum cleaner and my BISSELL carpet cleaner. In both cases, just a little mechanical know how was all that was required to fix both. And last but not least, I repaired my old Black&Decker coffee maker. It would only spit out 8 cups of coffee rather than the proper 12 cups, and even then it took forever. A few mechanical fixes for no cost, and boom its up and going as good as new even today. I love repairing, and of course saving money.

@@redneckoriental You are not going to believe this. It was a negative situation, but I was laughing my head off. The first thing I said to myself was, "I should have kept my mouth shut", concerning having mentioned all the repairs that I have done over the years. Anyhow, after watching several YT videos, I decided to watch a YT video concerning the last 3 months worth of videos and pictures taken on Mars. But my back was bothering me, so I switched from my computer monitor on over to my SAMSUNG TV such that I could watch it from my couch. But the darn TV would not turn on. It was not a connector problem this time. It was a defective electrolytic capacitor. This is a typical problem these days with today's TV's. If you check the top of the big barrel shaped electrolytic capacitors, and you see that the top is bulging, then it needs to be replaced. In this case it was a 1,200 uF 25vdc capacitor. I did not have one around, and since it is an old TV, I took a chance and soldered together two 1,000 uF 25vdc capacitors in parallel which adds up to 2,000 uF, and used that to replace the defective capacitor. Those two capacitors were from something I built back in about 1989, so some capacitance will have faded anyway. So the capacitance value won't be too much higher than 1,200 uF. Anyhow, it worked. Yippy !

There should be no clear tubes with refrigerant in them. The clear tubes are probably for condensate (water) drainage. The refrigerant tubes are all hard lines, mostly copper. They have to be able to withstand high pressure, like over 200 PSI. If there is a leak, there will be oily residue because there is oil mixed with the refrigerant to keep the compressor lubricated. The refrigerant disappears, but a coating of oil is left behind. I can't think of any way to check pressure without adding a service port.