I cut power quickly when I noticed the gloves were there. Which brought comments of how I shouldn't shut a unit down while it is firing cause it will trip limit. Let the limit trip, the blower will run and cool it down and I don't have my gloves, sucked into blower wheel and throw it off balance and possible damage the wheel or bearings. At the moment nothing of wheel damage came to mind. Only turn off the system and save gloves. mmmm donut
@@thehvachacker Haha, you can't win for losing with some people. They will always have a negative comment. #ifyoucantsaysomethingnicedontsaynothingatall
Dwight cooking yes troubleshoot by taste yet what on the system I am working on would anyone want to taste? Lol. A chef troubleshoots most by taste. Every profession uses different senses.
I read an article about capacitors recently from GE that stated the caps only had so many average starts before they would fail. On AC systems down south where the AC's run most of the year, that could mean that every few years the caps would need to be changed. Thoughts? Thanks for the video's.
It could be possible I run into old caps like this one that’s been here since the early 2000’s. The only thing it powers is the inducer. The newer caps don’t seem to last as long. I would have to do more research on this. I find motors can kill the cap when and a weak cap can also kill the motor.
Capacitors definitely aren't made the way they used to be. I work on a lot of 30 year old equipment that still have fully charged capacitors that aren't even 1 microfarad low. I did a video on my channel of a 32 year-old Lennox heat pump that is all factory original. Not a single part inside or out has ever been replaced. Capacitors are good, contactor good, both fan motors good, compressor good, heater kit good and doesn't leak a drop of refrigerant. AMAZING! In Tennessee where I live we've always considered the average life of a heat pump to be 14 years. The newer equipment is down to 10 or 11 yrs. life expectancy. 🤔
I still tell everyone 15-20 years is average yet most systems usually last longer. Seems the opposite down in Tennessee. Yet there isn't alot of heat pumps here so only the blower gets shared on a furnace ac combo. Then many houses have boiler heat and ac for cool so they only get used for 6 months a year if that. Your summers are also hotter so the ac runs harder. The problem with most new equipment is these variable drive motors are expensive so at 11 years it cost 1200 just for the blower before adding labor. Where a capacitor motor 200-400 bucks
replaced capacitors in both garage door opener and generator to get them working again. Found out the garage door was working too hard blew that one too so had to put new wheels on the track and lube it. the next capacitor worked great there
Sometimes the motors take a beating when running on a faulty capacitor. Change a cap, motor starts runs yet fails a few hours later. So the bearings in your wheels were the culprit. I had similar on a 120VAC belt driven blower this last week on a steam coil
I cut power almost after ignition so the exchanger wasn't that hot. Most times when I am testing I cut the gas to cool off the exchanger before cutting if I am running the heat.
Makita they all beat me to a response I have several meters if your on Facebook in my group I can upload photos of the symbols on the meters most use what Shannon listed. My fieldpiece is the only one that has MFD instead of the cap symbol
it's hard to tell how long the motors been overheating, condition of bearings and blower wheel too and they're probably tired of "getting burnt" on call backs or just lazy and figure customers money not mine ;)
