WHY SELL THE GLYCOL UNIT IN THE U.S. IF WE CAN'T GET THE PARTS ? 

Yeah other countries do have a higher standard with wiring lol

@@dan4age Yeah it's great until the mandatory grid shutdowns like Venezuela.

@@KB-ke3fi Ah so equipment built to higher standards equals blackouts? Texas must have pretty high standards then.

That double insulated cable (the grey one) is Oelflex from Lapp-kabel in Germany This is kind of an industry standard here for harsh environments. It is made to withstand Oil (hence the name Oil-flex) and other nasty things which normally eat insulation for breakfast Pretty nice stuff, you can leave this in the sun for 10 years, run it thru gasoline or battery acid or whatever and it is still flexible and does not break Also comes in ultra fine stranded wire for moving things in automation like robots which bend the cable a million times a day and also in a cutting resistant variant for resistance against rubbing out. You need a brand new box cutter blade and like 5 hard strokes to cut thru the insulation of that stuff

@@KB-ke3fi I'm pretty sure that isn't what he meant... he meant like, EU and Aussie wiring. As an Australian, I do agree that some American wiring looks a bit scary. These videos often show a circuit-board with 240V input, yet there's no shielding over the high-voltage side. The contacters never have covers over the screws. Those 2 have some similarities I've seen with things in Australia, we aren't perfect yet, but in Australia these things would at least be in a semi-separate area from the low-voltage/ safe-to-touch things. Personally, I reckon everything high-voltage should have an easy-to-remove shield over it, to prevent accidental contact and yet not interfere with connecting multimeter leads to the wiring. Screw-in connectors for wire seem to be mostly phased-out in europe, from what I can tell, and replaced with these clamps which are safe and easy-to-use and yet well-built. The US does have some great things about its electrical system, but sadly many years of the rugged-individualism sorta attitude have passed safety from manufacturers to customers and the standards have suffered. I think that NEMA are working on improving things, though. I don't think NEMA have very much jurisdiction over the safety of electricians working on appliances, that'd probably be whatever the appliance standards authority is, so I hope they're doing their best too.

Let alone if you can even get the parts and fix it yourself when you have many US companies who lock you out of your own hardware and insist on being the ones to fix it while charging huge amounts for the labor and parts. John Deere & Apple to name a couple.

Part of this is also the current conflict between Ukraine v. Russia. Until that is settled, one way or any of the half-dozen at least others... it is going to be hard to get parts from companies who used to be based in Ukraine and now have gone out of business or pulled out and are currently building infrastructure elsewhere.

@@PraetorianAU As designs evolve and become more integrated, parts are going to be custom for that specific device. If you spend big $$$ to design parts, would you be OK with someone reverse engineering the parts and selling it in the aftermarket?

Same the other way round, part of my job is to make US sourced euipment conform to local safety standards and maintain it. Its a pain, things are just sold as-is, at best bodged up to suit the mains voltage but thats about it. Also nonmetric screws are a massive pain.

Usa sensibilities? Since when is the us sensible?

Ditto

"Il faut réindustrialiser la France" qu'il disait l'autre "lol"

They are cheap poor quality motors and re- oiling is a get you out of trouble thing. We would always return to swap out if a spare wasn't on the van. Most fridge techs would carry several as they are a common failure The call usually goes something like "Well the fridge started to make a loud squealing noise but then went quiet so we thought it was alright. But now the cabinet won't keep temperature and overheating, what do you think is wrong?"

don't use thick oil, the proper oil is straight 20W Electric motor oil. I have a little bottle I've used for years, 3n1 brand. I've reoiled the bath fan motors in my house, a few times, they're over 23 years old and still going.

@@richardbartlett6932 Yes it's a get you out of trouble if it ran dry for too long. Excessive bearing shaft or end play isn't fixable by adding oil. The key is to take apart and reoil the felts before it dries out. Motors only have just barely enough oil in those sleeve bearings to get you past the warranty. My grandpa told me about that, and he worked at GE in the 1950's to the mid 1970's, small motors division, plant manager of Winter St Engineering, Ft Wayne Indiana. He transferred there from Lynn, MA when they moved part of the Tri-Clad line to Fort Wayne.

What type of oil?

@@kennleeds4342 I use 3n1 brand Electric Motor Oil. It's straight SAE 20W.

Here is your chance to do a better job, should be an easy $$ maker no?

It's even simpler than that. Where THEY source everything has things reasonably custom fabricated, and once they've produced the parts, they don't have spares beyond what they expect for QA and warranty replacements.

@@tbelding And even sometime they don't even have for warranty !

Did you mean RCO210 ? Remember when installing those you go by AMPS not HP . Little tip of the day one time for your mind 😅

Make sure to add run capacitor to it , help lower amp

@@philltafolla the compressor falls within the range of the 410. The 210 is for 1/2 hp. and the biggest difference is that the overload is a higher rating. If there is a problem on startup, there is a chance the 210 overload might not trip and burn the compressor windings. If the compressor is starting with no issues (high inrush amperage, hard starting) , then the RCO410 should have no issues maintaining a continuous run during the cooling cycle bearing in mind that all ratings take into account for a higher inrush current by utilizing a bimetal thermal disc overload.

As metre was define in 1799 you can even tell CENTURIES ! But the real matter of imperial unit is how weird are all the division X foot in a yard Y inch in a feet Z yard in a miles even for tool why they divide an inch in 16 ??? Even temperature is weird, 0 °F is a mix of Ammonium chloride and ice, 96 a "human body temp" I found fun to see some american discover how clever is metric system, for no other reason that it's a 10 based system from a plumber that try to divide by two 3 feet 6 inch 3/8 to a cooking wonmmen that got bored with pinch cup pint and so on !

@@lapub. which system makes you use your head more? enough said. 🤣 it helps keep the weeds out

Metric hardware is standard pretty much everywhere including automotive. I truly don't understand his rant.

We use british threads for piping in Sweden and also most of the rest of Europe. It's been a standard for hundreds of years which makes it easy to exchange parts between different countries.

And Bahco was a Swedish company but is now part of Snap-on over twenty years.

AO Smith at Lowe's is basically a different company with clearly different branding (Signature at Lowe's, ProLine at supply houses) borne from their 2017 acquisition of American Water Heaters. Before that, they were sold as Whirlpool. Not everything is that obvious, though. Most brands do have big box exclusive lines, but you can sometimes find "real" stuff there, too. As long as the model numbers/SKUs are the same, then the product will be the same no matter where it's sold.

Wire nuts are non compliant here in Australia BP connectors are what's normally used

Wire nuts aren't compliant in electrical installations in France either

You're so rad

Or a window shaker and a cooler lol

If it's in stock.

I’ve seen homebrewers build DIY glycol chillers using window air conditioners with the evaporator coil submerged in the tank

@@atomstarfireproductions8695 Shit actually works, i built one for my neighbor to cool down a big ass saltwater aquarium with some titanium heat exchangers. As long as you keep the glycol circulating and around 35-40 it will run for years

The industry I work in (unrelated to HVACR, I just find it interesting) uses nearly all metric, even here in the US. It's great once you get used to it.

La unite hermatique made them under licence for decades.

@@richardbartlett6932 Thank you!

Because insulation costs money, and we don't do things right here if we can do them cheap instead, apparently.

Yeah! A machine beginns to deteriorate when Youre putting in 3rd party parts!

That fan motor it s Euro style maybe from Ebm-Papst

@@bobroberts2371 was it 220v motor

The problem is, that its hard to find "expensive" and serviceable (whatever) nowadays.

China use A/NZ standard plugs, Their 220v kit works in Australian sockets without an adaptor.

but they don't have it at the local supply house and I needed the parts than, the point was the tecumseh wholesaler didn't know what the compressor was or where to get the parts.. I realize I could order it from parts town but even than its a retrofit compressor...

Embraco made danfoss compressors with different electrics

yep we charge the same hourly rate for travel time and actual working time

Ha ha you are right about leaving it exposed

Hahah im a beverage technician

I wonder about that too, I wouldn't expect gravity to be related since the glycol is being pumped around the system anyway. Perhaps installers are just assholes?

They don't want to waste floor space for the equipment.

Probably just to save space when they can install it in the attic but also make it inconvenient to work on.

🇺🇲💪❄️👍 water/glycol mix usually 2-1 ratio. I use a glycometer n check brix% tells u freeze point. I keep it around 25-30 brix %

Yes, their product sheet for G30-R290 chillers says that the compressor varies "EMBRACO" NEU 6181 U or "SECOP"NLE8.0CN 115-127 V/60Hz or CUBIGEL NLY75RRa (115-127V 60Hz)

Uzbekistan is in Asia.

Everyday is different this customer is an hour and a half from my shop and the supply house is an hour away from the customers location so two trips and the travel out to the customer took a good part of the day