Fun day, I hate that model York with a passion. I have the unfortunate privilege to live and work in the same county those were made so I see way more than I ever wished to. Stay cool it’s hot out there
Damm Steve you are all sunshine and rainbows today😂😂😂. Keep up the good work. Some may say you are a supertech, but no, you are the Yoda of crap calls and the king of disaster equipment. Proud to follow you on youtube and see some of your adventures😎
Nice video. When I have to mess with evaporator or condenser coils, my invoices have a line item designated MB1- minor bleeding - 20.00, or SD1- severe bleeding - $50.00. Covers quickclot, bandages, aggravation, etc. Stay cool this week. I am east of you about 100 miles.
Again. Thank you for the video. Yeah, this call looks is one of those where you have to look even under the rocks to see what is going on. What I see with Testo probes is that you can't go too far away from them. They seem not to have the same range as the Fieldpiece ones. Today I went down the ladder to the restaurant, and I couldn't read the Testos at the thermostat, but I could read the Fieldpiece Hygrometers. Fieldpiece is more expensive, but I see why.
I have and like Testo. I have the complete kit with pressure, temp clamps, hygrometers, DB temp thermometer, vane anemometer, hot wire anemometer and ir. Its been great to use and no issues at all. I want to get that scale...i have the FP wireless...so its hard to justify buying another one when the one i have works just fine. If you get sick of the Testo stuff....let me know...I'll buy it off you ( if you are allowed to sell it ) i like FP and have nothing bad to say about them. I have lits if FP products as well. I just like Testo for their accuracy of their sensors. Those 605i hygrometers are really nice snd the magnets make them great for vertical or horizontal insertion into the air stream. Another great video Rick, and i really like how you are very detailed in what you do.
@@HVACRSurvival it couldn't hurt to read the manual, but i get not reading one....i also agree that it should be easy to use without reading the manual.
9:50 - You can see the burnt traces on the back of the board near that middle blower relay. Blower must be drawing too much current or not starting so check blower cap.
yep, it looks burnt to me and I see the solder melted away at the pin going to the boards very bottom terminal (one of the blower cool terminals), that bottom relay is smoked inside. it must be a cooling blower speed relay.
@@throttlebottle5906 I was using the light on my phone to record with, what you're seeing is the shadow from the peg on the board. I know what a blown off trace looks like.
@@HVACRSurvival good lord these internet warriors who weren’t there with you think they know more about the call you had your hands and head in than you do. Great job Rick keep ‘‘em coming
Not a fan of the new testo manifold to be honest. I have the 557s as well and I liked them until I picked up the fieldpiece probes from true tech tools and started using them with measure quick, much higher quality tools I find. The testos always needed to be re-zeroed, they’d be off by like 3 psi every time i’d use them. Right after a pressure test you’d let out the nitrogen and they’d be off by 2 psi again. The screen cracked from sitting in the sun even though I babied them. When they weren’t attached to a unit they were back in the case. The bluetooth was garbage, they’d disconnect when you’d come off the roof into the building within 50ft of the manifold. The fieldpiece has amazing bluetooth range, they stayed connected one time through 3 floors of concrete. They come back to zero every time and battery life is over a year. The testos live on the shelf in the van now.
Exactly all the bad experiences I had with the 557. And I was going to give them the benefit of the doubt call Deb Testo . They sent me out a second set the exact same problems. The 557 will go down in Testo‘s history books other than the initial sale because everybody was hyped but then let down with a big crash especially for the price. There is definitely not as reliable and dependable as my old Testo 570
@@coldfinger459sub0 I actually wish I had waited a while before buying them. You were the first one on youtube who was actually testing them out properly and making videos. If I had only waited a couple months I would have seen I should have gotten the fieldpiece manifold.
@@HVACRSurvival I do like the design of the testo. I like the shape. I like how the screen is layed out. They just didn’t meet the level of quality that you’d expect from testo’s flagship model.
@@ConnorCoultis yes I believe I was the very first one if that all possible with the 557. I actually discovered and put in my order and called before they were even available or announced in the United States. Because I’m also signed up to Testo in the European market and so I got a EU advertisement sent to my email about the 557. I instantly put in an order to True Tech Tools and they told me they didn’t know nothing about it yet lol 😂 So I had to wait for them to announce it. One of my biggest tool purchase regrets ever. That’s when I discovered it had a problem with my old iPhone model six so it forced me to buy a new one that cost a boatload of money 💰 Then I discovered it would not work with my old android pad too many software glitches and drop outs and lock ups Had problems with the old iPad so it forced me to buy a brand new one that was several hundred dollars more Just to use the Testo 557, and then to find out it had so many problems glitches and Bluetooth connectivity problems it is now a testo brick. Only comes out in emergencies or when I need a third or fourth set of gauges just to pull refrigerant recoveries through or look at some pressures not even attempting to use Bluetooth or any diagnostic procedures. I’m still walking around bowlegged with my tail between my legs licking my wounds on that one.
Boa tarde, perguntei se os modelos de placas utilizadas nestes equipamentos, sao todos igual ou tem modelos de olacas de controles diferentes? Obrigado
Man it impresses me how much stuff it takes to keep this clean ! It seems to me, from an outside View, and most of this is leaks, replace motors and clean the coils ? Also replace motherboards inside when they fail? Did I catch all the high points! Lol
Not related to any of the work you did but I couldn't help but notice at 1:36, that PVB backflow assembly for the irrigation system isn't installed correctly lol. Who ever installed that is gonna be in for a real treat when a backflow event occurs and everyone's drinking water gets contaminated with fertilizers and dog shit from the grass.👍
Does that inficon stratus work very well on 410a I use the tek mate but, when it comes to very minimal leaks of 410a its difficult, how does it perform on very tiny leaks?
@@HVACRSurvival hmm I'm tempted to buy it, I just want to know if it would help me atleast determine what's leaking, I ran into two calls recent in which it was apparent they were low, and system barely kept up. Spent hours looking for leaks and couldn't find it. I had to gas them up and hope it was the service valves! Would you say the stratus would help in finding minimal leaks?
I mainly use it 98% of the time. I double check it against the h10 pro and the dtek 3 whenever I doubt it's working correct and it has always proven it was right.
One of The Hardy boys to the rescue! You did an excellent job for what you had to work with. Keep up the good work be safe. hand the wallet over quicker to the wife it looks like she's been either clawing at your hands or taking a knife out to them
I have a mania for labeling stuff and almost every unit I work on ends up with a UV-resistant label with what area it conditions, address if necessary, any other relevant information.
Why, I'll have to remove it when I get the control board. It's not going to hurt to have it run. I have had mine running non-stop since 2003. But it's a ECM
I was referring to electromagnetic force. May not be the exact correct terminology but motor generates voltage. When a motor shut off there's a spike and that's what causes transients.
@@HVACRSurvival ok um, please read this as coming from all the best intentions and kindness, I genuinely wish to be helpful. Would you like to learn a more accurate knowledge of electricity? I would absolutely love to help but I don’t want to stick my nose in your business so ill leave the offer on the table.
@@HVACRSurvival Also, when you apply voltage to one speed tap, voltage should show up on all speed taps, I believe the windings are all interconnected in series.
@boodieman72 I give up trying when there's absolutely no other possible solutions or the units fried, this crap of these guys trying to sell stuff all the time is a bunch of bull, where I live at if you're going to try to monkey somebody over like that they're just going to call someone else and they'll get it fixed, you're not a real service person if you can't figure out what's really wrong with it and you have to sell a new unit, leave that up to the customer to decide. We have a reputation to uphold and there's a reason why we are the size we are, there's a lot of things about my area and where I work that I don't discuss but that's not the kind of business I wish to work for.
No offense but I would have started at the thermostat. Checked for power at indoor furnace and outdoor with sequence of operation. You could have found out a lot of info and not looking at stuff that was unnecessary plus a waste of time.
No offense taken, but when you arrive and the person at the front desk doesn't know what another person called in about and he wasn't there to tell me and they didn't call him to find out.... No one talks to each other and my office didn't make sure that they got the correct discrimination of the complaint, where do you start? the upstairs unit or the downstairs unit? It's hard to fix something if you don't know which ones are not working right. You have to go through and check everything. When I see a system that's piss poor installed like this... I check everything because I don't trust anybody to do their job right. As you can see whoever's been working on it did everything about us half ass as you can get it. But I can't mention that in the video.
I like the electronic tools but at some point they're gonna dumb down the industry where even tiktokers will be able to charge a unit ... I mean automatic charge with subcool , troubleshooting with apps like mq what are we doing ?!
I wonder if you’ll be like everybody else and go back to your 550s . There’s a reason why people sent back their 557‘s or just keep them tucked away in a box for secondary back up emergency. Including myself. After two sets
@@HVACRSurvival The new model S. Miss my old 570 that thing was built like it was a German made Swiss watch. When you held the 570 in your hand you knew you knew you had an industrial piece of equipment When you held the Testo 557S thought somebody accidentally sent you a Chinese imitation knock off fake Tonka toy.
I am taking HVAC at local community college, I think your videos are the best on UA-cam, thanks for putting them out there.
Wow 😳 thanks man! I appreciate you letting me know🙏🤜🤛👍👍
Fun day, I hate that model York with a passion. I have the unfortunate privilege to live and work in the same county those were made so I see way more than I ever wished to. Stay cool it’s hot out there
That would suck🤦🏻
Damm Steve you are all sunshine and rainbows today😂😂😂.
Keep up the good work.
Some may say you are a supertech, but no, you are the Yoda of crap calls and the king of disaster equipment.
Proud to follow you on youtube and see some of your adventures😎
I appreciate your kind words 🤜🤛👍👍
Nice video. When I have to mess with evaporator or condenser coils, my invoices have a line item designated MB1- minor bleeding - 20.00, or SD1- severe bleeding - $50.00. Covers quickclot, bandages, aggravation, etc. Stay cool this week. I am east of you about 100 miles.
Cool. What town?
Again. Thank you for the video. Yeah, this call looks is one of those where you have to look even under the rocks to see what is going on. What I see with Testo probes is that you can't go too far away from them. They seem not to have the same range as the Fieldpiece ones. Today I went down the ladder to the restaurant, and I couldn't read the Testos at the thermostat, but I could read the Fieldpiece Hygrometers. Fieldpiece is more expensive, but I see why.
That's why installers or service technician should write on the unit if it's upstairs downstairs or whatever so you can tell what is what
Bingo, if something's hard to find I write it inside the unit what breaker it is and where the box is or whatever it is you might need to find.
I have and like Testo. I have the complete kit with pressure, temp clamps, hygrometers, DB temp thermometer, vane anemometer, hot wire anemometer and ir. Its been great to use and no issues at all. I want to get that scale...i have the FP wireless...so its hard to justify buying another one when the one i have works just fine. If you get sick of the Testo stuff....let me know...I'll buy it off you ( if you are allowed to sell it ) i like FP and have nothing bad to say about them. I have lits if FP products as well. I just like Testo for their accuracy of their sensors. Those 605i hygrometers are really nice snd the magnets make them great for vertical or horizontal insertion into the air stream.
Another great video Rick, and i really like how you are very detailed in what you do.
Thanks Jason! That's awesome of you to say. I like the gauges, I think I'm asking too much of them. I need to read the manual.
@@HVACRSurvival it couldn't hurt to read the manual, but i get not reading one....i also agree that it should be easy to use without reading the manual.
I would love that water pressure every freaking house
Add colored tape or paint to the probes, red for high temp and blue for low temp.
Fieldpiece has yellow removable plastic covers.
I have used my blue paint pen on the clamp 👍👍
They come with red and blue sticker dots for such.
I have the same Testo kit a month ago and they are great!
Lol with the sound deadening, I do the same, also with the water furnaces upper door, or just remove and put in tool bag.
Thanks Rick !
9:50 - You can see the burnt traces on the back of the board near that middle blower relay. Blower must be drawing too much current or not starting so check blower cap.
This
Optical illusion. It wasn't burnt
yep, it looks burnt to me and I see the solder melted away at the pin going to the boards very bottom terminal (one of the blower cool terminals), that bottom relay is smoked inside. it must be a cooling blower speed relay.
@@throttlebottle5906 I was using the light on my phone to record with, what you're seeing is the shadow from the peg on the board. I know what a blown off trace looks like.
@@HVACRSurvival good lord these internet warriors who weren’t there with you think they know more about the call you had your hands and head in than you do. Great job Rick keep ‘‘em coming
Nice I kind of learned something.
Not a fan of the new testo manifold to be honest. I have the 557s as well and I liked them until I picked up the fieldpiece probes from true tech tools and started using them with measure quick, much higher quality tools I find. The testos always needed to be re-zeroed, they’d be off by like 3 psi every time i’d use them. Right after a pressure test you’d let out the nitrogen and they’d be off by 2 psi again. The screen cracked from sitting in the sun even though I babied them. When they weren’t attached to a unit they were back in the case. The bluetooth was garbage, they’d disconnect when you’d come off the roof into the building within 50ft of the manifold. The fieldpiece has amazing bluetooth range, they stayed connected one time through 3 floors of concrete. They come back to zero every time and battery life is over a year. The testos live on the shelf in the van now.
I have the Fieldpiece probes in my bag👍👍
Exactly all the bad experiences I had with the 557.
And I was going to give them the benefit of the doubt call Deb Testo . They sent me out a second set the exact same problems.
The 557 will go down in Testo‘s history books other than the initial sale because everybody was hyped but then let down with a big crash especially for the price.
There is definitely not as reliable and dependable as my old Testo 570
@@coldfinger459sub0 I actually wish I had waited a while before buying them. You were the first one on youtube who was actually testing them out properly and making videos. If I had only waited a couple months I would have seen I should have gotten the fieldpiece manifold.
@@HVACRSurvival I do like the design of the testo. I like the shape. I like how the screen is layed out. They just didn’t meet the level of quality that you’d expect from testo’s flagship model.
@@ConnorCoultis yes I believe I was the very first one if that all possible with the 557. I actually discovered and put in my order and called before they were even available or announced in the United States.
Because I’m also signed up to Testo in the European market and so I got a EU advertisement sent to my email about the 557.
I instantly put in an order to True Tech Tools and they told me they didn’t know nothing about it yet lol 😂
So I had to wait for them to announce it.
One of my biggest tool purchase regrets ever.
That’s when I discovered it had a problem with my old iPhone model six so it forced me to buy a new one that cost a boatload of money 💰
Then I discovered it would not work with my old android pad too many software glitches and drop outs and lock ups
Had problems with the old iPad so it forced me to buy a brand new one that was several hundred dollars more
Just to use the Testo 557, and then to find out it had so many problems glitches and Bluetooth connectivity problems it is now a testo brick. Only comes out in emergencies or when I need a third or fourth set of gauges just to pull refrigerant recoveries through or look at some pressures not even attempting to use Bluetooth or any diagnostic procedures.
I’m still walking around bowlegged with my tail between my legs licking my wounds on that one.
Nice video Rick, as always you get the good ones. Sometimes you can fix em ,Sometimes you just get them limping along until heating season.
Yep 😁👍
you forgot the "when" part of the 5 W's 😂jokes aside, great video as usual!
Thanks man!
Adding the water first is for the users wellbeing with chemicals that you don't can overflow or spray the chemicals out
Nice job Rick! I hate that mesh crap, good for nothing kinda like that crap insulation
🤣🤣👍👍 true that!
Fantastic job !
🤜🤛👍👍
Good job Rick, keep going.
My guess is that isnt for insulation per se, but sound dampening. Probably sold those units as "quieter" than the standard condenser.
I needed to kill about a half hour before the race and this vid worked out perfect ... So see , you are good for something 🤣😅😂 Thx for posting ...
It's great to be needed....😂
@@HVACRSurvival Lol ...
Great video and job Rick!
Boa tarde, perguntei se os modelos de placas utilizadas nestes equipamentos, sao todos igual ou tem modelos de olacas de controles diferentes? Obrigado
Nice one Rick! Best Regards to You & Lora! 🤙🤙🤣
Thanks Man! I seen your latest car video....Bad ass!
@@HVACRSurvival Thanks Brother!
27:32 - RTM!? That’s cheatin’! That takes all the challenge out of it!!
Maybe a leak check AFTER DE-ICING !!
You should not check to ground for power when diagnosing, checking to ground tells you if you will be shocked but not if you have both legs of power.
I agree, It was for a quick demonstration, I check across switches and use common or neutral when I'm actually diagnosing a system.
Thanks for sharing.
Your welcome
Man it impresses me how much stuff it takes to keep this clean ! It seems to me, from an outside View, and most of this is leaks, replace motors and clean the coils ? Also replace motherboards inside when they fail? Did I catch all the high points! Lol
Kind of, there's a lot of things that can go wrong but generally they don't unless you ignore it and let things accumulate.
Not related to any of the work you did but I couldn't help but notice at 1:36, that PVB backflow assembly for the irrigation system isn't installed correctly lol. Who ever installed that is gonna be in for a real treat when a backflow event occurs and everyone's drinking water gets contaminated with fertilizers and dog shit from the grass.👍
Is it back EMF or are you just applying power to two sections of the motor speed winding?
You’re gonna need to give me a little more details. Give me a timestamp and remind me what you’re talking about.
24 smackers 😂
Boa Noite os tipos de placas utilizadas nos equipamentos sao praticamente todos iguais? Ou tem muitas diferenças?
I’m not sure what you mean by plates being all the same ?
2nd fl may be cycling off due to low pressure control ..... there is one clearly in your video.
The newer Affinity series units will have a LP/HP lockout, these units are trash. Especially the access panel, I don't mind working on em though
Thanks for the feedback🤜🤛👍👍
Does that inficon stratus work very well on 410a I use the tek mate but, when it comes to very minimal leaks of 410a its difficult, how does it perform on very tiny leaks?
It's a completely different design sensor and machine. Watch my review on it
@@HVACRSurvival hmm I'm tempted to buy it, I just want to know if it would help me atleast determine what's leaking, I ran into two calls recent in which it was apparent they were low, and system barely kept up. Spent hours looking for leaks and couldn't find it. I had to gas them up and hope it was the service valves! Would you say the stratus would help in finding minimal leaks?
I mainly use it 98% of the time. I double check it against the h10 pro and the dtek 3 whenever I doubt it's working correct and it has always proven it was right.
One of The Hardy boys to the rescue! You did an excellent job for what you had to work with. Keep up the good work be safe. hand the wallet over quicker to the wife it looks like she's been either clawing at your hands or taking a knife out to them
Mounted the rain sensor to the condenser? 😵💫😵💫
Nothing but the best😉
I have a mania for labeling stuff and almost every unit I work on ends up with a UV-resistant label with what area it conditions, address if necessary, any other relevant information.
You're better than most out there👍👍
$20 thermal label printer and off-brand cheap label tape makes it cheap for me and easy for everyone else!
Yes Sir 👍👍
Simplest thing as the old bosses used to say kiss method dirty 4-in filter no airflow causes ice ta da
Bro just push the contractors plunger with his bare hand 👏
🤣🤣 It's 245v not 460v. Do you use gloves for removing your refrigerant hoses?🤭
@@HVACRSurvival lmao you are build different
@@sheeesh3355 this would likely be a true statement. 😁👍👍
Why wouldn't you put in a temporary fan relay?
Why, I'll have to remove it when I get the control board. It's not going to hurt to have it run. I have had mine running non-stop since 2003. But it's a ECM
@@HVACRSurvival and probably not unbalanced
Thats not back emf, back electromagnetic frequencies apply to radio transmissions. You are referring to stray voltages on a multitap motor
I was referring to electromagnetic force. May not be the exact correct terminology but motor generates voltage. When a motor shut off there's a spike and that's what causes transients.
@@HVACRSurvival ok um, please read this as coming from all the best intentions and kindness, I genuinely wish to be helpful.
Would you like to learn a more accurate knowledge of electricity?
I would absolutely love to help but I don’t want to stick my nose in your business so ill leave the offer on the table.
@@HVACRSurvival Also, when you apply voltage to one speed tap, voltage should show up on all speed taps, I believe the windings are all interconnected in series.
They are multi tapped like a transformer
EMF = electromotive force AKA voltage. Same acronym different meaning. Counter or back EMF is the correct term.
When do you give up trying to fix it and just say they need a new unit?
@boodieman72 I give up trying when there's absolutely no other possible solutions or the units fried, this crap of these guys trying to sell stuff all the time is a bunch of bull, where I live at if you're going to try to monkey somebody over like that they're just going to call someone else and they'll get it fixed, you're not a real service person if you can't figure out what's really wrong with it and you have to sell a new unit, leave that up to the customer to decide. We have a reputation to uphold and there's a reason why we are the size we are, there's a lot of things about my area and where I work that I don't discuss but that's not the kind of business I wish to work for.
@@HVACRSurvival It seems as if it takes a lot to render a unit unfixable unless you can't get parts for it.
👍🇺🇸🙏💪❄️ Great work n vid
It's this the wrong board possibly
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No offense but I would have started at the thermostat. Checked for power at indoor furnace and outdoor with sequence of operation. You could have found out a lot of info and not looking at stuff that was unnecessary plus a waste of time.
No offense taken, but when you arrive and the person at the front desk doesn't know what another person called in about and he wasn't there to tell me and they didn't call him to find out.... No one talks to each other and my office didn't make sure that they got the correct discrimination of the complaint, where do you start? the upstairs unit or the downstairs unit? It's hard to fix something if you don't know which ones are not working right. You have to go through and check everything. When I see a system that's piss poor installed like this... I check everything because I don't trust anybody to do their job right. As you can see whoever's been working on it did everything about us half ass as you can get it. But I can't mention that in the video.
I like the electronic tools but at some point they're gonna dumb down the industry where even tiktokers will be able to charge a unit ... I mean automatic charge with subcool , troubleshooting with apps like mq what are we doing ?!
I was thinking the same thing. I haven't used the auto thing yet. I mainly like having the wait scale and the calculated wet bulb.
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Cha-chig👍👍
Why ist always looking soooo nasty in the back of american companies? cant believe ^^
I guarantee you it’s like this everywhere in any country. You have no idea if you haven’t worked in the field.
God what a horrible system design. York sucks.
I wonder if you’ll be like everybody else and go back to your 550s . There’s a reason why people sent back their 557‘s or just keep them tucked away in a box for secondary back up emergency. Including myself. After two sets
We're yours the 557 "s" model or the original 557? I had the original and they were great till they died
@@HVACRSurvival The new model S. Miss my old 570 that thing was built like it was a German made Swiss watch.
When you held the 570 in your hand you knew you knew you had an industrial piece of equipment
When you held the Testo 557S thought somebody accidentally sent you a Chinese imitation knock off fake Tonka toy.