Condenser not running, defrost board not passing voltage to contactor. Charging in Superheat.

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Called out for no cooling, found the defrost board not passing voltage on to contactor. I bypassed board, and charged system. Also I show a terribly designed air handler. #hvac #hvaclife #fieldpiece #makita #aspen
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We're out here
on this one.
It is running inside,
but obviously we're
not here humming
or nothing.
See,
it's
getting
a call.
I'm
going
to
guess
that
it
is out
on low
pressure.
It's
coming,
can you see that?
I'm getting 27 volts. I'm
not going to go through
seeing where I'll lose 24
volts because I suspect
this is about out of fuel.
If I do a leak search
on the air
air handling i'm going to show you the insane way
this thing was designed clearly by an engineer
that has
never
worked
on an air
conditioner
oh i
got the
wrong
one one
said 200
psi so
it's not
out on low
pressure
234 psi all
right now we
gotta that's
it i wasn't
gonna trace
through
and see
where it's open
well now i need
to right i think
it goes through
this wire is what
yellow is hooked
up to from the thermostat
and it goes through what i think
is a low pressure switch i'm checking
up here to ground so the call is
getting to the board and i think
this is my other pressure switch
i'm gonna check across it
i got nothing i also got
no 24 volts i'm beginning
i'm beginning to
suspect this board i think
i should have 24 volts
on this pressure switch
sometimes these things are
a little difficult
to show you all right
i'm checking across
these two blue is common and
this blue with a stripe a pink stripe on it goes through
my first pressure switch before it even
gets to the board
and i'm getting 24 volts i think then
if this pressure switch is open it'll kill
voltage to this one which goes to the contactor
but checking from i'll just check across it
i got zero volts so that switch is closed
so i should be getting
a call right here i'm gonna
kill power here for just a second
and then i'm i'm going to take this one and hook it right to
the contactor to get them going make sure everything works
and order a new defrost board
all right so this is the other side
of this wire it goes through
my low pressure switch so
basically i'm bypassing the board
and still using the low pressure switch we're just going to turn
it on
now and
get him
some
cooling
check
pressures
and
then
order
a
board
as you
can see
it's a
little
bit low kind of high superheat
and low suction this is nowhere near enough to make that low
pressure switch open so that board never should have faulted like
that i'm just going to go ahead
and add
a little bit
get it get it
where i want
it and um we'll
get him a new
board inside
we have
76 degrees it's a piston so we can't really
charge by sub cooling i need to charge by
superheat means i need to get
my ideal superheat from that charging
chart right there i'm gonna
look that up and then according to the charging chart
my ideal superheat is 20 degrees as you see
i got it at 19.8 80 degree dry bulb outside
and i think it was a 71 wet bulb temperature inside so
that's an ideal superheat i'm gonna quit charging
and um i may do a leak search inside i'll do a
leak search but what i wanted to show you
is the line set is in the back of this air handler if we
ever have to replace a coil it ain't gonna be easy
