Installing The ACiQ 2Ton Mini-Split By Myself...

Hey guys, we are here today doing a mini split install from scratch and basically that right there our power wire is all we've got. So come with me. Y'all see this? We are installing a two ton one head mini split today. I'm looking forward to it. I got a little bit of help with me today and it's really all I got to do. The only thing we have prepped for us already There's a power wire sticking out the wall. Okay, so this is everything that was sent in this package. I bought one of the Essentials mini split packages. And I'm looking to see what comes with it. We got our cable. I guess we can use it as drain, but not my preference. Oh, man, this is heavy. They also sent me a line set. I got a sleeve, a whip, and a disconnect. How about that? We're doing better. I did bring the stuff for the... Disconnect, let's see what this is, oh hold on a sec, oh this is a surge protector, that is real nice like, I kind of like that. First thing we need to do is get this air handler mounted, hope that there's something in here, here it is, alright that is what I'm looking for, pipe hole, they're saying three and a half inches, that's rather large, as you see, that three and a half inches is large, two and a half or maybe two is more appropriate. So we're going to measure this and see what size hole saw we need. I got this, what's left of a hole saw kit. Let me see if I can make this work. Okay, something I just noticed is that my hole saw actually fits inside that. So that is a two and three quarters. I think I have one size bigger and that's this one. That's a three. It's been used before. It looks like the blades are still good though. I'm getting all my stuff together to get this thing mounted on the wall and try to get a hole in the wall and as you know I need this plate right here and there's a screw holding it in end you got to get this plate off screw the plate to the wall in the right spot and um so we mount this on the wall and that tells us where to put excuse me like this that tells us exactly where Our hole for the line setter. So let's go ahead and get this on the wall try to get it centered where we want it and level and then we can use this to measure where to put the hole. I measured from here to here divided it by two and got that right there that is my center this mark in the wall. Okay that mark I made I sunk a screw in it right there in the middle. I just want to level this up Just think one more. All right, that's just in the wall. It's just in the drywall. Okay, because that is the case, mark that. Okay, well, let's mark this one. We're gonna have a stud. We're gonna screw into a stud right here. We got some work to do. These supports just might be enough to hold up that air handler, but we're gonna anchor it to that two by four, so the two by four holds the weight. And these right here just kinda hold it steady and in place. We're gonna get that started a little bit. Honestly, that can probably hold up a mini split. but we're this is right here is where we found the two by four so i'm gonna try to sink me some screws right here i'm gonna see if this is gonna work this one started to sink finally maybe i can sink another one and another one a little i gotta say that little stud finder didn't help me much okay one thing i use this for is to find my center mark on this hole and from here to my center mark is like four and a quarter inches and then from the bottom I'm at one and three quarter. One last thing I'm measuring right here is where my stud is. And that is 14, almost 14 inches away from the stud. So it should be good. You know what they say, measure twice, cut once. First measure, second measure, angle it a little bit down, can. So it's good to have a bit that has like a impact connection on it. So you can have an extension. So what I want to do is aim for dead central. with a little bit of a downward angle and just drill a hole and as you can see we can see that outside and we can drill our other hole we are outside right where this condenser is going to hang or we might put it on a pad and here's my if y'all can see that there's my hole and that is really grabbing i'm gonna put that on high speed a little bit out of an angle this is what i wanted this is my view all right so i'm gonna pull this what i'm gonna show you is how to bend this properly. this is the line set and this is the drain obviously we want that to come straight out so the way to bend it is slowly turn it okay you want your drain to be on the bottom if you can okay those little stands help out tremendously that's acting like it's catching on something there we go honestly because i tried to use this sleeve right here that kind of complicated things for me because i wanted to go at an angle okay that looks good to me i'm about 15 and a half inches a little bit more still level so that line set is going to come down over and then down into the condenser over here getting there i didn't have my hand truck so we had to carry this over here that is a nice looking piece of equipment this is the cable that was sent with it yes it's easier if you go ahead and connect this cable before you do this so that y'all might know there's a little hole right there just for that it makes it nice and easy for you Alright, these are the color of the wires that they gave me. I think I'm going to make my blue my ground power and communication. So black, red, orange, and then blue. I'm going to go about hooking those up. I'm putting a little bit of fog on that. Nice and gooey stuff all around that edge of the flare. I do not put it on the threads. I always start these by hand. Okay, according to the manual, a 5.8 line gets 57 to 71 newton meters. All right, let's just set this to, all right, we're on newton meters. What do you say we go to 65? There we go. Almost. Get to the point where I can see this thing hit red. Actually better from closer to the other wrench. Still not there. Holy smokes. I don't know about you, but something don't look right about that. Y'all see what I'm talking about? I'm going to pull it apart because I don't like the way it looks. If y'all can see that, that flare is not straight. I gave myself all day to do this job, and it's a good thing because I'm going to need it. Once again, I have an impeccable flare. Uh-oh. Do I have too much? Y'all know what I'm thinking. I'm this close to cutting all this and just soldering it together. What's going to have to do? There we go. i don't want it to go too far. there we go just like that. all right it looks like i got two bars on my battery so i should at least make it through the day. oh no did i just do my what i said i'm not supposed to do? i did. i don't care how good that flare is i gotta cut it off. i told you you gotta put that nut on first not like you can put it on afterwards and i just made that mistake. i'm getting really close. all right we are we got five eighths here. there we go. you know that battery just doesn't seem like it has a lot of power. I'm struggling at the end. I have talked to Milwaukee about developing a tool like this for their 12 volt line. That would be sweet. Straighten all this other stuff out in a minute. I gotta get this started though. I think I got it. Yep. Got it started as a relief. Okay. I'm set on 55 and somehow now I'm on 29. 57 is in range and close. I think I can pressure test and start to pull a vacuum I have the proper flare tool somewhere i think i left it in my van i want to get this get this out because we have one schrader port here i kind of need to pull a vacuum and through my manifold that makes it a little bit difficult but i understand why the metering device basically is in here all right let me find that valve core removal tool and maybe a diet pepsi i had a little bit of nitrogen left I'm up to 120, 22 psi. Let me turn off my nitrogen here for those of you who say show it or it didn't happen. There's my nitrogen. All right we're going to hit test tightness. Timer has started. I'm at 124.8. I do not have a temperature sensor plugged into the back so it can't do that little calculation thing. To start it you just hit enter so timer starts and then it starts measuring how much much it drops. In the meantime I'm going to bubble search. I'm thinking about using something else for the drain here. I think that's good. Let's check the other ones. You see the sprayer puts bubbles on it sometimes. So it's hard to see if it's bubbling. I got my vacuum started. Open that up. Open this up. Let's see if we get into microns quickly. It's going to be slower because I'm pulling through two Schrader cores. I'm already down to 29.9. Let's work on the electrical. let me see we got one two three l1 and l2 all right one two and three are black red and orange i'm down to 225 microns and i have not this has not timed off yet you'll know i'm trying to leave space somewhere for a surge protector little thing looks like it could go over here real easily we're gonna have one of our power wires go here and one of our surge protector wires these things never startup amps like a PSC a normal single speed compressor so they're much less likely to burn these connections you still want to make a good connection though and it was like a mess on it right now that's off now we can focus over here i'm doing hey let's hook up these last connectors we're under 300 i'm gonna do this ground first i have been advised by some of my viewers that ain't gonna work to use i'm gonna show you maybe something all right That will go through, but I don't think that number 10 is going to do so good. So that number 10 ain't going to go in that little thing, that blue one. So the advice is put you a little ring on there, bring it under here. It's better than trying to wrap the wires around. Actually, that's fine like that. And these last two go right here and here. And it don't matter which one goes where. I'm trying to give myself a little extra room here. This is a bigger wire. Number 10 is actually much bigger than what we need. But it's a very common supply to have. Better to have too big of a wire than too small. Well, I think that'll do. Alright, if y'all see that, I have, I don't know if you can see, about 244 microns. I'm going to isolate it from the vacuum pump. I'm watching those microns open it back up. It may have been loose, actually. I'm going to isolate that again. See where it goes. I'm at about 600 microns right now. 20... it is leveling out. release the freon. keep your fingers crossed. make sure they're both open now. i was looking for some of that white wrap that people put around line sets to cover all of this. i think i'm just going to get another piece of line set cover. i kind of think this might get in my way. i think i just moved the condenser. okay according to our electrician our wire is It's just kind of stuck in here. And there it is. There's our breaker. That's a 20 amp. That should be fine for this.