Nothing Works On Her AC A Month After Maintenance!

Hey guys, in today's video we're going to be working on this system right here customer called and said it just stopped working, waiting for her to get here as soon as she does we'll figure it out, come with me Come with me. and it started and I knew I'd left it set like on 72 when I went to bed but 68. yeah there's something wrong, he ran I mean it ran until when I came back Payback number? 168. Well, we do know that her... The thermostat was lit up, see if we have any power. I have zero volts, that is not particularly good. Zero volts, I think we have tripped a really big breaker. So before I even go to the breaker, I'm gonna put this on, open these up, I'm gonna put this on continuity, I got nothing. Straight to ohms, still got nothing. Let's check this breaker box over here. That is a 60 amp breaker that has tripped. It's a good chance I might need something bigger than that if those heat strips come on. Let's check to see how many KW we have on our heat strips. I can basically tell from right here with these two wires. Y'all can't see. With these two wires right here, I can tell we have 10 kW. That's going to pull 40 amps. And this could get close to 20. I'm talking about the contactor and the heat pump. And that's a big old wire. And it's copper. about that right there. So I tell you what let's um reset the breaker get this to come on and check our amp draw and see if it's anywhere near 60. I think if everything comes on it probably will be. I'm sure that power is back on. Sometimes when these breakers trip they don't reset. I do not have power over there. Y'all forgive me I was trying to show you that I was checking power. I do not have it. I guess you could put two breakers in here. I got 200 and Hold on just a second. I saw all kinds of stuff there. Back this up a little bit so y'all can see my meter. Y'all see that jumping around all over the place? It's still doing that. All right this has happened to me before and it's because my battery's low. I need to go change my battery. I'll be right back. Let's get another one. There we go. Let's see if we have power. 250 volts. So let's make sure that's clicked all the way off and clicked back on. 120. I got 240. Let's go back to the unit again. All right, now we got 240. So I'm probably gonna be waiting on a time delay on the thermostat. Go ahead and get this ready to check amp draws because, well, I don't know, it's gonna heat up pretty fast. So when the heat pump comes on, all right, I just heard the blower come on. When the heat pump comes on, I'm gonna jump from my red to my white and measure my amps. Honestly, this could use a 70 amp breaker at least. That is big. That's like a number four. The thermostat may wait long enough to bring on the heat strips for this thing to satisfy because it's 72 degrees out here. It's going to heat up in there real fast. All right, there goes some of my heat strips right there. All right, if y'all can see that, I got 38 amps on my heat strips. So I've got 45, 46. Let's watch it for just a second. So the heat pump is only pulling about 8 amps. We seem to have topped out at about 47, so I'm going to take a better look at the breaker itself, behind it, and see if that thing might need to be replaced. Let me see what I've got in my bag. Let's see what we've got. Everything over here, I think, is of the HomeLine or Cutler Hammer variety. I think either one of those will work. I don't think I have a 70. That looks a lot like the Eatons or Cutler Hammers. they look almost exactly the same all right i gotta get the top off i can't hardly see where i'm gonna get that one anywhere that's that is cracked that right there is broken this is a home line a square HomeLine line look forward to see what i'm doing right now it just looked like there's a lot of copper sticking out all right now we gotta set that in place and then really tighten down on those lugs be careful what i'm doing Tell you what, that's just a little too close for me. I'm gonna go find the breaker, cut that off, and then come back out here. All right, I think I got the right breaker. I'm just gonna test each one to ground. Nothing, nothing, nothing. There we go. Now it's a little bit safer. Really would like to get this off right in my way. Y'all wondering what I'm using to unscrew that? It's that little, tiny little Klein ratchet. Let's get this one tightened up Helping that one get it put in there. Again, I cannot see what I'm doing with these particular lugs. It helps if you push them in. I'm even at the slot right now. It certainly looks like it. Make sure they're good and tight. I'm just going to put everything back together. This thing is getting on my nerves. Now let's go put power back to it. And yes, I did put in this screw over here. Because I didn't show it doesn't mean I didn't do it. Go turn the main breaker back on and we'll come back out. I'm going to watch all of this again. I'll move you all back just a little bit. 47 amps, that'll be just fine with a 60 amp breaker. I do hope y'all enjoyed that video. Y'all didn't see me checking pressures on that one because I recently did a preventive maintenance on that, probably less than a month ago. So I left it as is, I think it'll be fine. Y'all tell me, would y'all have replaced that breaker? I kind of think it's a good preemptive step. If you enjoyed the video, please like and subscribe. 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