Re-Install Of a 21 Year Old Heat Pump For a Buddy's Shop!

Guys, I did an intro for the video that I'm going to show you today, but I needed to explain a little bit. A buddy of mine bought an old air conditioner that he wants to put on his shop. He installed, with some help, basically everything except the line voltage and the thermostat wire. It's a 21-year-old R22 system that's been sitting for, like, seven years. Come with me. We're going to see how it turns out. Here we go. I think first we need to get what's here out. Ooh, that does not want to budge. There it goes. Sometimes you can tighten it first and then... You get it to move? Yeah, and then they'll come loose from using it. That's the bird's nest we found in there. How long has it been on there? It's safe to wash it. What I'm doing now is just measuring. Up top. Give it a little bit of extra. This is bubble search I use for leak searches. It's just like soapy water. Let's get it on. Here we go. That ain't hot, is it? No. Okay. Let me tell you. That thing's tight. The one trying to get the one off the back? Yeah I fought with that thing. Sometimes it's easier to use a unibit. There it goes. That back section back there does not want to break free. You know how most of them are just kind of like opposite where they're tied together? That one had three points. And then one on the other side and then one right beside it. Plug nickel. There is still a little piece back there that don't want to come off. There it goes it's bending. Am I smelling silicone or something you put there? No, I thought I had it going. Almost looks like I planned it that way. Fit right in there. Would have been easier to do this ground first. We aren't using the green wire, are we? It is connected inside in the panel, but... To ground? Yeah. Or neutral? Well, all four of our wires are connected. I didn't know if we were going to need that ground or not, but I always like to leave it engaged. Terrible, terrible product. You can't tell that I like Milwaukee. What's your favorite kind? This, that, and the other. Uh-huh. Well, I grew up using, started out with, like, Makita's, and then I went to DeWalt. And it's like, I don't think it really, it don't matter. It's like what people prefer. Yeah, yeah. I was a Makita fan for a long time. I used Makita for years and years and years. And, man, this is going to be difficult. And I was really, like, my impact, especially my impact. I wanted something small. And, um... and makita at that time was actually going from like 18 volt or 20 volt to 40 volt and they don't invest in their 12 volt line there's almost nothing worth buying there and um like i said i was wanting something smaller i didn't want anything bigger it gets cold it takes a while to get it to thin down or to warm up and i'd sit there and you know i'd just if i got extra if i If I got really cold, like to the bone, I had to go get in the shower. Almost. Whew. You want to Chicago? Yeah. There's nothing in Chicago. No, I didn't lose anything out there. I mean, it's like Detroit. I mean, it's like another dead city. It's like Albany. Well, there's an air conditioning convention I'm going to. I got him back with me. I got him back with me. You were about to tell me that, weren't you? But I was like, you know, I don't want to overstep my bounds sometimes. make sure these are right okay one fits in the other go through like this and get that to start there we go there we go better to have too much wire than not enough All right, there we go. Hand under there. I think I'm going to have to cut it. is it not is it not the right size well it's so tight and i gotta go above the blocks and then that drip rail on the building uh-huh it's just there If I were to try to stick two of them in there, I would have been holding it, and I would have needed a third or fourth hand to do so. Well, I ain't got the other one yet. That might require that. Back out that screw as far as you can. It still wouldn't matter. And then it falls out? Yeah. One. I'd get them up there, and they'd stay, and then as soon as I went to tighten the screw, they'd fall out. Okay. Power wire is run. I'm going to change that. Let's work on the thermostat wire first. Is it coming through? Well I didn't know I was recording all that. This thermostat wire it's got to go in here somewhere through this metal wall which is a danger. That was a little grommet I just put in there to protect this thermostat wire. All right now we just need to fish it through. We don't know how much we need to save any. Leave a little slack back here. I mean it won't hurt. It's already there. Is it going to be walled up? Yeah at some point. cavity back here to put it in. we can cut it off right there that's fine if you want. let's pick a wire we're not using. blue, peel it back. all right we need white and green, yellow, let's use black for common, red and orange. so these two are not going to be used. The first two are red and then common. I had it, this one is common. I'm gonna use black for common. Time to figure out which one I'm gonna hook up, W1 or W2, I think I'm gonna go with W1. Just have to check it later, make sure everything's working. I'll just set my screwdriver down here. I hear y'all over there. Next is green. You know something? We were just over in that neighborhood. You remember those first, what, 12 installs I did for you? we were just over there the other day and um buying some yard seed food which was a mistake but um and i was telling her that about the those duplexes you bought out there and we did a bunch of them it was a chunk and that was my first year in business it was my very first year so i was very thankful yeah you told me you made a good profit on those i think the real estate market right now is kind of not doing so well I just listened to the people they were talking about it all. They said they're just not posting them, but foreclosures. They're saying right now we're in 08. Really? It's that bad? Holy smokes. I don't know how truthful that is, but that's just one of these clubs or whatever. Thank you very much. They've been trying to bring in ringers for the football team. I'm paying them to come move the leak out. Uh-huh. And... Well, it's not mine. Let me see. Hold down the plus and minus buttons for three seconds. Room calibration. Let me see. CD. Compressor short cycle delay. We're going to leave that on. Fahrenheit. Heat pump is on. That's why I wanted to make sure that it knows it's a heat pump. Dual fuel off. Electric heat. Yes. Satisfy feature allows thermostat to keep multiple stages of heat energized until set point is satisfied. I'll leave that on. S55 on. So does it need the heat strips on as well as the heat pump mode? I'm just saying that turning that on means that when it's cold and it needs the heat strip. True. Yo, come on. It'll come on and stay on until it satisfies the thermostat. The both will be running at the same time so it's still going to have like a 15 minute delay before it comes on and it's probably only going to come on during defrost and when it's real cold. That's just allowing it to satisfy the thermostat and turn off because when it's real cold if it gets near the set point the heat strip will turn off and that heat pump will sit there and run and run and run and run and run and run And only producing a slight difference in temperature, so that's why. Cool swing, wait a minute, there was more I was going to do. 5D, what is that? Feature allows delay to occur when a second stage is needed. Yeah. Do you have a filter grill? What is that, a 20 by 30, 20 by 25? When we came out here the first time this contactor looked rough, so we're going to go ahead and replace it before it's a problem. I got some guys doing a duck job, a big one. over on the river nice house super nice house i told them please mind how you step through the ceiling oh yeah please do not step through that ceiling oh that's the last thing i want i mean they have vaulted ceilings with specialized trim like three inches away from the wall and it's it'd be a nightmare if they step through that i got catwalks up in mine now oh that is sweet when you got them Mm-hmm. Got it going down across, you know, that cathedral, or that step, instep, see them? Uh-huh. And trying to get over it. I ran some of the scrap plywood and all I had. I just started cutting it up, taking it up there. It helps. It does. You got a good place to step. Well, code in Georgia is we have to have a walkway to the air conditioner. Yeah. That's almost never the case because inspectors never go in the attic. it's nice when you see it. the only thing i don't like about mine up there is i didn't go big enough for the area being open. oh. i wanted a lot i wanted a lot more area. man those things do not want to budge do they? man both of these wires are huge. it's hard to tell which one's a compressor. i'm gonna say the one with the insulation on it because the black one over there is also a compressor wire. well i was gonna put them under these lugs. I think I'm still going to do it. Break it. This thing might be ready to fire up before we do anything more. I'm going to check that capacitor, and then we're going to see if it'll run. Yeah, I'm going to check this capacitor real quick before we do that, okay? It looks like blue goes to Herm, 40 and 5. You see that? That's a battle scar. I shorted my test leads to ground when I was testing something. It was like I was testing something like this, and my idiot myself. let's see 38.99 i'm surprised 5.1 yeah that's one of them uh amran that is a heat strip adapter if you don't have heat strips oh and it probably goes to one of these normally right here right here so you plug in your low voltage and stuff to your heat strips if you don't have heat strips you plug that in all right let's fire this thing off go ahead he said it's got power Outside winds at 244. Oh, I just heard blower come on. We do have one of our heat strips Disconnected so we're not expecting to pull more than maybe about 30 amps. Okay. What I see is My green is on w-2 and that may be why everything came on just my heat strips So let me move my green over to green and I might put I just leave the w-1 right there and see what happens Boy, this is the duct work that he has put in here set to heat all right we are on time delay we're running in heat so that sub freezing temperature may not mean much it's going up though isn't it how long has it been I think I have an opportunity out here for five or seven. five seven years are you kidding me I don't know what I'm doing. is there a name plate on i can't really tell this does not tell me what refrigerant it is but it is It is an ICP. And G0530, that might be a 2005. Part that might tell me, I cannot read. Need to move that W1 to W2. Let's see what we're pulling right here. Pump is pulling 30 amps. Guys, that one is done. It's making a lot of noise, but he's already said it has heated up his shop in there. That is a four ton for that little space. Ought to do fine. 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