In this segment of the Inside The Comfort Experts series, the speaker walks through a real‑world troubleshooting scenario involving a commercial ice‑water trough system. He first notes that the pump motor was excessively hot to the touch, indicating a seized condition; after manually spinning the motor he confirms it was stuck and replaces it. He then explains the trough’s float‑valve mechanism that recirculates a minimal amount of water, clarifying that the system does not automatically shut off when water flow stops. The discussion shifts to the electrical side, where the pump was originally tied into a shared bathroom circuit, causing frequent breaker trips. By isolating the pump on its own dedicated breaker in the main panel, the issue is resolved. Throughout, the speaker intersperses informal anecdotes (e.g., a hot‑plate rating story) and emphasizes safety and proper definition of “hot” when handling equipment.
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Mike? Check, check, check. Oh yeah! Oh shit, that was a fake okay. All right, we look good? Yeah. Shadows? All right. Anyway, pick up two calls there. Know what the problem is? I never get— yeah, pull switch in there. Pump. Is it hot? Mhm. You burn skin off, gang. All right, the money didn't order it. Pump's not working. That's what I thought. I just want to make sure. There you go. All right, just leave it off or You also said it was hot to the touch too. It was very, very hot. Now, a person didn't go in with the rest of them and touch it. I was confident their definition of hot met my standard of hot, so I didn't touch it. Kind of like when you go to the restaurant, I say, careful, plate's hot, and everybody still touches the plate. I told you. So make sure your definition of hot was my definition of hot. Me and Skip found out in Philadelphia that, um, Chinese restaurant, the Han Dynasty, they rated everything on a hotness from 1 to 10, 10 being the hottest. Well, we ordered a 4, but I said my fault. Therefore is my tin. It was hot, hot, burning your mouth hot. Oh, are you talking about the food or the pump over there? Both. I mean, if you put your tongue on that, it'll probably be Need a little kickstart. They use all this water eventually? Yeah, this trough here, as this trough drops down, it opens that valve and lets more water up in the trough. —a float right here. Like waste of water? Uh, it just recycles this water, just keeps dumping in this tray, and as it freezes that water in this trough, this— it allows it to top this trough back off. Uh, you use a very min— minimal amount of water to the vial as long as this trough got water in it. Is there something that kicks it off when there's no water coming through? Obviously not. Obviously not. I got it running. That motor was just hung. I went in there and spun the motor and took it off, and it took off. It was tight when I spun it. So I just need to go get a new [MUSIC] mode. Switching the breakers out and receptacle. Or is it we're gonna have to take a whole new circuit under now? Take a whole new circuit on the house. When I got over there, they tied it to another circuit. It was tied on to the bathrooms and everything. Man, it tripped no matter what we did. I had to take it off. As soon as we broke it free, it stopped tripping, and we put it on that breaker. So it's just got to be on its own breaker in the main breaker box? Yeah, can't be nothing. There's nothing else need to be on It needs to be— it can't be tied into other TFIs because if something else trips, it's going to trip that one. And there's a bathroom that they don't know about that is tripped. You know how often does your bathroom trip and you not know it till you get to use it 4 or 5 days later? Yeah, they're gonna be calling because they ain't got nothing going on in their house.
