The hosts diagnose a mini-split HVAC system where the pump cycles every ten seconds and water bypasses the coil at 50°F on both sides. They identify a pneumatic valve restricting flow and consider manually closing it or swapping in an electric actuator to fix it.
That pump in that mini split, that thing going about every 10 seconds.
Keep naming names, you're gonna get bleeped out on this next video. It's gonna sound like you've cussed.
I believe—
no, I know you're talking about—
what's his name? What's this?
John.
John.
But the point is, you keep mentioning names, you can get bleeped out and it's gonna sound like you're a rap.
That's why I took a picture of the temperature gauges so I could explain to you what was going on. I wanted— I didn't think that they shouldn't be that— that's 50.
Yeah, because see, that water flows here, hits that valve, and either goes into the coil or bypasses the coil and comes back down here and out to the— and so if everything's 50-degree water, it is bypassing us and just keep going. It's bypassing the coil. Okay, that water there should be warmer than that water there, but water's got to flow through that coil for that to happen.
Okay, I'm standing. You think there's a manual on that valve?
I don't know, it's pneumatic in it.
Yes, it is. It is pneumatic.
I might go in there and change it to an electric.
There's a valve right there.
On the side, my hand is open. Yeah, I mean, it's open, that's fine. But no, I mean, right here this water is getting diverted, but you got to see if there's some way you can manually drive that valve.
So you're saying if I went in there and drove this valve closed, I ought to see that temperature start rising after a period of time? Yeah, because I'm not getting any more water down through there. I can start sitting on the right.
You don't want to stop running. I mean, think about, uh, when it's 98 to 100 degrees outside, think about getting in your car and then driving to the store. How many times did you turn off the AC? Probably not ever.
Both of them ain't never been in that place.
What does it mean on and off then?
The, the temperature, you know, when it—
I just hit a temperature. The only thing I could be doing is turning the fan.
Must be opening the valve.
I ain't opening that valve, that's pneumatic. I ain't got control over anything pneumatic.
It's got a thermostat in that one sensor in there that goes to your controls up there, and your controls is what decides when this is going to cut these on. But I ain't never been up there. I ain't saying they don't go off, but I ain't never been up there and they wouldn't run.
If you follow my wires, you're probably gonna find me going to a fan contact, and he's probably right.
But I just— I know I ain't never been up there.
That's what you need to know before you leave those open. But anyway, that's the problem. In the meantime, why don't he do what he was doing to be cool?
All right, do your intro. Window jammed down frozen.
Yep. Hey, on this episode we talk about why is my unit frozen and should I service my window unit.
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