Wow 😳 thanks man! I appreciate you letting me know🙏🤜🤛👍👍

Bingo, if something's hard to find I write it inside the unit what breaker it is and where the box is or whatever it is you might need to find.

That would suck🤦🏻

I appreciate your kind words 🤜🤛👍👍

I have used my blue paint pen on the clamp 👍👍

They come with red and blue sticker dots for such.

This

Optical illusion. It wasn't burnt

yep, it looks burnt to me and I see the solder melted away at the pin going to the boards very bottom terminal (one of the blower cool terminals), that bottom relay is smoked inside. it must be a cooling blower speed relay.

@@throttlebottle5906 I was using the light on my phone to record with, what you're seeing is the shadow from the peg on the board. I know what a blown off trace looks like.

@@HVACRSurvival good lord these internet warriors who weren’t there with you think they know more about the call you had your hands and head in than you do. Great job Rick keep ‘‘em coming

Cool. What town?

I have the Fieldpiece probes in my bag👍👍

Exactly all the bad experiences I had with the 557. And I was going to give them the benefit of the doubt call Deb Testo . They sent me out a second set the exact same problems. The 557 will go down in Testo‘s history books other than the initial sale because everybody was hyped but then let down with a big crash especially for the price. There is definitely not as reliable and dependable as my old Testo 570

@@coldfinger459sub0 I actually wish I had waited a while before buying them. You were the first one on youtube who was actually testing them out properly and making videos. If I had only waited a couple months I would have seen I should have gotten the fieldpiece manifold.

@@HVACRSurvival I do like the design of the testo. I like the shape. I like how the screen is layed out. They just didn’t meet the level of quality that you’d expect from testo’s flagship model.

@@ConnorCoultis yes I believe I was the very first one if that all possible with the 557. I actually discovered and put in my order and called before they were even available or announced in the United States. Because I’m also signed up to Testo in the European market and so I got a EU advertisement sent to my email about the 557. I instantly put in an order to True Tech Tools and they told me they didn’t know nothing about it yet lol 😂 So I had to wait for them to announce it. One of my biggest tool purchase regrets ever. That’s when I discovered it had a problem with my old iPhone model six so it forced me to buy a new one that cost a boatload of money 💰 Then I discovered it would not work with my old android pad too many software glitches and drop outs and lock ups Had problems with the old iPad so it forced me to buy a brand new one that was several hundred dollars more Just to use the Testo 557, and then to find out it had so many problems glitches and Bluetooth connectivity problems it is now a testo brick. Only comes out in emergencies or when I need a third or fourth set of gauges just to pull refrigerant recoveries through or look at some pressures not even attempting to use Bluetooth or any diagnostic procedures. I’m still walking around bowlegged with my tail between my legs licking my wounds on that one.

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Your welcome

It's great to be needed....😂

@@HVACRSurvival Lol ...

Thanks man!

Yep 😁👍

Thanks Man! I seen your latest car video....Bad ass!

@@HVACRSurvival Thanks Brother!

Thanks Jason! That's awesome of you to say. I like the gauges, I think I'm asking too much of them. I need to read the manual.

@@HVACRSurvival it couldn't hurt to read the manual, but i get not reading one....i also agree that it should be easy to use without reading the manual.

🤣🤣👍👍 true that!

Thanks for the feedback🤜🤛👍👍

I agree, It was for a quick demonstration, I check across switches and use common or neutral when I'm actually diagnosing a system.

Kind of, there's a lot of things that can go wrong but generally they don't unless you ignore it and let things accumulate.

Nothing but the best😉

🤣🤣 It's 245v not 460v. Do you use gloves for removing your refrigerant hoses?🤭

@@HVACRSurvival lmao you are build different

@@sheeesh3355 this would likely be a true statement. 😁👍👍

I’m not sure what you mean by plates being all the same ?

You’re gonna need to give me a little more details. Give me a timestamp and remind me what you’re talking about.

You're better than most out there👍👍

$20 thermal label printer and off-brand cheap label tape makes it cheap for me and easy for everyone else!

Yes Sir 👍👍

We're yours the 557 "s" model or the original 557? I had the original and they were great till they died

@@HVACRSurvival The new model S. Miss my old 570 that thing was built like it was a German made Swiss watch. When you held the 570 in your hand you knew you knew you had an industrial piece of equipment When you held the Testo 557S thought somebody accidentally sent you a Chinese imitation knock off fake Tonka toy.

@boodieman72 I give up trying when there's absolutely no other possible solutions or the units fried, this crap of these guys trying to sell stuff all the time is a bunch of bull, where I live at if you're going to try to monkey somebody over like that they're just going to call someone else and they'll get it fixed, you're not a real service person if you can't figure out what's really wrong with it and you have to sell a new unit, leave that up to the customer to decide. We have a reputation to uphold and there's a reason why we are the size we are, there's a lot of things about my area and where I work that I don't discuss but that's not the kind of business I wish to work for.

@@HVACRSurvival It seems as if it takes a lot to render a unit unfixable unless you can't get parts for it.

It's a completely different design sensor and machine. Watch my review on it

@@HVACRSurvival hmm I'm tempted to buy it, I just want to know if it would help me atleast determine what's leaking, I ran into two calls recent in which it was apparent they were low, and system barely kept up. Spent hours looking for leaks and couldn't find it. I had to gas them up and hope it was the service valves! Would you say the stratus would help in finding minimal leaks?

I mainly use it 98% of the time. I double check it against the h10 pro and the dtek 3 whenever I doubt it's working correct and it has always proven it was right.

Why, I'll have to remove it when I get the control board. It's not going to hurt to have it run. I have had mine running non-stop since 2003. But it's a ECM

@@HVACRSurvival and probably not unbalanced

I was referring to electromagnetic force. May not be the exact correct terminology but motor generates voltage. When a motor shut off there's a spike and that's what causes transients.

@@HVACRSurvival ok um, please read this as coming from all the best intentions and kindness, I genuinely wish to be helpful. Would you like to learn a more accurate knowledge of electricity? I would absolutely love to help but I don’t want to stick my nose in your business so ill leave the offer on the table.

@@HVACRSurvival Also, when you apply voltage to one speed tap, voltage should show up on all speed taps, I believe the windings are all interconnected in series.

They are multi tapped like a transformer

EMF = electromotive force AKA voltage. Same acronym different meaning. Counter or back EMF is the correct term.

No offense taken, but when you arrive and the person at the front desk doesn't know what another person called in about and he wasn't there to tell me and they didn't call him to find out.... No one talks to each other and my office didn't make sure that they got the correct discrimination of the complaint, where do you start? the upstairs unit or the downstairs unit? It's hard to fix something if you don't know which ones are not working right. You have to go through and check everything. When I see a system that's piss poor installed like this... I check everything because I don't trust anybody to do their job right. As you can see whoever's been working on it did everything about us half ass as you can get it. But I can't mention that in the video.

I was thinking the same thing. I haven't used the auto thing yet. I mainly like having the wait scale and the calculated wet bulb.

Cha-chig👍👍

I guarantee you it’s like this everywhere in any country. You have no idea if you haven’t worked in the field.