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Definitely. 😅😅

Yep absolutely the way I do it.

thats works great until you meet someone that tried replacing a cap themselves, messed up, now they’re calling you saying it just “went out” but in reality they botched the wiring lol. pictures are great but if you really understand why you do what you do then you can be that guy that can solve anything

You should be able to look at two wires right away and know how to wire a dual run capacitor.​@@danielweber4090

Or read the diagram as a double check before re energizing

True but those wire colors are definitely indicative of where they land at. It’s better to learn to read line diagrams and use pictures for quick repairs if needed. And I’m surprised he didn’t keep the video going, would’ve taken me 10-15 seconds to wire the cap correctly

What did they wire it up wrong?

"how to save 500$ to eventually pay 2000$ plus 4 hours for the pro to clean your mess then put nice thing in it" in the nutshell. Ever seen a whole ass bathroom being wired into furnace circuit breaker? I love to see when they turn hair dryer plus ceramic electric heater when furnace cranking on for high heat mode lol

That's pretty funny. But notice he said "don't let hacks" he's talking about hvac people that suck at their job. Not homeowners.

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Lay off the sauce.

The tractor beam

Wires dint see color...they're copper or aluminum 😂

Yes definitely

@teslafusion74i did it once(im pretty new lol and it just pushes air out at you and you can feel the air being hotter than normal and it eventually trips on high pressure the reason i did thus was customer started talking to me anf i left for some reason and the fan wire was blue and the compressor wire was brown but usually its the opposite so i wired cap bad lol

bad capacitor on F terminal, Carrier btw.

Keeps the coil clean though.

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Woah there Spock no need to do all that 😂😂😂 just take a quick amp reading after you fix the problem it wouldn’t of effected the fan just the capacitor…… I do commercial HVAC these systems are so simple it’s funny go work on a city multi with full branch box….

​@cameron3991 I'm gonna call bullshit on this. That can ABSOLUTELY take out a fan motor! How do I know? Because the last one I found like this killed the motor. And yes I work on residential and commercial. Mostly commercial.

@@cameron3991he a salesman brother just trying to make a T.O most residential techs are terrible.

It takes critical thinking and problem solving to diagnose a miswired capacitor? I’d hate to see you work on something that’s actually difficult 🤣

Yo just mind your own business

If you're getting charged $500 for a capacitor you need to find a new business to help you dawg.

We charge 200. And I've had to fix improper installations of parts and systems, due to that attitude.

@@lucaswhite3411 that's a good price roughly what our company charges for a capacitor change. $500 is steep but yet I don't know the area

You homeowners are the ones to say this and then go and hook up a capacitor like this lmao

Homeowner did this lol

I feel the need to comment on this as an ex HVAC tech. People love to point to the costs of the parts and how long it takes. Lets add in the other factors you don't give any value. It takes 3-4 minutes to diagnose because they do it multiple times a day for years. They do it correctly the first time. IF that cheap capacitor that everybody carries fails prematurely, we replace it at no charge to the customer. We carry insurance on our license and businesses. We have a service van full of inventory so that $12 part is immediately available. We also have thousands of dollars invested in tools and testing equipment in that same van. That meter alone is $100 to $300 and the hand tools is another couple of hundred dollars as well. Don't even start with recovery machines and vacuum pumps. When I was doing commercial service, I had probably $2k just in gauges and vacuum pumps because I did work on multiple compressor systems and would do start ups on buildings with more than 1-2 units. I would say I had $10-12k worth of tools on my van on a light day. So if you get a guy that charges you $30 an hour and puts the part on at charge, savor it. Those are the guys that I usually charge double for. I have to undo their fix first and then see what the real problem was.

@@atx4fun I agree with you. I am that service technician with the truck unit tools and engages all fieldpiece Bluetooth equipment. I still I’m only on the charge $125 for a capacitor change out. I do this because I’ve seen people struggle with the air conditioner repair bill. I do a lot of work for free for the elderly I charged him $75 to check one out.

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Lmao speaking of manufacturer screw ups... was sent on a warranty call for a water fountain. Fountain freezing the water in the reservoir, and water valve works intermittently... they had power to the tstat, and the buttons to activate the valve are supposed to jump off that to always have power. Compressor should be on the other side so the tstat controls it. They put the compressor to constant power and the damn valve was being disabled because the tstat was controlling it!

Installers do it every day. You do realize that nobody uses a phase checker unless the compressor is a screw or centrifugal, right? Normal people phase check with their ears.

this probably damaged the motor tho

You are thinking of it all wrong. There is nothing in that system that doesn’t affect everything else. That’s why you call it a system. If the fan is treated incorrectly for a certain amount of time, it’s being damaged. If you do not give an option to replace the fan as well as the capacitor and give an option to diagnose the rest of the system, then you are not serving your customer to the full. at least a small percentage of the time you will be back to fix it and it could be on you because you did not give the options. You will have a disgruntled homeowner who thinks that you are the hack.

Yeah you wouldn't think so. The homeowner said his neighbor knew a guy loo and he came by so he was never specific if he was an actual Tech or not, but probably not 😆.

@@HVACTechTips lol the ole "my friend knows somebody who knows a guy"

Lennox

Yup 🤨

Nah... tape with wire nuts poking through is a better way.