Great job. The E4 error code means the temperature of the evap coil never dropped below the set point temp. My mini split did the same thing when the refrigerant got low.

easy to install does a great job, not noisy at all. I really like it !

I've gotten good at home appliance and air handler repair. I found a power wire had been rubbing against the condenser coil housing, and it rubbed all the way down to the copper. Every time the humidity got high, or it just flat out rained, the control board fuse would blow. I put some small, round foam tubing around the rub point and electrical tape around the wire. Good as new. Recently replaced a dryer inlet control thermistor, too. That's good as new, as well. Now, I have a portable air conditioner that is not blowing cold air (Model: APCA09YZMWL1). I can hear the compressor kick on. The articulating, motorized louver, & control interface works, and the blower is strong. I can feel same temp air coming out of both ends after some time has passed, when it should be cold. I think the kids knocked it over, and never said anything. I can see some broken/stressed black plastic on the inside of the blower chamber as it comes up to the louver exit. My wild guess is, there is a hole or crack in the refrigerant line, similar to what happened to yours. The only problem is, I do not have the specialized HVAC tools materials needed to charge the line, nor the expertise. I don't even know where to start, to find if the line is flat or not. It's not looking good for me, which means a $300 or more purchase may be in my future. I love the video, though, as it let me get a closer look into what I may come up against. Thank you.

Man if you had a entire series of videos on how to do things on these portable air conditioners your subscribers would go through the roof... Because after 2-4 years they stop working. Along with the fact that they intentionally do not have a installed recharge port... So you are forced to buy another portable..... But if they could come to youtube and follow a step by step in opening the unit up without damaging the insides... A second video showing how to cut out a section out of the pipe and welding on a Freon recharging port... And a third video showing how to recharge the system.... I would watch every one... Because I am recently unemployed... And my House ac went out a week before my temp position ended... And my water heater 2 days after... And then my car decided to join in with a cracked exhaust manifold, And Acceleration pedal... hahahahaha... Alabama is super humid with 90 degree heat... and not the state to be without air.... lol I need a permanent job like yesterday.. lol I would settle for hitting the lotto if anyone has the winning numbers.... The first 5 aithout the PB would be nice... Im not greedy...lol

You are very patient…..

Very interesting, and a unit saved from the dump.

Jon that was little project but u got her done and it's working. The things we do for family lol.

I had a very small apartment. My unit, a SoleusAIR GL-PAC-08E4 (8,000btu) would pump out 3/4 of a mop bucket of water a day. I had to put it on a box so it was higher than the bucket, which I kept under the tube at all times. Several times I forgot to empty the bucket and wound up with a water soaked floor. Otherwise it worked fine.

Very well done! I am about to tackle the same project with a Whytwer ARC-14S. Leak detected in almost the same spot. This will be my first such project :)

Good video. Way to stick with it, even when it got ugly! The things we do for family huh? 😊

What a great video. And what a great brother you are to go thru all that hard work for your sister. I subscribed.

Thanks for the video. Yeah, Staybrite would have made for an easy fix. Or tightly wrap a few turns of solid copper electrical wire and braze it up.

great video Jon, you're a wizard!

cool video. I was actually interested in seeing the circuit board to attempt to unplug the pump fan. its real noisy.

E4 means the side tank is filled with water

yeah, they can be a pain

Quick question: I'm installing a valve to fill. How do I purge the old coolant?

all that work, you could have bought a new mini AC for your sister... I hate when small projects turn into nightmares.

I use that purge tool also, I like it...

My portable ac won't turn on. Keeps blinking and beeping a red light error. Don't know why.. Can you help?

Nice Job Man

Nice Job High Praise

is there a reason you sleeved the leaky tube instead of unwinding it further and simply cutting that section off making it a little shorter? you had plenty tube left over.

Nice job

This is really informative and well explained love it 👍

At 15:21 I did the exact same thing today. I would really appreciate if anyone could reply and help answer a couple questions. How should I patch the line (same as in the video) ? Do these units not have service ports? Do you have to install your own? How do you charge the system? Is there a special tool to force the refrigerant other than a pressurized can?

Been looking for a way to remove the cover of a Perfect Air 10000 BTU portable ac and can't find anything. Removed all the screws, and it won't budge. Afraid to pry it lose. Only the top rear pops a few places, but that's it. Anyone?

Thanks for the video, nice work. As others have mentioned, the fan on these units do get noisy. I repaired rainbow water vacuums for some time when dinosaurs ruled the Earth and know that storing electrical / bearing / bushing driven fan motors with the least little bit of moisture left inside the unit seems to go right to the fan bushings/bearings. Then, next season you're greeted with a noisy or froze up fan. One I'm fixing currently was locked up and wasn't difficult to break free and spins quite a while when spun by hand which usually means a replacement isn't necessary but a good cleaning is. I'm wondering specifically, if I should just snake in a small straw and lube the upper/lower bushings (bearings) or bother with disassembly and completely removing the fan to clean it up. Doesn't seem to be a service manual on the net anywhere for these so figured I'd ask you before tearing down further. Thanks.

Great viedo john, that was a cool repair.

My Haier portable AC has a red exclamation mark flashing and will not start

Man ive got a Gree 10,000btu with F0 code. I believe freon sensor. Not cooling. It worked one year. Compressor runs. What does it cost bout to have a guy like you fix it?

Could you use sound deadening mats in all panels for acoustic and thermal insulation of the Portable AC unit? Will it make a difference in max dBs and efficiency?

Good video Jon, you got it done.

Question,,, did you release head pressure before adding refrigerant after you enclosed the unit?

Good vid Jon. I have a Black+Decker unit that works pretty well but the LED display has stopped working. The unit and remote still work fine but is it common for the LED lights to crap out on these portable units? I’ve only had this unit since mid-May.

I have a power issue on my LG model LP0711WNR 7000btu/h capacity portable ac. Is there a fuse inside unit? Because nothing wrong in wall socket or fuse box. It is digital

Maybe you can help me. I've got a Haier portable. I was neglectful, and didn't realize there were two sets of coils, when I took the back off, the bottom coils were caked with dirt. Before that, the compressor made a racket, so I turned it off. I cleaned everything with a hose that let it sit in the sun a couple of days. When I tried it again, the compressor immediately kicked in quietly and blew cool...not cold air, but then kicked off after a couple minutes. Started a couple minutes later again but kicked off even quicker. The compressor gets slightly louder right before it kicks off, but nothing like before I cleaned it. Do you have any suggestions?

Hey man I have a portable ac that used to work good for 2 years and then stoped working as good. now it cant get the room under 25C while it used to be as cold as I wanted. Nothing changed at all, but I did take it apart and vacumm all the dust out and that had the tiniest effect ever by lowering my temps by 1 degree C so I went from 26 ish to 25 ish. the air feels cold out the blower side so I have no clue why it cant cool my room anymore. Anyways could you give some recommendations? I'm gonna take it apart again and use a solvent on the coils and see if that works. Thanks.

Good vid.

Hello jon hvac my portable air conditioner delonghi 223 made an awful sound like screeching and rustling in cold air mode when I turned on again in fan mode seemed to be ok but the bursting sound went on agoin in air conditioning mode seems to have 2 internal fan in the device a exhaust fan must be ripped in this case ..can it be replaced???

My shinco portable ac has a rattley compressor. Can it be fixed? I am handily but no hvac experience.

Awesome video

is it hard to drain the system?

um hopefully this gets to you I think the filters in my arctic king portable ac smells as I took it apart and found that it was clean but blowing smelly air and the blue filters were dirty but can be cleaned but I can't manage to figure out what do to exactly lol ad a female I've never been familiar with this type of thing I'd like to teach myself to maintain it without help financially especially lol thx any advice? thx

Hi, My portable ac work for 30 minutes and stop cooling 15 minutes and returns cooling . What is wrong with buddy ?

Wanna fix mine doesn't seem to be getting really cold

How do did you take the side panels of ? ive taken all the screws out but mine still wont come off. I need to get to the coil its filthy.

Great video, IMO these upright air conditioners are JUNK we have a Haier and a LG - by the way LG doesn't stand behind they're warranty at all just a warning.

Hello, i have a Portable AC unit but it just blows, not very cold air or hot air, just blows air xD how do i make it cold? I cleaned all the filters

Love you loving the Lord man. Great stuff.

just got a used Soleus portable ac. if it's out of refrigerant can it be recharged/replaced etc? if so wear would I get it done

Where are you located I have a similar unit but my cold coils only half get cold the bottom half

What was the actual elapsed time from beginning to end of your "ordeal"? Also you are a fantastic Bro for your Sis, maybe not such a fantastic tech, but you did stick with it when the going got tough so that's commendable. I'm sure you'll improve with practice. Did you say you've been an HVAC Tech for 27 years? Heh Heh Heh.. just kidding Bro.. Best of luck in all the things you do in life. Merry Christmas to you and your Sis, I hope she's feeling much better this 2016 Christmas. James, San Diego, Ca.

Can you recommend affordable portable AC repair guys here in Austin? Or would it be better for me to take classes?

Hey Jon very helpful video. My unit ran for hours with the vents completely closed and now will not put out any air at all. Any suggestions and Merry Christmas to you!!

I have a question, though its not to this unit? Its to an LG r401a lp0814wnr My issue with this unit started a few nights ago. Out of nowhere it started sounding like it was getting hit with rads or something (think rad counter in fallout games?), i went to drain it, all this water came out (little dirty but i assumed that was dust that got in the tank), dripped drained about 10 mins, nothing else came out. I didn't think tipping it over would do any good, cleaned things up, went back and things worked fine. Since then, its shutting itself, claiming full, when theres barely any water coming out. It won't go below 81, and i'm not sure which is working better right now, the cool, or the dehumidifier, but doesn't matter, it suddenly wants to be drained every 30 mins or so. I cannot deal with this heat, i've already had heat exhaustion and heat stroke twice, and i also cannot afford a new unit. I cannot lift it up anywhere to put a water hose in the plug thing (i'm not sure what you call it but you use it to drain the water out the window?) i don't have the ability for that, forgive me i can't think right with this heat, and its spitting out 81 degrees. That to me is hot, i'm dripping sweat here. My question is, what do i do to fix this tank issue, is cool better to run than dehumidifier, and yes i googled and confusion galore. Is there anything you can suggest, since i really can barely type on this keyboard without dripping onto it. I feel like i left a pool unsatisfied. If you have any time to help me understand, i appreciate it. I get confused and overwhelmed very easily and i've drained this thing 3 times already today. Please help, thank you.

What is a leaker?

So.... How long did it work for ????

Subscribed, sir. Appreciate your videos - learning a ton - I'm dangerous. >:)

Hello sir, can u tell me for spinning cool fan Cw or Ccw?

Hey I don’t know if you do Portable AC repairs still or whether you will even see this, but I figured I might as well try and ask ! I just bought an open-box LG portable AC Unit, I went to turn it on today after setting it up and the fan inside basically started spinning and I guess was hitting something - long story short i had to turn it off immediately, only to find the fan inside basically in a million pieces. Any suggestions as to what may have caused this? Do you believe it is due to error on my part? Or perhaps the fan was already on its way out..? The thing is, I turned the unit on earlier in the day and didn’t hear any weird noises or anything. I’m dying here please if you see this can you give me any suggestions? Thanks !

"Chinesey"

I have a Soleus 12,000 BTU Portable air-conditioning unit with all the bells and whistle’s LOL heater humidifier and air conditioner but my air-conditioner now is making noise screeching sound I don’t think it’s the motor because I looked at it It’s seem to be Spinning just fine I don’t know what it is could it be at needs a refill on the Freon For the air-conditioning unit I want to fix it so bad I don’t know how much a repair person will cost to fix it anybody have any idea it’s making a screeching sound maybe it’s the motor I don’t know or it needs Freon

wheres the nitrogen come from/ Never heard the term on A/C units

Can u fix mine please? :(

Might as well have saved yourself the time and bother and just bought her a new one, lol.

what a waste of money I'm running A/C and central Never buy One Ever

Started off listening for useful information. Suddenly dude calls BS on climate change. Nope. No thanks. Buh bye. I don’t take lessons from idiots.