Official Gramps' Memorial Eternal OT Thread

[AM64]

can’t you just check the amps on the compressor?

I don't have a way to measure current. Just never had enough use to buy a clamp on probe or meter. I'll check the run and start capacitors in the morning, and call a service company if there's nothing obvious to replace. Wouldn't hurt to have them do a once over anyway. I've done the necessary repairs for several years, and a second set of eyes is never a bad thing from time to time ... as long as you can find someone trustworthy.

The two problems I've had other than replacing the outside fan motor once have been the motor start capacitors and a little circuit board that controls the blower motor. They have a resistor on the board that gets really hot when it pulls the relay in; eventually it damages the solder joint on the circuit board. I've replaced two here and one at the other house ... similar units so they have a lot in common. I need to sit down and repair the three circuit boards to have as spares - they are coated with something that makes it difficult to replace the resistor and fix the board. Overall both units have been reliable with the exception of that one circuit board which should really have rated a recall.

 

[Grand Vol]

You want me to stop by and take a look?

You do house calls?

 

[Orangeburst]

I don't have a way to measure current. Just never had enough use to buy a clamp on probe or meter. I'll check the run and start capacitors in the morning, and call a service company if there's nothing obvious to replace. Wouldn't hurt to have them do a once over anyway. I've done the necessary repairs for several years, and a second set of eyes is never a bad thing from time to time ... as long as you can find someone trustworthy.

The two problems I've had other than replacing the outside fan motor once have been the motor start capacitors and a little circuit board that controls the blower motor. They have a resistor on the board that gets really hot when it pulls the relay in; eventually it damages the solder joint on the circuit board. I've replaced two here and one at the other house ... similar units so they have a lot in common. I need to sit down and repair the three circuit boards to have as spares - they are coated with something that makes it difficult to replace the resistor and fix the board. Overall both units have been reliable with the exception of that one circuit board which should really have rated a recall.

funny enough I have had a few compressor or component companies that were customers. Copeland in Hartselle Al, Goodman in Waller, and Bard Mfg in Madison GA

That plant in Waller is huge…5k employees

Copeland bought this 30K regen dryer from me..even got my project success on the front page of the corporate newsletter. Dryer shifting valve failed like days before the 1 year warranty. freaking 17K valve for a then 30K dryer price. Crazy. Got it under warranty with the skin of my teeth. Boy they would have been pissed. They already were mad because we went to corporate and CEO level to secure the project. Boy my competitor, who had like 7 400-500HP units in the plant a long time was mad as well. lol

On outskirts of Houston, giant HVAC plant employs thousands

Three years later, the pasture has been transformed into a vast and modern manufacturing...

www.houstonchronicle.com

 

[AM64]

funny enough I have had a few compressor or component companies that were customers. Copeland in Hartselle Al, Goodman in Waller, and Bard Mfg in Madison GA

That plant in Waller is huge…5k employees

Copeland bought this 30K regen dryer from me..even got my project success on the front page of the corporate newsletter. Dryer shifting valve failed like days before the 1 year warranty. freaking 17K valve for a then 30K dryer price. Crazy. Got it under warranty with the skin of my teeth. Boy they would have been pissed. They already were mad because we went to corporate and CEO level to secure the project. Boy my competitor, who had like 7 400-500HP units in the plant a long time was mad as well. lol

On outskirts of Houston, giant HVAC plant employs thousands

Three years later, the pasture has been transformed into a vast and modern manufacturing...

www.houstonchronicle.com

That place is spotless!

 

[Orangeburst]

That place is spotless!

i was just thinking..I got to visit so many manufacturing plants in my career it is crazy..I miss that part. Boeing Delta IV rockets, nuclear, military, fossil plants, DVDs, hydro and gas power generation, motors, steel forging, to chicken processing and totally lame.
I have seen thousands of processes and how things are made and it was fascinating at times.

I guess Cinram DVDs is gone, but they were great customer. Clean rooms, nice facility. They even paid employees to watch movies on site for QC.

 

[AM64]

i was just thinking..I got to visit so many manufacturing plants in my career it is crazy..I miss that part. Boeing Delta IV rockets, nuclear, military, fossil plants, DVDs, hydro and gas power generation, motors, steel forging, to chicken processing and totally lame.
I have seen thousands of processes and how things are made and it was fascinating at times.

I guess Cinram DVDs is gone, but they were great customer. Clean rooms, nice facility. They even paid employees to watch movies on site for QC.

Guys like you in sales really got around. I got a call from our Endevco rep one day. He said you'd never guess where I am. Turned out Disney had a new ride and Endevco supplied the accelerometers and testing; it was his territory and he was apparently in on the contract. A lot of sales guys I worked with were engineers and really knew their stuff; I think the best were the Hewlett Packard and Honeywell instrumentation types, but almost all the instrumentation sales reps were fantastic. Over the years I got to know several of the design or production engineers; there's nothing like picking up the phone and talking with people who really know the product whether in sales or engineering.

I think there was only one time that I bought instrumentation and was fooled. It was a rack of amplifiers with very high input isolation and the ability to offset DC input voltages - resistance and capacitance values were off the charts. I even discussed it with them and tried them out in our lab before taking them into the field. I was spoiled from my Babcock and Wilcox days about signal isolation in nuclear plants. Hooked up the amps to the reactor power level signals in a Westinghouse plant and started to offset the DC signal (reactor power in the control room) to amp up the noise signal for analysis (you can measure core barrel vibration that way). Anyway what happened looked weird so I stopped and disconnected immediately - at the same time the control room called and said "Did you do something? We saw the reactor power level indicators change." Turns out the amps were isolated just as stated, BUT the DC offset went directly to the input - made no sense at all to specify almost infinite isolation with direct buffering voltage at the input. I designed a rack of optical isolators and had them built - putting those between the amp and the plant instrumentation worked.

 

[Orangeburst]

Guys like you in sales really got around. I got a call from our Endevco rep one day. He said you'd never guess where I am. Turned out Disney had a new ride and Endevco supplied the accelerometers and testing; it was his territory and he was apparently in on the contract. A lot of sales guys I worked with were engineers and really knew their stuff; I think the best were the Hewlett Packard and Honeywell instrumentation types, but almost all the instrumentation sales reps were fantastic. Over the years I got to know several of the design or production engineers; there's nothing like picking up the phone and talking with people who really know the product whether in sales or engineering.

I think there was only one time that I bought instrumentation and was fooled. It was a rack of amplifiers with very high input isolation and the ability to offset DC input voltages - resistance and capacitance values were off the charts. I even discussed it with them and tried them out in our lab before taking them into the field. I was spoiled from my Babcock and Wilcox days about signal isolation in nuclear plants. Hooked up the amps to the reactor power level signals in a Westinghouse plant and started to offset the DC signal (reactor power in the control room) to amp up the noise signal for analysis (you can measure core barrel vibration that way). Anyway what happened looked weird so I stopped and disconnected immediately - at the same time the control room called and said "Did you do something? We saw the reactor power level indicators change." Turns out the amps were isolated just as stated, BUT the DC offset went directly to the input - made no sense at all to specify almost infinite isolation with direct buffering voltage at the input. I designed a rack of optical isolators and had them built - putting those between the amp and the plant instrumentation worked.

just so happens we supplied the air for that moonshot ride in Huntsville you see off the interstate. pneumatic launch. Reminds me I was there one day with my tech as it was down and the guy in charge of a bus load of kids approached me saying how disappointed the kids were…told him I don’t work for the SpaceCenter..lol

 

[Orangeburst]

Guys like you in sales really got around. I got a call from our Endevco rep one day. He said you'd never guess where I am. Turned out Disney had a new ride and Endevco supplied the accelerometers and testing; it was his territory and he was apparently in on the contract. A lot of sales guys I worked with were engineers and really knew their stuff; I think the best were the Hewlett Packard and Honeywell instrumentation types, but almost all the instrumentation sales reps were fantastic. Over the years I got to know several of the design or production engineers; there's nothing like picking up the phone and talking with people who really know the product whether in sales or engineering.

I think there was only one time that I bought instrumentation and was fooled. It was a rack of amplifiers with very high input isolation and the ability to offset DC input voltages - resistance and capacitance values were off the charts. I even discussed it with them and tried them out in our lab before taking them into the field. I was spoiled from my Babcock and Wilcox days about signal isolation in nuclear plants. Hooked up the amps to the reactor power level signals in a Westinghouse plant and started to offset the DC signal (reactor power in the control room) to amp up the noise signal for analysis (you can measure core barrel vibration that way). Anyway what happened looked weird so I stopped and disconnected immediately - at the same time the control room called and said "Did you do something? We saw the reactor power level indicators change." Turns out the amps were isolated just as stated, BUT the DC offset went directly to the input - made no sense at all to specify almost infinite isolation with direct buffering voltage at the input. I designed a rack of optical isolators and had them built - putting those between the amp and the plant instrumentation worked.

oh..another cool place was AEDC..weird heavy testing science
even have a 44,000HP compressor used as a vacuum to test high altitude conditions. Crazy

Scale-tipping 44,000 hp motor returns to AEDC

Crane operators and riggers recently offloaded a 44,000 horsepower, 80-ton exhaust plant drive motor at AEDC's C-Plant exhauster. C-Plant consists of an airside and an exhaust side complex.

www.arnold.af.mil

 

[Orangeslice13]

You do house calls?

Unfortunately people won’t bring there houses to my office

 

[Grand Vol]

Unfortunately people won’t bring there houses to my office

 

[JOEY’S ALL VOL !!!]

Got a laugh out of the rock.

 

[JOEY’S ALL VOL !!!]

Now that’s just savage.

TN celebrity fans vs SC celebrity fans.

 

[LouderVol]

You guys are welcome to come to our tailgate, we are in the Methodist church parking lot right behind their sign where popular st and cumberland ave meet. We'll have plenty of food and beverages of all types. We are also working on having a band play.

@UT_Dutchman

would you mind exchanging emails? I can post mine and you can send me something. I would like to at least know the name of the guy whose party I am crashing before I show up.

 

[Grand Vol]

Unfortunately people won’t bring there houses to my office

Let me ask you this though, on a serious note...

Is Rubio Monocoat actually worth the price they charge? It's all over YouTube on a lot of the channels I follow. But I'm wondering if they are just getting promoted because they've chipped on or something.

 

[Grand Vol]

 

[AM64]

You’ve got me dude. None of mine ever had start caps only run caps. If you’ve got a meter you can go across the run caps and see if they’re doing their job. If the run cap is open I’d expect the compressor to lug under load if it ran at all.

Also if refrigerant is low the compressor shouldn’t sound very loaded at all

Checked the AC earlier. One obvious problem - the coil was iced up. The blower, fan, and compressor are all running and the run and start caps are good. After defrosting with a hairdryer, I tried running AC - air is not as cold as should be, so have someone coming to check it out tomorrow.

 

[NorthDallas40]

@UT_Dutchman

would you mind exchanging emails? I can post mine and you can send me something. I would like to at least know the name of the guy whose party I am crashing before I show up.

Tag freak and have him do the exchange. He’s done that for me a couple of times. Helps to avoid Weezer’s nudz too

 

[NorthDallas40]

Checked the AC earlier. One obvious problem - the coil was iced up. The blower, fan, and compressor are all running and the run and start caps are good. After defrosting with a hairdryer, I tried running AC - air is not as cold as should be, so have someone coming to check it out tomorrow.

That sounds like classic low refrigerant

 

[Orangeburst]

Tag freak and have him do the exchange. He’s done that for me a couple of times. Helps to avoid Weezer’s nudz too

or just be brave and post it like McDad. Where is that coot anyways?

 

[Orangeburst]

Checked the AC earlier. One obvious problem - the coil was iced up. The blower, fan, and compressor are all running and the run and start caps are good. After defrosting with a hairdryer, I tried running AC - air is not as cold as should be, so have someone coming to check it out tomor

if i am not mistaken, on low refrigerant your condenser will freeze up. probably just a freon leak if compressor is running. I had to replace the A coil once as it rusted out. Take the cover off

 

[Orangeslice13]

Let me ask you this though, on a serious note...

Is Rubio Monocoat actually worth the price they charge? It's all over YouTube on a lot of the channels I follow. But I'm wondering if they are just getting promoted because they've chipped on or something.

It’s no different than any other Finnish imo.
The guys around here who refinish floors charge a lot too.

 

[Orangeburst]

It’s no different than any other Finnish imo.
The guys around here who refinish floors charge a lot too.

You anti Scandinavian?

 

[UT_Dutchman]

@UT_Dutchman

would you mind exchanging emails? I can post mine and you can send me something. I would like to at least know the name of the guy whose party I am crashing before I show up.

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[Orangeburst]

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Got it!

 

[UT_Dutchman]

Got it!

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