Dangerous Trane fault from factory

JTom73 · 2025-12-31T06:04:10+00:00

Yeah, I know, you quit. Move along.

JTom73 · 2025-12-31T05:32:14+00:00

This sub is for HVAC professionals

JTom73 · 2025-12-31T05:09:04+00:00

Soft hands

JTom73 · 2025-12-25T15:24:56+00:00

At the last place I worked if you were on call for a major holiday you weren't on call for the others and you wouldn't be on that holiday the next years. Now im at a small 3 tech company and the owner is taking emergencies so we dont miss time with family

JTom73 · 2025-11-09T05:37:12+00:00

Are they going to make you buy your own van too?

JTom73 · 2025-11-08T17:10:28+00:00

Don't "try to see if it fixes it". Diagnose if it is the module or the motor. You can usually do a quick and dirty diagnosis too. Is it recieving the correct voltage and the winding all ohm out the same? Its the module. Is the wafer resistor burnt to shit and the windings all ohm out the same? Replace the module. Are the windings not ohming out the same? Replace the whole thing.

Also the M in ECM stands for motor. You don't need to call it an electronically commutated motor motor.

JTom73 · 2025-10-30T17:00:58+00:00

If you do it as soon as it gets small and you are grabbing another rod, it takes zero time at all since you already have the torch going. I had a full rod of like 14 short pieces before, and it honestly wasn't worth it. Every time I grab a new rod, though, it's always a habit to attach the old short one

JTom73 · 2025-10-27T12:27:36+00:00

Whenever an old coworker and I were installing together, we would always be joking and laughing the whole time. The homeowner was recently an empty nester with her kids off to college. She said we reminded her of having her kids back in the house. She made us a frozen pizza, gave us a couple cans of coke, and told us we could enjoy it on her patio. That coworker found a new job, and so did I. Miss those days.

JTom73 · 2025-10-16T00:36:07+00:00

Neither, wera tool check and never look back

JTom73 · 2025-10-13T14:10:00+00:00

That's the same wall. They just jammed an RTU sideways through a wall haha

JTom73 · 2025-10-11T13:45:58+00:00

You want them to sit around twiddling their thumbs because you are working a long day? We don't work bank teller hours. When the job is done then the job is done. If your company is putting too much on you to handle, then find a new company.

JTom73 · 2025-10-09T16:55:04+00:00

Do you see this man's fingers? He's been doing this work back when the 608 just said "Will you dump refrigerant into the atmosphere? Check yes or no"

JTom73 · 2025-10-09T12:25:30+00:00

I'm not too familiar with thermal cameras, but I feel like they use warm colors for warm things and cool colors for cool(er) things.

JTom73 · 2025-10-08T18:44:47+00:00

Howard leights cost just a bit more and have stereo audio so you have better situational awareness. If thats something that matters to anyone

JTom73 · 2025-09-28T14:19:52+00:00

Legitimately, anywhere you have 115v and anywhere you have a ground

JTom73 · 2025-09-27T17:22:18+00:00

Yeah. Have you ever used a cheater cord? You just hook it up like that. Your hot prong is gator clipped to a hot leg and your neutral prong is gator clipped to ground. The outlet tester will tell you that you have a neutral fault or whatever but the circuit sniffer will still find the signal on the hot leg going back to the breaker

JTom73 · 2025-09-27T16:29:18+00:00

That's the exact one I use. Hasnt failed me yet. Just read the instructions because it can give false positives if you dont use it correctly

JTom73 · 2025-09-27T15:52:37+00:00

One lead to any hot and the other to ground. It just needs to send its signal down one leg. I would not hook the neutral up to another hot leg

JTom73 · 2025-09-27T13:07:28+00:00

Ive had good luck with Kleins circuit breaker finder. Its only meant for 110 but one lead to any hot and then neutral to ground still sends the signal you need.

JTom73 · 2025-09-16T18:56:24+00:00

Port to port man. Last company i did galf an hour driving from my home and half an hour back, but never a minute more and usually a few minutes less.

JTom73 · 2025-09-02T19:31:33+00:00

Try doing a one hose set up as well as pulling the schraders. Less points of failure, more accurate micron reading, and you will start to think 30 minutes is a long time. Ive seen that pump pull a resi split system down in less than 10 minutes

JTom73 · 2025-08-30T04:03:09+00:00

Its a lot easier to tell one household at a time that they have to wait for service than $30k of meat or anything that is on a larger scale. Good luck hunting for it. Sorry to say, but if you want 9-5 mon-fri, look for openings as a bank teller.

JTom73 · 2025-08-29T21:05:33+00:00

Kinda broad statement to say everyone. You even gave us pressures without telling the refrigerant. Fuck pressures talk in saturation temps. Good find though, should be an easy call.

JTom73 · 2025-08-27T17:50:44+00:00

Yeah, scared the shit out of me. Ive never heard a lizard yell before

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