hey guys i'm on my way to one where the customer
is saying it's cutting on and off and on you know it's cooling but what he's describing
is short so let's go see what we find well we have arrived in i'm not quite hearing it short cycle well maybe it is so i've been to this house before and
did a um preventative maintenance it's got a are we going out on low pressure no let's see your phone let's see if we're losing a call yep all right let's see if see if i'm losing a call from the thermostat i think if i lose a call from the
thermostat it's going to go in time delay but i am losing a call from the thermostat oh you see what's doing this this right here that right there is
what's causing it the short cycle i'll try and catch it this is across my yellows and it's broken by that electric company box the electric
company box is supposed to um cause it to stay off for a little while
after there's a power supply issue holy smokes that shot me so now what about that so um it wouldn't hurt to replace
that no voltage no voltage all right let's replace this contactor this right here is for an electric air
cleaner and it cycles on air pressure that could be easily replaced with a relay that
just like goes on a call for the fan to come on hmm man those are loose these two wires here are what go to the electric
box to let it know when it has lost power the idea behind that is to decrease a large
surge for power if there's been a local power problem when they restore power everybody's
air conditioner wants to come on at the same time or all within a certain time period
most thermostats nowadays have a five minute time delay in them so there's
really no point for that right there power companies are coming
up with other ways to um regulate the power supply or the your air
conditioner they want to put on look at that they want to put on a
programmable thermostat that they can control in some cases i haven't seen them doing that
around here but i've heard about it come on so all right let's see if i've got
enough room for both of these to go in the lugs so cut off that part that got hot all right i'm going to cut off a little more so of course this one has not gotten hot so this is a r26 r22 system that um was not used for several years maybe as much as 10 years when i came out to do the prevented maintenance all right we're gonna hook up our power supply so and my other side over here so all right we got orange and red on one
side black on the other same thing up here make sure i didn't unplug anything
put power back to it all right we got power we just need
to wait for it to come on all right on that one i had to
go back in the house and turn the thermostat down to get it to come
on but it did come on and ran just fine no other problems thanks for watching
guys and i'll catch you on the next one
