How To Check Amp Draw On Ac Unit

Jesse Claerbout explains how to cheque the refrigerant and amp pressures at the condenser. If yous're a fan of ours, be sure to share this video to show your friends and family unit how they likewise tin experience "Simply Great Service!"

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All right, and so we've already tested the capacitor, so all we desire to do at present is brand sure the system is in cooling mode. That's been running for at to the lowest degree 5-x minutes. What nosotros're doing here is taking off the Schrader valve caps, and we're going to check to brand certain that those safety seals are yet within.

Now, here we're going to accept our pressure gauges. These are digital, so nosotros want to make sure that we have the right settings, and this unit uses R-410A. I'one thousand going to connect the cherry hose to the liquid line, and this hose is for high pressures. Now, some refrigerant may escape as I adhere these hoses, just that'due south all right. And side by side, I'm going to attach the xanthous hose to the suction line. Unremarkably, your suction line hose used for low pressure is blue, just we accept a different color hooked up here.

So, here I'chiliad going to attach the temperature clamp to the liquid line in order to find the subcool. Now, nosotros'll give it a second to equalize here and get some good readings.

All correct, so we'll become some readings off of our digital gauge here, and now on the right side, we have our pressure which is in PSI, and nosotros've got the subcool beneath that. And nosotros're going to claw this up here, and on the left side, in that location is a depression-pressure level suction reading and the superheat below that. In this case, though, there is an indoor TXV controlling the superheat, so we will use the subcool to observe it. Of notation, the discharge is within the correct specifications, so that's adept, and the check is all fine.

Now, this is my digital multimeter, and we're going to cheque the ampere draws of the condenser fan and the compressor, merely first, I'chiliad going to check my voltage. Now, the system runs on 240V, so we accept a look here. It looks good. All right.

Now, detect the blackness wire—and information technology's the common wire from the condenser fan—in order to get its reading. So, we've got that there. That matches the specifications, so that checks out. And you'll detect and await for a thicker gauge blackness wire coming from the elevation of the contactor. It's called the common wire for the compressor. Nosotros'll get that reading, and information technology looks like we've got a good reading at that place besides.

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