Thank you very very much. I fixed my old 1982 Pioneer PL-4

When my unit was new, the display activated immediately. However, over time, the display takes a few minutes to turn on.

This video helped a lot. I cleaned off the rotary switch contacts (black gear) on the mechanism that lifts the heads and performs the eject. It is working now but I removed all of the grease on the rotary plate with the contact traces ad cleaned with deoxit.. What grease can you use on those sliding gold contacts? Is it Ok to leave the contacts ungreased?

Nice video, how long does the capacitor retain the memory after radio is unplugged?

Great video! We just purchased a 28bks in October. This video has been very informative!

Where is the shrink wrap on the brown wire you said you were gonna add? ( hard to do after you added the crimp for the brown to red connection, eh? 😂 )

my CD recorder is not getting sound. it says i need an amplifier. what type of amplifier do i need? it's saying no audio when i press record digital audio CD recorder DA-3826 TDK. it plays CDS just fine.

Why use de-out for mechanical parts movement? Why not use Ed 40 and then apply thin grease?

A Danco #26 o ring stock #35740B will work on the drawer, if you need to replace the belt.

Just think........ by 2026 or so both Direct and Dish will likely have been replaced with earth based 5G streaming only. Been with Dish since 2003, but have always been able to aviod most of the price increase pitch every year. That's to bad.... Love the Dish Hopper DVR. What a great way to avoid commercials you can just zoom by them

Great video!! I just did this 5 minutes ago! worked out great, thanks so much!!

The starting peak amps without the micro air easy start would be higher than the 61.3 amps you got on the first start. So your savings is going to be more than the 48.3% that you calculated. You can use the nameplate lock rotor amps (LRA) to get a closer figure on your savings. On a 5 ton unit the starting amps is going to be closer to 70 or 80 A without the micro air easy start.

Question.... on the 5 restarts did each one start the compressor? I installed one on my house and the compressor wouldn't start. It was like it didnt have enough entergy. It kinda growled and stopped. So i was afraid it would mess up my system. I pulled the breaker. I took it off and sent MicroAir a letter. They said install it like i did. I was just scared to try it again. Yesterday had a tech out and he serviced the unit snd had him hook it up. Did the samething. He wasnt sure about the EasyStart first time for him also. Did the same thing again. So my question am i to try this no start for at least 5 times? I just dont want to burn my unit up......thank you to anyone that can answer this.....

Today the DirecTV went out 42 times. Not worth the money...

I bought the Flex unit. I noticed a defect on the cover that could compromise the seal. I sent them an email with pictures. They sent me another Flex unit with the same defect only slightly worse. Now I'm on hold with the install.

Brilliant Video . . . I'd recommend considering not using DeOxit ( at 20:15 of video) but rather CRC instead . . . Deoxit can be destructive to Pots and Boards generally although there are some variants (very expensive) that can be less destructive.

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Hi I just got a pioneer pl 320 with tone arm cables cutted and I am stuck how to open the tone arm and replace the cables that goes from headshell to pcb. I couldn't find any tutorial on line. can you help me? maybe I can send some pics privatly if you don't mind. thanks for your help

EVERY THING ABOUT THIS IS NOT GOING TO WORK ON MY DOMETIC CCC2!!!! It has an rj11 phone jack to hook it up!

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To add to the discussion. I bought a MicroAir soft starter. Had the company confirm that is was sized correctly and they even verified the connections - run wire, etc. Worked great for 2 months. Then no cold air. House in Florida, in the summer, heating up to 85+. I was out of town, so called my local AC tech and he discovered the run wire connection from the soft start was burned. For a distance of over 6 inches. He rewired the AC and Voila cold air again. I contacted MicroAir and told them what happened. Me being a trusting consumer, I thought they would stand by their product. NOPE! They told me the failure was caused by the heat. You think? Florida, in the summer, DUH! The original run wire worked for 9 years and after reconnecting the AC works fine. There is something wrong with the soft started and they won't admit it or support their unit. BUYER BEWARE!!

Nice hands show!

Hey guys! In case anyone is having issue getting the PU cord strain relief undone, it's designed to be taken off with a pair of pliers. You need to squeeze the little tab and shake till it comes off. Unfortunately depending on the pliers you use you may damage the plastic a little bit.

Soft starters put on systems not designed for it is not a good thing to do to your AC. They can damage your compressor windings and will definitely void your warranty. Also the electronically altered waveforms coming out of that box cant be measured with a clamp meter, which gives inaccurately very low readings given the illusion that this thing is running your system on far less power which is a farce. Clamp meters can only measure 60hz unaltered current not the proprietary current modulation from that magic box. Dont be a "follow the leader utuber" By listening to people trying to make a buck pushing these things (or bragging about them) not knowing what there talking about getting advice from other utubers who dont know what their talking about. These boxes DO NOT reduce current to your compressor motor (you really think a motor with the same load now runs the same on a fraction of the current because of a magic box?) B.S. !! It does not make the system last longer(probably the opposite) doesnt reduce your electric bill or any of the other wild claims im reading. Yes it starts quieter, because that box is starving your motor for current over a long period of time until it gets enough to run normally, over heating it and bubbling the enamel off the copper windings and straining the motor. Your system IS NOT designed to start like that. Newer systems using different current modulation schemes like split units do use newer technology like that. But your system can not be converted to a newer system by putting a magic box on it. Dont be fooled by follow the leader utubers that know nothing of what there talking about. Dont install them. 1

Thank you for the great video I’m gonna e-mail micro-air easy start with a pic of my spec sticker on my 3.5 ton carrier unit and go from there.

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I have an RT-701 that has a problem I cannot find information on. When I press play, it works fine but when I go to record something and press Play and Record together in order to record - the machine comes to a stop and the reel stops spinning. Any ideas on how to fix that?

My PL-5 turntable is now fixed thanks to your video and some Deoxit D5 sprayed in the pitch control pot. It means a lot to me because I got this turntable as a high school graduation gift in 1982 from my parents. Now all these years later, its running pitch perfect and I am passing it down to my son, who just graduated from law school and thinks it's cool. Thanks Jim!

Man, that was painful to watch

You left out so many important details. Attaching the easy start, attaching the butt connector, reading the schematic to determine where the wires would be connected, etc.

Found PL-7 at garage sale for $5. I find this video after struggling getting the turntable seperated ugh..... 3 out of 4 buttons didn't work... the stop start spring piece was broke so bent some excess wire out from it and got it functioning.... speeds and repeat doesn't change hitting buttons - thats next project.... putting it back together to test is annoying though ...

5 years later...still only one on KZbin that follows ESD procedures to include nitrile gloves that are conductive.

Question for you. I installed my Micro Air Soft Start on my 5 ton about 3 weeks ago. The 5 ton unit is less than 3 years old so it's fairly new. In the heat of the day, I get a "Over Current" fault. It'll be 93+ degrees out when I get that fault. Micro Air says it may be a weak run capacitor...... But I doubt it being so new. They also tell me to have the soft starter to relearn in the heat of the day. That hasn't solved it. Have you ever experienced this with your unit?

Thank you very much! Your video encouraged me to (finaly) put in order the servo of my 40+ years old PL-320. Same problem, same solution. Most of the instructions fit PL-320 at 100%! Some of my friends will also be grateful because I need PL-320 to digitalise some vinyl records of their youth. As PL-320 seems to be mechanicaly simpler than PL-7 (less buttons), I neglected your instructions to properly set the arm moving mechanism. So, right now, my PL-320 preforms the arm retract but does not switch off. In fact it does, but than it switches on again... So, I'll have to redo the exercise.

I'd like to know what is the LRA on your AC unit's label so we can have an idea of how much reduction the micro-air is providing.

very helpful. Thanks!

I installed on my Trane 3.5 ton unit using this video. It runs great on my 13K watt generator now.

Where did you order the parts it had been a pain

What is control panel part number??

I have the Trane XLi18 4TWX8 which looks very similar to yours. When I looked at the Trane electrical one-line it shows a variable speed fan, so the 240V is directly connected to the fan and then turned on by control wires. I am assuming yours is the same and doesn't cause a problem with switching on the fan first? I sent an email to Micro-Air and they said it shouldn't be an issue. But wanted to ask someone who might have installed it on the same type of CU.

Thank you so much!!

Very good video. Did you happen to check the amps on the Fan? I am curious to know what the fan amps are initially to allow deducting the fan amps from the Total amps prior to installing the Easy Start. That would provide the amps initially by the compressor to allow knowing what the Easy Start is doing with the compressor after installation. I am considering a similar installation for my Trane outdoor unit with Easy Start 368 Blue unit. Did you contact Trane and ask about using the Easy Start ? I want to know what they said if you did. Thanks for your video - now, what does Trane think of the Easy Start device???

Any issues with the Micro-Air EasyStart 368 Soft Starter (Model ASY-368-X72-BLUE) since posting the video? Really looking hard at the soft start for my 5 ton A/C. Great video thanks for posting.

actually, your before and after starting amps are better than you indicate. most ac's start at 80 to 100 amps, so your results are really pretty phenomenal. certainly, this amperage would be able to be started with a 50 amp generator no problem, even with the generator running other essential things on the circuit.

My Trane 5 ton went from above 80 at start to 29.9 after 5 learning runs. Running at 13 amps.

is there any expected reduction in the "running" amps?

I have this problem. I bought a new switch, installed it, and the problem didn't go away. I used a wand type AC voltage detector to test the switch, and it didn't register. Do you have any idea what the problem could be? Thanks.

I must have a bad motor? When my PL-5 came to me it rotated counter-clockwise and when it would run clockwise (it doesn’t move in that direction at all at the moment), it looked like about 120RPM. I followed your steps but no change. Start button doesn’t work either. If anyone has ever brought one with these symptoms back to life I’d love to hear how. Thank you in advance, and than you for posting your video!

Easy understand, thank you.

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