GAS FURNACE NO HEAT ODD FIND RETURNED TO FINISH

[@flyer617]

Nice as always to see an old school guy who knows his craft and is honest.

[@steveblanco8812]

Fried Chicken momma haha ... cheers for sharing the follow up call Steve everyday's a school day. They definitely got lucky not needing a board. All the best to you and the beautiful Miss M

[@dosgos]

Awesome 2 parter Steve! Ain't no Taj Majal!

[@PianoRevisited]

Nice detective work Steve. I think that would have stumped a lot of furnace guys. Sometimes what you do is rocket science. 😊

[@stephenhaslam680]

Learn a lot from your videos and had an odd find myself today. Gas boiler quit and had to replace the step down transformer. Notice burned wires between the step down and the limiter. Got the boiler running but watching it like a hawk. Sure enough flames coming from the bottom left burned the wires a second time. Turns out there was a mouse blocking the lower left gas burner tube, almost completely blocked. A real pain cleaning it out but back up and running. Quite scary actually.

[@ptso7580]

Before winter hits I disconnect the AC for fear of ice or wind damaging the power lines. Never know when a surge or damaged neutral drop may occur. Hope the rack out was pulled for the winter. Fused disconnects are nice belt and suspenders for 240 appliances. Nice work Steve.

[@jblyon2]

A friend of mine lost a week old mini split due to a dropped neutral...yeah its designed to handle 240, but from 120+120, not 185+55!

[@rolandmcphail5060]

As an electrician myself, you friend is right and you explained it well in the start of the video. This is a very common thing that happens way more than people realize.

[@valvemonky4734]

a question from the uk is there a way of protecting the home when this happens like some form of over voltage (surge ) protection ?

[@rolandmcphail5060]

in the u.s there are whole house surge protectors as well as hvac only surge protectors. not sure how well the hvac specific units work, they are not that commonly installed in my area.@@valvemonky4734

[@matkremzar5474]

Not surge just over volt

[@valvemonky4734]

@@matkremzar5474but that does not answer my question

[@rolandmcphail5060]

surge protectors are over volt protection. other protective devices focus on over amp or short circuit protection@@matkremzar5474

[@Gman2930]

Awesome 😎 Steve, it’s all about proper diagnosis.

[@CloneTechDrones-619]

Always learning something new on this channel, including electrical issues.

[@josephlivoti8143]

I guess that since the transformer blew, it prevented the board from frying?

[@johnsutherland6322]

Steve does it again 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@chuckq54]

That neutral also explains why the GFCI was tripped for the condensate pump yesterday

[@royscott8002]

Man got just about everything he needs in his truck well prepared

[@davidnorton5887]

With inflation, the stuff in his truck has gone up in value more than gold.

[@ClickinChicken]

Congratulations Steve! Happy Tuesday.

[@rtel123]

Just a word to the wise.... noticed all the rust. When I got a new gas furnace, I put down for them a couple concrete patio slabs for it to sit on, because a two inch flood in a basement from a water heater or drain backup is common and not welcome in a steel furnace cabinet. For a couple bucks, saved future rust.

[@jblyon2]

Hell, even just being right up against a damp basement floor can't be good for it. First boiler in my parents house was right on the concrete. The bottom rusted out within 14-15 years. The replacement for it went on blocks and is a solid 30 years old now with no sign of rust on the bottom, and it's a Leakham of all brands.

[@GeorgeKennedy-u4r]

Some installers don't give a crap. Time is money so they do a quick shoddy job then move on to the next victim.

[@TonyMancini-js2br]

Nice job Steve

[@sheldonlatimer6688]

Thank you for such a close up of your work , this leads people to trouble shoot on their own but in a safely manor

[@WeatherNut27]

If you start with the top breaker and go down the row A, B, A, B, A, B, ect which ever leg the 185 volts was on those circuits are fried. If A had the 185v then I bet you the stove was on a B breaker. All the "A"s got fried.

[@J-Colt]

Excellent video Steven, Thank you!

[@robertblacksmith4355]

Howdy Steve I'm lucky to have a neighbour as a Electrician 50 yrs experience yes he's in his70s & still working!great follow up video!

[@KennyWilliams-y1g]

Always enjoy your videos

[@mescanto89]

The bond to the ground rods and Watermain is supposed to back up the neutral if you lose it so that should’ve been checked.

[@nikond90]

Nice work Steven

[@docholliday3150]

Those 3 inch extention philliips are new tech but not too expensive.

[@peterfairlie2296]

So with the transformer if we divide 120 / 24 we get 5 so it's a 5 to 1 ratio. Take 175 and divide by 5 and we get 35. So the board might have seen 35 volts coming in for a minute or so. Not high enough to do any damage.. The transformer on the other hand, that primary winding couldn't take that 175 volts too long and it popped open the winding.

[@DAS-Videos]

Steve sees so many leaking pipes and boilers that he now even calls transformers leakers :-)

[@tomn4838]

Air comfort restored. No more chilly mornings!

[@mjg263]

Yep, open neutrals can cause all kinda havoc on electronics (which literally EVERYTHING is nowadays). I’m surprised the main furnace board didn’t get fried, maybe it wasn’t running when the neutral got cut. Microwave might just be a tripped or burned up GFCI breaker or receptacle since it’s in the kitchen. Hopefully you removed the tape from those door safety switches on the furnace. Nice job, Steve!

[@In4mnt]

Great video. Alot of knowledge Steve

[@Bob.W.]

Thx. Hopefully the board and boards in other appliances won't fail. Spikes can do a lot of damage although 185v isn't a bad one. Not like lightning.

[@fanofoldfans9238]

That guy is lucky it didn't smoke the board and blower motor. Great job!

[@lancelawrence3259]

Nice work

[@jeffdickens7019]

Steve had the same problem at my home but had to put in 200 amp breaker box. Get fried the breaker you miss Molly take care

[@ranger178]

It took me calling three times to the electric company telling them something is wrong the lights in my house would flicker on and off once in a while they looked at pine tree surrounding telephone pole and said nothings rubbing wires much. then finally they looked down our whole block and an arborvitae rubbed through wires and was shorting it out when it rained and such.

[@AlexanderWaylon]

It won’t be long before meter box surge/overload protection is common place as the grid continues to age and fail. In other regions of the country houses burn down often because of this.

[@JavierGalvan-s2f]

Great fix and video Steve! Keep the videos coming ☝️ 👍 💥

[@tonym6920]

Hey Steve and Miss Molly! Workin’ again ya’ll. 👍👍 can he get the electric company to pay for all the damage?

[@comput3rman77]

I doubt the mini splits were affected since they are 220v, they have no need for the neutral.

[@marty0715yt]

Ya baby-- using that battery powered twister. If I have to use a screwdriver with no battery on it it takes so much longer.

[@williamloder9194]

I had a customer that I went back to in the spring to turn the water back on for the spring. I went to turn on a light and it didn't turn on. I went down to the cellar and discovered the electrical panel had caught on fire. As it turned out the neutral connected with one of the hot legs and supplied 120 volts up the neutral as the line went through a tree of branches. Luckily the panel was pretty air tight and snuffed itself out. I told the owner she could send repair bill to power company since it was their lines cause the fire. She declined. It was about 3,000 to replace the panel and service. No damage to appliances as those breakers I had turned off in the fall.

[@donhorn548]

Good videos

[@donduck6621]

very common too

[@iamnoone.]

Howdy Steve and Molly

[@westbygodvirginia555]

Thanks

[@Hockey27tom]

The frig could be bad because of a GFI outlet being bad ,,, Yes I've seen numerous homes where the outlet was on load to a GFI . The microwave needs a 2o amp fuse and the main board replaced as the mov shorted and opened the transformer

[@mescanto89]

The refrigerator doesn’t need to be on a GFI.

[@johnhill2813]

An inline surge protector would have saved a lot of woe there.

[@luuk-out-below9804]

I would think anything connected to that 185 volts that was 'on' at the time will suffer an early death!

[@dblr616]

I hadda problem wit my neutral to my garage out back and it burnt up the transformer in my furnace previous owna had clipped it while diggin up Somthin and it was coroded in half about 12 inches from the garage I got lucky and found it right away same thing tho had 180 volts one leg mama and like 60 on the other house was good so I knew it was in the neutral feed to the garage I’m just a car mechanic but I figured it all out by myself, car electronics are way more complicated to diagnose than house electric yet car mechanics tend to be paid less than electricians go figure

[@rodneyskinner7741]

Hello Steve!

[@blobscott]

If the utility wont pay, the homeowner should at least file a homeowners insurance claim for all the ruined stuff.

[@glennschlorf1285]

Nothings cooked just a few control boards power supplies in some stuff

[@drdengineering819]

They stapled the neutral back together, that's what they usually do.

[@dwayne0t]

Did they board have some kind of overvoltage protection? ⚡

[@matkremzar5474]

Low voltage out no call no demand

[@craigharding475]

They always say: "Go paperless; save a tree!". But trees can cause a lot of problems.

[@williegillie5712]

That white color throws me off. Haven’t seen many that bright. O get a kick outta how fast you figure out the right colors to cut and connect. I plus have been lost on that one.

[@theant2472]

My friend had the same problem. The electric company will pay for the repair $700 and he said if I give him $400 More he can put a brand new unit in so I did It

[@GeorgeKennedy-u4r]

You saved them from an electrical house fire Steve.

[@frankrizzo3915]

Hello Steve.

[@Jam3s27]

Did microwave have a gfi I doubt it but never no what people put in maybe it’s tripped

[@dje-slick6890]

500. For A 50. Board...love service calls...😂

[@dje-slick6890]

Cash...NO IRS...😂

[@dje-slick6890]

Blown Fuse..25 cents...$250. Fix after.😊

[@johnodonoghue651]

Appliances won't be cooked if they're not drawing power. Lucky the house is unoccupied.

[@user-es7vl1ik6r]

A lot of devices now don't fully turn off. They have clocks, or are in "sleep mode" so they can take remote input, start up faster, etc. This is most common for TVs/computers/etc, but a lot of devices are adding smart features now.

[@dje-slick6890]

Tune ups...250. Cash..No Tax 😊

[@CharltonFN]

Got lucky

[@tedparkman3111]

Check the circuit breakers , something might have happened there !

[@dje-slick6890]

15. For A Transformer...150. 😂

[@msacco175]

She’s a runner momma

[@walterbatman7949]

There’s bats in the bell frey mama

[@kg4muc]

Not good at all. Probably have appliances and tv’s fried as well as the mini splits. Power co must have not used the tree wire version of the triplex where it went through the trees

[@tomdale1313]

"GUNSLINGER FOR HIRE"

[@zackmax7184]

The Telephone Company drove a Spike through My First Cousin's Main Line and it Fried a bunch of His Stuff.

[@ClickinChicken]

WOW, I read those discussions in below comments, whatnot. Then at end saw microwave not turn on. Yeah suck sandwich.

[@jayjay198256]

Hopefully they file a claim for all the damages with the electric company.

[@bobbywanger8123]

😢👍👍👍👍🔥🔥

[@nmccw3245]

Nice work Steve. Can’t believe the control board survived. Wonder if the utility has any liability in this case?

[@shupe1907]

tough call there where the tree and branch were on their property causing it. But prob wouldn't hurt for customer to check into.

[@nmccw3245]

@@shupe1907 - true, but the utility owns and is responsible for everything up to the gooseneck and the physical meter. They might have a case.

[@jeffdickens7019]

It fried my breaker box

[@agostinodibella9939]

I wonder will the electric company reimburse the homeowner for damaged appliances if the homeowner’s tree caused the problem.

[@wperro81]

You answered your question. Homeowners insurance may cover it. Not the electric companies fault.

[@JohnNininger-hg9im]

Anytime a neutral is lost the transformer is gone rarely ever does the board get affected in 1998 my wife was 8.5 months pregnant we were at the drop zone where I skydived in my trailer and lost a neutral thank god I had a transformer for some reason in my personal vehicle she was so bitchy but that was my first time experiencing that

[@Mike-fm2yp]

Bobs your uncle

[@markpowell1031]

First comment yippee

[@donhorn548]

Fourth