40 Ton Glycol Chiller

Got a call to start up a 40 Ton glycol chiller that hasn’t run in years.
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[@1chubbythug]

Cool stuff Dave, thanks for sharing!

[@philltafolla]

Interesting stuff NorCal Dave . Good video .

[@thesilentonevictor]

Good work Dave saved the day

[@IFIXCASTLES]

Would like to see pump motor change out. I've done some in the past when the company went to glycol recirc.sysyems. Was to " save energy".

[@NorCal-refrigeration]

I’ll film 🎥 it Monday

[@IFIXCASTLES]

@@NorCal-refrigeration okay!

[@jasonjohnsonHVAC]

You have a primary/secondary set up. Getting into my world. I love commercial/industrial HVAC.

[@mosadhana5815]

Great video David!! Keep up the good work brother.

[@Eddy63]

Nice vid ... Awaiting pt 2 ... Thx for helping the young techs ...

[@rexjames8100]

Total awesome dude

[@jrh86]

Love this equipment ❤

[@danwittels5542]

That was neat and different! Looking forward to the circ motor change out.🙂

[@alansotelo6472]

God bless you bro

[@americanpatriot9942]

Ill be waiting for that vid!!! Nice job brother god bless!🤗

[@sknight0391]

Dave, you are officially THE MAN !!! All hail Dave & bow down before his greatness. ✌️😁🤙

[@gregbowman3598]

Nice job Dave

[@markcampbell4576]

Looking forward to the circ motor replacment video Dave, bring it on baby!!! 👍👍

[@davejohnsonnola7908]

Uni-T meter on everything from motorcycle DC to 480AC! Any filtering on that glycol? Looked a bit muddy. Facility should check that dead system for burnout just to know if they have a reserve of good R22, or hazardous waste. Nice change of pace from beater prep tables, thanks for the ride along!

[@realtorkevinfung]

Was wondering what techs thought about uni-t meters. Their one of my favs because of size.....

[@Colt-wr6wx]

Love it.. its like Unsolved Mysteries.. 😅

[@babaolowo35]

THANKS

[@douro20]

I live close to one of only a handful of Walmart stores which were built with a glycol chiller system. They had tremendous issues with heat rejection.

[@runkapbandit2659]

dang bro Residential Rick and I love watching your videos . We thought we were SUPER Techs just because we never call tech support but we realize there's so much more to learn. Thanks Dave !

[@NorCal-refrigeration]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@SovereignTroll]

Seems like when dealing with ductless splits the tech support becomes an hour of phone time. The rectifier boards don't like power surges...

[@worlddemize]

@@SovereignTroll gotta have that surge protector on them for sure

[@juanugomusic9588]

Cool!

[@samuelaranda4568]

Love that fluke 16

[@gregmccarthy6011]

Nice

[@harrydickson4575]

👍👍👍cool video

[@NorCal-refrigeration]

🤘🤩🤘✨✨

[@joeyf504327]

Dave, did you see the bubbles on the rust fitting on the top compressor?? You can see @ 12:18

[@johnnyigartua2542]

Those danfoss compressors can be loud as heck haha

[@ralphgiampietro85]

Those compressors look like compressors manufacturer by a company called Maneurop,they hit the market where i live around 1990's. There gig was that it was a double compressor shell housing which they say acted like a suction accumulator, and there single phase 230 volt compressors were just that not 208/240 which was a problem you had to add a buck &boost transformer as they had trouble starting on a 208volt system, needless to say not impressed at all

[@BLUE_COLLAR_REFER]

I’ve worked on one of these systems before in San Francisco. It was from the late 90’s I believe. They used it for a soup chiller 134a system with 10ton txv haha

[@LMSILVIA]

A bunch of them here in south America they are from Danfoss, they are not bad and haven't experienced that voltage issue here and we run 208 when everything is perfect which is not usually the case 19-201 is more usual tho all i service are 3 phase. Reliable but LOUD mofos.

[@mikev.1034]

👍👍

[@dodgeman4046]

That's an old gnd chiller I work on a ton of those up here in the napa area

[@jamierushing8811]

Hi bro from west Alabama

[@atch_n_sons]

A day in the refer man life 🇺🇸✌️👍

[@justinperry68]

Are you wearing the plastic gloves because of the 480v, or to keep hands clean, never worked on 480v, always 575v or 208-230, I hear that 480v is a beast, not like the plastic gloves are rated for electrocution, but may if back of hand rubs something while checking voltages.

[@commenter5469]

I would still recommend the crankcase heaters. With that set point you start to wonder in to that territory.

[@steveH384]

with all those barrels all over i might add a donkey kong charge

[@charlesphillips6455]

That kite surfing looks fun.. do you do that as well?

[@bluegrassdna5572]

Close enough for government work. Yeah Dave I did an interview at the UC Merced for the Hvac/r position it was Iike a senate confirmation hearing! I'm making more at the prison but wanted to be closer to home they didn't select me oh well the interview was different but I think I did alright.

[@NorCal-refrigeration]

Keep at it. Took me 8 interviews 13 years to get in. No BS.

[@bluegrassdna5572]

Thanks bro I feel better now

[@sterlingarcher46]

Nice one Dave 👍 Did you find out why they hard wired the pump ? Control issue?

[@throttlebottle5906]

probably system full of schmutz and goes into cavitation on startup vs. pumping like it's supposed to. so they wired to run full time, instead of rebuilding much of the system to fix cavitation issues. manual cycling the outlet ball valve slowly is likely all it takes to get it flowing again. 🤔

[@stephwaylonwells3218]

👍

[@publicmail2]

about how many lbs of R-22 do you figure?

[@shine-cg9uf]

👍💪❄️🇺🇸 Nice 👍 b interested to know the glycol brix% freeze point level. Glycol breaks down loses viscosity n can cause freeze ups. Sat for 2yrs. Thankyou dave

[@NorCal-refrigeration]

You want 30-35%. To much glycol you loose capacity

[@shine-cg9uf]

Yeah the lowest Ill let it go is 25% that works on the beer cooler units I work on between 29-25 brix % glycol units. Don’t too thick either. Thanks dave 👍🙏

[@davejohnsonnola7908]

@@shine-cg9uf So glad we 86'd our long draw draft system in our granstand, a couple of those concessions had 250' lines between the kegs and taps.

[@shine-cg9uf]

@@davejohnsonnola7908 holy long distance batman!!! That's insane. Kegerators if possible.

[@davejohnsonnola7908]

@@shine-cg9uf screw that....bottles or cans only!😎

[@bluegrassdna5572]

Did the flow switch work or was it bypassed?

[@bluegrassdna5572]

Nevermind just seen the other video sorry.

[@SovereignTroll]

Working with adult-sized today....

[@NorCal-refrigeration]

😂😂😂😂😂⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@kingofthecrease30]

those suction service valves are all rotted out...pretty soon you wont be able to open them up to put gauges on

[@jimsergi]

Salt and air are not good stuff, only for surfing

[@HVACRDUDE]

I got the new fieldpiece leak detector the thi g is the biggest piece of sht...600$ worst money I've spent yet...my broken dtek works 10x better

[@OcRefrig]

What model ? H10 for the Win 🥇🏆

[@brnmcc01]

@@OcRefrig Inficon D-Tek stratus is better. That cloud hunting mode has saved my bacon more than once already. Amazing how it can pick up a leak when the leak isn't even in the box. It was up in the attic, line set leak....my Dad had the OG GE H10, he swore by it to find tiny R12 leaks in reach in fridges back in the day. But I've been able to pick up even natural gas leaks too small to get bubbles from... just a tiny hint of smell if I put my nose right on the union that I didn't have lined up quite right with the D-tek

[@OcRefrig]

@@brnmcc01 Heard some good reviews on the dtek stuff.

[@brnmcc01]

@@OcRefrig One of these days I might give you a call, and I can tell you some of the crazy leaks I found with it. So far so good, I haven't tried it yet with R290. But a simulated natural gas leak it worked like a champ. But I don't know when or if you'd have time to chat. And if you're twice as busy as I am, I'd rather not! Haha

[@JamesBrown-db9pk]

dude call newsom ask 4 sum time 2 get your ne amish cart no gasoline in 2035

[@NorCal-refrigeration]

My Astro van will still be on the road chugging along.

[@OcRefrig]

Good vid ! How’s Flow switch ? Don’t want to bust a barrell !

[@OcRefrig]

I Don’t see any Suction accumulators. Bummer.