Serious Electrical Problems. Only Made Worse By Me! ⚡️ ⚡️

[@CaptDavesSportfishing]

you know what they say about people who have their smoke detector constantly beeping

[@ThierryC2373]

No, what do they say, it drives me crazy after the second chirp, I cannot fathom how people can live them chirping to death.

[@CaptDavesSportfishing]

@@ThierryC2373 but they say is that's the ultimate lazy and you could tell by the people that are living there

[@earlestes8649]

Renters are the worst when it comes to smoke detectors

[@tomdurkins]

It’s a cultural thing 😂😂😂

[@CaptDavesSportfishing]

@@tomdurkins Sure is! its called LAZY, and the IQ bell curve proves it!

[@MrKen59]

You’d think half the circuits in the house being off would be a flag that indicates something is up. My goodness Curtis.

[@EverythingHVACR]

Someone else had their hands on that one 😂. Wow, amazing what you find out there. Great content, as usual.

[@HVACGUY]

Thanks 👍

[@my-yt-inputs2580]

I swear some of the places you work I'm not sure how you get paid. ;) We lost power back in late March due to a tornado strike. When I say lost power most of the utility poles were pulled down. So the area required all new poles and lines. After a week without power when power was restored I discovered my outside main breaker failed so I was only getting one leg to the CB panel inside the home. Luckily I got it repaired the next day which took an electrician due to the age of the service panel. Required removing the meter.

[@sknight0391]

Too bad you didn't have Ted Cook there to lick his finger and test all those legs of power. 😂 ⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡

[@stevencossaboon3237]

Nice work Curtis. What a head scratcher.

[@JesseDoesHVAC]

The back of that tin cover plate covering the power feed comin into the chassis was blackened saw that as soon as you pulled it off

[@robalexander7348]

Well Curtis that was a tricky problem, i hope all is well on tomorrows return, also while your there you could earn a extra $10.00 changing that annoying smoke alarm battery 👍 😮 Au

[@kalin666]

It is amazing how many people just live with the beep 😅 i think some people can't hear it.

[@danielbromley1410]

I’m so happy p

[@DanO181919]

I’m going to open a smoke detector battery changing service company.

[@piezoman79]

Good luck getting any of these people to be willing to pay for it 😂

[@DanO181919]

@@piezoman79 Right! I have 9 volt batteries on the ready if my smoke detectors start beeping. I’ll get up in the middle of the night if one starts beeping. 😆

[@redneckways1617]

First time I’ve ever seen a mobile home electric furnace used upside down…

[@bobboscarato1313]

It is called a "Downflow Air Handler"!

[@AmericanFarmerHVAC2024]

You haven't seen many mobile homes then. All mobile homes manufactured for cold climates, electric or usually gas heat, are all downflow situations.

[@chuckquinn8026]

Are you tired of taking Lysol showers when you get home yet? 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@BillyN31]

For real!!! 🤢

[@jenko701]

I truly love Panterra , but you other intro music just fits you perfect.

[@waltdembeck4634]

DITTO

[@rickr6908]

Wow! You're like a pit bull that won't let go! When you tested the power on both legs at the bottom of the meter and found one was not energized. Your not responsible for any more.😊 Great job getting the lines straight on the heat strip. It's just amazing how those things will run with that much wrong. Stay safe! Give Reily a hug.😂

[@charlesbryant8947]

Why is there 2 different relays needed for 10kw heat strips? I would definitely ditch the sequencer and relay, a double pole contactor will handle that with no problems and a heavy duty relay part number 90403 and use only 1 speed for both heat and cool that will minimize the possibility of motor failures because it is only using only 1 speed and can’t try to lock 2 speeds on at once, also too just take one leg off the contactor and go to the normally closed side off the relay with it that way the heat strips can’t run without the blower running

[@Bennie716]

I love watching these videos, however my dog freaks out and shakes when hears a smoke detector 🤷🏼‍♂️ 😂

[@wd8557]

Wonder if the neighboors had the same issue, if so it would have been at the main transformer or substation , other than that , she has a bad meter. Be lucky you did not touch that meter, it could have arched if a lug was bad. Your job was actually done at the breaker in the home. Good work and stay safe.

[@RayRay-nb7tn]

That electrical panel in the trailer that feeds the AH looks Brand New? So who ever installed that lost the one leg of power going to the meter box. Hopefully its straightened out so ya can get the call done.

[@kg4muc]

Must have had one leg open at the pot or maybe a distribution pedestal if they used one. Some of those pedestals are a pain to start with as dis similar metals make up the bus bar connections. Glad they got both legs back working!

[@JoJoTavern]

Electrical problems and crying children anxiety through the roof

[@Gametight601]

Aww man! You and I know the feeling

[@johnnys3602]

Not to mention the smoke detector chirp 😂🤣🤦🏽‍♂️

[@bigdaddy5948]

Yeah. I've been in the trade a long time and the distractions really tire me out. Anxiety is the worst part

[@MariosACandRefrigeration]

those relays do not go across,they go up,but it could be shorting out inside.but definitely,the 2 lines are connecting.thanks for sharing.

[@allanbrito13]

Like they're connected but one leg is broken somewhere along the run?

[@MariosACandRefrigeration]

like the lower heater is shorted ,there should not be continuity between blue and orange.9:32.@@allanbrito13

[@renecuevas4128]

Love elect troubleshooting but someone cross the wires on da relay

[@aaronclark1599]

I do HVAC for a living but you are by far my favorite tech to watch

[@bernardodejong8080]

Ohw wow Cowboys from hell intro took me back to my youth 😂

[@kens.3729]

My Grandpa used to say, “If it Ain’t Broke, get a Larger Hammer”. 😬👍. The Rest of Us believe, “If it Ain’t Broke, Don’t Mess with it”. 😬👍🙏

[@wallacegrommet9343]

If we can’t fix it, it ain’t broke

[@softwarephil1709]

Reminds me of an old lady friend saying “I’m having a little trouble with my computer, would you take a look at it?”

[@lukeh6015]

Hell yeah for the intro music Cowboys From Hell Instantly rockn 🤘🤘

[@TomLawson05]

Curtis that was e real head scratcher great troubleshooting thanks for the video

[@joehead1294]

Lotta charring on the line side of the breakers in the A/H. See also the back side of the cover for that area.

[@jameslong3351]

Lost a leg and it went to ground. That doesn't happen very often.

[@oldcarjunky]

that under ground secondary falt is what I repaired fir 25 years with the AEP power company , on the face of the meter is three Triangles under the diles a blinking triangle is a indication of a leg falt

[@jthonn]

Dang head scratcher there. You could start another channel, HVAC hoarders.

[@MariosACandRefrigeration]

the short was at the breaker bridge ,between yellow and red.ohm out the heaters.

[@Q_thulu]

Didnt have a short im willing to bet. The furnace was trying to run on 120volts. Furnace was wired to spec. They have a bad service entrance wire thats burnt to ground.

[@shizamannelly2329]

Please change that battery in the smoke alarm!

[@DaveMak5150]

Loving the Pantera! 🤟

[@ravneiv]

Popped a 200amp breaker and the smoke detectors are possibly not working... good thing the breaker was working.

[@bryandierken8794]

Lost a phase in the line coming from the pole

[@donaldwhite8420]

I was expecting you to start at the panel.

[@michelgrenier1878]

Good job spotting the problem ,The power will back feed through a 120 volt closed circuit by the neutral wires that are connected to ground in the panel in the house ; But normally a job like this calls for that big flat screwdriver with all the burn marks on it and poke it around in those panels and something will fry ! Lol Ha Ha !

[@kens.3729]

Darn Crickets. We’re Almost Done with them for the Season. 😬🤪👎

[@heatingairservices8708]

Amazing Job 35 + yr in trade & shorts of any-kind Can be challenging Hi & or Lo Great Diagnosis

[@Newberntrains]

How in the world does someone mess up an ac so bad it dumps out a leg

[@chris76-01]

I bet half the houses in Georgia have chirping smoke detectors😂

[@redneckways1617]

Half don’t have smoke detectors…🤣

[@wallacegrommet9343]

That inverter behind your driver seat has a severely bent cable at the terminal. Try bending the the lug to eliminate wire strain. I do a lot of high amp DC wiring on boats..

[@HVACGUY]

will do

[@jkmarshall3553]

Smoke detector beeping, trash and clothes occupying half the hallway,... I'm just amazed how some people live! And I'm not sure it was necessary telling that lady to step over your bag, when it's necessary to step over everything in that house just to get about. Lord have mercy! 😂

[@OnusBones]

Within minutes I think I would have told them they need an electrician first. Maybe you should raise your service call rate by $5 and include replacing smoke alarm batteries.

[@earlestes8649]

It’s got a bad connection somewhere between transformer and meter, I’ve ran into this problem many times over the years. It’s the power companies problem now 😊

[@funnyfarm5555]

Kinda like the time our power went at our house in town and they discovered the transmission line that served several house blew up underground in our backyard.

[@bobmorse225]

the screw through the panel is a go to move of the factory

[@JS-8204]

Which Milwaukee flashlight is that?

[@tomdurkins]

The typical smoke alarm chirp. 😂😂😂😂 I can’t stop laughing.

[@robertpage2023]

I'd NEVER let my return grill get THAT dirty!! And as for the rest of the house............SHE NEEDS A MAID, SOME HELP! Where is the husband??? Divide that house into sections and each week, CLEAN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You should get hazard pay! I still blame it all on poor housekeeping. This family has outgrown that trailer. I'm still confused as to how the inside HVAC box was wired wrong. It should have come from the factory already wired. When? Who? How? did it all come about? Will this turn into a mystery as difficult to solve as..................."are there really aliens?" AND "Where is Bigfoot?" Great show!

[@jimfeagins9424]

Uhgg - another house with a beeping smoke detector! You should offer battery replacement for these during your service calls as well.

[@earlestes8649]

What is it about renting and smoke detectors, seems like they don’t care about their safety. I do work for a lot of landlords and seen it all 😊, you think. Then you find out there’s always something else that they can do that’s nuts! One renter took his down and threw it into the back of his truck, I heard it chirping. Of course he denied it came out of his apartment, but his was missing and I knew I had installed a new one about a year before.

[@Paul-IE-Repairs]

it seems your service area has the same issue where it seems 90% of the properties the smoke alarm needs a battery and i never gets changed, even after years.

[@new2000car]

90% idiots

[@tedhicks5431]

That beeping smoke driving me crazy

[@redneckways1617]

Somewhere in the supply wire going to your outside panel from the power supply to the panel is burned onto in the ground…had to diagnose that problem at my own house years ago…

[@mxslick50]

@@Bryan-Hensley Yeah and he didn't notice them, even the cover he took off had a huge flash burn. He's a pretty good HVAC tech, but his electrical skills are seriously lacking, and I am afraid one day he will get hurt, badly. Edit: and at 12:00 look at the burned connections on the heat strip relay, orange and black wires.... again, very poor observational skills here...oops, continued, and he just found it.

[@m9ovich785]

@@mxslick50 I did not see Him look at the 2 Supply Wires on the left side of the 2 Breakers. I looked to Me like one of them was up against the terminal of the top leg ??

[@corey-k3b]

In my state unless if your a electrician or work for a power company your not allowed to Touch or open the meter box it a big no they will pull your HVac license for 2 years

[@emolatur]

Did you get to the bottom of this? I can't find a callback video. I looked up the relay you changed. It enables both sets of heat strips, one per contact set. The contacts go the opposite direction from the assumption. There will, at least, be a "no heat" return call. Also, the legs it switches (orange and black) are on the same leg of the incoming power, so a short at that relay wouldn't trip anything. It just won't work. The continuity you found on the red/blue wires - that relay is for switching the blower speed, and blue/red is the normally-closed contact. Red is connected to orange through the motor. There also isn't any intelligent "control board," so everything should react immediately to the thermostat. As I presume it was left on 'cool,' I would have expected the blower to turn on immediately. Also, that transformer sound isn't healthy, especially undervolted. Barring anything like burned/chafed wiring touching together, my guess is the blower shorted. It doesn't have any overcurrent protection other than the 60A breaker with the yellow/orange circuit on it. I think the repeated dead shorts (the initial one, there may have been one if somebody tried to reset it before calling you, and yours) damaged either the meter or a breaker/fuse in the pedestal (or maybe even a connection somewhere). The unit is no longer tripping the breaker because now there's only 12V on the control side and it's not enough to pull in the blower relay. When that's back up to 24V, I think you'll be tripping breakers again. As to why you're seeing 120V line-to-line: that house did not have any "240V" loads turned on: stove, dryer, water heater, were not operating. Therefore, the "good" leg has 120V to N from the poco, the "bad" leg has no supply, and everything connected to it is a "load" to neutral. Thus, that leg basically appears as neutral. If some 240V load were to be turned on, it would pass current from the "good" leg to the "bad" leg, bringing their voltages closer together (ie, closer to 0 on your meter) The fact that they have an electric water heater that was apparently not trying to heat at the time of your video further suggests that the second leg was working prior to your arrival - otherwise the water in the tank would have been cold.

[@AnthonyWilliams-wd8yf]

You were reading 120vac because there was at least one 120vac load device plugged in to the power phase that had lost power giving you the ground.

[@jackkreighbaum783]

There are so many homes you visit that have smoke detectors with low batteries.

[@J-Colt]

Tell that property manager while he is there to stick a battery in the smoke detector! I hope you go back out. I would feel uneasy making changes then not being able to verify what I had done was correct.

[@mr.roberts3886]

Been a couple months since I la st watched ya, but just wanted to say, I love your new intro music! Pantera is the best. Nice choice 👍

[@HVACGUY]

Thanks for watching

[@Balticblue93]

Jesus Christ... I don't know how people live with the damn beeping smoke detector. I have selective hearing but damn that is annoying. I think I will send you a 100 pack of 9v's for you to kindly replace the damn things. I swear to God, it is on nearly every video.

[@tomdurkins]

You can send them the batteries for free. They’ll sell the batteries before they install them.

[@TheTubejunky]

Blowing the 200amp is a Bad day. That's going leave a mark.

[@joshl3323]

Them screws break pretty easy wiggling them back and forth a few times

[@bobboscarato1313]

Curtis has good power tools!

[@scophylio1]

You have a dead leg. Both should be read 208/220/240. Was there a storm the day before?

[@MarilynMansonIsBetterThanRap]

love the cowboys from hell intro !!!

[@TheTubejunky]

Only one leg is wired? 120vac instead of 240vac?

[@laughingoreilly1334]

Is that not the neutral that's bonded with the earth, I'm from the UK so what do I know

[@TheTubejunky]

You could have simply test for 240 to begin with. That's the first thing riiight? Pay by hr or by repair?

[@philw8606]

Do you not sell 9v batteries in Georgia

[@fernandobazan829]

You better check the smoke alarm it drives me nuts how can you deal with that plus you need to wear a mask and space suit when you go into battle you might catch something you can get rid of?? think about it

[@JuanGarcia-el5pi]

When you check the hot lines and only get 120 volt you only have power on 1 leg your checking same line that's why to ground gives 120 volt on 1 leg the other leg 0 when you have power on both gives 220 volts

[@Paul-IE-Repairs]

120v phase to neutral and 120v P2P. If one phase is at zero, it will show 120v Phase to Zero (potential between peak and zero) when you are reading phase to phase you are reading the potential between+120V positive and -120v, thus 240V of potential between said points, because each phase is 120degree offset of one another.

[@raygunsforronnie847]

120V line to neutral, for both split phase 120/240V service and for 120/208 (three phase). Three phase is 120° apart in phase rotation, but split phase is a single phase line (center tapped) so there is no time (phase) component.

[@Paul-IE-Repairs]

That is correct it is split phase, i was just trying to explain it in a manor someone can visualize.

[@dashcamandy2242]

My first thought coming into the video... Main breaker tripping? 🤔 ¡no bueno! My second thought... Smoke detector batteries dying. Par for the course, I guess, but also ¡no bueno! 1:41 - Oh, FFS! Of all the cockamamie things to do... What a cluster that was!

[@pilotboba]

CHANGE THE DAMN BATTERY. How can they live with that?

[@Neicoman]

You're better than Cowboys from Hell

[@gordonpotts753]

I like the intro music

[@timrob0420]

Roses are red violets are blue when I listen to Pantera my neighbors do too

[@jackhandyy]

Both smoke detectors are low battery

[@Rabid-RazorBack]

Out of phase!!

[@bobboscarato1313]

Single phase system!

[@harrydickson4575]

👍👍👍

[@MAGAMAN]

Chirp. Chirp. Do these people not know how to replace a battery?

[@jamierushing]

Hi bro from west Alabama

[@HVACGUY]

hello

[@jamierushing]

@@HVACGUY how are u

[@waltdembeck4634]

Nice try but life is better with the old theme song, Thanks HVAC GUY - Can't get enough!

[@HVACGUY]

That seems to be the message I’m getting

[@renecuevas4128]

We like the other song Curtis

[@dennislyon5412]

@@HVACGUY- agree - loved the old intro - don’t change it!

[@joedavidzuniga1993]

❤🎉new intro muzik!🤘🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@apollorobb]

i dont see how you work in some of those Ghetto Fabulous places

[@karellodewijks4971]

👍👍😊😊

[@tomdurkins]

I want to know who’s going to pay you for this job.

[@wallacegrommet9343]

Smoke detector battery low

[@tomdurkins]

I can’t stop laughing

[@cwk_619]

Renters...and i'm sure the American taxpayers are footing that bill.

[@SammieHulsey]

I don't believe that you did anything wrong with there service power.

[@Grimjack13]

Pantera rocks!

[@tedhicks5431]

If ya not scared something wrong with a😂

[@paulrozinski1488]

You went way too far with this one. The chirping smoke detector is another indication of what’s up in that house .

[@Q_thulu]

Strip relay looks correct to me....orange and black should be the same 120 volt leg and yellow/red the other. The outside MB is either toast or the Al service line burnt in 2 underground. Was wired correctly before you changed it

[@jacoblowe5424]

Bad meter

[@dock_yard1149]

Why it the effing would people let a smoke alarm chirp forever?? Let alone TWO smoke alarms??? How do you sleep thru that every night??? Simple quick cheap fix. Get off your asses.

[@tomdurkins]

😂😂😂 These people are “different”