Re: [MBZ] okiebenz HVAC service

[Mitch Haley via Mercedes]

With a simple AC unit, the only thing the 24v from the indoor unit should power 
is the contactor. The contactor supplies 240v to the compressor, fan, and 
associated start/run capacitors. 

Maybe your contactor (actually a relay) had a fried coil?

Mitch.

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Re: [MBZ] okiebenz HVAC service

[Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes]

Yea I remember I was supposed to pick that up

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> On Jul 8, 2017, at 7:39 PM, OK Don via Mercedes  wrote:
> 
> I have a 5 ton compressor - outside unit - that has (or had) R22 in it -
> yours for the taking . . .
> 
> On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 3:54 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> 
>> I think I'm going to get a home warranty on that house very soon as it's a
>> 14 year old Trane still running r22 so I figure the compressor could go out
>> at any time. Tomorrow it's back to car related things and getting packages
>> ready to go for Monday.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Jul 8, 2017, at 3:48 PM, Craig via Mercedes 
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 15:45:14 -0500 "Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes"
>>>  wrote:
>>> 
 Then I discovered a 5 amp fuse. Bingo, it was blown. Ran down to flaps
 got a pack, replaced it and she fired fight up. I am guessing when the
 capacitor blew it must have tripped the fuse on the inside unit? Just
 guessing.
>>> 
>>> It is possible that that is what happened.
>>> 
>>> 
 Anyway I imagine I saved myself untold hundreds of dollars on a service
 call.
>>> 
>>> Congratulations on your persistence and getting it back on line!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Craig
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Re: [MBZ] okiebenz HVAC service

[OK Don via Mercedes]

I have a 5 ton compressor - outside unit - that has (or had) R22 in it -
yours for the taking . . .

On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 3:54 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:

> I think I'm going to get a home warranty on that house very soon as it's a
> 14 year old Trane still running r22 so I figure the compressor could go out
> at any time. Tomorrow it's back to car related things and getting packages
> ready to go for Monday.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jul 8, 2017, at 3:48 PM, Craig via Mercedes 
> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 15:45:14 -0500 "Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes"
> >  wrote:
> >
> >> Then I discovered a 5 amp fuse. Bingo, it was blown. Ran down to flaps
> >> got a pack, replaced it and she fired fight up. I am guessing when the
> >> capacitor blew it must have tripped the fuse on the inside unit? Just
> >> guessing.
> >
> > It is possible that that is what happened.
> >
> >
> >> Anyway I imagine I saved myself untold hundreds of dollars on a service
> >> call.
> >
> > Congratulations on your persistence and getting it back on line!
> >
> >
> > Craig
> >
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learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence
for themselves."

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Re: [MBZ] okiebenz HVAC service

[Curley McLain via Mercedes]

Then don't forget to claim it on your taxes as a writeoff of bad debt  
(unpaid invoices)



Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes 
July 8, 2017 at 5:43 PM
I tried that, it did not work.





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Craig via Mercedes 
July 8, 2017 at 3:48 PM
On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 15:45:14 -0500 "Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes"
  wrote:


Then I discovered a 5 amp fuse. Bingo, it was blown. Ran down to flaps
got a pack, replaced it and she fired fight up. I am guessing when the
capacitor blew it must have tripped the fuse on the inside unit? Just
guessing.


It is possible that that is what happened.



Anyway I imagine I saved myself untold hundreds of dollars on a service
call.


Congratulations on your persistence and getting it back on line!


Craig

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Re: [MBZ] okiebenz HVAC service

[Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes]

I tried that, it did not work.


On 7/8/2017 5:23 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes wrote:

+1

BTW, don't forget to make out a bill from Okie HVAC Service to the 
agent/manager  (SWMBO) for materials and labor!  Materials are 2x or 
3x cost, and labor at the going rate.  Probably about $75/hr.


Craig via Mercedes wrote:

Congratulations on your persistence and getting it back on line!


Craig



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Re: [MBZ] okiebenz HVAC service

[Curley McLain via Mercedes]

+1

BTW, don't forget to make out a bill from Okie HVAC Service to the 
agent/manager  (SWMBO) for materials and labor!  Materials are 2x or 3x 
cost, and labor at the going rate.  Probably about $75/hr.


Craig via Mercedes wrote:

Congratulations on your persistence and getting it back on line!


Craig



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Re: [MBZ] okiebenz HVAC service

[WILTON via Mercedes]

'Nother ATTABOY!

Wilton

- Original Message - 
From: "Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes" 

To: 
Cc: "Kaleb C. Striplin" 
Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2017 4:45 PM
Subject: [MBZ] okiebenz HVAC service


So I replaced the bad run capacitor, contactor, and installed the new hard 
start kit and it still would not run. After spending an hour going back 
over everything and reviewing the photos I took before removing things I 
then discovered the inside unit was not running either. The renters didn't 
clue me in to this fact as I didn't go inside I was working outside. With 
that knowledge I then went upstairs to the inside unit and it appeared to 
have no power. I was about to throw in the towel and call a pro when I 
decided to double check things. The control board appeared dead, had no 
led lit like it should etc. we just had this replaced last year. So I 
tested to see if I was getting power to the board, yes I was. Then I 
discovered a 5 amp fuse. Bingo, it was blown. Ran down to flaps got a 
pack, replaced it and she fired fight up. I am guessing when the capacitor 
blew it must have tripped the fuse on the inside unit? Just guessing. 
Anyway I imagine I saved myself untold hundreds of dollars on a service 
call. They probably would have wanted to replace the board too. This time 
of year I see all sorts of posts on Facebook from people who's ac quit and 
I bet they spend a lot of money when it's really not that complicated. 
There really is not a whole lot to one of these.


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Re: [MBZ] okiebenz HVAC service

[Floyd Thursby via Mercedes]

On another point, a few years back the fan on the outside condenser unit 
on the heat pump quit, it was summer and I (of course) was out of town 
for a coupla days so my wife had to deal with it.  She called a local 
guy, someone came over pretty quick and popped in a new fan motor, all 
was good,  Cost about $500. About a year, year and half later the motor 
quit again, was seized.  So I call the guy and get this runaround about 
it is past warranty blahblah.  So I figure I will just go get another 
one so I take that one off and go to some supply house, the guy looks at 
it and asks how long it had been running.  I say year, year and a half, 
whatever it was, and he says well this is a recovery motor and it is 
only to be used for a short time until you can get a proper unit on 
there, the guys all keep a coupla these on their trucks for problems 
like yours if they don't have the proper one available.  I tell him that 
new motor cost me $500.  So he goes and gets a real motor and it is 
pretty pricey, like $400, he says these recovery things are like $100, 
you need to call your guy back and ask him what the story is, why he 
charged you for a real motor and put this thing on.  So I get home and 
call him up, he comes out and looks at it and says yep our guy put this 
thing on and charged you for a real motor.  So I say WTF, he tells me he 
had to fire the guy because he was putting these things on, saying he 
did the real one, then selling the real one and making money on the deal 
by selling the real motors to other guys for cheepcheep. He was buying 
the recovery motors or using random units he got from other guys or 
swapping for them or something.  Scamming.  So the guy puts on the real 
motor and as he is leaving he hands me a bill for a service call, $75.  
I was completely incredulous and got into it with him, told him he was 
lucky I didn't call the cops on him for scamming me, whether it was his 
fired guy or not, I am not paying this.  So he leaves. A month or so 
later his wife, who did the office work, calls me up and says I am 30d 
past due on this bill, can I give her a credit card.  So I get into with 
her, she gets all pissy with me about it, I finally tell her there is no 
way I am paying that bill after you tried to scam me.  Last I heard of 
them, and never used them again.


--FT


On 7/8/17 4:45 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes wrote:

So I replaced the bad run capacitor, contactor, and installed the new hard 
start kit and it still would not run. After spending an hour going back over 
everything and reviewing the photos I took before removing things I then 
discovered the inside unit was not running either. The renters didn't clue me 
in to this fact as I didn't go inside I was working outside. With that 
knowledge I then went upstairs to the inside unit and it appeared to have no 
power. I was about to throw in the towel and call a pro when I decided to 
double check things. The control board appeared dead, had no led lit like it 
should etc. we just had this replaced last year. So I tested to see if I was 
getting power to the board, yes I was. Then I discovered a 5 amp fuse. Bingo, 
it was blown. Ran down to flaps got a pack, replaced it and she fired fight up. 
I am guessing when the capacitor blew it must have tripped the fuse on the 
inside unit? Just guessing. Anyway I imagine I saved myself untold hundreds of 
dollars on a service call. They probably would have wanted to replace the board 
too. This time of year I see all sorts of posts on Facebook from people who's 
ac quit and I bet they spend a lot of money when it's really not that 
complicated. There really is not a whole lot to one of these.

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Winston Churchill:
“Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or 
petty,
never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the 
enemy.”



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Re: [MBZ] okiebenz HVAC service

[Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes]

I think I'm going to get a home warranty on that house very soon as it's a 14 
year old Trane still running r22 so I figure the compressor could go out at any 
time. Tomorrow it's back to car related things and getting packages ready to go 
for Monday.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jul 8, 2017, at 3:48 PM, Craig via Mercedes  wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 15:45:14 -0500 "Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes"
>  wrote:
> 
>> Then I discovered a 5 amp fuse. Bingo, it was blown. Ran down to flaps
>> got a pack, replaced it and she fired fight up. I am guessing when the
>> capacitor blew it must have tripped the fuse on the inside unit? Just
>> guessing.
> 
> It is possible that that is what happened.
> 
> 
>> Anyway I imagine I saved myself untold hundreds of dollars on a service
>> call.
> 
> Congratulations on your persistence and getting it back on line!
> 
> 
> Craig
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Re: [MBZ] okiebenz HVAC service

[Craig via Mercedes]

On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 15:45:14 -0500 "Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes"
 wrote:

> Then I discovered a 5 amp fuse. Bingo, it was blown. Ran down to flaps
> got a pack, replaced it and she fired fight up. I am guessing when the
> capacitor blew it must have tripped the fuse on the inside unit? Just
> guessing.

It is possible that that is what happened.


> Anyway I imagine I saved myself untold hundreds of dollars on a service
> call.

Congratulations on your persistence and getting it back on line!


Craig

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[MBZ] okiebenz HVAC service

[Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes]

So I replaced the bad run capacitor, contactor, and installed the new hard 
start kit and it still would not run. After spending an hour going back over 
everything and reviewing the photos I took before removing things I then 
discovered the inside unit was not running either. The renters didn't clue me 
in to this fact as I didn't go inside I was working outside. With that 
knowledge I then went upstairs to the inside unit and it appeared to have no 
power. I was about to throw in the towel and call a pro when I decided to 
double check things. The control board appeared dead, had no led lit like it 
should etc. we just had this replaced last year. So I tested to see if I was 
getting power to the board, yes I was. Then I discovered a 5 amp fuse. Bingo, 
it was blown. Ran down to flaps got a pack, replaced it and she fired fight up. 
I am guessing when the capacitor blew it must have tripped the fuse on the 
inside unit? Just guessing. Anyway I imagine I saved myself untold hundreds of 
dollars
  on a service call. They probably would have wanted to replace the board too. 
This time of year I see all sorts of posts on Facebook from people who's ac 
quit and I bet they spend a lot of money when it's really not that complicated. 
There really is not a whole lot to one of these. 

Sent from my iPhone 

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