Float Safety Install On 80's Air Handler

Good morning guys, we are on an old I think it's 1980s air handler and this customer requested a float switch because it leaked water and got damage on the ceiling below this is not like modern air handlers so there's only really one float switch i could use i'll show you, i dropped my light down there but what i was trying to show you is that this does not have a regular secondary drain tap so we're going to put an easy trap on it, but first i gotta get these out so i can get my light see but i'm struggling to get this out so i can get this out this was supposed to be an easy job the rest of this out for them while i lay that is up seltzer it's right here give that another try real quick here that makes my job so much easier all right my idea is to come out here with an easy trap let it do its thing and then come straight over and back down okay this fitting does not want to come off i think i could get it off but i'm going to leave it i don't want to risk breaking everything anything this air handler is from 1986 everything's still working so i'm just going to tap onto that right there because i want to move this out a little bit instead of adding a coupling i'm going to add a t right here like some real some real nasty stuff straight up there we go this is the actual product i'm going to use it's a trade pro trade pro drain trap kit that's the part number if you have bought one of these kits just to get the brush because you can buy just a brush okay this piece i'm going to go like that and then excuse me i can't see that this piece is going to go like that this is going to come over here we can angle it a little bit so it goes directly over there so i just need a little piece of pvc i'm sorry that y'all forgive me that is schedule 20 PVC it's bending when i try to cut it right here if y'all can see i know it's going to stick out a little bit more but if y'all know these once that gets glued on there real good this part might come out so i might have to glue it again see what i mean this is like a it converts what i think is one inch to three quarter so now make sure your switch is on top this piece comes next goes in right there there's nothing to pull out all we have to do is glue it and we're getting somewhere what i need to do now is angle this so that we can come straight down i'm going to go ahead and piece the rest together so i need another piece of pvc and i need an elbow and maybe a couple too long cut it right about here still a little bit too is on that's almost a total thumbs up for me I'm going to shorten this piece a little bit so that it kind of angles down air conditioner just turned on i said i was going to shorten this one up a little bit right at the corner over there that's what we want go ahead and glue this so this is going to come down a little bit it'll have a little bit of an angle to it that's right so now it's got a little bit of a down flow to it this is ready to go we just have to wire up the switch he's got this set on 68 degrees i'm gonna turn it up so it turns off i can't believe this old system is still keeping it's still doing that good i have not had to add any refrigerant to it what year did i say 86 looks like our low voltage comes up and goes in here you can smell it that glue so basically these wires right here need to go into the air handler i know i brought some wire nuts with me but i don't know where they are, let's see can't see there is a huge opening right there, so basically i need to find my thermostat wire that connects for the cooling or either the red wire and then separate them do i have here i think those are my two yellow wires we just kind of like that yellow right there comes from my transformer, tell you what i'm gonna look up here and i might separate it from what is probably this is going to be my common and this is going to be my my red wire, man it is wire-nutted like three different times but that is it right there there's my low voltage red wire or hot wire that's the one i'm going to break i'll tell you what let me get my nail this is my first connection skin back a little bit more now let's see if i can clean up this mess a little bit all right we have a low voltage fuse on the common that's basically what it is i mean it technically that should work let me get some zip ties so we are almost done I'm gonna seal up this real quick get me a little piece of PVC for this and we're going to cap that i basically added this T just for the reason of being able to add like algae tablets or something like that if you do not cap that off before it gets to the p-trap the p-trap will not work basically this is a negative pressure air handler which means it is sucking air through here and blowing it out the top so this part of the cabinet is negative pressure so that means it will suck air through the drain from outside all the way through here if there's no water in this p-trap that's why we have the p-trap so that it won't be sucking air if it's sucking air water will not flow down the drain so if i had left that open it would have done the same thing so now when this fills up with water and we can fill it up i tell you what why don't we do that i'm gonna go ahead and prime the time we're gonna try to use one of these cans that was down here all right that's enough that is plenty in just a second there we go I just wanted to make sure that fan was going gonna run we have our 24 volts so basically all we have done is install a water safety well we'll see okay so basically this wall is not going back i could have made that a little bit shorter but we now have access to the air hammer leave the brush please well guys i hope you enjoyed the video that is a very simple little job that was actually my second trip out there because i had gone out there with a regular float switch and didn't realize they didn't have a regular secondary drain so i had to go get one of those easy traps easy trap is a name brand but it is the exact same thing that i just installed and installed it now we have better access to the air handler they have some protection for their ceiling so i think that one turned out okay and if y'all like these videos like and subscribe that kind of thing really does help out and you know what else helps out checking out the store in the corner it really does if y'all go to amazon using my link even if you don't buy anything there and you buy something in Amazon like in the next 24 or 48 hours it helps me out it does so just visiting the link might be one way of supporting i'll catch y'all in the next one