Oops. High Voltage Mistake During Motor Diagnosis!

hey guys i wasn't going to show y'all today's video because it shows a um a shocking mess up of mine but hey this was within the realm of normal work and figured i'd show you stay tuned system has been chronically icing up i'm gonna turn the fan to own i don't really hear anything let's go up top it's a little bit warm up here but at least it's a short journey because my air handler is right here let me move this i'm gonna try to get up here and sit down And I do not hear the blower running. Okay, we have no big surprise here. We have an ECM motor, X13 style. That's the first thing I'm going to check. I'm going to go right to the motor and see if we got a call and go from there. I'm going to see if I can put y'all right there. That might be a good point of view. I can't tell. Get my meter out. I'm going to have to tell you what it reads. First of all, these two wires are my low voltage wires. The blue one is going to be for my fan. It is on two. and the white one is for heat they both are just low voltage to bring on the fan on this plug we have 240 volts and are common for low voltage first thing i need to do is check for on these wires right here the yellow and the black make sure it's getting 240 volts and i'll have to tell you what it says well yeah y'all look at my meter please right here i'm gonna have to watch that on the video okay what i was trying to do was check power right here and apparently i touched ground. i'm gonna have to go get some more leads just so i can check it. it's pretty clear that one's got power. i'll be right back. we're gonna try this again. i just happen to have an extra meter. see if i can do this without touching anything. 240. okay thank you. all right now what we want to do we're going to put one of these in common. what we want to do is make sure that one of these up here has 24 volts on it. I'm gonna go with the blue one because that's normally my fan and if y'all can see it has 28 volts so that motor should be running. It is hot up here. All right blue is on two and white is on four. Y'all gotta remember that. That ground actually goes to this plug right here. Put that back in and if we're lucky that will pull right out. Now we gotta take this to the van. All right this might have something to do with why that motor failed. I'm just saying. I gotta pull this. Oh wait a minute, here's that sticker right here. 208 230 4.1 amps half horsepower. 208 230 4 amps. We're gonna try it. It's either that or a 30 minute drive back to town. That is ugly. Ugly. Already got this sanded down. I'm gonna see if we can't pull it without too much without too much work. Y'all are wondering what wrench that is. That's a wearer. I can't find my little climb bit. I'm having a rough day. Can't tell. Oh wait a minute. You just want to be careful not to... Put one of these screws in the set screw hole. I've done it. You don't want to do that. It'll turn. Okay. Tighten those up. Now we're tucked up near the top near these vent holes on our band. That is a massive bolt head on that thing. That is a 22 millimeter bolt. Force power 282 30 single phase 4.1 ounce. Okay on this one this little plug converts it to 115 or 120 volts. We are not using that. Sorry if y'all couldn't see that. They're all kind of loose. That's good. Okay, that is ready. We just need to extricate this little thing. This was much more useful in a different situation. I'm just now looking to see if this wheel is clean, and thankfully it is. I sure didn't pull it out, did I? This has got rust on it. Make sure it's in the flat part right here. We're ready to go back. Remember, we might need this on the ground. I need to inspect this real close. I think that's, that's okay. Get in there nice and snug. Now when I plug up this other low voltage, I shouldn't have nothing on the white one. When I plug this one up, tell you what, why don't we use this if it still works. We're going to measure our amps. I'm gonna do it right here on this black wire. Remember it was rated at 3.8 to 4. I'm gonna plug this up to 2. Now this motor should go both directions until it figures out what direction it wants to go in. yes the motor figures out which way to go. it can go either direction and the motor figures it out by amp draw resistance. all right it should ramp up now and this motor might do this every time you power it off. so if you run across one of these don't flip out when it does it. my amp draw if you can't see it is at 1.5 and that's with the panel off. i'm gonna move this to five just to measure the amp draw. with the panel off we're at 3.13. I'm going to put that back on too. Fan to auto. System to cool. There we go. Let's check it outside. I have photos of this. Notes and notes. Photo. I'm using Jobber and I'm uploading these photos straight to notes. It'll be attached to invoices and to this customer. If I need to work up a quote for this customer, I already know and I have forgotten what size it is. I already have these stored. And right now we're just checking pressures. This is a 410 system. Let's see what we got. I'm gonna take that and run. This job like to whoop me. Well, that's it for this one. They like to warn me. If y'all like videos like this, repair videos, real world repairs, no AI, give me a like and subscribe. Those things really do help. Check out my store in the corner. And I've got some links in the description for Jobber and ACIQ. If you're interested in either one of those, Jobber's a great CRM. I just happened to show that to you. Check out the links in the description. I'll catch you on the next one. Well, this one is finally done. If y'all like videos like this, repairs, HVAC stuff, real world, no AA, hey, what?