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I was finished with the project, then had a setback. ... Posted by: hackfreehvac
Video duration: 259 seconds I was finished with the project, then had a setback. :-( Ever heard of "Letting the smoke out"? Related: hvac, pic, microcontroller, picbasic, basic, pro, microchip, electronics, timer, controller Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
![AO Smith Legend 2000 Boiler burner tear down - Part 3 [HD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/wnxzdJSYqYA/2.jpg "AO Smith Legend 2000 Boiler burner tear down - Part 3 [HD]") |
AO Smith Legend 2000 Boiler burner tear down - Part 3 [HD] Posted by: hackfreehvac
Video duration: 286 seconds This is the 3rd A.O. Smith Boiler I check and clean the burner on. It is our oldest "Battle Axe" that we have. It has that same early burner design like the one in Part 1. Except this one is in great condition (not blown apart). Related: ao, a.o., smith, legend, 2000, boiler, burner, hvac, heat, exchanger, water, heater, commercial Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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AO Smith Legend 2000 Boiler burner tear down - Part 2 [HD] Posted by: hackfreehvac
Video duration: 321 seconds Continuing my PM on these boilers, I tear down the boiler next to the other one and find that it already has the upgraded.newer burner style. Related: ao, a.o., smith, legend, 2000, boiler, burner, hvac, heat, exchanger, water, heater, commercial Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
![A.O. Smith Legend 2000 Boiler burner tear down - Part 1 [HD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/H43o6qIrFjM/2.jpg "A.O. Smith Legend 2000 Boiler burner tear down - Part 1 [HD]") |
A.O. Smith Legend 2000 Boiler burner tear down - Part 1 [HD] Posted by: hackfreehvac
Video duration: 430 seconds Last week I did a tear down on 4 of our many boilers. This was the first one of the bunch and I found the burner blown apart. More tear downs in Part 2, etc. Related: ao, a.o., smith, legend, 2000, boiler, burner, hvac, heat, exchanger, water, heater, commercial Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
![January is T-Shirt weather in Arizona! - A high temp of 60\](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_J-ZE81c6hY/2.jpg "January is T-Shirt weather in Arizona! - A high temp of 60\") |
January is T-Shirt weather in Arizona! - A high temp of 60's and 70's. Posted by: hackfreehvac
Video duration: 78 seconds Awesome weather this time of year. I have yet to wear a jacket this year. :-) The water source heat pumps were running in cooling enough to stage the tower pumps on this day. The next day was even warmer. Into the 70's. :-) Related: arizona, weather, cooling, tower, heat, pump Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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Home made water heater timer-controller - Part 4 Posted by: hackfreehvac
Video duration: 444 seconds The new board up and fully functioning. I just need to add some extra programming to also provite remote temperature display and control and then start attaching this to the front panel which I will need to fabricate out of something. Related: micro, controller, microcontroller, electronics, digikey, microchip, pic, 16f, computer, gadget, technology, basic, pro, picbasic, microcode, studio Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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Home made water heater timer-controller - Part 3 Posted by: hackfreehvac
Video duration: 403 seconds After soldering, unsoldering, and resoldering on my circuit board I have the basic control working. However I decided to start over on a new circuit board to clean it up a bit. Related: micro, controller, microcontroller, electronics, digikey, microchip, pic, 16f, computer, gadget, technology, basic, pro, picbasic, microcode, studio Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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Changing stubborn bearnings on a BAC cooling tower Posted by: hackfreehvac
Video duration: 980 seconds I replaced the bearings on another one of our towers. Of course these suckers were seized onto the shaft something fierce so I removed the bearings and shaft as a whole and cut off the ols bearings. Related: bac, baltimore, air, coil, cooling, tower, fan, shaft, blade, bearings, hvac, conditioning, conditioner Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
![Reprogramming my home made security device - Revealing my \"Secret Weapon\"](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/oC9vb8Tp7F8/2.jpg "Reprogramming my home made security device - Revealing my \\"Secret Weapon\\"") |
Reprogramming my home made security device - Revealing my "Secret Weapon" Posted by: hackfreehvac
Video duration: 590 seconds This is a follow up to my last video where I replace the worn buttons on my home made vehicle anti-theft device. I received a request(s) to show the programming and my "Secret Weapon". I needed to update the program in my device anyway. I started to work on the program several months ago and never got around to finishing and testing the update. Related: microchip, microcontroller, mcu, micro, controller, computer, technology, electronics, gadget, home, made, programmer, pic, basic, pro, code, studio Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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Replacing bearings on a Cooling Tower Motor Posted by: hackfreehvac
Video duration: 479 seconds After installing a new motor on one of our cooling towers, I broke down the other motor and replaced the bearings. $50 in parts to have a spare $900 motor. Related: hvac, air, conditioning, conditioner, cooling, tower, evapco, bac, motor, electrical, bearings, repair Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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By: hackfreehvac. on 22 Jan 12, 04:54:30
Well I just got home from being out of town. The wife says that the hot water heater was on all day.? Which was NOT normal because of the timer I have been using. So it looks like I set the default date and time correctly in the program I dumped into it because come today, Saturday, it didn't shut off for the 12 to 7 time it does for M-F peak use. :-) So, hopefully I get my new LCD when it arrives and it will be finished so I can show all the cool features I added.
By: hackfreehvac. on 22 Jan 12, 04:45:59
... That was initially just for diagnostic when I was making it. It backfeeded the high voltage through the diode, thru the IC? and into the LCD module too. Shit happens. But it's NOT deliberate hackery. Big difference.
By: hackfreehvac. on 22 Jan 12, 04:42:01
@q2069 Of course I knew that timer was high voltage. I installed it a while back. I originally designed my controller to power a 24vac contactor. The reed relay was tied to 24 volt internal to the board and the out to the contactor. I changed one wire on the board so the relay contacts were simply in place with? where the timer on that existing controller tied in. Which is high voltage. I FORGOT that I had also tight one of the relay contacts to the circuit board via a LED and resistor.
By: hackfreehvac. on 22 Jan 12, 04:23:13
@joeyf504327 LOL! Yeah? the first ones I bought were SERIAL (power and one wire for data) which costed a lot more. Then I found these and did some reading to use them. They do take a lot more pins on the processor but the programming software is preconfigured to set up commands to this popular type. :-)
By: joeyf504327. on 21 Jan 12, 02:40:44
@84randomdude yes i know how the closed and open circuits work, i'm saying there is a heat exchanger before the heat exchanger in the heat pump, its like a boat that uses anti freeze, it has a heat exchanger, the lake? water is dumped into the tank and in the tank is an anti freeze loop that just circulates through the engine and dumps the heat into the lake water
By: 84randomdude. on 21 Jan 12, 02:23:00
@joeyf504327 oh. around here they just fill the water? loop up the water, and a pump circulates it through the ground loops, through the heat exchanger, and back to the ground loops. it's a "closed circuit" of water.
By: joeyf504327. on 21 Jan 12, 02:01:27
@84randomdude well what? people do is they pump the lake water through a heat exchanger and on the other side of the heat exchanger is the geo heatpump thats how our friends do it and it works very well, his line set goes out about 150 ft and i think its about 80ft deep or so
By: joeyf504327. on 21 Jan 12, 01:58:04
@84randomdude .....you own the 40 acres that is above every lake lot, and the lake is about 70? degrees in the summer which is fine for a/c and low 30's (but that is for the first 50 ft as you get down around 200ft it gets pretty warm) in the winter which is fine for heating
By: joeyf504327. on 21 Jan 12, 01:55:39
@84randomdude we have 200 acres that is almost all woods but the prob is that your are not allowed to transport wood, and our land is 2 hours away over looking Keuka Lake, and we got 24 tons of wood for $650 which is very cheap, we would have to do 12 trips to get the same amount of wood and at 14.4 mpg with no load and about 12 mpg with a load its not cheap in the gas department either, and why not use lake? water, its right there and the lake lost are about .5 acres unless.....
By: 84randomdude. on 21 Jan 12, 01:51:06
@joeyf504327 why would you use lake water for your Geo heat pump? Most Geo heat pumps, circulate the same water through ground loops deep in the ground, and just keep circulating that water. Doesn't consume any, doesn't waste any. In places like where you live, I? would have a couple wood stoves, and find a place to cut my own wood. If I couldn't do that, I'd have twin 1,000 gallon propane tanks installed, and some VERY HIGH efficiency modulating furnaces installed.
By: joeyf504327. on 21 Jan 12, 01:48:17
@84randomdude the greens are saying it will change the water temp and start to destroy the eco systems there, what ever, so with the ground being clay, NY being picky about it, and the freaking cold temps, its not worth it to use heat pumps up here, and? like i said before, central natural gas is rare as there aren't that many big neighbor hoods for there to be central gas supply, so most of is trucked by Mobile, NYSEG, or Warner
By: joeyf504327. on 21 Jan 12, 01:45:29
@84randomdude like i said people don't want to spend $10,000 on a geothermal heat pump, the ground here is clay and it is expensive to put in a cooling loop for a heat pump as our water source is over 800ft below the ground surface, and NY is doing that because of the rivers and lakes, like at Keuka lake where we keep our boats at my grandmas cottage, you are not allowed to use the lake water for your heatpump they say you have to dig a? well for it, people still use the lake though
By: 84randomdude. on 21 Jan 12, 01:44:34
@joeyf504327 Yeah, I believe it's that high where you live, where I live it's 11 cents during peak demand, and 10 cents during normal? demand. and I'm GLAD I don't live there. I'd much rather live where I do now. And it would be much less to heat our house if my parents' let me set the heat on whatever I wanted it on, because I'd set it to 58*F at night, and 62*F during the day, because that is as warm as I want it. Usually anything over 70*F, and I'll be ready to turn the A/C on.
By: 84randomdude. on 21 Jan 12, 01:41:28
@joeyf504327? why the hell is NY doing that?
By: 84randomdude. on 21 Jan 12, 01:40:10
@joeyf504327 well then? they need to get a Geothermal heat pump.
By: joeyf504327. on 21 Jan 12, 01:13:20
@hackfreehvac $11 for? those LCD's? wow that pretty cheap, only thing is you have to know how to use them and make them, and i don't know how to do that : (
By: joeyf504327. on 21 Jan 12, 00:59:39
@84randomdude oh forgot to add that the? 1,500 gallons of propane that my neighbors burned through last cost them over $2,000, and they are really holding back the heat this year and they've already broken the $1,000 mark
By: joeyf504327. on 21 Jan 12, 00:57:28
@hanky97007 you are just north of me but i am in NY and you are close to the pacific so you get the warm ocean? air to prevent it from really cold there, so heat pumps would be fine where you are, not where i am though, especially last year, for 3 weeks every night was about -10 degrees and highs were 10 degrees i would have really hated to have a heat pump then
By: joeyf504327. on 21 Jan 12, 00:54:40
@84randomdude ... and your heat season is shorter than ours and not as cold, like i said, our house is over 2,300 sqft, constant? 20 to 30 mph wind and during storms 50+ mph because we are on a huge ass hill, $650 for two years is cheap as it is $40 for only12 gallons of propane which is for our stove and oven. and people are starting to look into geothermal only problem is is that NY is starting to against it in most areas where it can be used efficiently
By: joeyf504327. on 21 Jan 12, 00:51:11
@84randomdude during the day its 80 degrees? and everything absorbs the heat and by 6 am which is when i wake up its about 62 degrees and i have a fire going by 6:20 am and i stack the fire up at 10 pm, plus there is NO natural gas, only propane which is trucked to houses, and YES ITS OVER 22 CENTS A KW, i live here, you don't, NYSEG is a bitch but its the only thing around so, and your house is way south of us.....
By: 84randomdude. on 21 Jan 12, 00:01:39
@joeyf504327 It ain't over 22 cents a kw, it's 11 cents per kw here.? I'd hate to live where you live. I'd get a Geothermal heat pump. $650? That's a LOT compared to what we spend for Natural Gas for our Gas furnace. It's about $500.00 for us to heat our house for two winters, at a comfortable 68*F. Why the hell would you want your house at 80+ degrees in the winter? That's way too damn hot.
By: hanky97007. on 20 Jan 12, 22:23:40
@joeyf504327? I'm just west of Portland, OR. in the pacific northwest. We typically have mild temps till about the first of November. We do occasionally get cold snaps from the north and moisture from the pacific and get snow or ice. Low temps in the 30's and high's barely reaching 40F are normal here.
By: joeyf504327. on 20 Jan 12, 21:40:14
@hanky97007 where abouts in the north east are you as it is low 20's and getting colder right now and there is? going to be snow tonight, not rain
By: joeyf504327. on 20 Jan 12, 21:39:26
@q2069 i'd like to see you compare your knowledge about hvac? both providentially and commercially to him, plus he does know a lot about electricity its just he missed something and messed up, its all part of the experience, its happened many times before to me and i'm good with electricity
By: joeyf504327. on 20 Jan 12, 21:37:01
@joeyf504327 ... we paid $650 for 2 years worth of wood to keep out house constantly 80+ degrees all day, there house is 68 degrees and gets cooler during mid day and at night, and with the cold weather bringing temps below teens at night a heat pump is a very bad choice up here, all they is straight cool units and they are rare to see, in fact its cheaper for us to use our? baseboards than it is a heatpump