AC Install Help Needed

Hotwired

Well-Known Member
ok back on track

KK, if these things break (mini-splits), what usually breaks on them? Just curious because if I installed one, how can I get it fixed if I don't want anyone to see my grow room?
 

KitchenKhemist

Active Member
Honestly, I have no experience with the Heil units, so I'm not sure I can answer that. It really depends from manufacturer to manufacturer. I CAN tell you that the Mitsubishi units are top notch. I've never been back to service one after install, and I've put in tons of them (most schools are using 1 per classroom these days). I can also tell you not to buy a UnionAire. I've been back time and again on those things...lots of design flaws...made in Egypt - where, apparently, water can drain uphill because the condensate line must exit a hole in the rear of these units which is not only above the drain pan connection, it's above the drain pan itself!

If a growroom mini split were to give you trouble, it'd be hard to keep the service tech outta there while still getting his job done. Most of them have a remote control thermostat that needs to be pointed fairly close to the indoor unit, and after making any repairs, the tech will want to operate it obviously.

I guess if a guy got one of these dual-system Heils, he COULD hook up only one half of the system and keep the extra indoor unit as a backup (indoor unit isn't likely to be the problem though) and if the operating half of the outdoor unit shot shit, just switch the linesets to the other compressor (will have to evacuate lines again). The outdoor half of the system is your most likely area of breakdown (compressor, contactor, fan motor...these are the usual suspects).

If you DO get one, make sure your braze joints are nice, threaded connections are tight, insulate the lineset, keep your indoor filter clean. Follow the installation instructions. These things are WAY easier than you'd think. I'm always glad to help anyone in need, so feel free to message me if ever need be.
 

amquai

New Member
Who said anything about anger? I love watching you slightly change your words in a pisspoor attempt to regain cred. When you said there would be no changes till 2010, you were wrong. R-410a units have been available for quite some time...any ACTUAL Trane dealer should know that...and they were meant to replace R-22 from the getgo. I'm not the one backpedaling like a little bitch. You wanna split hairs with your little webster's dictionary definition, fine. Let's say R-22 isn't obsolete. If you were installing a unit on YOUR house TOMORROW, would you put in an R-22 system knowing damn well that you'll pay out your ass for a drum of it in 10 years when the system needs recharging? Well, Trane units may need it sooner...they ARE, in fact, rush jobs. I've toured the Tyler facility.

In fact, as I previously stated (and you previously missed due to lack of reading skills), I've been installing Trane units for some time now and very recently finished a rooftop package unit and guess what? The transformer in the brand new low-ambient kit was bad from factory....happens with a lot of new Trane equipment. I can remember ONE RUUD part that was bad at startup in 6 years of installing them. It was the pressure switch in a residential furnace that somehow got a tiny piece of the foam packaging inside. Fixed it in 5 minutes. I'm still waiting on the new part from Trane after 5 days.

I'm not gonna completely bash Trane products...I install them all the time. But when you come out blasting RUUD/Rheem for no reason, you show just how ignorant you really are. The ONLY reason Trane is so prevalent in commercial applications (once again for the slow kid in the room) is the Summitt system it can tie into. Trane equipment is nothing special. Trane CONTROLS and SERVICE REPS are what make the company what it is. Anybody can sell it (or claim to), but it takes someone with intelligence to install/service/control the damned things.

So just keep on tweeking your own words little by little to avoid the obvious fact that you started an argument with the wrong MF. Before long, you'll be saying exactly what I am. Anyone with half a brain can see that any dealer with R-22 systems STILL in stock either got them REALLY cheap (and gets mad when someone informs the public that they're selling last decade's equipment), or must be eating lots of PB&J and government cheese because they move condensers like old people fuck....verrrrrrrrrrrry slllooooowwwwly (if at all).
You have the whole office laughing now. If you knew what office I was in right now it would probably be funny to you too. I look forward to your replys when you try to stick up for your shit Ruud units. Anyways no more time being alotted to you retard "poof" your obsolete.
 

KitchenKhemist

Active Member
You have the whole office laughing now. If you knew what office I was in right now it would probably be funny to you too. I look forward to your replys when you try to stick up for your shit Ruud units. Anyways no more time being alotted to you retard "poof" your obsolete.
And what a reputable office it must be! Only the most important offices (like the one in your daddy's den) are open at 8:30 AM on Memorial Day. And to have an entire office full of laughing people on a Government Holiday....

And you, yourself sir, must have balls of solid granite to be showing your "entire office" how much time you waste, losing an argument, on a Marijuana Discussion Forum. That place must really be running on a level of professional performance I can't even fathom. Now finish your Capri-Sun and get your dictionary back out...it's time to learn to spell the word "replies."

Your best bet is to quit runnin' your suck. There might be a few dyslexic poeple out there who still believe the shit you keep shoveling.
 
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