Mastering The Basics: What Is A Chiller?
📱Chiller Troubleshooting Group On Facebook:
www.facebook.com/groups/thechillerguys/
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www.capitoldiagnostics.com
🔧 Chiller Technician File Organizing System:
https://www.capitoldiagnostics.com/products/hvac-r-technician-file-organizing-system
🧰 Ebook:
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🪛 Diagnostic Sheets and Troubleshooting Charts:
https://www.capitoldiagnostics.com/products/diagnostic-log-sheets
In this video we walk you guys through what a chiller is, some common terms used to describe chillers, what industries chillers are found in, and show you some cool examples of the things you get to see working in the chiller industry.
We briefly touch on the following topics.
Whats an air cooled chiller
Whats a water cooled chiller
Whats an absorber.
Centrifugal Compressors
Scroll compressors
Screw Compressors
reciprocating compressors
this video is for:
building engineers
hvac technicians
mechanical engineers
aspiring chiller technicians
hvac contractors looking to get into chillers
anyone looking to learn ore about chillers and how they work
Learn the basics of chillers, including types like absorber, screw, and centrifugal chillers, and their role in building services. Perfect for anyone looking to understand central plant operations! Discover the different types of chillers and their uses in this informative video. Whether you're an engineer or just curious about building services, this video will help you understand the basics of chillers and how they work. From air cooled chillers to central plant operations, we've got you covered!
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Mastering Trane Chillers: Tackling Vacuum Leaks
📱Chiller Troubleshooting Group On Facebook:
www.facebook.com/groups/thechillerguys/
💵 My Website:
www.capitoldiagnostics.com
🔧 Chiller Technician File Organizing System:
https://www.capitoldiagnostics.com/products/hvac-r-technician-file-organizing-system
🧰 Ebook:
https://www.capitoldiagnostics.com/products/5-subtle-mistakes-that-prevent-you-from-becoming-an-hvac-king-and-how-to-correct-them
🪛 Diagnostic Sheets and Troubleshooting Charts:
https://www.capitoldiagnostics.com/products/diagnostic-log-sheets
🔨 Hyperwatt Pressurizer Manual:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sTndjk4C_ECFLthmVpijNTEUXftqfgkc/view?usp=drive_link
Let me show you the path to mastering Trane chillers.
Air is your biggest enemy in any refrigeration system. If you have high purge counts, and high pump out minutes, on your chiller it is very possible that you have substantial leaks on the machine that need to be located and repaired.
You can pull the entire charge, and pressurize the system with nitrogen, or you can use a pressurizer to do it in half the time.
This video runs through how to use a HyperWatt chiller pressurizer to pressurize a low pressure Trane centrifugal chiller.
This is the process used to find vacuum leaks on the machine that bring air into the system during operation.
Trane CVHE and CVHF chillers were depicted in the video, but this process will work on York chillers, carrier chillers, and all other low pressure centrifugal chillers that operate in a vacuum
Wether your a project manager, mechanical engineer, or beginning your career as a chiller technician, this video walks you through the basics of how to pressurize a machine so you can grow in your career.
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Mastering Trane Chillers: High Condenser Pressure
📱Chiller Troubleshooting Group On Facebook:
www.facebook.com/groups/thechillerguys/
💵 My Website:
www.capitoldiagnostics.com
🔧 Chiller Technician File Organizing System:
https://www.capitoldiagnostics.com/products/hvac-r-technician-file-organizing-system
🧰 Ebook:
https://www.capitoldiagnostics.com/products/5-subtle-mistakes-that-prevent-you-from-becoming-an-hvac-king-and-how-to-correct-them
🪛 Diagnostic Sheets and Troubleshooting Charts:
https://www.capitoldiagnostics.com/products/diagnostic-log-sheets
IN THIS VIDEO, I BREAK DOWN THE DIAGNOSTIC PROCESS FOR THE 4 MOST COMMON REASONS FOR HIGH HEAD PRESSURE ON A TRANE CVHE / CVHF LOW PRESSURE CENTRIFUGAL CHILLER.
SOME COMMON ISSUES THAT MAY OCCUR FROM HIGH HEAD PRESSURE ON A CENTRIFUGAL CHILLER ARE:
HIGH CONDENSER PRESSURE TRIPS
CHILLER SURGING
HIGH CONDENSER PRESSURE HOLD MESSAGES
CHILLER WILL NOT LOAD UP
HIGH EVAPORATOR LEAVING WATER TEMP
I TALK ABOUT:
AN OVERLOADED CHILLER
FLOW ISSUES ON A WATER COOLED CHILLER
AIR IN A LOW PRESSURE CHILLER
WEATHER YOU A NEW AC OR CHILLER TECHNICIAN, OR YOU HAVE BEEN AT THIS FOR AWHILE THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING TO LEARN.
FOLLOW ALONG, LEARN TRANE CHILLERS, AND BECOME THE BEST TECHNICIAN YOU CAN BE.
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MASTERING TRANE CHILLERS: CONDENSER FLOW LOSS
📱Chiller Troubleshooting Group On Facebook:
www.facebook.com/groups/thechillerguys/
💵 My Website:
www.capitoldiagnostics.com
🔧 Chiller Technician File Organizing System:
https://www.capitoldiagnostics.com/products/hvac-r-technician-file-organizing-system
🧰 Ebook:
https://www.capitoldiagnostics.com/products/5-subtle-mistakes-that-prevent-you-from-becoming-an-hvac-king-and-how-to-correct-them
🪛 Diagnostic Sheets and Troubleshooting Charts:
https://www.capitoldiagnostics.com/products/diagnostic-log-sheets
In this video, we dive deep into troubleshooting low water flow issues specifically on Trane low pressure centrifugal chillers CVHE and CVHF. but this fundamental can be applies to all water cooled chillers manufactured by multistack, daikin, trane, york, carrier, and many more.
This video will help you diagnose and resolve some of the following issues:
1. High head pressure faults
2. High condenser pressure faults
3. High condenser pressure holds or load limits
4. Low condenser flow, or condenser flow loss
5. Chiller surging
6. condenser water pump surge
and many more.
This video will help you get to the root of the issue, so you can get the machine back online.
We will guide you through the process of diagnosing the problem in 4 easy steps. We'll walk you through common indicators of poor water flow, the potential root causes, and share effective techniques to identify and resolve the issue efficiently. we also walk you through some design conditions for calculating water flow on chillers.
Join us in this informative video as we uncover the secrets to diagnosing and troubleshooting low water flow issues on Trane centrifugal chillers effectively.
this video is for HVAC technicians mechanical engineers, refrigeration engineers, and chiller technicians looking to learn more about centrifugal chillers and what makes them fail.
For more helpful videos and expert guidance on chiller maintenance and troubleshooting, remember to like this video, subscribe to our channel, and hit the notification bell to stay updated with our latest content. We're here to help you guys every step of the way.
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Earn An Extra $20,000 As An HVAC Technician In 2024
Our Website: www.capitoldiagnostics.com
Diagnostic Sheets: https://www.capitoldiagnostics.com/products/diagnostic-log-sheets
Technician File Organizing System: https://www.capitoldiagnostics.com/products/hvac-r-technician-file-organizing-system
Ebook: https://www.capitoldiagnostics.com/products/5-subtle-mistakes-that-prevent-you-from-becoming-an-hvac-king-and-how-to-correct-them
In this video I’ll talk about the diagnostic process I use that earned me an extra $20,000 within the first year of using it. This process took me from struggling to diagnose a residential split system, to having customers fly me out in helicopters to diagnose chillers and refrigeration systems for them on oil rigs in the north sea. This is by far the most valuable diagnostic skill that I developed early in my career.
Factory technicians, global technicians, and the top 1% of technicians all over the world use this process to diagnose the most complex problems in our industry. I have been refining this process over the last decade, and it has enabled me to diagnose chillers, refrigeration systems, and everything in between in a fraction of the time it takes anyone else. So get some popcorn, if your chair doent have a seatbelt, then you better get one cause your gonna need it.
This one skill laid the foundation for the confidence I have. It also allowed me to come up with solutions to the most complex problems that other technicians have spent days on, and couldn’t figure out.
I’ll start off by telling you how horrible my first service call went then I will dive into practical steps so you can begin to develop this skillset for yourself.
My first service call was a horrible experience like most technicians were. I spent 2 days fixing a very simple problem that should have only taken me a few hours. I was super insecure at the time, and I was questioning weather or not this was something I actually wanted to do for the rest of my life.
At the time, It was the first heat spell of the year up in Minnesota. I got called out to a hotel where the split system for their hallways wasn’t keeping up. I was super green, and didn’t want to look like a dumbass, so I tried everything I could possibly think of to fix this damn thing and still ended up looking like a dumbass. The head pressure was low and it was freezing up all the way out to the condensing unit. I talked with 4 technicians and no one had any idea, because they all assumed I had checked the basics and I had not. I wasn’t able to get anyone to come out and look at it, because the shop said they were all too busy. At first I thought it was low on charge, so I added some gas, and that wasn’t it. Then I tried adding a fan cycling switch to bring the head pressure up, that wasn’t it either. After the 10th call to one of the senior guys, he said screw the shop, I’m comin out to take a look at it with you I think your missing something.
And of course he was right. He spent about 15 minutes looking at everything, wrote some things down on a piece of paper, and told me that the unit had to little airflow. He said you need to go cut a hole in the ductwork on the inlet of the evaporator, then give me a call. I got the hole cut in the ductwork, and what I found was at least 5 years of running without an air filter. It looked like someone lost at least ½ a dozen dead cats. The entire evaporator was matted up and covered in mold. It was at this moment that I knew that I had fucked up
So, with my tail tucked between my legs. I called the technician that was out there with me. He had a pretty good laugh, he thought it was very funny. Then he told me the only difference between you and me is the experience I have, and that I write everything down. He went on to share the process he uses for diagnosing problems, and he sent me the diagnostic sheet that he used. He said every time your on a maintenance, or service call, fill it out and give me a call and we can go through it together.
This one simple thing completely changed the whole trajectory of my career. It allowed me to quickly pass up everyone around me in pay and experience. After just a few months the shop was now sending me on more and more complex service calls, because I wasn’t getting any callbacks, and I was much faster than even some of the senior technicians. After 6 months I got a $3 dollar pay raise. After a year I got another $5 raise, and I began traveling the US working on industrial equipment. When I first started using the diagnostic sheets, it was super lame to be honest cause I just wasn’t used to writing anything down. How-ever after a few months I developed the ability to look at a system like it was made of glass, and see the entire system from a completely different perspective.
Use this video to its fullest extent, and you will earn more money, build your confidence, earn the respect of your peers, and become a much better refrigeration and hvac technician.
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Why Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technicians Get Depressed
I believe this video has the potential to help a lot of other refrigeration and air conditioning technicians that are struggling with depression understand why its happening. It took me many years of self diagnosis to determine why I was struggling with this. In this video I talk about the reasons why I became depressed as an HVAC technician, and the reasons I believe other HVAC technicians become depressed as well.
Hopefully this video will help you before you ruin relationships, or let yourself become morbidly obese and loose all of your self respect, and the respect of those around you.
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Troubleshoot A Water Cooled Refrigeration System Like a Global Technician
Refrigeration and air conditioning basics that no one seems to be talking about.
This video outlines one of the most important things you can do as a Refrigeration and air conditioning technician to ensure you are diagnosing problems correctly on refrigeration and air conditioning equipment every single time in an efficient manner.
This method is what makes or breaks the top performing refrigeration technicians.
The technicians that do this earn a higher salary and they are the ones that get sent to work on chillers and big boy refrigeration.
We run through how to diagnose a water cooled refrigeration system properly like a factory trained professional does. This is one of the most important things you can do to dramatically improve your troubleshooting success in the field, and if you master this, it will give you the ability to demand a higher salary than almost everyone in your area.
We run through the following:
- Understanding your application.
- Where you can find design information for refrigeration and HVAC Equipment
- What design information looks like.
- What a diagnostic log sheet looks like.
- How to interpret the diagnostic log sheet.
We are releasing our Ebook "HVAC: The 5 subtle mistakes That Prevent You From Becoming A King" in January. You can pick up a FREE copy of this as well as diagnostic log sheets and the diagnostic cheat sheet on our website www.capitoldiagnostics.com
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Bind Components Using Trane Techview Software In 7 Minutes!
This is a video on how to bind components on all Trane chillers that use a CH530 chiller controller using Techview Software.
You must use this procedure when changing any component on a Trane network, otherwise you will have communication issues, and the changed component wont work.
Some examples of the components you need this for on Trane chillers with the CH530 controller are:
- All Temperature sensors
- All Pressure Transducers
- Network controllers
- All Electronic expansion valves
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Download Trane Techview Software In Less Than 5 Minutes!
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For JAVA software:
Use the following link.
https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase-java-archive-javase6-downloads.html#jre-6u30-oth-JPR
For Trane Techview And Service Pack software:
Use the following link.
https://www.trane.com/commercial/north-america/us/en/products-systems/building-management---automation/trane-controls-software-downloads.html
This is a tutorial on how to download the Trane Techview software for servicing Trane Chillers with a CH530 controller on it. We didn't have this kind of information when we were coming up in the field, and it took many hours of reading through manuals, and making mistakes to find the correct way to do it.
This software is required when changing any networked component on a Trane machine, or downloading software on a brand new controller.
Some tasks that requires this software is:
1. Uploading new software onto an existing chiller controller.
2. Uploading software onto a brand new chiller controller.
3. Binding pressure transducers.
4. Binding temperature sensors.
5. Diagnosing a communication issue in the network.
6. Binding electronic expansions valves (EEV's).
7. Binding network controllers.
Some of the common models of chillers that require this software to service are:
Trane CVHE's
Trane CVHF's
Trane RTAA's
Trane RTAC's
Trane RTUD's
Trane RTWD's
Trane CGAM's
Trane CXAM's
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