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yep me to..... if you won't pay to clean condensers your gonna pay for the emergency call........ let me do maintenance i will install auto re sets.....

I am old school i use manual reset,

I prefer manual reset myself. If it trips...that means it tripped for a reason and the problem needs to be addressed to prevent anymore potential damage to the system.

It helps us techs cover our a**. There has been many times in my experience where the client is aware the system isn't working properly, but still working intermittently and short cycling, and they'll wait a week to call in for service because they think it will magically fix itself. I've seen it too many times. And it's usually at 3 o'clock on a Friday when they call in and they need it fixed now!!!

Auto reset is okay for trouble shooting or used temporarily while the real issue is addressed. But when the job is done and I walk away, I make sure it's set for manual.

High head pressure

It seems in my case the previous techs and owner just ignored the problem becasue of the automatic switch. I even had the relief valve blow because one of the switches failed from too much cycling. After installing a manual switch it put the owners feet to the fire. It looks like their gonna fit in a new condenser in the next budget.

I've always been in favor of protecting the system. With manual resets it may cause emergency calls but it eliminates most of the ( well its been acting up for 2 weeks ) calls that auto resets gives you and I don't mind the ot.

Originally Posted by jpsmith1cm

I flipped on a guy once for telling me "It was tripping on high pressure, so I just adjusted the switch a little to stop it"

Did you adjust it to 500 ?

Originally Posted by hvac wiz 79

Could be worse .. there's guys out there that find open pressure switches & say the switch is bad not even knowing what the pressure is

I flipped on a guy once for telling me "It was tripping on high pressure, so I just adjusted the switch a little to stop it"

Originally Posted by hvac wiz 79

Could be worse .. there's guys out there that find open pressure switches & say the switch is bad not even knowing what the pressure is

When in doubt, jump it out

Could be worse .. there's guys out there that find open pressure switches & say the switch is bad not even knowing what the pressure is

Originally Posted by jpsmith1cm

I use nothing but manual reset controls.

Yes, they create a lockout condition but, without that, sometimes, you'd never know that there was a problem.

I LOVE that red button!!!!!!!

Sounds like a " A/C is too cold fire up the furnace crew" working. They are good for business.

Originally Posted by commtech77

Timers were checked during PMs.

You can imagine we thought of telling the gas station attendents to wait. You might as well try and have a conversation with the Slurpee machine.

Sorry, but I'm not responsible for their stupidity, and I charge extra to fix it.

Originally Posted by basprofessional

When the automatic switches were in place the customer would ignore the fluctuating temperatures. However, after installing the manual switches the customer wanted to address the high pressure problem.

BINGO!

Make 'em call you out.

Only way to get it done sometimes.

High pressure switch

When the automatic switches were in place the customer would ignore the fluctuating temperatures. However, after installing the manual switches the customer wanted to address the high pressure problem.

Originally Posted by jpsmith1cm

With most common timers, that's kind of silly.

Power goes out for an hour and, unless you went and reset all of the timers to correct time of day, your notebook is useless.

What we do is instruct all customers to wait a half-hour to 45 minutes after finding a unit warm before calling.

Timers were checked during PMs.

You can imagine we thought of telling the gas station attendents to wait. You might as well try and have a conversation with the Slurpee machine.

Originally Posted by commtech77

Any refrigeration tech here keep a list of defrost times for each customer? Place I used to work had the Exxon tiger mart gas stations as a customer.

The attendents would see a rise in cooler temp and call the answering service in the middle of the night usually aand we had to respond. Most of the time it was the reach in going into defrost. I made a journal that referenced defrost timer settings with store numbers.

Saved a few headaches.

With most common timers, that's kind of silly.

Power goes out for an hour and, unless you went and reset all of the timers to correct time of day, your notebook is useless.

What we do is instruct all customers to wait a half-hour to 45 minutes after finding a unit warm before calling.

Oh and remove head pressure switch and replace with igniter control circuit to launch multiple salvos of roman candles.

Any refrigeration tech here keep a list of defrost times for each customer? Place I used to work had the Exxon tiger mart gas stations as a customer.

The attendents would see a rise in cooler temp and call the answering service in the middle of the night usually aand we had to respond. Most of the time it was the reach in going into defrost. I made a journal that referenced defrost timer settings with store numbers.

Saved a few headaches.

Manual reset for job security

Originally Posted by 2sac

Manual resets

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