High Pressure Switches

[jpsmith1cm]

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.

[K_Neil]

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

[timebuilder]

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!!!!!!!

[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

[2sac]

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

[jpsmith1cm]

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"

[VTP99]

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 ?

[smjrusche]

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.

[basprofessional]

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.

[pvc1984]

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.

[ERAC]

I am old school i use manual reset,

[carmon]

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.....