ReplyWow didn't expect that out of a student, must have a good hvac program. Is this by yourself or with more experienced help?
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I am a 22 year old 4th year student at Ferris State University in the HVACR program and this is one of the jobs i did over Christmas break before heading back to school. I took out two old 20+ year old Trane furnaces and condensing units that were were barely working.
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Wow didn't expect that out of a student, must have a good hvac program. Is this by yourself or with more experienced help?
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A bachelors in HVAC -wow. Impressive work.
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Yea the first two years of the program are service work then the last two years are the engineering side, pipe/duct work sizing, controls, equipment selection. I had more experienced help there one day to help me pull wire because the old condensing units were 3 phase with 12g wire and the customer wanted 1 phase condensing units so we has to pull new 10g wire.
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just to be an " A-hole" the traps are too shallow... j/k top notch work man.
read,learn,grow.....repeat.
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At least there not vertical like some of the others we have seen ha haOriginally Posted by samejj
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go for 2" deep... had 3 poor trap calls this week and its only tuesday
read,learn,grow.....repeat.
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Looks great! Is that galvanized pipe for gas?
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Spend the extra and use a new pad.
Are those elbows or did you use a bender.
I use a bender, love it. Less brazing joints
Stud
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You have state license already?
Do those units have factory LL driers?
Stud
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it is black iron. the existing gas piping is painted grey
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why would i get a new pad when there was cement already there that i wasnt going to take out. i used benders and soft copper on the inside for the liquid line just to get me outside where i could run hard copper. the suction line is all hard copper.
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the units have factory LL dries. and the other cool thing the furnaces were internally trapped so i didnt have to worry about one outside the unit. No state license yet, i am taking the test in march. I dont really need one because i can work under the company's mech license.
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Why hard pipe on the suction ?
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Sounds good to me,good luck.
Stud
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Looks nice
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If you can not do it right, Why even do it at all?
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Very nice. May regret not running the lineset along the wall and 90 straight out to unit.
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Why is the overflow on the evapoartor coil not piped in?
What happens to the water when the primary drain plugs up?
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Nobody pipes them in around here either. I have seen a few that were piped into the primary which makes no since at all.
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On up-flow units we install a safety switch. It's code.
I don't want to hear you complaining!
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