#1 Reason Why DUCTLESS Units Fail | How I Fix It...

Love how organized you are and put everything away immediately after using. Saves a LOT of time trying to find "misplaced" equipment and tools.

Mini-splits with their flares were designed to sell refrigerant, I feel. I had a fitting that leaked for years, despite re-flaring twice and torqueing perfectly to spec. Out of desperation, I finally just hoses it down with bubble fluid, backed the nut off and then re-cranked, going way past the specified torque and watching the bubbles. After a pretty good amount of torque, the bubbles tapered off and stopped and it hasn't leaked since (at least 4 years now).

I am enjoying watching you "living" the truck life for service. I started that way and as much as I loved it when I got in a service van I just couldn't justify anything less than a service body. Now after years retired and helping my son get his start with NO new vehicles available in Ca. I find myself back in the truck life looking for that storage unit/garage to call the shop. I will be interested in seeing how you build out that truck, I am a big fan of the deck drawer and matching top system myself if it's just a single trade. If you do go to any of the deck systems buy a rebuild kit for the pullout rollers/latches/locks etc, 2-3 years down the road you will thank yourself when you don't have a 500# plus drawer slamming around until you get replacement parts.

Loved your video, I always like to watch detailed oriented guys. I work automotive A/C systems since I was in my twenties and being organized and detailed oriented helps you to get it well done the first time.

Dude! You're a PRO. I owned a residential swimming pool business and this is the caliber of organization and step by step troubleshooting and repair that I always aimed for.

Every leak I have seen on one of these systems has been at the flare, either inside or outside. On one job, I followed a well known local contractor who used "Leak Lok" on the flares. Good flares, and oil only, for me.

Man….you made it clear and concise. Real easy to follow. I don’t know if I can afford your tool setup but definitely can follow your directions. Definitely got a sub from me

Great video. I'm retired now 5 years after 40 years. Fieldpiece has come along way. I still have one of their VOMs.

Usually, once a guy has made a poor quality flare on the outside, you need to make new flares and on the indoor unit as well. Take this advice from colleague from Bulgaria with 24yrs. experience with this type of AC units.

Im not an HVAC person at all but I love learning how to diagnose and fix things (or at least know what to tell a specialist.) I appreciate you taking the mystery out of it and your editing is really on point

Well done, wish all service people were this thorough and professional.

I have the same evac pump and hose. Love it! It sure does make it faster. Also, I’m glad you explained how you set up to the the port on the mini-split. I’ve noticed the same thing. There’s not much you can do, unless the port is designed better.

Nice vid bro as always. One suggestion on my Sman Guages it tells you to put the temp clamp on the suction line in order to self adjust the pressure drop based off of line temp. Not sure if yours has this feature but makes me more confident in my flares! And keeps me from guessing if the small pressure drops were from my hoses leaking or line temp changing.

Finally got it up and running. The only delays we had was because we realized we needed some extra parts (I’ll list that below) youtube.com/post/UgkxihMYiJNXcHdbH-7ihymsLz61l7jVy… . So we have a loft where our current hvac just couldn’t seem to keep cool during the summer. We have been using a window unit since we bought this house over 6 years ago (all the houses in this neighborhood were built in the 80’s and majority of the houses built like ours use a window unit). I hate window units because they are just so noisy and the one we had really only cools one side of the loft. I had contemplated upgrading our current HVAC, but with all the rising prices these days, it would take years before saving up enough to do that. With the advice of my father-in-law (used to run an HVAC business), he recommended we get an inverter instead. We thought we bought everything we needed, but there were just a few other parts we didn’t anticipate needing (which is what caused most of our delay). My friend and father-in-law did all the work to get it installed and running and now we have nice cool air circulating nicely throughout the entire loft. It is very quiet and even the outside unit is much quieter than our main HVAC unit. Saved ourselves thousands getting this.

Excellent YouTuber. I like the way you fast forward, elapse time, save the fewer''s time, but you get the main issues across. Good fortune!

This guy has to be the most organized tech I’ve seen,he’s got every nice tool also!😂

Nice video, from an old refrigeration mechanic. One thing: I didn't see you recover the partial refrigerant charge that was in the system when you arrived; it seems that you blew it off with the nitrogen. In most jurisdictions it's illegal to vent refrigerant to the atmosphere.

Experience is invaluable when doing flares. I used to use a drop of oil on the flaring cone. For 410 a drop of nylog. Experience might let you not use a torque wrench to tighten. For most use the torque wrench to tighten to specs. Also i coat both sides of the flare with nylog. The only leak i ever had was a siding contractor hit the condensor unit outside after a unit was a couple years old and it leaked. Great advice in this video

And the man wiped everything down after!!!!! Thank you. As a service tech I’ve seen a lot of funny things. When you are done with new install or repair clean it. This is when the “other guy” comes out for a leak or do a check up a lot of haste has been saved. Great video!!

The man is clean, looks and sounds really confident. Tools are clean and of good quality and the man knows his tools. Everything screams pro. Nice vid bro. Big up!!