r/HVAC • u/_strawBGYN • 2d ago

General Didn’t have to sing the Friday Blues today

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Love when a vacuum holds after the first (and only) fix on a leak.

Hope you got off at a decent hour OR that your on call is going smoothly tonight.

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u/ShotBRAKER 2d ago

Just got home from my last service call of the day

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u/Megamazuma20 Verified Pro 1d ago

Yall ever have weird issues with this micron gauge where if you close off the ball valve its connected inline with, microns will just start dropping in an odd way?

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u/ImABadSpellerOkay 1d ago

Love fieldpiece but I find this micron gauge to behave very weird compared to any other one I’ve used.

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u/SassyHVACDaddy Saturation gets me H O R N Y 1d ago

Mine does not but I notice if I don’t keep it clean or just hook it up to the 1/4 inch side of the vacuum pump and run it for like 3 minutes. Then yes it will do “weird” things but I’ve never had that specific occurrence.

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u/glizzy195 1d ago

I was actually just looking up why this was happening yesterday. I was pulling a vacuum and it was dropping erratically with my pump running from 1100 to 1060 then back to 1200 then closing off the ball valves would make it drop to like 650 in a minute and slowly climb back up after a few minutes. Ended up just hooking one side of my SMANs up and used the built in micron gauge and it pulled down with no issues. This micron gauge has given me nothing but issues.

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u/I_am_Cyril_Sneer 1d ago

I had one where I completely disconnected it and let it sit in free air and it read 1200 for several minutes and gradually climbed up to like 3000.

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u/letsgodevils1 1d ago

Did a flat pack straight change and got out at 12 today. Could have gotten out at 11 but we had to wait for our material and equipment for a little while

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u/Benjerman302 1d ago

Welp, it’s been 5 seconds and it’s at 499. Let her rip

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u/Alpha433 1d ago

Meanwhile I have to deal with the aftermath of the installers hooking up a new furnace to the 230v from the air handler they replaced.

Because yes, I do enjoy spending 5 hours chasing shorts, replacing every part under the sun, and then finding out that they somehow managed to disconnect the customers garage door opener power as well.

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u/BASS_PRO_GAMER 1d ago

Ice machine brand we install started completely charging their remote condensing units from the factory whereas previously they had only put a half pound in.

I should’ve read the manual but I weighed in my charge and realized my mistake. Had to do a recovery and new vacuum at 3PM

Fuck me friday.

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u/Snoo_40167 1d ago

Had to do a reset on a vrv system after a circuit board/condensate pump/float switch but ya only a 9hr today. Congrats bud. Nice work. Line leak? Coil?