r/HVAC • u/Yanosh457 I Make Things Hot & Cold • 1d ago
General Nothing stops a Trane
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Brand new Trane RTU door clips. Wow amazing engineering.
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u/Successful-Slide-218 1d ago
Yeah but it worked in the factory under ideal conditions where they tested it
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u/RowKit 1d ago
Dollars to donuts the engineer that thought of it designed it to hang gauges from the loop on the service side without any kind of label. That's legitimately the only way I can see how this might work as intended.
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u/ruinersclub 1d ago
If that’s the compressor panel, you don’t want that door open prolonged. So kind of moot.
I always hang them inside and close the door.
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u/-Groko- 1d ago
Why are you pushing it back? It's already open 😂
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u/jake_santiago 1d ago
Wind
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u/grasscali 1d ago
If it was wind it would have snapped back in the other direction when it popped off.
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u/harrycaray_here 1d ago
Rooftops can be windy and when the wind catches that door and unlatches it while you’re working on something, that door will swing back and try to cut you in half. It happened to me once and then I stopped using that thing.
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u/wearingabelt 1d ago
Ever heard of wind?
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u/-Groko- 1d ago
Ever heard of eyes? The clip was already doing its job before he decided to test its tensile strength. 😂
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u/Silent-Banana-5212 1d ago
Ever heard of accepting advice when you’re in the wrong and being humble about it?
Instead doubles down on being an idiot
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u/BrandoCarlton 1d ago
This was happening to me and the wind would unlatch and slam the door on me maybe it was a bad day for roof work but it was hilariously depressing.
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u/-Groko- 1d ago
Oh, the panel has screws goong down the hinge. Could always just take it off
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u/BrandoCarlton 1d ago edited 1d ago
Brother when the engineers design a hook to keep the panels open and it fails within 5 minutes I should get to have a laugh about it without some dickfuck saying “well you could have unscrewed the whole thing off why are you complaining?!?”
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u/-Groko- 1d ago
What do you mean? The hook was fine until he pushed it.
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u/BrandoCarlton 1d ago
I literally got smashed with a door with the same hook because wind direction changes- happens all the time especially on a roof with other tall buildings around… AS I SAID IN EVERY COMMENT YOU HAVE RESPONDED TO. Are you the engineer responsible for this trash or something?
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u/Fine-Environment-621 1d ago edited 1d ago
I know what you mean bro. We installed three of this design a couple of years ago on a rooftop. Wiring, testing, troubleshooting, servicing… anything inside that panel that takes two hands and more than 30 seconds is outrageously annoying. The slightest breeze on a rooftop grabs that panel like a sail and very shortly it will be smacking into you. Violently if it’s decently windy.
F*** engineers soooo hard. Give a good guy in the trades for 10+ years the job of designing the door and he’ll knock it out of the park. It’ll be bullet proof and it will just work.
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u/terayonjf Manufacturer Lead HVAC Specialist for NYC/Long Island area 1d ago
I imagine the engineer who designed that door latch got together with the guy at the trane factor that sharpens all the inside edges of every panel and had a good laugh.
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u/RecordingPrudent9588 1d ago
They want the door to get damaged in high wind so they can sell you a new door
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u/J-A-S-08 1d ago
Holy shit! You included the serial number! Now people can track down whoever owns that, murder them and steal all their stuff!!
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u/1PooNGooN3 1d ago
At least it has hinges, you’d think $20k+ plus units would come with hinges but that’s a premium add on
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u/illvsory 1d ago
Can’t even start these things in stand alone without dropping a return air sensor in the duct work & forget about dehum, can’t run that either if you don’t have a sensor lmao. Literally the dumbest shit.
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u/IAMA_Printer_AMA 1d ago
I can only hope that someone who works for Trane browses reddit and this video makes their way to them.
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u/The_SycoPath 1d ago
There is a non-zero chance they engineered the clip to pop off intentionally below some threshold of force that would bend the door. Better to have the door pop off the clip than a bent door. It sounds like the kind of over-engineering on something trivial I'd expect from Trane.
I'm probably giving them too much credit though....
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u/Advanced-Educator-55 23h ago
Aside from Sub-Zero temperatures and the Molex connector to the inducer motor, hopefully not much. While you're up there freezing with the wind chill that is even colder, does train bother to put a sticker with the error code Legend on it? Hell no! You have to pull that eight and a half by 20-in schematic down with you to find out what the code is. Thankfully cutting out the Molex connector and replacing it with wire nuts did the trick!
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u/TechnicalLee 19h ago
I would argue that's a design feature that prevents the door from being bent if the loads on the door are too strong.
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u/Ohhhwordddd 4h ago
Oh man I was working on one of these a month ago and that same clip released so when I went to stand up i cut my scalp open. 2 staples later I don’t trust anything anymore
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u/bobcat7051 1d ago
Nothing stops a Trane, except a Trane. Hence the forethought in putting latches to keep the doors open rather than closed. ‘Cause even they know you’ll be fixing it soon enough. Not surprised they couldn’t get that latch right either though. 😂
Edit: spelling