okay everyone thank you for tuning into our youtube channel once again and
previously we had done a video on how to check your mini-split make sure that
your refrigerant is okay and as we showed you on that previous video the
PSI was around 50 or 60 and ideally you want it to be around 120 so this is your
setup so you can do it yourself and save yourself some money from having to hire
a an HVAC contractor get these gauges they're very inexpensive and and then
you connect your blue hose with an adapter that we also mentioned down at
the accessport do not connect to these these are just two you'll see there's
like we mentioned in the previous video this is just to release refrigerant into
the system or close it when you bring the refrigerant back into the system but
anyway you got your blue hose connected to that and then your yellow hose
connected to a tank of refrigerant now these can come in different colors but
what you want to make sure is that it reads for 10a and I think that's on here
right there you want to make sure you before you fill it in that you open your
first you want to connect your pipes of course your your hoses and you want to
make sure that they're tight we'll make sure that all your valves are closed
including the one down there and then what you're going to do is you're going
to open to release the refrigerant into the line but you want to make sure this
is closed right here so you're going to open that at the
bottom and what I'll do is I'll provide links where you can get it so you can
get it yourself I know local areas will not sell it to
you unless you're an HVAC contractor but I'll provide the links where you can get
it so you want to open that down there and then
slowly you're gonna open this here and you're gonna see the the needle spiked
up okay you see that and you're going to do that in slow increments until you get
this to about a hundred and twenty so we're gonna open it slowly and close it
again and as you can see the needle has risen from where it was before you're
gonna do it again close it
close it
you can open it again close it gonna kind of repeat the process little
by little you don't want to go over
so we pretty much got it right where we wanted it to be right around between 117
and 120 psi that is your sweet spot so if you look down here at your psi being
the red that's where we want it to be between 117 120 so another way we'll
show you how to test and make sure that you got it right is of course on the
inside because the proof is in the pudding so we'll go ahead and do that
now so one thing you want to do is you want to get a laser thermometer and put
it across the vent and anywhere in the low 20s I mean high 20s low 30s is your
sweet spot that means you're you're getting good readings as far as your
cooling so between the high 20s we're getting even low twenties here so this
thing is cooling really well but that's one sure way to tell that your system is
cooling very well after you've added the refrigerant and right now we got it at
73 degrees the outside temperature today hot summer day in August is 101 so again
if you need to get any one of these things that we showed on the video we
will post a link below the in the description so you know where to get the
refrigerant and the gauges including the adapter that we used thank you for
watching have a great day