hey guys I'm up here at a air handler today and I'm going to show you what happens if drain line
don't get cleaned out on a routine service and what can cause your air condition to go out in
the middle of the summer and if it's upstairs an attic it can go out if it's up under the house
more likely don't have a safety and the steadily drip so these are things regardless whether it
goes out or not things to check before hand goes the last thing you won't say your commission going
out for something that could easily be taken care of so I'm going to show you on this one
it hasn't overflowed yet but it's about to so call it just in time on this repair anyway then
we turn around and show you what we got what we got is we got a standard air handler this is a
Heil air handler same cabinet as a carrier so or tempstar comfortmaker whichever one and you can
see on this one we've got an easy trap on it and on the easy trap you can see how dirty it is this
is supposed to be clear so it's about to stop up and on the top of the trap is a safety float right
here and if that water get you in here so you can see it if that water you can see how nice it is in
there what's the overflow then what's gonna happen is that right here it's gonna come pick it up and
cut your system off and we've had you know always look at the pan you'll see Mother video it shows
always look at the pan and what happens in the pan if water was ever in there it has that white
residue if water is a bad problem it's gonna be a lot of white residue and if this is a metal pan
you'd have rust so obviously this has overflowed once or had a little drip or something so not too
big of a deal alright so what we do to clean this thing out typically you would have dust work back
on the back this ones are open plenum system so it makes it easy and it makes a really good one
to do a video on so I can show you exactly what you got in here this is your drain pan and you
can see your calls here it drips water down in the primary pan and then it flows at the bottom along
there and then out and you can see the buildup and stuff in there you can actually see the water line
where it sits inside the pan so what I'm gonna do regular household stuff I'm not doing anything
crazy with this one that way you can just do it yourself with normal stuff you got I just put a
little bit of Clorox this is a look tub I just put a Clorox about this high in there and all
I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put it my primary pan and you can actually see how this water works
and how the condensate works on this machine so right now it's down in the bottom two primary pan
and it is flowing out right here I'll show you alright you can see it flowing out through our
trap so what I'm gonna do here on the trap is I'm gonna pull my brush off then it comes with
and I'm not selling these traps but they are nice I should be something so anyway I'm gonna brush
this thing out she is being a while since this thing has been serviced it's supposed to be clear
she's getting clean now okay now I'm open the front up and the front goes into my primary pan
so if there's a clog this way it cleans it out every which direction now I know what you're
saying oh I don't have one of them traps well it's a good idea to get one but if you don't have one
you're got a couple choices you can go to the hardware store and you can cut this off here get
you a new trap and just replace the trap or you can cut it off right here or there XD this one's
probably tied into a vent I'm guessing back yeah it's tied in back here oh you can cut it right
here and blow back through it blow back through this way get your clog out then flush your drain
out you could pull if you had a plenum system pull this door off here run your solution in from this
side and then flush it back out make sure it's good and clear and you should have a pin on it
whether you have this or not there should be a vent on this side of it not this side this is a
pool through a coal that means it's pulling air across this way so that means the coil is before
the blower so the blower is pulling air this way that means that air is going to be trying to suck
back your drain line so you can't have a T on this side of it what's going to happen is this
gonna suck air down through it and be pulled up and keep your drain from going out so this
side has to be closed the water stops there that's what the trap is for it stops the air
from being pulled back and allows the drain to go and no no that's clean I'll put my cap back on to
make sure if you do this this is a microswitch you can see it going up and down and clicking
make sure it's all the way down and it didn't get hung up when you put back through there so
that's done now more finished pushing this thing out and I see a little bit of an issue with this
thing that I'm off fix oh right now in a minute but you know just seeing it the water line is
on this side I'm gonna tilt this machine just a hair bit more to the right-hand side to keep
that water from sitting it shouldn't actually sit in there it just holds more moisture than
what we need so I'm going to tilt it probably an eighth of an inch with with substance and get it
draining a little bit better than that and while we're here always keep algae tabs on my truck I'm
gonna break one in half and I'll throw algae tabs in there and that will help keep it clean
all summer long of course I'm gonna get some fresh water now and finish draining this thing
out so anyway that's all it is to uh flushing out your drain just make sure you check it and if you
wait too long it's gonna it's gonna get clogged up and it's got an easy trap easy trap if you don't
have one I'd recommend you getting one and this is supposed to be clear you can see at the bottom
where it's clear obviously had been cleaned in a long time as thing got stained if you look real
close you can actually see the water in there bouncing and that's the drain the water I just
pour it in there and it's just gonna keep flowing out and that clog should eventually clean that
thing on up all right so I hope this guy helps you guys and if if you like my videos I try to
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