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Posted by prock403 on October 18, 2006, 7:55 pm
An HVAC contactor (who was a friend of a friend) installed my
Mitsubishi minisplit Heat pump for a very reasonable price, but told me
that he did not have his equipment to do "purge and leak test". He is
not from the area so I can't get him back over anytime soon....so he
advised me to call a local HVAC person to come out and do the "purge
and leak test".
I admit that I wanted to see if the thing worked, so I installed the 15
amp breaker in the Circuit Breaker board and turned in on. I got the
standard blinky error light that indicated the outside and indoor units
were not communicating. I know for a fact the wiring is correct. I
even have stranded wire for the communication wire...anyway....
I will be calling a certified HVAC contractor in to do this purge and
leak test next week, but now I'm wondering if the guy even hooked the
thing up right.
I guess my question is, is the Purge process with a vaccuum pump
necessary for the thing to work to begin with and could that be
responsible for communication error light? I only turned it on because
I thought the purge process was only to make sure there were no
impurities, etc. in the pipe.
thanks for any insight.
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Posted by gofish on October 18, 2006, 8:12 pm
prock403@comcast.net wrote:
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>An HVAC contactor (who was a friend of a friend) installed my
>Mitsubishi minisplit Heat pump for a very reasonable price, but told me
>that he did not have his equipment to do "purge and leak test". He is
>not from the area so I can't get him back over anytime soon....so he
>advised me to call a local HVAC person to come out and do the "purge
>and leak test".
>I admit that I wanted to see if the thing worked, so I installed the 15
>amp breaker in the Circuit Breaker board and turned in on. I got the
>standard blinky error light that indicated the outside and indoor units
>were not communicating. I know for a fact the wiring is correct. I
>even have stranded wire for the communication wire...anyway....
>I will be calling a certified HVAC contractor in to do this purge and
>leak test next week, but now I'm wondering if the guy even hooked the
>thing up right.
>I guess my question is, is the Purge process with a vaccuum pump
>necessary for the thing to work to begin with and could that be
>responsible for communication error light? I only turned it on because
>I thought the purge process was only to make sure there were no
>impurities, etc. in the pipe.
>thanks for any insight.
sir you are living proof a facking moron is born every minute
yeppers, even tho the moron installing it wasnt finished,
I plugger 'er in, the idiot lights winked at me in recognition,
& thats about it.....
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Posted by Stormin Mormon on October 18, 2006, 8:18 pm
I wasn't going to be quite as harsh. But the general sentiment is the
same.
"it wasn't installed completely, but I powered it up and wonder why it
doesn't work".
--
Christopher A. Young
You can't shout down a troll.
You have to starve them.
sir you are living proof a facking moron is born every minute
yeppers, even tho the moron installing it wasnt finished,
I plugger 'er in, the idiot lights winked at me in recognition,
& thats about it.....
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Posted by prock403 on October 18, 2006, 8:25 pm
gofish@gonefishin.net wrote:
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> prock403@comcast.net wrote:
> >An HVAC contactor (who was a friend of a friend) installed my
> >Mitsubishi minisplit Heat pump for a very reasonable price, but told me
> >that he did not have his equipment to do "purge and leak test". He is
> >not from the area so I can't get him back over anytime soon....so he
> >advised me to call a local HVAC person to come out and do the "purge
> >and leak test".
> >I admit that I wanted to see if the thing worked, so I installed the 15
> >amp breaker in the Circuit Breaker board and turned in on. I got the
> >standard blinky error light that indicated the outside and indoor units
> >were not communicating. I know for a fact the wiring is correct. I
> >even have stranded wire for the communication wire...anyway....
> >I will be calling a certified HVAC contractor in to do this purge and
> >leak test next week, but now I'm wondering if the guy even hooked the
> >thing up right.
> >I guess my question is, is the Purge process with a vaccuum pump
> >necessary for the thing to work to begin with and could that be
> >responsible for communication error light? I only turned it on because
> >I thought the purge process was only to make sure there were no
> >impurities, etc. in the pipe.
> >thanks for any insight.
> sir you are living proof a facking moron is born every minute
> yeppers, even tho the moron installing it wasnt finished,
> I plugger 'er in, the idiot lights winked at me in recognition,
> & thats about it.....
Gofish,
Sir you give HVAC people a bad name. I hope there are more mature and
reputable HVAC professionals on the board that will answer the question
in an appropriate way. Otherwise, you are doing your profession a
disservice with your idiot response.
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Posted by =?iso-8859-15?Q?Tekkie=AE?= on October 18, 2006, 8:49 pm
posted for all of us...
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> Sir you give HVAC people a bad name. I hope there are more mature and
> reputable HVAC professionals on the board that will answer the question
> in an appropriate way. Otherwise, you are doing your profession a
> disservice with your idiot response.
>
BWWWWAAAAAAA Fish's stuff works yours doesn't - who's the idiot?
Now you are going to pay twice for something that has no warranty - who's the
idiot?
--
Tekkie "There's no such thing as a tool I don't need."
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>Mitsubishi minisplit Heat pump for a very reasonable price, but told me
>that he did not have his equipment to do "purge and leak test". He is
>not from the area so I can't get him back over anytime soon....so he
>advised me to call a local HVAC person to come out and do the "purge
>and leak test".
>I admit that I wanted to see if the thing worked, so I installed the 15
>amp breaker in the Circuit Breaker board and turned in on. I got the
>standard blinky error light that indicated the outside and indoor units
>were not communicating. I know for a fact the wiring is correct. I
>even have stranded wire for the communication wire...anyway....
>I will be calling a certified HVAC contractor in to do this purge and
>leak test next week, but now I'm wondering if the guy even hooked the
>thing up right.
>I guess my question is, is the Purge process with a vaccuum pump
>necessary for the thing to work to begin with and could that be
>responsible for communication error light? I only turned it on because
>I thought the purge process was only to make sure there were no
>impurities, etc. in the pipe.
>thanks for any insight.