Yesterday was "take down Air conditioners and figure out why one is dropping water and one isn't pumping condensate out"
While I know they are more work to maintain, I do really love the room by room control of the mini-splits.
Once apart, we cleaned up the drain pans, cleaned out the pumps, blew air through the check valves to clean them up, leveled the unit and re-assembled.
I was going to test-run the pumps outside of the unit, everything I could find said the pumps ran on 12v DC but once I got them out
Not going to set up a test bench for that, the way the pump is built they are nearly industructible with no actual seal between the impeller and the output, so it I'm sure pumps very slowly (but it can).
re-assembled and 2 of the 3 we worked on are running smooth and cold.
Unfortunately the 3rd is in my sons room which we just re-did and we figured out too late that the pump/tank wasn't overflowing or not running or having problems, the insulation around the unit in the attic just got shifted and lost when they fixed the ceiling. I'll run and get some more insulation and wrap it up nice and tight but now we have aw ater spot ont he brand new ceiling and that annoys the every loving #@*#* out of me.
In more fun news, Will is on Race 4 of his first ARCA series- turns out he prefers the stock cars over the formula cars so far. (we're two races in on his first Vee Series).
He's really doing great learning how to navigate traffic, he said practice time is important (something I never thought he'd say) since he needs to learn his brake and turn spots, and he's settling in to a decent rythum. He scored a 5th place at Talledaga with the AI set what I think is decently far above his current skill level, so he's making progress. He pegged last in the first two races, despite having moments of brilliance (Daytona and Phoenix) at both tracks. He's learning the consistency game and the super speedways are fun as hes picking up a lot of aero lessons "Why does it pull me so hard when I put fender out of line" etc.
Excuse the messy sim area, I need to clean something fierce.
