Electrification in 2023 Oil Hydronic Heating to Electric Ultra Efficient Heat Pump HVAC System
it's me Mikey pipes February 1st 2023 and wow the New York metropolitan area really dodged the bullet we're gonna have a blizzard but we got a H about almost an inch of snow but today we're taking out this Comfort maker three-ton central air conditioning system and giving him a Ultra efficient heat pump you want to guess by who it's not Bosh stick around make sure you smash that thumbs up button and consider subscribing let's get going [Music] all right foreign basement we're gonna bring a couple Ducks down to the basement next week all right there's our air handling unit there's our return filter grille we got a piece of flex there to that we're keeping the duct work replacing this line set all right I got my tools up here I got one glove missing one it is what it is people be here soon I'm sure he's got some gloves in his pocket let me uh slide up here okay we're working with as you can see OSHA approved floorboards all right all right nice oh I love it I love the OSHA approved the floorboards yeah solid and I got my Brunt work shoes on all right all right turn the headlamp on let's get to work 8 19 in the morning Wednesday February 1st let's get going all right I removed the Illy well the Illy I removed the uh very Fugazi return Flex with their um homemade uh plenum box and uh for the first time I get to experience some hackery at this new customer's location here is my 240 volt going to the switch right here and then it gets jammed in there just like that pretty epic there's the system rating plate the goal here is to I'm going to spin this thing around so it's facing that away I think that's best that we have to crawl all the way around the unit we are pretty good since it's a 410A system but um what we're doing here today is helping the customer achieve a goal and that is to be kind of like a net zero with electrification so what we're doing today is Phase One of a multi-step process the first step today is removing this three ton r410a 13 Seer central air conditioning system equipment the air handler what excuse me the line set the outdoor condenser and if you're a long time viewer of this channel you know that typically tip typically my go-to or pipe doctor Home Services go to a heat pump and central air conditioning brand is Bosch um but I'm an equal opportunity installer I am you see this I'm the master plumber I'm the owner present pipe doctor there that is I'm an equal opportunity installer and I'm going to say it bluntly like this if money is no object dude you're getting the carrier that's right baby dude you're getting a carrier and not just any carrier a Carrier Infinity 24 seer heat pump system it's going to be epic stick around the ultimate in communicating systems being installed next on this show Mikey pipes let's go all right so um we're just uh disconnecting everything you can see this is where my raw electric was going through I have the circuit breaker panel off I use my non-contact electrical tester by fluke there that is and we have no power there right because it's off at the breaker we're gonna put this off to the side right now and I did put some jagos on there the way go to conductor um the 221 model let's put that off to the side there out of the way right and I'm going to start disconnecting with the thermostat condenser wire which is going to get replaced anyway and uh oh we're all pretty clean in here you know pretty clean so let's start get rock and rolling here all right so you may be asking if money's no object and you're gonna install a Carrier Infinity communicating system then uh why keeping the duct work well well great question all right great question uh once we the ductwork looks pretty good yes the return plenum is non-existent uh the Box you just put a piece of sheet metal there which is not cool um but once we install the system and we're gonna do a static pressure test if it tests out good I'm not touching the ductwork if it is if it doesn't prove to be good then we're going to change it the communicating system I want to make sure we have proper airflow I don't want to have any issues I don't want to marry the system I want to see it once a year to do prevent the maintenance you got me smash that Thumbs Up Button all right my unit is disassembled Let's uh let's get this thing out of here it's a reference it's a little after 8 40 in the morning no one else is here just me so I'm gonna take apart sorry I took apart the entire unit I'm gonna bring it over there I'm gonna bring it outside and then show the boys they beat me to it so that's basically about everything I disconnected that one uh plenum that Flex from here that went across the top of the unit all the way over there I just kind of that just for ease but uh that's it a little bit more debris here along with some other crap that we collected along the way not too shabby let's start cutting out the line set the air handler on top of the new pan and call it a day that is after we run a new line set install the condenser run some stat wire program everything commission static test get it done what time you think we'll be done today closest without going over I am going to give away a hundred dollars to work pack yep hundred dollars Mikey pipe swag pack it's gonna be awesome post don't cheat right now in the comments section down below what time you think will be done today with this 23 Seer Carrier Infinity heat pump system communicating system all right do it now [ __ ] big boy oh yeah oh yeah you know you know who wants these you know who we gotta give some of these to Sam you know the guy with the castle on the hill right Hi Sam he's a watcher he's done yeah if not if you're not calling pipe doctor you're getting screwed he needs one of these and also cue remember kill he's got he had the McLaren yeah he won a Navy in but we gave um it gave him a locking bar instead he got that was a nice machine locking more I missed putting those in one of the claims is so much easier we had a bad three-way valve part number he's like oh well I don't know it could be I think I have it out see that's what separates and not to Pat them on the back or give them an atta boy that's what makes Navy and so special that tech support department you know what second to none and the overnight Parts the next day but but keeping it real the only reason well in my belief one of the only reasons why they're so exceptional tech support is because their phone is ringing off the hook 24 7 right with thousands of calls coming in every single hour so they have to be good at their own product yeah yeah right right if you hear the same thing over and over and over again okay you need a three-way unit circle you need to main PCB you need an exhaust as well as bench collar that's what it is yeah Bosch tech support sucks facts so the one disadvantage this thing is a f and Beast stand up next to it look at that if that was a Bosch it'd be up to you a nut sack right huge and it weighs ton and it always a ton and it comes to our Factory charged at 14.1 pounds of 410A yeah yeah uh we have about 10 inches away from the side wall of the house I think it's faff and Beast I tell you it's an effing Beast and uh wow it's heavy wow all right the air handler has been reassembled we have to balance it a little bit it's a little off level uh cut the line set out but while I was all the way in the corner over here let me bring you over here guys walking across my OSHA approved attic plywood okay take a look at this see all that white stuff everywhere look at that I don't know about you and it sure does look like mold to me see all that she looks like white Peter every single nail oh it's leaking wow holy [ __ ] wow look at that every single nail is leaking look holy [ __ ] wow well that explains all the mold say hi Mom hi Mom all right so I'm over here back by the hatch you know for the access to the attic there's our air handler we ran a new 7 8 from One Piece no no uh no joints from the condenser across to the air handler I just want to show you up here look at this right there see that it's wet every single now is wet look at that see that crazy I feel so bad by the way and we gotta balance that out a little bit but other than that we'll be good all right let's work on the thermostat wiring all right we have a nest okay good I love these screws by the way once I love those screws they're nice they're nice okay let me see let me see one of the screws see how nice these screws are they have special threads for sheetrock really nice put the flat face and that's nice too yeah all right so we have we have here this wire is Rh let's take out r h w one and that should be this two little wire one is it yes okay well they got a boatload of wires here which ones were connected uh white and blue okay so that is for our boiler here this is Rh sorry RC which is 24 volt cooling G is fan W1 is first stage pooling right so let's take this out and let's take the plate off the wall and then we're going to fish a new wire five wire from the thermostat up to the air handler all right we haven't filmed in a while that's really high all right so here we are Daniel and Peter Peter's holding the tail oh look at that we're using the stay bright by Harris company to connect the pipes very nice exactly you don't know so we're using wet wag wet wag wet rag this is by Refrigeration Technologies uh the guys over there were kind enough to uh send me this uh last year oops oh now you got cocky all in there but it really looks great they make um they also make the Viper chemicals you know for cleaning evaporator or condenser coils uh this wet rag is really great stuff acts as a great heat block highly recommend you guys use it it's so much easier than getting like a wet rag from a stolen Hotel uh washcloth foreign there you go very nice now if you'll notice we are installing the bi-directional filter dryer on the inside that way it's protected from the elements you know it's not going to uh rust it's not going to be exposed to weather things like that that could make your viewers really happy yeah but okay you can um in the meantime our system is wired power is applied I'm using the brown and the black for the future hydronic relay that we're going to use that's going to turn on the boiler for emergency heat purposes when it's too cold out so the oil boil is going to be the backup temporarily and again it's only temporary and that's stage one of electrifying this house we're getting rid of the oil boiler on page two but first you've got to put solar panels on the groove right now Daniel is heating the fitting and applying stay bright 8. a lot of uh not a lot but some some of the community don't like using this they say in a fire you know the melting point all that good stuff but it is an approved method for connecting the piping and um it's very nice and it allows us not to be able to Purge with nitrogen because we're not going to get any of that carbon buildup because we're not brazen so that's the main reason for using the stay bright again you gotta you gotta burn your finger the main reason if you're using stay bright is I don't have to purge with nitrogen uh because we're not brazing when you braise you know the the the the temperature of that pipe gets cherry red and it forms a a little coating of carbon on the inside of the piping and stuff like that clogs up filter drives txvs electronic expansion valves things like that you know gets you know it's not good for the system yeah here Peter why don't you use a screwdriver use your Noggin Peter say smart okay and uh next up we're gonna go to the programming of the thermostat so stick around all right before we uh go to the thermostat and do configuration of it um one of the things I did forget to order was the hydronic relay let me show you what I'm talking about in the manual on page 10. of the manual all right we have hydronic heat application so the fan coil supports two types of heating we could do a hot water coil in combination with the heat pump or hot water coil as a sole heat source so let's say we got a hot water coil here so we can do the hot water coil right or we can do an H the the fan coil combined with the radiant hot water heat which is what we're going to do but in either application we need this relay kit this is really interface kit right which must be installed in place of an electric heater right so the system because the communicating system will identify that the hydronic heat has been installed during the initial commission process and the system will treat the hot water coil as either auxiliary heat and a heat pump application or is a sole heat Source we want it as an auxiliary heat for an emergency heat in a heat pump application easy peasy right there read the manual guys read the effing manual wealth of information right in front of you all right let's go say hi to Daniel hi Daniel what's doing you know people complained you know whatever because of what I do or what we do people are always going to complain anyway right like oh what's wrong with you the two thousand dollar board in the Bosh right forget that two thousand dollar board in the boss you have one two three four you got four of them look at the size that is transformed by the way yeah but this is a mean ass heat pump I tell you she's a mean ass heat pump and we're down to 550 microns already we just closed the gas ballast on the Fieldpiece vp67 the oils wow look at that that oil is bubbly the oil's blowing bubbles I swear blowing bubbles 415 400 and 390 and drop in microns this is going to be a very real tight tight system reminds me of your sister last night when I got done with the over here we have our disconnect panel I'm not using a toggle I mean a pull out plug we're using a circuit breaker look at that nice by eating I get mine from supplyhouse.com real people real service not a sponsor of the channel for
surge protection show that back in there for surge protection I'm using the rectocele rsh50 they got a crazy warranty protecting the equipment should that fail they'll honor the warranty on parts so right now we're at 235 microns we're dropping we're dropping like cutting down trees in a forest yelling timber and we're not talking about Kesha after she got [ __ ] by uh those those guys at the recording studio she's yelling timber a lot of stuff up here let's see if there's a little bit of brownness a little overspray or something right there very nice take a close look at this we have a control board right here it says reactor it's like we have a Chernobyl right here it says reactor no kidding reactor got a QR code right there that's the flux capacitor we got two big giant 30 amp fuses right here they those are actually builds those are not changeable either are they not they don't look like they're changeable try taking them out no yeah I got to throw the whole board out all right and uh here's where our L1 and L2 come in right and ground right there there's the load from there it goes to this control board which is two fuses I guess any kind of overpowered we're gonna blow this and protect all this other good stuff that's why I put the rectus seal in look at that control board that looks like like a city that looks like Beirut from like Space by the way damn right there is like the Coliseum but uh really really nice you know we have our a b and c connections right there which was uh labeled right green took a picture of that right yeah we have our electronic expansion valve another little control board right there guys I'm not gonna I'm not gonna pretend to know what all these things do but I know it's a carry Infinity say no more while we are waiting for this vacuum to go down let's have another giveaway in this video the first giveaway is what time will we be done today I'm gonna tell you what time it is right now but the sun is behind me there it is the sun is behind me there's Daniel let's let's play a game of guess how low it's gonna go right within the next five minutes see what time it is all right within the next five actually let's round to the nearest whole hour four minutes all right within the next four minutes what do you think the microns gonna be when we started the k-test right you think it's 61 yeah drop your feedback your your guess in the comments section down below whether it's the Live premiere or it's just you know you had to guess before a ahr Expo so you have until Monday let's say Tuesday morning Tuesday you have until Tuesday which is February 6th 7th you have until Tuesday February 7th at 12 P.M oh look at the calendar I don't know it is I know today's Wednesday and it's the first Thursday's the second Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Tuesday's the seventh right I use my fingers account calendar yeah yes you have until Tuesday February 7 2023 at 4 pm eastern daylight time to guess how low damn she's low [Music] to guess how low it is the closest without going under right because you can't be over the closest without going on there so let's say it's 120. you guess 119 you're wrong if you guessed 121 you're right so I'm gonna flip it around the closest without going under so you can't go guest past it right so make sense okay what should we give them uh um a tool that I like anymore um Peter no oh so stop he's your brother oh let's see let me think about that the closest without going over is gonna win the elitec vacuum pump built-in micro gauge and hook up to the La Tech digital manifold the closest without going under is going to win the Le Tech vacuum pump they'll hit the vacuum pump built-in micron gauge I'm going to send you a swag pack from Mikey pipes including our new sticker did you guys see the new sticker yet while we're waiting for the next two minutes to occur let me show you the new sticker I think you're gonna like this do you guys want to see the stickers let me show you the new stickers this is the official this is version five I have four stickers alrighty are you guys ready for version five the official first for 2023 the first time introduced to the community right now we're at T minus 60 Seconds here it is ladies and gentlemen let me ready for it the sticker yeah the stickers sure there it is this is this is a damn this is like more of a handful like your sister's titties Mikey pipes look I even got some guns like Air Force none right making trades great again stickers are available email me Mike mikeypipes.com donations to venmo Zell
PayPal cash app are appreciated to the posters fund are you ready you think they're ready Daniel yeah well I'm ready come on get the F out of here the whoever guest should we use a decimal point we're gonna use the decimal point if you guessed 56.3 oh we're still going no we gotta we gotta close it off we'll do it we have to do yeah no 56.6 if you guess 56 no eff it 56 if you guessed 56 the closest without going under all right is going to win the Ellie Tech vacuum pump with built-in micron gauge a swag pack I'm going to throw you a a a shirt I'm gonna throw you a hat I'm gonna throw you all four stickers including this one right here all of them bow together let's make the trades gate again congratulations to all the winners for doing the Decay test right now the Decay has passed okay to pass look at that I passed wow epic dump the charge perfect searching for the indoor unit right now I'm always doing that let's just rest you right there perfect I crack myself up I swear so it's gonna search for the indoor unit it's gonna identify I believe the model and serial number and then it's going to search for the outdoor unit also identify the model serial number and then we'll do the commissioning of the startup next is going to ask me for an electric heater none is found so we're going to select that now it's looking for the add-on modules we're not going to have any yet when he was found because there is none we're going to do a regular air filter uh no humidifier ultraviolet no and there we go there's our fan coil there's our variable capacity heat pump 36 000. this is the model of that let's do next airflow verification test so it does its own static pressure test it's epic all right there's the airflow verification test zero static pressure interesting okay and we haven't updated end user agreement okay let's accept that now let's do some Heating done okay let's go but first we gotta charge the system editing yeah I don't edit anything no it just Australian is it yep that's cool yeah uncut unedited Raw uh full installation we did that already start system installation process I'm looking for charging uh checkout oh refrigerant charging there you go we're going to do a weigh-in and we have a line set of uh 44 feet so 45 foot line set of vapor line is 7.8 inches we're going to save that and uh next and we're doing a new install so we need to add one pound two ounces and you also see here some charge breakdowns so one pound two ounces all right we got one more thing left to do and I know it sounds kind of [ __ ] you guys will see what I mean in a second system is running by the way hear that no you don't that's right you know what just to uh there you go you ain't testing you're guessing and by the way I'm really liking it it's a premium premium heat pump double the price of the Bosch IDs 2.0 but the naysayers out there can never talk about humidification control none of that you can't talk about that you can't talk about it as a 2 000 controller because there's multiple 2000 Honda control boards in there but like the Bosch IDs 2.0 this bad boy is whisper quiet whisper quiet so if you're in
our service territory we're based in Valley Stream New York God willing moving shortly God willing movie shortly can't wait to be epic State soon it's gonna be epic paperwork is in order but right now we're based in Valley Stream New York if you're in Nassau County Queens parts of Brooklyn parts of Bronx near Throgs Neck or neat where Daniel lives near Dix Hills Suffolk County you know west of 231 Deer Park Avenue give me a call 516-348-6300 you won't be disappointed just like all of our thousands upon thousands of other clients we help on a daily basis thank you so much for tuning in guys and until next time be well God bless stay safe and good luck to the two winners it is 1 29. still Wednesday still February 1st still 2023. so the closest we're not going over to 129 you're a winner of the first the first giveaway and whoever won the Micron giveaway email me Mike mikeypipes.com if you want stickers if you want any of the if you ain't testing guessing Mikey pipe stickers email me Mike mikeypipes.com I would appreciate if you could donate to the postage fund whether it's a dollar fifty cents you want to send me stamps please since the pipe doctor home service is 80 east Hawthorne Avenue Valley Stream New York 11580 until next time be well God bless stay safe [Music]
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