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Melody Adams at HVAC Technical Academy – Central Florida
Melody Adams video – Heat Strips
Melody Adams video transcript – Heat Strips (Training Video Transcript)
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Hi, my name is Melody. I’m with HVAC Technical Academy and I’m going to be talking to you about heat strips today. So, your heat strip is located on the top of your air handler. You see it right in here. We’re going to go ahead and take this out. I’ve already removed two of the three screws that keeps it in place. Okay. Move that up to the side. And we’ll go right here and disconnect our wires. Just like that. Okay, we’ll put this off to the side because it’s a bad heat strip.
00:00:48
Perfect. So, now you got this little space right here. This is exactly where it sits. Installing a heat strip is fairly easy. We’ll take this one, put it right back inside. Just like this. Perfect. And then we are going to reconnect. Right. Just like that. And now when you switch out your heat strip, you want to check for continuity. That’s how you’re going to know if your heat strip is good or not. We’ll switch our multimeter over to ohms. We’ll set right here. We’re going to put
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both of our needles on each side. That beeping right there indicates that it’s good. You have continuity. Now, if it was just silent, that would mean you have a broken path or an open line and something could be wrong like your coils could be broken or bent. Heat strips generally are going to be inside your air handler for emergency heat. If you have a heat pump condenser, the only reason it would turn on is if you’re in defrost mode or something’s wrong with your condenser. Now, if you
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have just a straight cool, this is going to be your primary source of heat. Usually your heat strips are going to be about three and a half to 5 kilowatts and that’s going to be on a 30 amp breaker. How you could tell your heat strip is bad—you might smell excessive burning or it could be stuck on and your heat bill will go sky high. Yeah. I think that’s all I’ve got for you today on heat strips. Thank you for taking the time to listen and watch the video.