How to troubleshoot the transformer

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okay here we have a look at the furnace
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00:00:13.060 00:00:13.070 this case there it is right there
00:00:18.330 00:00:18.340 these things can be located various
00:00:21.190 00:00:21.200 places but you are looking for something
00:00:24.970 00:00:24.980 like that now that's on the side of the
00:00:29.140 00:00:29.150 IFC in this one and these are the wires
00:00:32.200 00:00:32.210 we're going to need to deal with okay
00:00:35.950 00:00:35.960 here I'm depressing the door switch with
00:00:38.710 00:00:38.720 my thumb and if you look down below
00:00:40.930 00:00:40.940 you'll see blinking light
00:00:45.460 00:00:45.470 there are several blinking lights on
00:00:47.439 00:00:47.449 this machine but that's telling you if
00:00:50.619 00:00:50.629 those lights any lights are on down
00:00:52.600 00:00:52.610 there your 24 volt is working of course
00:00:56.350 00:00:56.360 in this case a fan has started up so I
00:00:58.899 00:00:58.909 know it's working however if I had
00:01:03.039 00:01:03.049 nothing at all down there that means I
00:01:06.250 00:01:06.260 don't have 24 volts also could mean I
00:01:08.560 00:01:08.570 don't have hundred ten volts but the
00:01:12.610 00:01:12.620 lights are going to tell me at 24 is
00:01:14.350 00:01:14.360 there so essentially what I'm trying to
00:01:17.440 00:01:17.450 do with the transformer and I'm going to
00:01:19.960 00:01:19.970 show you one outside of the machine here
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00:01:34.600 00:01:34.610 transformer outside the unit may be a
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00:01:40.930 00:01:40.940 probes in here now I'm not reading any
00:01:42.970 00:01:42.980 power in the probes because this is the
00:01:45.910 00:01:45.920 power coming in sometimes if you don't
00:01:48.910 00:01:48.920 get it in there far enough they won't
00:01:51.250 00:01:51.260 show this is very important when you're
00:01:54.310 00:01:54.320 dealing with wire nuts you've got to get
00:01:57.820 00:01:57.830 them in there so that they're making
00:01:59.230 00:01:59.240 contact now this one doesn't appear to
00:02:02.170 00:02:02.180 be so I'm going to loosen this wire nut
00:02:05.649 00:02:05.659 a bit now you notice it just came up
00:02:09.960 00:02:09.970 make sure your contacts if you're using
00:02:14.650 00:02:14.660 wire nuts there's wire nuts on these
00:02:16.690 00:02:16.700 thing make sure
00:02:18.620 00:02:18.630 that your contacts are good I'm showing
00:02:29.030 00:02:29.040 121 okay so there is power coming in so
00:02:34.010 00:02:34.020 now we're going to look to power coming
00:02:35.270 00:02:35.280 out now this one has three terminals
00:02:37.940 00:02:37.950 there's only two of them that are really
00:02:39.380 00:02:39.390 used here okay I show no voltage coming
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00:02:52.510 00:02:52.520 okay let's find out why now I'm going to
00:02:57.590 00:02:57.600 set my meters to ohm my meter to ohms
00:03:00.640 00:03:00.650 and I have disconnected all power from
00:03:04.310 00:03:04.320 this unit using o meter you not only
00:03:08.600 00:03:08.610 have to disconnect power you have to
00:03:11.360 00:03:11.370 disconnect the entire circuit going to
00:03:14.720 00:03:14.730 it otherwise you're going to get bleed
00:03:16.550 00:03:16.560 backs through loads and the light so if
00:03:20.420 00:03:20.430 you're going to test for ohms you have
00:03:25.250 00:03:25.260 to do it with the unit power off and the
00:03:28.760 00:03:28.770 unit isolated so I'm isolated here I've
00:03:33.080 00:03:33.090 got the probes on here and do not put
00:03:38.900 00:03:38.910 your fingers at least both fingers on
00:03:40.970 00:03:40.980 these things they will read a false
00:03:43.370 00:03:43.380 reading and read mega ohms but it'll
00:03:45.470 00:03:45.480 still read reading okay I'm well so that
00:03:50.150 00:03:50.160 means my primary winding that's the one
00:03:54.350 00:03:54.360 that got the 120 we're stepping down 224
00:03:56.800 00:03:56.810 the primary has failed now I can go here
00:04:01.970 00:04:01.980 to I don't need to at this point but I
00:04:03.830 00:04:03.840 can go there and see my secondary
00:04:06.470 00:04:06.480 actually does have continuity but again
00:04:10.210 00:04:10.220 when I check my primary
00:04:13.309 00:04:13.319 I do not have a circuit so the
00:04:19.189 00:04:19.199 transformer is bad okay in another video
00:04:25.370 00:04:25.380 we're going to talk about why the
00:04:26.810 00:04:26.820 transformer failed usually the
00:04:28.879 00:04:28.889 transformer is not the problem it's the
00:04:31.850 00:04:31.860 weakest link in the chain so if your
00:04:35.480 00:04:35.490 transformer has failed there's a
00:04:37.670 00:04:37.680 procedure to go by to make sure that the
00:04:41.600 00:04:41.610 second one does not break when you put
00:04:43.969 00:04:43.979 it in and we'll talk about that the next
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