well good morning in here today on the rusty glovebox what we're going to do is a project that I've been wanting to do for a long time and I've just decided going to go ahead and get started on it give you a little hint let me show you my thermometer on the wall it's almost 90 degrees already and it's still morning but anyway let's go on forward and let me show you what about well this is what I bought about a mr. cool do-it-yourself 24k combination heat pump and air conditioner it's a little self-contained unit in the long box that's where your upper unit or your inside unit would be and you'll mount it on the wall and I'll show you how I'm going to mount mine the lower unit of course that's the condenser it goes on the outside one thing that makes this really unique on the the DIY part of it is the hose kit the hose is a soft stainless steel braided type hose very flexible it's covered and everything you don't have to do anything as far as making hoses the hose kits 25 foot long so you have to deal with that but anyway let me show you how all this works you just undo your band straps and you just lift the box right off the top that's what your outside unit is going to look like you have to go and find a suitable place where you're going to put it that's going to be the inside unit and I made a little bracket to mount the unit on and I'm going to sit it on top of my shop office and it kind of will move the cool air across the shop here's the hose kit 25 foot long very flexible can move been pretty tight it has the copper ends on it that's a you know like fittings they've attached the condenser unit comes pre-charged so you don't have to buy any refrigerant all or anything well what I was doing I was thought well it needs to be mounted on the outside wall and so I was going to put it over there but that was going to involve removing some shelves and all that and I didn't want to lose the shelf space in the shop so I started scanning around and what I decided I was going to do was mount it right there on the top right above the shop office I felt like get it come in handy and be a pretty easy install can run my lines across the top of the shop there and I've already drilled a three and a half inch hole through the plywood on the inside and so now I have to match up my hole on the outside so I can run my lines out well I've looked at it and I've measured it and I looked at it measured it and I did that about a half a dozen times so now I feel pretty confident on my mark you want your outside hole just a little bit lower you know maybe quarter inch from the inside because I've got a rib on the outside of the building I'm going to scoot it over a little bit and I don't anticipate that being a problem because those poses are so flexible well that seemed to work out pretty good I took the time to measure and my holes line up pretty good there's a sleeve that slides in through this hole that kind of works as a guide and run your lines through so I'll get that installed next I'm gonna put some caulk around this kind of help air areas here well I've got the hole drilled the insulation sprayed back up in there where the hole saw kind of tore up the insulation a little bit getting ready to run the hose through the hole up there and so this is how I'm starting if you look down here by the unit let me get close there's my bracket that I built so I don't have to mount it to the wall I can mount it on top of the room up there that's what I was building the other day something I bought as a separate kid is like the hose guard kit it's when the hose comes out of the building or house you run it down the wall you can enclose the hose inside this housing it looks a little better kind of keeps it enclosed and all that well here we are I got the lines run to the outside and right below that's where the a/c condenser unit is going to be and so that's going pretty well right there I'm pretty happy with this so far upper unit it's going to sit up there on the top of the roof or the ceiling of the office up there it looks pretty good up there balancing is pretty well I'm going to set it over a couple of ceiling joists and but for right now I'm going to leave it loose till I get my outside unit connected and that way I'll know how far I need to pull the hose back and if I do that well I'll move the unit a little closer to the center of the shop all right we're going to talk a little bit about the electrical I am NOT an electrician and I don't pretend to be I know enough to do a lot of home repairs but we're going to talk about the breaker require requirements you're going to have to look at your unit to see what the amp draw is and you're going to have to size your breaker and your wire for to meet those requirements a little bit about breakers what I have is a square d box of course you're going to put Square D breakers in it but if you look on that breaker you'll see the letters H om all right any breaker that you put in as long as it has that H om you know you've got GE boxes you've got all different kinds of boxes you've got store-brand boxes and all that and so your big key on which breaker that fits it every breaker manufacturer is going to put a coat on there like that so if you get ready to go buy a breaker pull your phone out take a picture of your breaker and that way you'll get the correct one we're going to be getting ready to hook up the electrical to the outside unit the condenser so you're going to make sure your breaker is off that supplies the power to your unit and extra precaution turn your main breaker off was something that I installed it wasn't in the kid was this hose guard and it really taught ease it up likes it pretty slick you're outside disconnect box I've also added that here on the side of the condensing unit this is where all your electrical connections are you've got your power the connections that come in here and down here at the bottom is where all your refrigerant lines tie into when you install those you do want to be sure and check them for leaks all that it uses an o-ring type connection well there's my bracket that I built mounted the unit to it pretty much just had to lay the hose right there on top condensation hose I just had to put enough slope in it so whenever it dropped off water would run down the hose and not get caught or cuddle up inside of it on the evaporator unit a little neat function that it has it's got a little LED light up there that shows what temperature you have it set out and that's nice if you're across the shop over there across the room you'll be able to see what you have it set at you've also got a little handheld remote it's got several functions it'll show the temperature and all that you can control fan speed you know whether or not you want it on heater or if you want it on AC temperature control it has a timer on and off sleep mode a neat function it has a swing and if you watch those louvers if you see that it kind of oscillates which is a nice function it kind of helps either spread the cooled air or heated air in the room but if you want to stop it you just press it again that will stop if you don't want to see that LED light you can turn it off at the remote it has a turbo mode if it's really hot or cold in here you can put it on turbo and that's a neat function well something that I'd recommend doing whenever you decide you're going to get one of these units is have a good idea where you're going to put it in advance you can go ahead and prepare to run your electrical if you know the size unit you're going to get you can go ahead and size your wire and everything and your breaker and you can actually run it like I did before I started I knew I was going to set it up there above the shop and I knew where I was going to set my condenser so I was able to put my breaker in my power wire running it and had it ready to go over all the time that it took me to install this unit because I had kind of been prepared to do it took like six hours so anyway I didn't feel like that was too bad and was well worth the time well that's how I installed my AC unit here in the shop fixing to go to town I'll come back and see what temperature it's gotten down to you know in a couple hours I am really happy with the unit so far really happy it's going to make life in the shop in the summer time a lot better well guys I appreciate y'all coming by the shop and watching this installation with that AC in here I plan on doing a lot more projects here in the shop these hundred degree days they've been tough here lately and it's just kind of been hard to get energized to come out here but now with that a/c it's like being on holiday so anyway this is rusty blimp sucks thanks for watching and I'm out of here hey let's go over here