Heat Pump explosion???

bill_71

coooool. love to see mother nature work. of course when i saw the header for this post i fugured it was the customer who saw their heat pump explode in a cloud of smoke........you know, that smoke that comes out of the top around the same time that pesky defrost timer stops and it turns back into heating

mike faust

FAILED! refrigerant line

Has any one ever seen a lightning strike? We visited a new customer today who claimed his heat pump was struck by lightning. The 7/8 copper vapor line was pealed open about 1' back from the outdoor unit connection. It was between a coupling and an elbow. The break in the line was about 6" long and as clean as if sliced with a razor and pealed open. It also left a crater about the size of a sinder block in the mulch and soft dirt that lie undernieth. It is a r 410 system.

Steve Ebels_3

Yup

Lightning will do some wild things as it seeks the path of least resistance to ground. I saw a trench about 24" deep and probably 80-90' long where the voltage had come in on the phone line and literally blown it out of the ground. The phone ped was melted into a pile of molten metal out by the street,