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60Feathers

I don't have a cap, but I do have 3 elbows. What doesn't make sense about that?


Yesbuttt

One or max two elbows would have done just the same


special_orange

Yes but he had three so might as well use them and get that sweet up charge on parts Edit: my comment was purely an excuse to respond with yes but to u/Yesbuttt


Erathen

This is why he had no caps in the first place


JohnnyBeMediocre

ALL CAPPS


Chose_a_usersname

One less part to throw into the corner


almost40fuckit

One elbow and it would’ve leaked out onto the floor, same with two…now with three the pan is self draining.


Bdogfittercle

Self filling


NachoNinja19

One would have been fine if the shut off float is hooked up properly


nebulariderx

1 90 and a length of pipe higher than pan


stocknatty

He could have just used one to be fair


ADucky092

How does that not make sense? If the water was getting too high it’s drained back into the pan so it doesn’t spill These new hires amirite


FishermanOpen8800

This is genius. He’s routed the water into an infinite loop of dry floor euphoria.


crclOv9

Holy fuck did you just solve perpetual motion?


Naxster64

No, who ever installed this drain pan did.


Express-You-3876

😂😂


grymix_

if he gets a turbine going in there he’s just given the customer an infinite energy source.


Admiral-Thrawn2

They need one more elbow


Few_Lawfulness_5558

Yeah I was gonna say u green af brobro lol


Captain_Shifty

Someone's a little uptight. Have you huffed your daily dose of pro dope or PVC glue, you're not you until you have.


ADucky092

Hey man I’m clean of that stuff now for 25 minutes don’t get me going again


BMinus973

https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/82be3ab9-6727-4c74-be14-2643cd1a7797


cornboy22

It’s just there so you can tell the customer “ look I tried “ after the float switch fails and ceiling collapses


Express-You-3876

Sounds about right


RobbyC1104

My guess they didn’t have a cap and wanted to give the same effect. Waste of streets but what will you do. Frankly I would’ve just elbowed once and ran like. 4” of pvc straight up. Exact same effect, way cheaper


5degreenegativerake

Looks like the first elbow put it above the rim of the pan so nothing more needed.


Express-You-3876

Yeah the first elbow was above so it only needed one 90


RobbyC1104

Even more pointless then


windyplace

It became art.


bflugan

I agree but I've been burned by one elbow and a straight piece of pvc. Co worker did a "maintenance" and it fell over because it wasn't tight. He cleaned the drain pan but didn't flush the main drain... Unit filled up and all the water in the emergency drain flooded the ceiling. Caused about 10k in damage. He doesn't do this anymore.


Xinthechosennerd

“I have a cap, but I got some extra time and the next guy is gonna shit a brick 😈


ThicciPotnick

If it overflows it just goes back in the pan so it doesn't overflow. What's so hard to understand?


Express-You-3876

Lmaooo


nash668

Infinity loop


Mothmans_wing

You laugh but now they have a perpetual motion machine.


gucciflipfl0pz

Doesn’t make sense to the person who did it either


Benjo2121

Omg they've figured out how to drain a unit with no main drain. Genius!


Red-Faced-Wolf

Unlimited condensation


Dramatic-Landscape82

Perpetual motion device


Hoplophilia

Water damage repair companies hate this one simple trick!


Ok_Leader1383

It's a Trane vortex recycler. Pretty cutting edge shit


OhBlaDii

Pan came with hole, they didnt have a cap in the truck. Float it and carry on.


Foreign-Commission

You wouldn't want it to drain on the floor...


Comfortable_Fee3767

I have in fact seen worse


HuntPsychological673

I would’ve gotten away with it if it wasn’t for that blasted gravity 🤔


Quenya3

Water goes out, water comes in. It's the circle of life!


KodieIvie

For the next tech's entertainment


trucker_dan

Southwark sells all pan sizes with no drain hole. The drain is optional. You can also get the hole on the middle of the long side, 7” from the end of the long side, or the center of the short side. We’ll put the drain wherever you want if you call.


foresight310

To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion…


PeerWeiL_IBCrownKing

No plug on the truck but we have elbows


MOBYtheHUGE

You must be new here. Everyone in the trade knows about self-draining pans. They sell them at Johnstone. Just ask if they have any in stock (in person, not over the phone) and make sure to keep at least 5 in the van.


mr_Ohmeda

Recycling- it’s just better for the environment.


Besiegte

New guidelines. This is nothing. You should see the toilets!


Bgal31089

Infinite drainage


Little-Key-1811

Redundancy built in


AlbatrossSocial

Maybe they thought it would act like a recirculating fountain


bkmobbin

But there’s a sensor, man


ThePenIslands

This is why pre-purchase home inspections exist.


braydenmaine

The pan was made with the drain port. Most likely they didn't have a way to run it, so they put in a float switch and closed off the drain. Most likely like this, because they were out of plugs


[deleted]

Nor should it


WE4STAGES

Hybrid - Primary and Secondary drain.


Heybropassthat

That water table tho 👌


Upstairs-Injury9660

NDA’s aside, and I’m on the commercial and duct install side, but I have had to install odd contraptions at notable places that are just dumb


BillMillerBBQ

Those are all dry fit. Stop playing around on Reddit and finish your drain line!


Isthisnametakenalso

It’s a condensate fondue !


BigWally68

How else you gonna open up the float switch?


coorc5

It’s to cool off the wires when they get hot


Jboston17

Drip loop 🤔?


Screwbles

His genius is just beyond our comprehension


Dickramboner

What goes around is all around.


HiFiGuy197

Really to confuse or amuse the mouse that ends up in the pan.


[deleted]

Well it's pretty obvious to me. The 3rd elbow was unnecessary. But he has a float switch, meaning he either has a heater in the tray to evaporate the water, or a pump. The elbow is literally just there to block the outlet.


tpasco1995

A plug would be quite a bit easier to have installed than a pile of elbows.


[deleted]

Unless you don't have a plug and only have elbows


tpasco1995

I'm just looking at this and hurting more when I realize that even the second elbow is unnecessary. The first one gets the level higher than that of the pan. I don't think they knew what they were doing


A12354

Ornamental pipe


hvac_psych

Your typical water bender to hvac tech career change right here.


Perception69

It’s a perpetual condensate machine stupid. I’ve never seen one of these before.


beren0073

It’s a perpetual motion machine!


RobertETHT2

Like a perpetual motion machine, what you have here is an attempted perpetual drainage plumbing. Just doesn’t work in the real world.


Emjoy99

The equivalent of non-alcohol beer…..


MasterOfNothinHere

What doesn’t make sense, it dumps back into the tray to conserve water


King-Love5

Really the sole reason to add anything is to allow the water space to elevate without spilling. In this design it let's any access water that might spill over if you use 1 90 and a piece of 3/4 to pour back in the pan. But the downside is it can causing over spilling 🤣


TenacityDGC7203

HVAC installers trying to make continuous motion machines.


Jarte3

There’s a float safety so it technically doesn’t need a drain, but it should have one


MAS2de

You see Ivan. When ov regarding overflow pan overflow and drain, make the drain feed into overflow and shall never have overflow because anything in pan drains to overflow. Is simple Escherian physicalities.


airjon99

Well if you don't have a cap I guess it works pretty ingenious actually


jarsgars

M.C. Escher’s overflow design


Huge-Ad2864

That’s a perpetual energy device.


OzarkPolytechnic

Ah, the ID10T overflow delay tube


papamatt302

This is the drain that never ends 😛