Ah, it's time to chill out and get ready for a mediocre q, a live stream if you're old enough grab yourself your favorite adult beverage and if you're not stick with apple juice, put your feet up and relax. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the chat and now, let's queue up the intro music, so hello, how are you guys doing this evening? Hopefully you guys are doing well. I am hanging in there. I said in the chat a few minutes ago that summer in southern california decided to stay another week because uh we just got like another heat wave, it's funny, because we get these cool nights as we're going into the fall.

So you know it drops down to like 60 55 degrees or something like that at night or something, but today it was like 100 and 304. It's just like uh, i'm ready for this to be over, but don't get me wrong like i appreciate the work and i'm a little worried with uh going into a cove at fall. You know like what that's gon na be because uh we already did a covet spring in the beginning of a coveted summer, but i'm hoping things get better. You know um, but yeah.

Hopefully you guys are hanging in there and uh. Hopefully, the weather is half-assed decent. Where you're at um as usual, got a bunch of stuff i want to cover and then uh yeah we'll get into answering questions and stuff so um. My name is chris.

I'm an hvacr service tech here in southern california, and i do these live streams to just kind of answer. Questions consolidate stuff as an addendum, basically to my videos, so um i've got like a whole list of stuff that uh, i kind of took from comments and emails and different things like that, and then, of course i want to get to you guys questions in the Chat, so do me a favor if you guys do have questions put them in caps, lock, okay, and if i don't answer it right away, just keep posting them. It's okay until myself or a moderator tells you to stop just keep posting them and i'll try to get to them. Okay, if i do miss your question, do me a favor and send me an email to hvacr videos, gmail.com and i'll try to get to it.

All right, let me see what's going uh jack, uh shelby dyson. Thank you so much for that super chat. That is awesome, and actually, let's start this off because um, i don't think i do a a good enough job showing my appreciation for supporters. Okay, there's several different ways to support the channel super chats.

You can become a youtube channel member. You can support me on patreon. You can buy merch. You can, i'm sure, there's other ways too that i'm not thinking of stream labs or something.

But you know, i'm sorry that i don't acknowledge enough, especially like the patreon supporters and stuff, like that. I know that other channels, like that's their style, to kind of do something for each and - and i definitely need to get better at that. Okay and i apologize, but thank you guys so very much for the support. It is not needed.

I'm going to continue to do these video videos, no matter what, but you know those that have done it again. Thank you so very much. Okay, um yeah. So, let's get on with it, i had two videos this past week, uh connor.

Thank you very much for that super chat, bud uh. The two videos that i had was the ac keeps tripping the breaker, okay and the compressor sounds like it has rocks in it. Both of them um drew up a bunch of questions and i'm gon na get into those uh. They were both uh older videos that i had shot a while back.

I've been kind of going through footage and editing stuff down. Some of these videos were a little bit longer and they took longer to edit and different things like that. So they take a few more minutes, but let me see: uh, okay, so here's a question i'm gon na get on this one right now. How do i know what operating system the hvac uses like linux units and manitowoc uh? As far as the operating systems i have? No ideas is you're talking about the actual os um in their uh, their circuitry right.

I i do not know what their operating systems are. Um linux has a proprietary operating system called prodigy and then uh manitowoc has a proprietary operating system called indigo. What it is, i wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it's based on linux, a lot of softwares are based off of linux, but i you know, i don't know for sure. So let me see what else we got in here that i'm missing uh.

How do i know what circuit is what, on a 15 to 20 ton system when changing out the filter, dryer so yeah that can be difficult, sometimes um? Today i was working with some of my other techs. We were all working together on some 15 ton split systems and when it comes to knowing which system is which and then let alone finding the right condensing unit right. These are 15 ton split systems where the condensing unit is about 100 feet on the roof. Air handlers are downstairs and then to top it off and make it even more confusing the original installers when they did these these installs in 2014, they flip-flopped uh the circuits, so um, what's labeled as circuit one at the condensing unit on the roof is actually circuit.

Two down at the evaporator and what's labeled as circuit two up on the roof, is labeled, as is actually circuit one downstairs, so it makes it even more confusing um there's a couple different ways: you can go about it on these particular split systems that i have One method that we did today was we we energized one circuit and then turned off the uh indoor, blower motor okay and we watched which circuit frosted up. So, in that situation, compressor two on the roof was running, but the first stage of the evaporator, the bottom half of the evaporator, was frosting up. So that's how we figure out, which one is which you definitely want to be very careful about that kind of stuff. Okay, so i would suggest doing something like that: if you have to you know de-energizing the system, then energizing it somehow manually, and then you know verifying definitely take your time, because you do not want to try to cut open a system um.

You know and then find out that you're on the wrong one. I i don't know if i've ever done that, but i've i've almost done it. I think um i'm trying to think i don't think i've ever accidentally cut into the wrong system, but i i'm definitely paranoid about that kind of stuff. So i take extra precautions to try to make sure that i don't mess that up um.

Let me see what else we got here: uh, yeah, jack, shelby or selby - i'm sorry, i'm still working on the other countries like the uk and australia. I i honestly haven't had an opportunity to really dig into that. I figured out how to do the canada and i figured out how to do some of the us territories such as guam recently, but i have not been able to figure out the uk shipping, so i'm i'm gon na get on that and i will hopefully figure It out sometime soon you know whatever that means uh. Let me see what else we got in here um.

Let me see when uh, with brazing line set components, do i prefer couplers or swaging um mark morales. Thank you so very much for that super chat bud. I really really appreciate it, so i prefer swaging, if at all possible, but you got to be careful when you're using swaging tools. So i personally use the spin swage that you put on the end of a cordless drill and you you, you know swage out the pipe.

But you got to be careful when you're using that tool, because if you don't have the the drill or the screw gun or whatever you're using perfectly straight, then the swage will be crooked, um and then there's a lot more filler. You have to do so. What i've been noticing, especially with the spin swage, is that it's not a tight fitting uh, unlike if you had a hydraulic swage, which i've i've been very curious about buying like a hydraulic swage. I think navak makes one and i think hillmore makes one and they both are pretty popular.

I kind of want to pick one up because i'm sick of the uneven or not tight joints. Basically, when you go to do a swage, so frank, thank you. So very much for that super uh super sticker. I really appreciate these.

These support you guys are giving. This is awesome guys you guys are you guys are killing it. Thank you so very much so yeah i'd i'd like to pick up one of the hydraulic swaging tools just to see. If i can get a much tighter fitting if you're using an actual coupling, then of course it's going to be a super tight, fit and you're going to have to use a lot less brazing rod or filler material.

You know to to braze that joint shut, so um yeah all right. Let's see what else we got in here, um have i. There was a question right here. Uh, let's see have i fixed any heat and air conditioning that is 20 to 50 tons, no um.

So i don't work on any really big commercial stuff. I typically work on light commercial, refrigeration and air conditioning brandon ali dude. Thank you so very much for that super chat. These super chats that are coming in guys.

You guys are awesome. Thank you. So very much. Okay, again not needed, but much appreciated.

Okay, wow! I you guys thank you. You're blowing me yeah anyways, all right, um, so uh. Typically, i work on light commercial, refrigeration and air conditioning. So i don't work on anything.

I'd say: bigger than 35 tons. As far as air conditioning goes and then as far as the refrigeration equipment, i don't think i work on anything bigger than five horsepower. Everything's smaller, so uh don't do any of the big giant stuff. It's not that i can't, but it's one of those things that um we were good at.

What we do and stepping out of our comfort zone adds a lot of complexity to things um, so we're good working in the restaurant stuff on the smaller commercial setting. So that's kind of what we stick to so um brandon ali. Thank you so very much for that super chat. Man all right.

Let's see uh the live, repairs so yeah. I definitely want to try to do the live repairs a little bit more um. It's! It's very difficult, though, as far as the live repairs go but um, i recently i'm still trying to figure out like a better mic setup and different things like that, because uh the few live repairs. I've done, i think, one i did in my van and i was using my bluetooth and i just didn't like it and then i did the live repair that i did was a bluetooth one too, and i just didn't like the audio, and i know that a Lot of people said they were cool with the audio, but guys i can't deal with it like.

I can't know that there's horrible audio out there, it just drives me nuts, and i mean i know, i'm not perfect with this setup, but at least it's decent and you've got bass and it sounds good. So i recently went to a wired mic on my phone. The other night and when i called in to my buddy rick with hvacr survival, he does live streams. Sunday evenings go check out the hvacr survival youtube channel.

I don't know if any of the mods can put rick's uh um channel, so you guys can go subscribe to it. But i went on rick's show the other night and i was using a plug-in um like the akc headphones that come with the samsung phones, and i was actually very impressed with the audio for being a remote microphone. But the the problem with that is is that i'm restricted to like. I can't put my phone on a tripod, because i've only got a four foot.

You know wire connecting the headphones to the mic, so anyways, but i'll figure that out and i'll try to do more live um streams, that'd be kind of cool, so um, let's see rion said if i only had skills to do giant industrial stuff. That would be so cool to see a giant industrial unit since you love industrial stuff, so uh rion. What i would suggest you do is um. I don't know if any of the mods can do this quick enough or not, but i would suggest that you go subscribe to ulysses palacio's youtube channel.

Forgive me if i butchered your name, ulysses um, but go subscribe to ulysses palacio's youtube channel. He does the heavy industrial stuff and he shows some ammonia stuff um. He doesn't he's been doing videos more often he actually is doing a podcast with my buddy uh reuben macias, rookie, refrigeration, uh they're, doing a podcast together with a couple other guys, and i believe it's called the hvacr podcast. Forgive me if i'm butchering that but um any of you guys that are interested.

If you can't find that podcast send me an email and i'll, send you guys links to all that stuff, but a really cool podcast, but definitely go subscribe to ruben and uh ulysses. Youtube channel so all right, um, i'm going to again guys these super chats that are coming in. Thank you! So very much uh. Let's see oh yeah cool, there's, rick hvacr, all right, um yeah, the lav mics that are wireless.

I might do that again. There's some limitations to it, but i definitely i have like the rode. Um wireless go mics and stuff, so maybe i'll do some experimenting with those and see how the audio sounds and then we can do some more live stuff. So all right, i'm gon na get to my list of things to talk about, feel free to put questions and caps lock in the chat.

Like i said before, and um i've been getting uh a ton of service calls on the weekends guys it's been really like. Wearing me down actually um, my wife has been cool with it. My kids have been cool with it, but i've just been getting worn out so currently right now, i'm a guy short. I have a guy out on sick leave, he'll be back hopefully soon, but on top of that, so that's putting me into a four week rotation.

So i'm four weeks on call one week off and i just swear every weekend: it's just boom boom boom. You know sunday evening service calls and it just wears you down, but i try to be um as careful with the customer as possible, even though i'm frustrated, even though it wears me down, even though i'm exhausted you know, i want to be upset, sometimes with the Customer, especially when you get that service call and they say yeah, you know it. It wasn't working very well last night, but i thought maybe it was in defrost and then i came in this morning and it was still a little funky. But i thought maybe if i shut the door, it'd be cool and then they call me at five o'clock that evening.

So it's been down for a day and a half, you know and then it's like a dire emergency and it's like that seriously is like getting stabbed in the stomach you're like oh man, come on for real, like he can't wait couple more hours, but again the Way that i look at it is, i try to convince myself, but guys don't get me wrong. I still get frustrated, but i try to convince myself that you know what i'm thankful, that i have the work because there's some people that are unemployed right now. You know not really in hvac, unless you just you know whatever but um. You know the there's a lot of people less fortunate than us, so i got to be thankful for the work that i'm given to and and you know i try to show that to the customers as much as possible.

Even when i'm frustrated i try to let them know, you know, thank you guys so very much. I really appreciate this. You know and at the same time i'm also really busy during the week so like for instance, last night i got a service call actually. Yesterday morning i got a service call and it was on a walk-in freezer and i went out there and it was one of those frustrating service calls.

The customer an email went through the facilities department facilities department emailed me around 8 9 30. In the morning. They said, walk in freezer down, but in the email chain that the facilities director just forwarded to me, i saw that it was down the previous day. It was a walk-in freezer, so i'm like i'm already irritated because it was down the previous day and they're just calling me the sunday morning.

You know like it was just like come on guys, but so i went out there and to add insult to injury. The walk-in freezer was working and the customer said: oh it tripped the breaker yesterday and i reset it and it's been running fine since and it's like uh, you know inside i'm just going crazy and it's like come on. If it was working, then why? Wouldn't you let me wait until monday, okay, but i bit my tongue. I looked into it.

I figured you know what i'm here, i'm gon na spend some time. We have a two hour minimum on overtime. So i'm like i'm here, anyways, i'm gon na just go ahead and you know give them a little bit of my time. So i'm looking at everything - and i found a few things wrong - found some loose wires found a twist timer.

That's on it's like a pump down timer that the cooks have so that way when they go in and out of the freezer, they can twist it the twist timer was full of ice so and it's high voltage going into that twist timer. So i never found like something that jumped out and said hey. This is the reason why the breaker tripped, but i did find some issues you know so. I still gave the customer a little peace of mind still spent some time making sure everything was good, but then right after that call i get another service call and it's for ice machines down it's like okay.

So i go over to this call and i find out i get up on the roof and the condenser fan motors, aren't working and - and i open up the rack and and for those that watch my videos on a regular. It's one of those racks that has lamp cord in it and i was just like frustrated okay, so i open it up and i know there's got to be a short. I would assume that there's a short in the lamp cord, but i don't know because i reset the breaker and all the condenser fan motors start up and everything's running. Okay and now this is a common rack that has two ice machine condensers with two fan motors, and then it has two fan motors for the rest of the rack.

But all the wiring is all jacked up. So in that situation, i'm busy during the week and i've got a lot of stuff going on a lot of construction, jobs and different things, and, to be honest with you, i could have just gotten the rack going. I reset the breaker it was running. I probably could have just let it be and then gone back this morning when it wasn't on overtime.

But it's to the point that i can't waste the time anymore. I can't deal with these return visits when i'm busy. You know so that customer got seven hours of overtime for me to rewire that entire rack yesterday and i really didn't give them a choice now. I know that they're going to be okay with it because i probably still fell within my not to exceed value of.

I think my not to exceed value is like 1500 and i was under that for my time involved. But but still you know, i could have waited and put them off and you know, and it would have probably operated, but it was one of those things. That's like you know what i just got to get it done. You know, and i kind of wanted to cover like time management with that.

Sometimes you know we got to spend an extra hour or two or whatever. It is just to get things done because return visits they eat at you now. Sometimes return visits are necessary. You know you do a burnout, compressor change out and you tell them hey.

I got to come back out and change the dryers again or do an oil change or whatever you know sometimes are necessary, but i've been trying to be better at taking care of things. Now. Yes, it sucked. It was sunday, and you know what i could have been home.

Actually, i could have gone to a party with my family because my family was at a birthday party, but i just got to get these calls done, because that would have turned into a monday thing and i had a full day for myself and other texts today. Already planned, so we just got to get that stuff done the customer's, not really given a choice. It's just one of those things that, like you know what we got to get this stuff done and i've been telling them about that lamp cord. There's a couple: restaurants.

There was two, no three restaurants that have the lamp cord. I think i think three and i think i've fixed two of them, so i think there's still one more. That has a lamp cord and what i mean by lamp cord is it's the wrong style wire. It's just it looks like literally like a lamp cord and they just ran it, not in conduit.

You know running through chases and and it just shorts out everywhere. So um you know. Sometimes we just got to take the time and just get it done. You know it's frustrating, but it happens.

Uh do i only do do i do new construction or do i only do pm and repairs so america? Typically, i only do repairs and retrofit construction. I have done a little bit of new construction building. Some restaurants and different things with general contractors, but to be honest with you, it usually ends up biting us in the butt. We've got burned quite a few times by general contractors or other contractors that we were subbing for.

So we try not to do that as very much anymore and we pretty much only do retrofit construction on existing restaurants. Like you know the walking cooler equipment all needs to be replaced. That's what i call construction or we need to change an air conditioner package unit on the roof. That's to me! That's what we call construction so, but no, i don't do uh buildups from ground up or anything like that.

I don't do residential. So all right, let's see what else we got going on in this chat. Um. Let's see you get irritated already watching my videos seeing lamp cord, it makes you scream internally yeah exactly the lamp cord drives me nuts and there's a bunch of reaching coolers that he used the lamp cord too um, and it's just annoying.

I actually know the contractor. I know who it was: i'm not gon na, i don't reveal contractors names or anything, and i don't think he watches my videos, but if he does, he knows exactly what i'm talking about, because it's someone that i know very well um. Let me see what else we got in here: uh, let's see jack, you said you're currently making a micro system using a 12 volt compressor and fixed tube orifice after a filter, dryer you're using 134a. What would you use for a pressure control? You know 134a, with a pressure.

Control is really hard because you're not going to find a pressure control very accurate enough to handle 134a at medium temperatures or low temperatures, so on a typical capillary tube system. If everything is designed right on a 134a system, you're, probably going to run about i'd, say about a 10 to 15 back pressure. Okay and if you're doing a low low temp below zero you're, going to run in the negatives, actually you're going to run in a vacuum with 134a, so doing a pressure control is going to be really hard. You typically want to do a temperature controlled system, and i mean you can have a pressure control, but it might shut off too early, so it can be kind of complicated um.

Let's see what else we got going in here, what's wrong with lamp cord: it's not the right kind of stuff, it doesn't have ground wires and the technician before me was not running it in conduit. He was not putting chase nipples on there. He was not protecting the wires, so everything was shorting out as far as the one that i did over the weekend on sunday. Surprisingly, it was actually 14 gauge lamp cord, so it was actually decent but um still.

I ran all the condenser fan motors and all the electrical in conduit, 12 gauge wire ran grounds to everything: did it all legit and did it all right so um? Let me see what else uh, let's see: yeah 1210 wire for lights or solenoids yeah for sure all right um. What are some tips for new hvac technicians in the trade? That's a good question! So um. Let me see what else um so new technicians coming into the trade. One thing you need to understand is that we need you.

We need your help. Okay, but there's a lot that you guys have to learn and you got to learn it in a short amount of time. Okay, unfortunately, most companies are out there aren't giving you their full attention. They aren't spending a lot of time.

Training you guys, so you got ta. Do some work for yourself. You're, not gon na be handed everything okay. So what i would suggest you do is whenever you're working with someone when you're on a roof, take pictures of all the equipment data tags.

Even if you don't know what the equipment is, go home and research, it print out the manuals read them, learn them keep them in your van okay, even if you're not working on it. So that way, you're more familiar with the systems when you're working with other service technicians - and you have to know when to open your mouth and ask questions and when to keep your mouth shut and just help. Okay, i can't tell you that exact thing, but you're gon na have to figure it out because there's a time when, when you're working with a senior technician and he's super busy and he's got his hands deep and something trying to figure it out and you're over. Here asking about 10 million questions and while questions are great, there's a time and place for those questions.

Okay, so you may want to bring it up to them. Like hey bud, i got a bunch of questions about this system. Can i ask them to you now and they'll say you know what no not right now ask me later: okay, cool! You know but take lots of pictures and do lots of research when you go home just because you get off work. This is for the new technicians, just because you get off work at four or five doesn't mean your day's done.

Your day is just starting because you should be going back going through your camera roll pulling up those models and serial numbers doing research checking it out. You know figuring stuff out figuring out how it works. So that way, you know you're more prepared and then, when you're, for the newer guys, apprentices and stuff when you're working with someone, what the the best thing as an apprentice or as a helper or as a entry-level service technician for you to do, is to know What your senior service technician needs before he needs it. Okay, and what i mean by that is you're, doing a compressor, replacement and he's brazen in the compressor where's the vacuum pump go, get it before.

He even asks you for it. Okay, is there anything he's done with take it down before he even tells you to take it down. It may seem like you're, just a gopher but you're actually learning because you're being prepared. This goes into the time management that i was talking about earlier when you're a service technician.

Okay, i'm a i have to remember sometimes like i'm a fast-paced person, my wife, jokes and my kids joke with me, because my walk is their jog. Like i genuinely walk like a freaking maniac, i mean, and i don't even mean to be going crazy, like i have a fast walk. Okay, so i'm boom boom boom, i'm all day long and when i go home, i'm exhausted because i've just been pushing so hard through the day. But i try to be as efficient as possible bringing stuff down bringing stuff up.

You know because at the end of the the job i don't want to have two hours of cleanup. You know if, if, if i could clean up a little bit at a time as i'm going okay and trying to be prepared and trying to think way ahead, let's say that we have a job that has 10 steps to get it done when i'm doing step. One, i'm thinking all the way to step 10., while i'm still focusing on one i'm getting ready. So as i'm doing one i'm thinking, okay, how can step one make step 10 easier? You know, okay, if i do this first or if i cut this first, then it's going to make the next step easier and so forth and so forth and everything flows together.

Okay, sometimes it happens that i'm working with other service technicians and i have to explain it to them because they ask me questions they're, like hey, why don't we do it this way and it like it totally flusters me and it's okay. I don't mind the questions, but i have to stop and think and i'm like wait. Okay, there's a reason in my head, my head's saying: no, don't do it that way, but i can't think of the reason right now, but i already figured out this whole job. So my head just works so differently.

I don't know if any of you guys are like that in the chat, but i just my head, like i really think way ahead. My wife was telling me today she's she notices too, that i'm very focused when i'm doing something you know i just boom. I don't i tune everything out or if i can't tune everything out, i put headphones on or something, and i just focus on what i'm doing so all right. Let me get to the chat and see what i'm missing in here.

Uh, never waste a trip to get anything. That is exactly right. So um. Let me see what else we got in here: uh uh, right, yeah, never stop! Learning too! Okay um! I have been on cruise control lately and i need to get my game back in it.

Okay, i need to get on it because i haven't been reading. I haven't been watching. I haven't been listening to podcasts and i need to get back into that. You know.

I give myself a pass because we were going crazy over the summertime and i really didn't have any spare time, but as we're coming into the fall right now yeah it's time man, you really need to start. I really need to start getting back into the game. Focusing on education, i'm gon na be honest with you guys. I have um nate, you know nate certification and i think my nate certification is up in october and i don't have any continuing education hours.

I i'm gon na have to forfeit my nate basically and retake the test again. Unless they do something they may, they may give a pass or something like that, but i don't have any continuing education. I haven't done anything for six months, seven months, so i need to get on it for sure um, so jack jack brought up the point that i should get a gopro for videos and a lot of people have brought that point up many times before that i Should be filming with my head or a chest mount or different things like that, and i'm going to tell you for the most part, why i don't film with the gopro and that's because i get motion sickness and i can't edit the videos. Okay, the videos where i'm walking and moving and showing this and showing that they make me sick, and i can't do it it just i just can't so um, i'm more of a tripod person or a turn, your phone on and hold it now.

I personally use my phone a lot of people. Ask me what i use to film. I i just use my phone um. Let me see good gosh new emergency work order.

What is this? Oh geez, yeah lovely. So after this live stream, i get to uh drive out an hour and a half for a walk-in cooler, lovely, that's a fun one for sure all right. Well, it is what it is. So i'm going to keep on going with this, but anyways, oh yeah! That's how i was saying so i use my phone for editing or for filming my videos.

Okay, it's a galaxy s10 plus it does me well, it's done me very well for a long time, so um, let me see what else i'm missing in here all right. So um a lot of questions i get is is why do i not rebuild motors okay? So in my recent video um it keeps tripping the breaker. The ac keeps tripping the breaker. I had a motor that had bad bearings in it and i had a lot of people push back on that one and they're like hey.

Why didn't you just rebuild the bearings? You could have saved the customer, a bunch of money. Well, there's a lot that goes into that you have to think about as a business owner customers, don't like callbacks customers like things to be done. Okay, so if i take that motor out and go have it rebuilt that entire unit is down in the meantime? Okay, if i try to get bearings, i've never changed bearings in a motor. But if i try to get bearings and i spend six hours on the roof, getting the motor out changing the bearings, putting it back together and then we find out that there's other internal damage in the motor.

All that time is wasted. So it's really about efficiency and money. It just comes down to the dollar. You know we got to get this done.

We got to get it done fast and motors. I mean really they're cheap. Okay, for the most part, when you think about a motor costing you 500 bucks, 600 bucks for a 5 horsepower motor 700 bucks or whatever it is. That's not that bad when it comes to time and labor and where you got to go to get it.

The parts all that stuff - it's really not that bad most of the time it's just cheaper and faster to get it, replaced and knock it out. So all right, let's see what else we got going on in here. Um same thing goes with the. Why do that? What about changing compressors? You know in the recent video that i had where i said it sounded like it had rocks in it.

People asked: why did you change the compressor it was still pumping? It was still maintaining temperature. Why change it? Well, because i don't have time - and i don't want it to become a sunday night thing, but at the same time i was forthcoming with the customer, and i said: hey this compressor is going bad sounds horrible. I don't know how long it'll last it could. Last a day it could last a month who knows, i gave them a quote and they said replace it get it done, because the customer doesn't like unexpected downtime either they just want it done, knock it out all right.

Let's see what else see what else we got going on in here, um, let's see yeah, i could go now and bring you guys with me uh. You know if, if it's something that i can live stream, i would but it's an hour and a half away from me. So by the time i get there, it's going to be dark, but um are restaurants where i'm at at 75 or no no uh restaurants. In southern california, in certain counties that have been allowed are only at 25 capacity right now, so they're, not at full capacity and they're not allowed to be at full capacity, but the restaurants.

What they've been doing is they still have outdoor patios and then they can fill up to 25 capacity in the restaurant. But it's not all restaurants, it's county dependent, so the counties that have higher covered numbers. They don't get to open the counties that have lower coveted numbers they get to open, so the city, the county that i live in riverside county is allowed to open orange county is allowed to open certain counties. Are so, let's see what else we got in here? Um, where can you learn furnace? One thing you were never really taught.

Well, i don't work on a lot of furnaces. I have a basic understanding and i understand the sequence of operation. For most of them i can usually look at a user's manual and a schematic, but anybody that's looking to learn more information. I highly suggest you go check out my buddy brian orr's website hvacrschool.com.

He has all sorts of cool stuff on his website. Podcasts write-ups articles videos go check out his website. You guys won't be sorry. So let me see what else we got in here.

Um. Do my customers use kerrigo to dispatch? Am i having issues with it? Uh jamie i've been using kurigo for many years now. In fact, the software that i use is actually owned by kurigo for my invoicing software i use intuit field service management, which is similar to korigo it actually syncs, wirelessly or seamlessly with currigo. So, yes, i have a lot of customers and i have an another customer.

That's about to go to karigo i've. I really don't have problems with it per se. Um i've i've been lucky enough that it's been okay for me. So let me see what else we got in here: uh yeah, exactly ernesto.

I am on call all the time. Uh yeah it is, it is very difficult to find experienced service technicians right now. Um. I really haven't been pushing really hard.

I'm about to push right now we're about to find another experience, service tech, but uh yeah. It's a struggle! It's killing me right now. This these overtime calls it's driving me nuts uh. Have i tried using input or output sine wave filters on over and uh failing frequency drives? No, i have not tried to really do any crazy stuff with the drives um.

I had conversations with the drive manufacturers and the reps and distributors, basically and they've, told me that all these drives are being installed in the horrible environments in compressor compartments in evaporator, compartments, they're, saying these things aren't meant for this, but um. No. I have not tried to repair any of the drives. You know it's just one of those things.

A customer typically doesn't want to pay most of the energy efficiency stuff out there, the customers they don't want to pay to fix it most of the time they want. You to bypass it um. Let me see what else we got. I've been getting a lot of non-hvac people watching my videos and that's great.

I really think it's cool, because i've been getting these cool emails from people. Saying: hey, you know what i'm going to get into the trade, because i watch these videos or whatever that's really cool, it's inspiring to hear that kind of stuff, but at the same time sometimes non-hvac people. The criticism that they have. I don't get upset about it because again i'll make it clear right now, i'm 100, okay with criticism.

I have no problem with people um criticizing me. I have no problem with people telling me i'm wrong because i'm wrong all the time, guys, i'm not afraid to admit it. Okay, i mean the whole point of these. Videos is to show my mistakes: okay, um, but at the same time, some of the non-hvac people.

Don't quite understand the things that we go through as service technicians, for instance, worked a full day today, get home sit down start a live stream boom service call. I haven't even eaten dinner, like i'm, not gon na eat dinner. When i get done with this stream, i'll put my work, clothes on i'm going to bounce out the door and go take care of the service, call that's an hour and a half away from my house. So, who knows what it's going to be um, but that stuff happens more and more, and you know a lot of the non-hvac people, don't understand it and hopefully, as they watch more and more of my videos, they'll get it.

You know i get a lot of restaurant owners that watch these videos and it's and i understand their side of it: okay, because they're small business and they're in it to make money and they're frustrated, because their particular contractor isn't as honest with them or they feel Like he's not honest with them, and that's something that you need to address with your contractor, you know when it comes to this: don't don't assume that every hvac service technician out there is out to get you because they're, not okay! There's a lot of great service technicians. Don't get me wrong, there's some bad ones too, but there's a lot of good service technicians. Okay, all right! Let's see what else we got going on in here um. Let me see.

Uh you've been an apprentice for five months and start on call next week. Good job proceed, that's awesome bud! So that's how i do it with my apprentices too in the past was, i would put them in an on-call rotation with me and then they would slowly start taking calls with me. Sometimes i would give them a half hour head start hour. Head start.

Let them go and diagnose a little bit then i'll come in you know and help them out a little bit, but that's good when you start doing the on-call. It's really good for you. Is it more beneficial for a company to hire a new tech or pay a senior tech high dollar? Mr green? I've done both ways. I've had success both ways and i've had failure both ways, so it really depends on the situation.

Um. Let me see what else we got in here. Do i have another one? Okay, no, i just got a voicemail as all that it was. I was just making sure.

Oh, that's just my kid's stupid school um. My kids school calls me three times a day to leave stupid non-important voicemails on my phone. It's driving me nuts. I need to unsubscribe from it.

It really is driving me nuts, all right, let's see uh so as far as hiring an experienced tech or building from the ground up, it really depends. Okay, you hire an experienced tech uh unless you get a diamond in the rough you're gon na have someone that has habits that maybe don't line up with your company's vision. Okay, so those are some things that can be a criticism, but an experienced tech. You get a good one, that's really good and you're gon na be able to let him go and he's gon na be able to take care of service calls.

That's that's a big thing for a company owner. Okay for me to hire an apprentice right now. It's stressful because i told you guys i'm four weeks on right now right. So if i hire an apprentice, what that means is i have to ride with that apprentice every day to make sure that he gets his 40 hours a week? Okay, so i have to commit to being with that guy every single day on top of the on-call schedule too.

So it's a struggle either way, you know, but there's good and bad. I mean this is the fun stuff of being a business owners. You got to deal with this and it's a headache sometimes, but you know again, i'm thankful to be to be able to do what i i can do so um. Let me see thanks for the truetech tools yeah.

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My moderator bot should be posting it here in a minute. It's a continuation of the webinar that they had last week, i'm going to post it in the chat, real quick for you, guys, uh intro to refrigeration. What is refrigeration part two, basically, so guys definitely go check that out and uh um holy crap. Thank you for so much for the super chats guys, whoa, oh okay, all right cool um! Let me see what else we got in here.

What on earth is that thing on the board? Oh the ball, the board behind me. So that is a smoke detector. It is essentially a duct detector or a smoke alarm like you have in your own home, but it's for uh package units, an air conditioning unit. So that is a trainer board that i had set up for my service technicians.

If you look on my channel just search duct detector on my youtube channel and they'll, be like three different videos that i've shown that board and like it's just to help. People, train and - and you know, learn how to use those things. So let me see what else we got in here. What side of the paycheck do i sign at the end of the week, listen to the boss pick up the phone fix stuff get paid.

Oh yeah, true there you go um all right and uh. What on okay? Sorry to answer that, one: okay, i'm gon na get to my list of things to talk about um, so david had posted a comment and it was actually a really good comment. David um and i'm gon na address it a little bit so david had posted a comment on my youtube channel and he was just talking about the efficiency and how much better scroll compressors are than resip, compressors, okay, um, semi-hermetic or resip or or i guess the Semi-Hermetic is a reset, but he was just saying how much better a scroll was, and there is truth that scroll compressors typically are more efficient than reciprocating compressors for sure. Okay, but scroll compressors have their own problems at the same time.

Okay, when you're dealing with the smaller systems that i deal with just the medium temperature and low temperature refrigeration with a scroll compressor. The the first thing i'm going to tell you right now is that scrolls don't like pumping down okay, we deal with pump down systems. All the time in the restaurants and on walk-ins and different things like that, when the system goes to turn or to to operate, and then it satisfies it, pumps down the liquid line, solenoid valve closes, the compressor continues to run the suction pressure, gets lower and lower, And lower typically around 5 to 10 psi, then the compressor turns off and then, when the solenoid valve back opens back up, the suction pressure gets higher. The pressure control turns it back on well on a scroll compressor, scroll compressors, don't like pumping down to 5 to 10 psi.

Typically, they want to be around 15 psi and what will actually happen is, as they start to pump down, especially if they pump down past 10 psi. What you'll actually hear is the internal pressure relief in the scroll compressor, actually open and kind of equalize out the pressures in a way you'll kind of hear, like almost like a blow-off valve. You know and you'll see your suction pressure rise again real, quick, okay and then it turns back on and then it turns off and then it turns back on and then it turns off. So we have a lot of short cycling issues so much that copeland actually came up with the service bulletin and they send out a time delay relay with their scroll compressors, okay.

So that way, when they shut off, it's like a 90 second timer. It won't let it turn back on for another 90 seconds. It kind of calms things down a little bit because, especially when those compressors were first being used on the refrigeration systems, you had a lot of compressor failures because of short cycling people not setting the pressure, controls right and you just ran into problems so scroll compressors. I will agree that they're more efficient for sure, but they have their own problems too.

Okay and they can be frustrating, especially when you're trying to set pressure controls - and you know it's just a pain, sometimes all right um. Let me see what else uh so a lot of people have been noticing - and you know i joke and stuff in my videos and say that we have a lot of uh high temperatures out here in southern california. So this this summer we had 121 degrees. Was our high uh outdoor ambient temperature, okay and uh um? That's last year was a year before last 120 degrees with that that was a high of my house.

It was crazy um, but you know we don't have humidity here in california and that's something i don't have to deal with for the most part like right now. I bet you it's probably 10 humidity outside it's probably 30 humidity in my house. Okay, um realize that there's other places in the midwest and stuff like that and in the south that have crazy high temperatures and humidity 100 degrees with 90 humidity. Like oh, my gosh, i would lose my mind.

Okay, but what's interesting is the people that work in that crazy weather with the high humidity they're they're kind of used to it so they're kind of know how to prepare for it same thing with me. I work in 120 degrees on a regular and it's no big thing to me. I wear long sleeve shirts, i wear a head scarf, keep the sun off my skin. You know it's just things that you prepare for i've grown up in this trade.

I've worked in it all my life, you know to hydrate and take care of your body so um. I i encourage all you guys to try to tear down the compressors, like i did in this last video. Just take a grinder wheel, cut the compressor, open, you'll, learn a lot about compressors, you get to start pulling components apart, and you see what copper plating does not pulling evacuations properly. Why things happen? Um definitely uh encourage you guys to pull compressors apart as much as possible.

Okay, let me see what else we got in here. Um all right! Well, you guys are gon na get to see me. Take a phone call: real quick, live on the air, because a customer that wants me to come out and work on their walk and cooler is calling me right now, so i'm gon na call them back. Bear with me.

One second got ta go through all these. On hold things to be able to talk to these customers as far as the smoke goes um, it's it's definitely impacting our condensers and stuff. It's definitely good gosh manager. They went automated manager.

Come on these automated things drive me nuts, good gosh, i'm so sick of these automated calls. So for those that are just tuning in right now, i'm calling a customer right now for a service call good gosh. These stupid things this customer's going crazy because get it come on. Okay, this is dumb.

These stupid. Automated things are driving me crazy right now, bear with me come on come on. They don't give you an option to talk to a manager, frustrating good gosh, so i'm on hold with the manager right now for those that are just tuning in because i got ta walk in cooler, this down, uh, yeah preston. Zero definitely helps i usually scream at my phone operator.

Man, please speak with a manager. Please do yeah. Thank you. Let me give you some on hold music.

They transferred me to a catering department. Man, please speak for the manager chris with jvs jvs yeah. Just have i ever dealt with cairns yeah. I've dealt with cairns before they drive me nuts.

We joke about that. All the time. Yeah everybody already figured out my stream name, i mean my company name. I try not to make it completely blatantly thing, but i'm not too sweating too much.

Lately everybody's been figuring, it out, hey it's chris, with jvs doing good. So, what's going on so it sounds like it's been down for a while, then huh, okay, all right! Well, we'll get you i'll get heading out there, yeah yeah, that shouldn't have anything to do with it, but okay well i'll get out there and we'll get on the walk-in. So we'll get you figured out. What time are you guys closing tonight? What time are you closing? Okay, all right i'll, be out there in a bit all right, bye, bye, all right! Sorry about that guys, okay, so um! They were just taking me taking forever to answer that one! So all right, let's see what else we got going on in here now it's a walk-in cooler, that's down so yeah i'll, get to in a bit so um.

How come my customers haven't been doing preventative maintenance and much okay, so the preventative maintenance issues. It's been kind of a frustrating thing because you know um, i go out to these customers and it's like. Oh, this is bad or you know it's dirty or it's just like routine maintenance. That causes a lot of these issues.

Okay, um! I i try to give them the benefit of the doubt because of the kovitz stuff. Basically, everybody is in a reactive mood mode. Okay, so they're not doing preventative maintenance, they're just doing kind of reactive maintenance, so it breaks and then they say hey. Can you clean it while you're up there that kind of stuff it's frustrating? But you know it's just one of those things you just kind of got to learn to deal with it and they're, just all trying to save as much money as they can.

So it's a bummer, can a walk-in freezer be used for cryotherapy, i'm sure if they get it cold enough, i'm sure so. Has a package unit turned off on alarm when i staged down the unit um, yes, and no as in what do you mean turned off on alarm like i've set off duct detectors by powering down units before and that set alarms off um? As far as turned off on alarm, i don't know what you mean by that one so um can i take me. Can i take you guys with me on the service call if it's still daylight and it's something i can film then sure i would definitely try to go live. If i can so um, let's see what else we got going on uh yeah, you know um yeah.

I do get to eat free if i want to, but honestly i don't accept free food from the restaurants um. It's just. I used to all the time and there's nothing wrong with it. I just something i just haven't done in a long time.

I just try. Not to i'm so sick of the restaurant's food, and it's not that it's gross, i just i work in the restaurants every day. I don't want to eat that food um. How is it so? How is it so shane had asked a question.

How is it that i can go so deep into my service calls and he was like you know, don't you have other service calls you got to get to during the day? Yes, i do, but at the same time, if i take shortcuts - and i don't fix it properly while i'm there - then it's going to take me more time later on call backs and different things like that.