Ah, it's time to chill out and get ready for a mediocre. Qa 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 yo. Are you guys doing this evening? Hopefully you guys are doing well, so I'm gon na say this.

Now I'm gon na give it a few more minutes hold on I'm gon na give it a few more minutes. Let a few more people come in then I'll, announce the giveaway I'm gon na give away something in the chat tonight so, but give it a few more minutes. So hopefully you guys are doing well. I really appreciate you guys taking the time to stop by on your Monday evening.

Obviously you guys probably aren't too busy. Most of us in the country are bored sitting at home. I know some. Some people are still working and I'm happy for you guys.

I really am it's pretty interesting over here in Southern California. We are not working. I think I said this last time I mean I may be three or four service calls last week. That's about it for me, so it was not anything amazing when we're used to like six to nine a day, so it sucks but its life.

You know we're gon na make it through this one way or the other. So I will say it right now and I'll give it another opportunity to when the moderator bought. Does the song quote, there's gon na be song lyrics, okay, the first person to send me an email and it's just based off of Gmail, the first email that I see in my inbox. That says the artist and the song title.

It's a pretty easy one: okay, the artist in the song title. I will send you so long. I got ta be careful about this okay. I cannot ship all around the world, unfortunately because of prices.

Okay, so the first person within the United States that sends me the song title and the artist to my email, hvac our videos at gmail.com, okay I'll, send you a brand new set of field piece, Jobling probes, full set pressure, probes, temperature, probes, temperature clamps. I got an extra one sitting in my shop. I figured why not everybody's depressed and bummed out, so why not throw a set out there? Okay, I would love to be able to ship them all around the world guys. Unfortunately, I can't just because it gets ridiculously expensive, so I apologize to you guys that are outside the United States, but for those that are here the first person once the moderator bought posts, the song lyrics or yeah the lyrics it's gon na post, a lyric to It you got to be the first person to send me an email to HVAC our videos at gmail.com with the artist and the song title.

Okay, you got to get both. Alright, not the movie quote: there's gon na be a movie quote too. It's just for the song, okay, so the first person after the livestreams over the first email that I see in my inbox I'll, send you a response. Okay, alright! So yeah the lyrics will be in the chat.

I have no control over it. The moderator bots will post them in the chat at a predetermined time within the chat, so you guys will see it when it posts inside there. Okay and yeah there's, I think, there's gon na be three hints, so I'm pretty sure it's gon na go pretty quick. So, let's see if anybody gets it okay, I figured why not yeah.

I know I feel bad for the guys that are outside the United States, but we'll have to figure something out soon: okay and we'll figure, you know but anyways. I hope you guys are doing well I'll, say some more details about it in a few minutes. Okay. Well, I tell you what okay, I tell you, what LM Sylvia, if you guys live outside of the United States, and you want to compensate me or we'll figure something out for shipping I'll, still consider you, okay, so if you guys live outside the United States, I Will consider you you'll have to send me an email, that's if you're the first person to guess the song and the artist okay.

It is a pretty easy one. So yeah we'll work something out. So if you go outside of the United States, I'll still consider you so long as we can figure it out. Okay, but it's gon na be the first person that emails me when the night or it's not nightbot, it's the stream labs moderator when it posts it inside there, okay it'll be sometime in a little while you guys will see it, but it'll be a full set Of field peace, JobLink, probes and Ike and Jeff the maintenance man.

Thank you very much for those super chats much appreciated, not needed, but I do appreciate those okay. So, let's get onto the stream, obviously we're going through kovat everybody is we're stressed out about it. I talked about it on one of my laugh streams and I want to talk about it again. Okay, at this point in time.

To my knowledge, there is no proven cure for Cove at 19. Okay, so if anybody out there is telling you that they have EPA approved FDA approved any of that stuff, it's false information. Okay, there is no EPA approved or FDA approved. Kovan 19 cure.

At this point now there is some things that fight similar viruses: okay, cuz covin 19 - is a corona virus. I am NOT a doctor whatsoever, so you need to do your research, okay, but I'm just trying to warn against the snake oil companies out there. Okay or you know some kind of UV lights and different stuff like that, we don't know for sure if they solve the problem. Now, if you're, informing your customer that these things can kill, similar viruses - and you know, you're taking a shot in the dark to see.

If it might eliminate something, then so be it, but don't try to rip your customers off, don't tell them that a UV light is guaranteed to kill cove at 19, because you don't know that to be true. It may be true, but you do not know it at this point. Okay and you do have to be careful, not saying not trying to talk crap on UV light manufacturers or anything like that. But you know we don't know for sure.

Okay and UV lights can potentially cause harm to other things too, so you need to be careful. Okay, just be careful, try not to push too much stuff that you don't know to be factual or true. Now again, I totally understand if someone out there wants to inform the customer that this thing works on similar viruses and stuff, like that, as long as the customer is fully aware that it's a shot in the dark, it's an educated, guess sure that's fair, but you Guys need to be fair to your customers. You need to be honest to your customers.

Okay, I am no way an expert when it comes to viruses or any of that crap. I just know enough to read between the lines. Okay, I had a customer call me today, one of my restaurant customers and they said hey, you know what they heard about something you know this, this air filter that kills the virus and all this different stuff and - and I informed them okay, I realized that I Could jump on a bandwagon and sell my customers all these products in the world, but I informed him look okay. We can look into this stuff, there's no proven solution here.

Yet, okay and then I gave him my ideas. I said: hey. They use standard air filters on their preventative maintenance program. I said: hey, you know what until we know more, let's consider changing your filters over to pleated air filters.

Let's consider fixing all your economizers, your outdoor air dampers and your exhaust fans. Let's get more air exchanges inside your building, remove the potential of bad air that people are off gassing, put in fresh air into the building. Let's start with that, and then we can, you know, try some of these other things, but I suggested to him: hey: let's go that route, you know, and then I told him I would do a little bit more research. I firmly believe that within the next year, or so, there's going to be strict federal regulations, not just state, but I bet you federal regulations about air exchanges, indoor air quality, indoor, air quality, monitors and different things like that.

I honestly see that as the future monitoring indoor air right right now, we have stuff like that. In California, we have some of the strictest indoor air requirements. We have to do air exchanges. We have to have outdoor air dampers economizers different stuff, like that, bring in fresh air we're supposed to have co2 sensors, but they only do that on new installations and anything after that nobody's enforcing it, and the return on investment isn't there for the customer.

So when those economizers break the customer doesn't want to fix them, they just throw them away. So you know that's kind of a bummer, so yeah, that's my two cents on that. Okay, David! Do I build walkins at all? No, I do not build walkins. I've never built a walk-in, I've seen them done.

I've heard a lot of people say that they're really easy. I do retrofit installation. So if you have an existing walk-in cooler, I'm a service company. Okay! So I do a retrofit.

I can change the evaporator, the condenser change the line set, but I'm not a contractor. I are a construction guy. I don't build walk-ins, I don't level floors that kind of stuff. So let's see what else all right, let me see what I'm missing here, hmm seen.

If I'm missing any comments in here right now, yeah exactly I see, I see you there. Big nate is the quote: being posted by stream labs. Yes, my stream labs moderator bot is gon na post, the song quote. I will say it again right now: my stream labs moderator bot is gon na post movie quotes and song quotes the first person to send me an email to HVAC our videos at gmail.com when the moderator bot posts, the song, quote: okay, the first person to send Me an email with the correct artist and song title: I'm gon na send a set of field piece, Jobling probes to you.

Now, if you live outside the United States, we're gon na have to figure something out on the freight. Okay. You'll have to compensate me for the freight or something like that, but within the United States, I'll ship them, okay, so and I have no control, I do have control moderator, bots gon na. Do it at a certain time frame within the stream.

It's not gon na. Be at the end, I can promise you that, but it'll just pop up randomly have, I ever had a reversing valve stuck in the cooling position, helpful in cool videos. No, I have not had a reversing valve stuck in the cool position. The only failures I've personally had on reversing valves - I don't work on a lot of heat pumps, but the only failures that I've had on reversing valves is leaks on the equaliser lines on reversing valves.

I've never had one stick in one position or the other. I will say majority of the time reversing valve failures that are sticking oftentimes are caused by a dirty system: people not following proper refrigeration practices when they're vacuuming when they're changing dryers, cutting lines and different things like that causes issues with reversing valves. That's my personal opinion. On it, okay, do I ever see AC units with four ten, a refrigerant? Yes, I do all the time.

What is the science experiment behind me on the wall? The science experiment on the wall behind me is actually in my most well one of my two most recent videos that I just released last week. Okay, actually just yesterday, it is a duck detector and I explained its operation. I believe the video title is duck. Detector accepter operation explained or something like that.

I just released it yesterday. Okay, so let's talk about the two videos that I released our three videos. Actually, you guys got a bonus video this week, so I released a walk-in cooler down video last week, okay, and that was one where we had a walk-in cooler down. I went out there.

I found a bad condenser fan motor some electrical shorts in the conduit replaced. The fan motor got the system back up and running. Okay, the compressor had shut off on thermal overload. It was you know, just one of those investigative things as usual, like I normally do.

The next video that I released was a duck detector, tripped video, and that was an actual service call where I had a duck detector that was full of water and it was causing a nuisance trip. I ended up repairing it rip. There was an existing duck. Detector you'll have to watch the video to understand exactly what happened, but it was a pretty interesting one and then because of that video, I figured you know what I'm gon na make a new video where I took that smoke.

Detector training board behind me and I broke down a duck. Detector showed the alarm condition the trouble condition the end-of-line resistor and showed and explained why and what the operation was. Okay, I'm gon na look at the chat here, real, quick and see what I have have. I ever been able to pump down a system because the TXV is too plugged up.

Have I never been able to pump down a system because the TXV is too plugged up a good point? Yes, that has happened. I've had t -- xv s or expansion valves where the power head has failed. The valve fails in the closed position and then it makes it very hard to pump down the system and in fact, you actually end up havin to recover the system unless it's a multiplex system. Okay, I deal with a lot of multiplex systems where we have multiple evaporators, multiple solenoid valves, multiple TX V's.

In that situation, all you would have to do is energize all the other cylinders and the refrigerant will flow through the system. But if it's a single evaporator system with a single expansion valve and the expansion valve fails in the closed position, you are gon na have a very hard time pumping the system down. You will have trapped refrigerant in there and in that situation you are more than likely gon na have to recover the refrigerant. Now, let's see what else, let me see what I am missing in here.

Oh, look, you guys are going to get it pretty quick because the the movie quotes already popping up, so the song quotes are gon na be coming shortly. After that, so remember it's the song quote: not the movie quote, don't start sending me a bunch of emails about the movie quote, I'm still curious. If anybody can guess what movie that is, but there's no prize for the movie quote, it's only for the song artist and title in my email, HVAC our videos at gmail.com. Have I ever found a control board with a relay stuck with the indoor blower motor on, not that I can recall, but that doesn't sound like something that would be uncommon where the indoor blower motor relay would be stuck on or something like that.

But I can't recall that ever being a problem, so what could cause a compressor to lock up all sorts of things can cause a compressor to lock up most of the time it's going to be some sort of a mechanical failure inside the compressor. But what caused the mechanical failure is the question. The big-picture diagnosis is going to lead you to that problem. Okay, so let me see I'm gon na go ahead and go to my list of things.

So let's talk about my walking cooler down video, the one that I the first one that I released last week. So on that video, the I went there, the compressor. Actually the system wasn't running. It was off on thermal overload, it reset itself by the time I walked up, and then I found that a condenser fan motor wasn't working.

I got a bunch of feedback on that one in different ways: okay, first off there was way too many wires crammed in that conduit. It was very difficult and I ended up having to peel back the conduit and try to find the the short I ended up. Creating a short found, another short, but not the short for that motor. I never found an electrical short for the circuit that the motor that was that was bad on it was actually can you know.

I never found an electrical short on that circuit. Okay, they just had that conduit jammed full of multiple wires. So why did I change the motor in that situation? Okay, and that was when I got a lot of feedback for more or so it was personal experience. First off we do the process of elimination.

The fuse was blown. I didn't find any direct shorts trace down the wiring check the wiring from the contactor all the way to the motor no shorts, no broken wires tested the capacitor for the motor. The capacitor was fine. Then I had to make a judgment call: do I just start it up and say: let's see, if anything happens, okay, do I grab a mega ohm meter and megg out the wires.

That would have been a good solution, but I don't own a mega meter. Okay or a mega, I haven't, had the need for one at this time. You know maybe someday I'll get one or something, but the next thing was it's just a process of elimination. If the fuse was blown, there's no electrical short in the wiring, it's got to be the condenser fan motor, so I changed it.

So I did make an educated guess: okay, there's a potential that there was something else wrong with that. There is okay because I did make an educated guess, but I will say to my defense: I made an educated guess because of experience. I work with those particular refrigeration racks quite often, and I know that we have a high failure rate on condenser fan motors. The second thing is is that I lost my train of thought there for a second but um.

Where was I going with that? Sorry, brain fart totally lost my train of thought. Let's see I'll think of it here in just a second. So all right, let's see sorry, I just brain fart - happens too often yeah guys questions in the chat put them in caps, lock and I'll definitely try to get to them. Okay, with the I'm gon na, say right now again cuz, I know there's some more people that just came in the first person to guess the song artist in title and send me an email, hvac.

Our videos at gmail.com there'll be lyrics posted in the chat. The first person to send me an email if you live in the United States, I'm gon na send you a set of field peace, job link, probes and in guys, if you live outside the United States, we'll have to figure something out about the freight. You know, but the first person to send me an email, the HVAC, our videos, a gmail.com, okay, the moderator bot is gon na post it in there but yeah. Sorry again, I lost my train of thought.

I got sidetracked there. Let me see: hey, there's my buddy Ralph, how you doing Ralph! Okay. Do I ever work on Henny Penny equipment? Damien? No, I don't do any hot side, equipment, Damien! Sorry, but let me see what else. Oh all right, dammit that one's too easy! You guys that one is too easy.

If you guys, don't guess that song called quick style, that's ridiculous! I didn't even realize that was gon na be the first one. Oh gosh, that's a really easy one. Alright, it's already up guys. So you better guess it first person to send me an email, the HVAC, our videos at gmail.com, with the artist and song title wins a field peach gobbling probe set is superheat and sub cooling the same for any system Dion.

I don't understand what you mean by that, but I mean, are you saying? Should it be the same for every system? No, not necessarily so I need some more context. I honestly feel like that's going down a path that maybe you need to send me an email and ask me that question, but so let me see are x11 or no on burn out smell. No, I don't use additives in the systems. I've done are x11 in the past.

I've had, I wouldn't say, good luck with it. I haven't burnt out compressors, but I've just decided to not use additives in my system, such as our x11 flush I'd, rather just purge with just plain old nitrogen and carry the problem so yeah. I do not use any additives in my systems, so I'm just kind of curious. If anybody - oh yeah yeah, we already got tons of emails, so I'm gon na have to go through and see who was the first, but you already got tons of emails here.

Let me see: No, oh man, you guys all right, there's already emailed someone already one. You guys got to give me a minute, though here let me see yeah I'll have to look through, but someone's already won yeah. My emails blown up, there's like 30 emails in there. That's too funny all right, but um yeah, as far as all have to figure out who was the first I'll, send you an email back after the stream.

So, as far as the the giveaways guys, that's just something fun that I had at my shop and I figured why not. I can't always do that kind of stuff. Okay, so I don't want to lead. That's why I didn't like promote this or anything on my channel or anything like that.

I don't want it to draw people that don't normally watch my live streams. I figured I'd just do it as a bonus for you guys that normally watch the live streams. Okay, so maybe someday in the future, we'll do another giveaway like that, but that was it for now and like I said, people have already guessed it, but I need to go through and see who was the first before I announce it, so I'll send an email. After this stream, okay, all right Aldo Martinez, 460 voltage motor.

What's the max voltage, I don't know, although usually it's rated on the motor depending on what type of motor it is off the top of my head, I'm I want to say 10 % over, but I don't know that to be a fact. Okay, that's my gut. Tells me 10 % over voltage, but I don't know that to be true for sure. Have I ever changed protocol for Void? No, that sounds like a controls issue and I've never dealt with that.

Alright, let's see yeah everybody sent me the email guys so yeah no worries all right. Do I have a spare copeland scroll compressor? I have all kinds of copeland scroll compressors on the side of my house, but they're, not operational they're, not for anybody they're. For me to cut up and experiment with so one of my projects that i'm going to be working on soon is an experiment. Where i take a coke Lenoir, I mean a compressor.

That's operating have a few hundred and fifteen volt compressors that are still running and then also I have some 208 volt 3-phase compressors and I want a wire one up to one of those VFDs and try to see if I can make it operate once I've cut It up and run it slow and different stuff like that, so that'll be an experiment. We'll do some time soon. Let me see basic questions. Oh so you know: okay, yeah, all right um.

Let me see all right. Milky covered milky, colored vacuum pump oil. After a few minutes of runtime usually indicates moisture in the system, so that's probably a very moisture Laden system, but you also have to be careful because when you start up a vacuum pump such as my field, piece vacuum pump right when you start it up, especially If you open the gas belt - or you know, if you don't open the gas ballast, the oil will kind of change a little bit in color, as it pulls out that first initial bit of air and moisture give it a minute it'll kind of tone down. But if it literally turns milky and stays milky even after you shut it off, then it's time to change your oil and do another oil change and keep doing it until the oil clears up.

So all right duck detector. So I talked about made a video about a duck detector and I broke it down at a restaurant and showed the operation. Now, in that situation, we had a redundant duck detector or smoke detector that was already installed in the rtu unit, and I was able to utilize the existing duck detector and just rewire the system. Now in a perfect world.

Yes, I would have called the fire alarm: company had them come out, run their red jacketed control voltage to the duck detector from that junction box, but all I had was regular brown jacketed thermostat wire, so it is what it is. Okay in that situation, though, I got a lot of questions about that, because I did point out that I was a little frustrated with the installing contractor of that rtu unit. It wasn't me I actually lost that job, but anyways. It is what it is.

I'm not bitter or anything you know, but uh. No, I actually lost that job, and that is not the first thing that I pointed out after they did the installation. The customer called me back to because I do their normal service work and they called me back, and I found all kinds of problems I mean it's still, not even ideal. You saw that funky gas line like how close it was to the condenser.

That's because I called them on the gas line. I was like what the heck you guys. They is just stupid. They anyways long story short, I'm over that I'm not bitter, but that's a good point.

I really am not bitter. You know, because you get what you pay for and in that situation I know that the installing contractor made some mistakes. You could see it in the shoddy work that he did running the conduit through the ductwork and stuff like that in my video. Ok, but you know people are asking me: why didn't you tell the customer or why did I not expose the contractors name, because I actually took the contractors installation sticker off the unit that says their name? They know who they are because they watch my videos on a regular there, one of my local college competitors, but I just don't want to blow nobody up yeah enough.

I know that a lot of their technicians watch my videos, so that's satisfaction enough for me to be able to say: hey guys, you did something wrong here, even if that's not the technician that did the work, they know who they are. So you know whatever they can figure that one out, but it's I'm not gon na go to my customer and start complaining. You know, oh well, you know they made it. This is their problem.

I don't do that when I go downstairs to the customer. I just say: hey, look, there's a bad smoke detector and there happens to be an extra one and when they ask well, why is there an extra one I said? Well I mean to be honest with you. The installing contractor didn't hook up the one that came with the unit, so I was able to utilize what was there and it was just ok whatever you know, I got it working I'd rather not talk bad about someone at least and name them. If I don't have to so, there's no point in going out there putting their information out there.

Anything like that, I'm not that's not with my channels for my channels just to try to share the little bit of knowledge that I have ok, but I do have to acknowledge the fact that I am human and I do show frustration sometimes or I may vent Some feelings or different things, but it is what it is. So, let's see what's going on in the chat, what I missed yeah the movie has Hunger Games. I actually watched those between yesterday and today I watched them all with my wife and my daughter cuz. We were bored so we watched the the last one today I read those books.

Those were actually, if you guys haven't, read The Hunger Games books. They are so much better than the movies. Those ones are amazing, start from in the last Hunger Games book. I couldn't put it down, I read it all.

In one day, my eyes hurt my head hurt, but I read it all in one day or all units required to have duck detectors even old and older units Damian. Well, it depends on your local codes, your local city codes, county codes, whatever, depending on who's, the the controller of Union municipality in your area in my area, anything over 2000 CFM's. I believe I think that's what it is. 2000 CFM's of air movement has to have a duck detector.

I believe that's the code, so basically anything over five tons has to have a duck detector in my area. I think that's what it is again. I saw I don't do a lot of installations. That's just what I remember off the top of my head.

Let's see what else in many big money talks, some mechanics, lowball & do horrible jobs. You get what you pay for yeah and to be fair primetime. I don't do installation work. The reason why I didn't get that job to be completely honest, is because I was gon na.

I brought up to the customer's attention that I wanted to get the city involved and that we were gon na have a crane on-site for a very long time. There was some tricky electrical issues and I needed an electrician on-site and you know they decided to go with someone else. So that's why it is what it is to be honest with you. I bid it really high because I needed to cover my butt and I knew the city was going to get involved and with the city involved.

They raised all kinds of red tape and it just becomes a nightmare of duck, testing and different stuff like that. So I have a strong feeling that the city wasn't involved, but yeah, you know again not my problem. Can I connect a 240 volt compressor to a 10 amp relay board helpful and cool videos? I have no idea, but it depends on how many amps that compressor draws. So you know your inrush currents going to be a big issue, your startup current, but yeah.

It just depends on what size or what. What the current draw. The compressor is, and that's going to tell you and how fast that fuse is going to blow on that 10 ounce circuit, so yeah have. I ever had a compressor blow or lock up.

While I was working on it um. I can't say that I've had a compressor blow or lock up directly well yeah yeah. I guess I have. I mean I've had compressor yeah yeah I've had compressors lock, I'm not blow up, though I've never seen anything blow up.

While I was working on it. I take that back. I've blown up, VFD drives or VFD. Sorry, I'm gon na trigger everybody because I said VFD drive I've I've blown up VFDs because I didn't hook them up right.

I hook the line voltage to the load voltage and they go boom makes a big ol explosion, the capacitors blowout and everything it's not fun, so you only usually do that once. Hopefully, when do I not recommend using Jobling probes, reto Felix, I go between the JobLink probes and the field peace manifold. Quite often, it just depends on the situation. You know if, if it's really hot, outside really really hot in the summertime and I'm working out in the desert, where it can get like 110 120 degrees oftentimes, I'm not gon na grab my Jobling probes, because my phone typically overheats and you need your phone to Work, your JobLink probes, that's a time when I'll probably grab a tablet.

I mean a field piece manifold or even a compound manifold, just a normal refrigerant gauges. So you know it just depends. But for the most part I use JobLink probes for almost everything I even charge through them. It's super heating subcooling the same for any system Dione.

It really depends, but I need more context to that question. So please send me an email to HVAC our videos at gmail.com and I can help you out a little bit more. I don't know where you're going with that question. So that's why and for anybody else.

If I don't answer your guys's question feel free to send me an email all right. Let me see okay cool, I'm gon na go to this right here. So after I did the duct detector video right, where I showed that I figured you know what I have. This trainer board behind me and I've done one before on my channel, but I decided to do another one.

So I did a video where I broke down that training board and you know, showed everything the operation and explained everything. So that's the three videos I released last week. Three videos is a bonus because normally I'm only doing two, I don't plan on doing three again. That was just I had some spare time yesterday, so I shot an extra one.

Okay, alright, I talked about Cova 19. I'm going to just cover it again because I know we have a lot of new people in here, so Cova 19. Alright, snake oil cures. That's what I have on my notes right here, I'm gon na say this again.

There is no proving key that I know of right now or solution for Cove at 19. Okay, there's, no FDA approved EPA approved anything that is that I've heard of at this point. If there's something that I'm missing, please feel free to send me information, but there's no information that I have read yet that says a UV light kills Cove at 19 or this particular evaporator coil kills Cove in 19, or anything like that. Okay, what I need to make sure that you guys understand again, I am NOT an expert in this field.

There's plenty people that are much smarter than I that are probably more qualified to talk about this. There is a difference between corona virus and koban 19. So the conspiracy theorists out there that say how come on the back of a bleach bottle, it says, kills corona virus because the common cold is a corona virus. The flu is a corona virus, they're all called corona viruses, so blame that one on our media and some of our politicians for going around calling this pandemic that we're fighting a corona virus.

Okay, the it is a corona virus, but the type the name of it is Kovan 19. Okay and there's nothing - that's been proven to cure Cove at 19. So if these manufacturers, these supply houses, are pushing this particular evaporator coil cleaner to kill kovat 19 they're lying to you, okay, now there's a possibility that they might kill them. But we don't have any proven information that says this kills this I'm saying this because I know we have a lot of new viewers.

I talked about this about 15 minutes ago, but I'm just gon na keep saying some of this stuff. Okay, so covered that question. That I had in my comments - and I get this one quite often - why don't I repair more parts when I have a bad VFD? Why don't I change the circuit board in it when I have a bad circuit board that has a bad relay on it? Why don't i unsolder the relay and put a new relay on that circuit board? You certainly can, and there is people out there that do that kind of stuff. All the time I'm not gon na say I've never done something like that.

Why don't I change bearings in an exhaust fan motor okay? First off, you have to understand something you have to as a business owner. You have to look at things, and you have to say is this something that I can put myself on? The line for? Okay? Is this something that's worth it for me to allow a service technician to go and try to diagnose about relay on a circuit board and then spend three hours unsoldering that relay picking one up installing it Tommy 6312. Thank you very much for that. Super chat dude.

That is awesome, amazing, much appreciated not expected, but thank you dude. That super chat is awesome. Okay, so I have to be practical, especially when I have service technicians, okay, I can't be going out there fixing things now if I went out there. Yes, certainly, I could unsolder a relay off of a control board and if I do it, then what happens is the customer expects us to do something like that all the time, and then on top of that, you have the warranty issue.

Well, what happens if that relay is not the problem, and you spent three hours trying to fix it, and you still have to change the board. What happens if that board still fails a year? You know within a year later the customer wants you to warranty it when it comes to certain parts, like this bearings in a motor small enough motor, a circuit board on a VFD. It's not worth it to me, okay, because I have to warranty my work and I have service technicians that I have to rely on and getting them to be, that in-depth to be able to diagnose and replace a circuit board in a component can be kind of Difficult, okay, and what I mean by that is like the circuit board in a VFD, or something like that. Okay, when the parts are cheap enough, you just got to look at it and say: yeah, that's not worth fixing we're.

Just gon na quote a part replacement. Okay, so I'm not just trying to throw parts at people's crap, I'm making educated decisions, and I have to be logical about stuff Deon. You said you mean, is superheat and sub going the same amount of degrees Celsius for any system. No, it is not the same.

You do not need 10 degrees, sub, cooling and 10 degree superheat for every system out there. Okay, every system is going to be different. Every systems going to require different stuff. If that's what you're asking to you? Alright, let's see what else yeah exactly apple juice.

Thank you very much all right. What's my view on hard Start kits, reto Felix. My view is this: if I have a compressor, that's having a hard time starting all right, I will put a hard start kit on it and I will warn the customer hey. This compressor is starting to fail.

The bearings are starting to go bad, something inside of it's getting tight. I can put this hard start kit on it. It's probably gon na solve your problem temporarily, but just understand at any given time past this point we could have a problem. I have installed hard start kits on compressors that were not running.

They ran for two three years late longer they ran fine. So I just give the information to the customer, and I let them know now: here's the difference, though. A three-in-one start kit right. You've got the little three and one start kit that you use for refrigeration compressors.

I do not trust those as far as I can throw them alright, and here is why, if you pull apart a three-in-one start kit hard, not a hard start, but a three-in-one start kit. Many manufacturers make them. Okay, there's one really popular one: I'm not gon na name them, but you guys can name them in the chat. If you pull it apart, it says that this compressor it's made for 115 volt compressor for 1/3 horsepower.

Ok, ok, that sounds great. If you pull that start capacitor apart and you look at the micro farad rating on it, I can pretty much guarantee you. It is not gon na be the same micro farad reading as the start capacitor on the existing compressor. They use that often times they'll oversize them they'll do different stuff.

So the reason why I don't trust them is because they're not really designed by the OEM to go on that system. Okay, plus, they don't have a true current relay or a true potential relay often times they have a little circuit board, Jeff dude. Thank you very much man. I really really appreciate that super chat Jeff that is flippin, awesome dude.

Thank you wow. That is dude. Thank you Jeff, that is it blown away, man that is so cool dude. Thank you very much.

Jeff you're, the man and yes, I am not a fan of doing side work. It's just not worth it for me. So Wow change the subject, but it's all good. Jeff you you, you start me on another thing about side work.

You know I've had customers that come up to me because they did know that I owned the company and I'm sitting out a restaurant and he says: hey man, you work at air conditioning refrigeration. Do you want to do side work that immediately turns me off, because that means he's a cheap ass and he doesn't want to spend real money to get stuff fixed right. So yeah I'm not a fan of side work, though so so anyways on the the three-in-one start kits. You know I just don't like them.

Okay, now I will use a three-in-one start kit to start a compressor just to see if it works and I'll even maybe leave it on there temporarily. Until I order the correct starting components and then I can go back okay, I have done that. In fact, I think I have a video that I haven't released yet that I did just that thing. I had a three-in-one in my band, I put it on there.

No, you know what I had a turbo multi start capacitor, but anyways yeah, but I will use a three-in-one to start a compressor just to see if it runs. But you know so yeah house projects for sure, hey Christian, how you doing but yeah the house projects are up my gosh, I'm about out of house projects and Isaiah HVAC our vlogger. I think you posted something on Facebook or YouTube or something like that. Were you saying, is everybody running out of house projects? My wife and I have already done the Guardian.

I fixed my wife's closet door. Speaking of that, I built a new refrigerator for my garage yeah, that's funny and I'm actually gon na play that video right now. It's just like a little commercial video for a few minutes, I'll play that and then we'll talk a little bit more. It's this video is not worthy of my channel, so basically I'll start it, and then you guys will see what I'm talking about so hang on.

Just a second - and this is one of my little things that I did just because I was bored dude alright, so let's go to this one right here: let's go to this one right here, nope, not that one hold on just a second. I got to see. I'm not very smart with all this live streaming stuff. There we go and let me open up this video and hang on just one second and I'm gon na play this, and this will give me an opportunity to go to the restroom and let's go to already made full videos and let's go to garage project garage Refrigerator hold on just one.

Second, let me transition that over here. Let's go ahead and go here, and I am going to queue this up right now and play this for you guys real, quick, alright. Today's project I've got this large 2-door R 290, refrigerator that I've done some experiments. You know in the past I this is the one that I did the experiment where I put 134a in it.

It has been sitting in the back of my house with the 134a in it, since I did that experiment a couple months ago, so I went ahead and recovered the 134a and I'm pulling an evacuation on it right now it's been taking a long time to get All the moisture out of this thing, I'm sorry out of all the the vapor the refrigerant, so each one of these is me going and shaking the compressor. Every time I do that the pressures rise it pulls back down, the pressures rise, it pulls back down. Lower vacuum is much better. I'm getting my decay rate, it's in decay right now.

Alright, I just put this guy together and give it a good little rinse cleaned it out. So we have a key to therm, evap efficiency controller that handles air defrost. It's also monitoring everything within the box. I also have the kita therm trying to think of what they call this.

It's called a Wi-Fi. I don't know what it's called, but it basically connects to the Ethernet port and transmits a Wi-Fi signal, so I can remotely grab on to this with my computer as long as it's within Wi-Fi range. I can also connect it to a network, but I'm not going to run a network cable, all the way to my router, so you can also hook up a wireless router, but anyways cleaned and sanitized. In here we've got evaporator sensors air temperature sensors also ran.

I used an auxiliary port, so I can get ambient air around the condensing unit. Everything's mounted it's wet because I soaked everything ran a receptacle over here that I can plug this guy into. This is just coming out the front. That's the transducer wiring back here.

I've got the pressure transducer hooked up. I went ahead and less service ports on here. This is our 290 I've recharged it with our 290. It's basically been running all night.

I just put it back together a couple little things I had taken the locks off because I didn't have the keys first, but yeah. It works I'll, pull up the dashboard and show you guys what it looks like on there all right. I wish it was a freezer, but at least it's a cooler, it's packed here in my garage with a bunch of stuff but it'll work. I just realized it's not sitting level but it'll be okay.

I'm gon na go ahead and load it up with a bunch of. I got a bunch of water and juices and drinks and stuff like that, so we're gon na load it down and put a heavy load on the box, and then we can analyze the system and see how long it's pulling down. I need to order some of the convenience store things that hold the drinks because they all want to fall over because these racks, but we got a few things packed in here. We left them in the boxes just because everything was falling over.

We already had a few casualties, we got some waters and stuff and I'm a little reluctant about keeping things that can spoil in here, because in the summer time it's gon na get really hot in this garage, and I may have to come up with a solution For that, because this is gon na only add heat to it, so maybe an attic fan or something we'll have to figure that one out alright. So here's my dashboard, I'm connected wirelessly via the Wi-Fi connection device. It's called a Wi-Fi service tool. Actually so remember something.

This service tool did not have I'm sorry that this you've, a proficiency controller, did not have our 290 as a refrigerant, and it's not really meant to be used with our 290, and I am doing it. Our 22 has a very, very close relationship with our 290. Like pretty darn close, so it's pretty safe to use our 22 and that's what I did as my temps. But I'm noticing a few things.

The super heats a little bit off it's off by about a half, a good half a degree to a degree and it kind of changes. So right now I think I've got my field piece probes on there and it's it's fluctuating a little bit, but it says about 7.5 on the field piece probe 7.6 and super heat on this says 8. So it's right within and it kind of goes back and forth, but it seems to be pretty darn good, my box temp everything else seems to be pretty accurate. My box temp is 35 degrees.

I believe it's set for 34 yeah. Everything else is looking good, so we're gon na. Let this thing run for a while. I'm gon na monitor it over to the next few weeks.

That's it this key to therm. Dashboard is really cool. If you guys don't or haven't used them before, you can hit a graph, so this is when I started playing with it. This is as it was running overnight, and then this is me today messing with some more stuff finishing it up and those numbers will come in, so we can wash that and I think it logs like a month or something like that or a couple weeks worth Of data but yeah it's pretty cool, I mean I really like it you once it's you know set up and stabilized out.

You don't see all this goofy stuff on here. You can really start to notice trends. You can see refrigerant leaks and all kinds of interesting things, so it's really cool. One thing I will say is that from this point to this point right here, it did one defrost I woke up this morning and it was actually just getting ready to go into a defrost.

It was somewhere right around here before it spiked, and this is again is when I shut it off, but I'll come back on this and we can play with it a little bit more so uh-huh someone send kita, therm and email, because I didn't even think about That they totally got the best free publicity in the world. I have no affiliation with them. I just happen to have a key to therm controller sitting in my garage. For no reason, I don't think I explained it in the video either so that controller that I had was from a it, was left on a job site of a new restaurant build and I had been sitting in their refrigeration rack in the restaurant.

Actually closed of. All things so when they, when we were closing down the restaurant, I was like hey. I just grabbed that thing and it's been sitting in my garage forever, but you can see that it says HT PG because that's for cold zone and they I don't even think they used that controller anymore at cold zone. I think that that thing literally from like seven years ago, or something like that, but it's still the same evap efficiency, controller from kita therm, so yeah someone send him an email and tell him.

What's up, tell him to look at my live stream. I need to kick back for that, but now for real D on what position were you? I I had said that Adam won the. What did I say Adam Adam McCombs, I just I didn't look at everybody else. I kid you not.

I got like 40 emails from everybody, so I just went to the first email that said blink 182, damn it cuz that was the song and so anyways for those that are just watching right now I had put my moderator: bot had put a song and song Title in there and the first person that guessed that I did a giveaway and gave away field piece, joggling Pro, that's not something that I'm gon na do all the time someone needs to send field, please an email to and tell them what's up but yeah. That's not something I'm gon na do all the time. I just happen to have an extra, not extra set, but I have three anyways long story short. I haven't sittin in my shop for my guys, but I have an extra set so anyways.

I I decided to give away a set, so that's not something I'm gon na do every single time. That's just something cool that I did this time just because I know everybody's bummed out and stuff. So alright. So let's get to some more stuff to talk about.

In here LM Sylvia, what is classified as side work, if I own my own company, there is no side work. If I'm like well, I mean I guess there is, if you're doing something for cash, but I don't want to do that kind of stuff. I'd rather run it all through the company, is it possible to use a Copeland scroll compressor as an air pump yeah? I don't think it's gon na last as long as you want it to, but sure I mean you're, not gon na have the right cooling coming back to that compressor, because you have to remember that compressors are refrigerant cooled. So if you try to use it as a permanent air compressor or something like that, it's only gon na run for so long and then, when you run it on an extended periods of time, it's gon na eventually overheat.

So especially when the ambient gets really hot. Outside there's gon na be problems there. So can I show a wiring diagram for a cooling pump down system, I'm sure we can figure something out. I don't have one right now, though, so is it possible to use a coke? I already answered that one.

What is my favorite packaged unit to work on and why the Lennox prodigy packaged units are my favorite, actually not even the prodigy, let's step back to the m13 board? Okay, that's the original Linux l-series packaged unit that had the m13 circuit board. Those were my absolute favorite to work on and then it went to the m16. Then it went to the m1 seven and then I think it went to the m18 and then I think it went to prodigy after that prodigy one and then it went to prodigy. Two, which is what we're at right now, but even the prodigy two - are really nice, they're, just kind of like Cadillacs to work on super easy, so um, let's see what else I'm missing inside here uh.

Let me close this out. The stupid screen share on my screen right now: perfect, okay, so on my list of things to talk about. Oh, this is a great thing, so someone had brought it to my attention and this is a really good. So I got a lot of comments about the duck detectors in my comments.

Okay - and it's very important thing to understand - some people are saying that they have a lot of duck detectors to get plugged up with different types of stuff, so especially on the older duck. Detectors they used to have filters built inside the detectors. Okay, they used to have these little styrofoam filters that you little caps that you would put over the sampling tubes and often times when those sampling tube caps, the little foam caps got really old. They would dry out and they would disintegrate, and then they would plug up the detector head and cause nuisance trips.

Putting a filter on that duck. Detector is a good idea, but you have to use special filters design for that system. Newer duck detectors actually have filters built into the sampling head, so a cool little thing to think about there um. Let's see Oh another good point when I'm talking about duck detectors, duck smoke detectors.

Usually what I'll do is I'll give it one shot. So I go out to the service call and I say: hey, you know what there's a problem here and it looks like it's beyond me. Honestly. It looks like it's the fire alarm company's problem, oftentimes we'll get the call first, okay, so we'll go out there and usually what I'll do instead of blaming the fire alarm company right, because nobody needs to point fingers, even though I know most of the time it Is the fire alarm companies problem, I will usually say hey.

I need you to schedule a meet up with the fire alarm company. The fire alarm company will come and meet up with me and we'll diagnose the problem. That way they don't come out and say hey. It's the HVAC guys problem and I say that's their problem, so I usually go out there give it an initial effort if I can't figure out the problem or if I do find that the problem is on their side, I'll still schedule a meet up with them.

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