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 how's it going everybody. Hopefully you guys are doing well and you guys can hear me.

Okay. I was kind of playing with some audio on my mixer, so I'm sure you guys would tell me if it wasn't good um. My name is Chris. I'm an HVAC are service tech here in Southern California, I'm gon na start with this little intro.

I make videos on YouTube to share the little bit of knowledge that I have. I certainly don't know everything, and sometimes I can even be a real big idiot too. When it comes to things, I do I do these live streams Monday evenings, obviously I'm assuming that you know what I'm doing here, because you found this live stream, but regardless I do these live streams again just to kind of answer questions. So if you guys have questions within the live stream, please feel free to ask them, throw them all in caps lock.

So you got to turn capital letters on and then that way it helps myself and the moderators to kind of see the comments. If I don't answer your question feel free to keep answering or asking it over and over again until someone tells you to stop okay, if I miss your question or you'd rather send it to me, send me an email to HVAC our videos at gmail.com, and I Will try to get to your question there too? Okay, so we're all going through this all over the world. This virus is a nightmare just gon na kind of start off, because I know there's a million questions about that. So I'm going to cover this real quick.

So here in Southern California, we are dead, slow, okay, my work that I do is 99 % restaurants and they are just dead. It's kind of scary. I even read an article yesterday that said that Logan's Roadhouse is completely closing permanently. That's crazy.

I have one of those around here. I don't do work for them, but I have one around here and it's so it just sucks man. Now, whether or not the article that I read was accurate or factual, I don't know, but the article actually read that they fired the CFO, the chief financial officer and the CEOs chief executive officer, because apparently they were paying bills without asking the board. That is scary.

To think that, okay, I go through that too, because we do a lot of chain. Restaurant work and oftentimes people can be sometimes 60 days late on paying bills, sometimes 90 days late. It just depends, and so when that money is out there, it's kind of scary. You know you really got to keep tabs on it in the situation like this.

If you you know, if you happen again, I don't know if any of that stuff is true. That's just what I had read in an article and we know that the media can oftentimes report the false information. So I very well could be talking at my out my ass right now about Logan's Roadhouse, but that does suck okay they're, not a big chain out here in California. Like I said, I only know of one in my area, but I know that they have a few in the Midwest and stuff and that just sucks man.

This is affecting everybody. As far as work I've been dead, I had a service call. Today. I have like two or three service calls over the neck.

I, like tomorrow, we'll see the problem with service calls for me is I don't have any staff? Okay, all my guys are sitting at home that we told them to collect unemployment because we just don't have to work for them and so and then the restaurants they've all got like modified hours, so they're not getting there until late, and you know like the restaurant. I went to today, I don't think they got there to like 10:00 a.m. or something like that or 9:00 a.m. yeah.

I don't remember what it was, but it was super late, so it just makes it difficult cuz. Then, if you do a five-hour call that puts you mid-afternoon, you know, and it just it just throws your whole day off so we'll see you know like I. If I have three calls in a day, I mean I'll be able to get to all three just because of the modified hours that everybody has so tomorrow. Luckily, the first restaurant I'm gon na start out.

They start at 7:30 a.m. but it still sucks, because you know my business and again I'm not trying to whine. I know you guys are all going through the same thing, but, like my business can't survive just on me working it doesn't work that way. You know.

There's too many people that are, you know relying on us for just one person to be working? It's just not. You know it just doesn't work that way. We have a lot of overhead and stuff just like everybody else. So it's it's interesting.

Okay, all the questions about government loans and stuff. You know we've applied for them, I'm very afraid of the government loans, because there's so much red tape and so many special rules that you have to follow on the plus side, though, if you take it just as a loan, my understanding is: it's only like a 1 % you're straight and you have like two years to pay it back. So I guess that's a plus. But what happens if things don't come back? Are they gon na come banging on your door? You know, I don't know it's.

It's definitely interesting, but I just you know. Just being honest, I mean it's just it's crazy. It's definitely crazy. It's scary! I don't know what to think try to take it one day at a time.

I personally am doing okay, you know, although last night I've been doing good because I've been you know, I'm better with my depression and anxiety and stuff like that, and I try to communicate as much as possible. But last night, though, I went to bed at like 9:30 and I woke up at midnight and I didn't I swear, I didn't sleep for the rest of the night. I was just sitting there thinking thinking thinking it's crazy. You know what your mind will do to you so, but still got some video footage still got a bunch of backlogged footage too.

So right now, I'm pretty current on the videos they're pretty current. As in the videos that I released last week, I believe they were last week's videos or something so I've been trying to release those. I still have some backlogged footage in case. I ran out of that too, but we're doing okay on video footage, so that'll continue to come for the time being yeah.

So hopefully you guys are doing well again we're all going through the same thing. So it's it's the same struggle for everybody, hello to everybody. In the chat I see a lot of people going on in there am i worried about losing the business yeah boy Daniel, I'm not worried about losing the business. I mean, of course you know I shouldn't say no, of course, I'm worried about that.

I do know that I will be okay, because you know forbid something happen to the business forbid, that we decided that you know we didn't want to do it or - and who knows I mean, but that does not anywhere in the plans right now - we're gon na Struggle through this and we're gon na make it through, but I would be okay, I mean I could go work for someone. You know I mean so, but what hurts me is the people that rely on me. You know the the office staff, the employees and different things like that. That's what you know eats me at night.

That's what I was sitting there thinking about last night, as I was laying there, how many people depend on you know the business and so yeah. I mean, but I'm gon na struggle through it, and you know it's not just me. I work with my dad. My dad doesn't work in the field anymore, but I mean we're.

You know we talk about it all and we're gon na make it through this. But it's definitely gon na be a struggle, but you know we're just one day at a time. That's all. I can do so see a lot of cool people in the chat.

Definitely uh. Hopefully I didn't miss too much going on. If you posted something say it again, do I record every job I do and keep it gaming for life. Ask that question.

So no, I don't necessarily record every job. It really depends on the call in the situation. You know there's actually a lot of. I have this hard drive full of footage that I can't use of videos that I have recorded, and you know I realize that either I totally recorded with background music in the background or something and it's just too hard to edit and then sometimes it's just not The right situation, you know if we've got a busy kitchen and they need me out of their way - and I don't have time to stop for ten seconds and turn on my camera.

You know, then I just have to work through. So I would say I probably record 60 % of my service calls on average now right now, with everything being the way that it is, the restaurants are super slow. So it's really easy. There's like minimal cooks in the kitchen, it's not very busy.

The only thing I have to worry about is people playing background music so right on, let me see what type of company did. I do a call on large chain, local restaurant, so I Timothy, I did a large chain - um I'd, say 99 % of my work as large chain restaurants. So I don't do a lot of mom-and-pop restaurants all right see what else? Okay, I'm gon na get huh great. You know what great question so I don't know how to Vespa knows a 287.

I don't know if that's how you say that name, but he says, am I gon na review my taco friendly face mask on my new channel. So that's that's funny! You bring that up, because I was thinking about that right. So I on my Instagram and on my Facebook, I released a silly video cuz. The other day I walked out, and my wife and my daughters, we're trying to make face, masks with cloth, and I had this brilliant idea that I was just gon na go, get a pair of chonies and I cut him up, and I put him on my Head with the peepee hole like right at my mouth, and I said it's really cool because you can eat tacos through the pee pee hole.

Um I got it, I got. I got a bunch of feedback for that right and people are like. Why would you do that? This is supposed to be a videos Channel. Why you know people send me messages and different things like that.

Okay, I'm gon na answer this one simple way because it's my channel and I'm gon na do whatever the hell I want on. My channel I'm not owned by anybody. I am human guys and I know most of you guys don't care and think it's funny, but I mean for the people that have an issue just simply unsubscribe or unfollow, like I'm not trying to be a punk. Of course.

I want to share my knowledge, but I'm real too, and I'm silly okay, that I, if you watch the video you could tell that I was laughing my ass off my poor family. They watching it and then when I saw that people were sharing that video it made me laugh even harder. I laughed for the rest of that day because of that silly video, so but um yeah, I'm gon na keep doing stuff like that. Because that's me right.

I'm not some cardboard person that just works works works, works works, I mean every once in a while, I'm silly too, and I'm gon na keep doing that stuff because nobody's gon na tell me what to do with my channel. So please make a patreon for footage. Please make a patron for footage. That is that other 40 % please make a patron.

I don't know what you mean by that gaming for life. You mean make a patreon page. I don't. I have a patreon page as ID.

I don't understand what you're saying there. I mean I guess I can maybe save that footage, or do you like b-roll footage or something like that yeah. I guess I could do something like that or make it unlisted videos or something I don't know. I guess I'm always open to suggestions.

If you guys have suggestions on things I mean, don't be a dick about it, you know, but if you have suggestions on things I could do with the channel. I'm not necessarily gon na listen to everything, but send me an email. I'm always you know willing to listen. So, let's see yeah all right, okay, so I'm gon na get to my list of things to talk about.

Remember if I, if you know I go off on these tangents and things so, questions keep posting them in there keep putting them in caps. Lock. I'm gon na get to this. So the last two videos that I released, the first one was titled.

One thing leads to another and it was a pan chiller. It was a chi rack, pan chiller that the customer had called me out on, and that was a pretty who won right, because I kind of ran into some struggles with it. The electrical ended up being too short. I ended up having a run new electro or not run, but I had to do some interesting repairs to the electrical to get it to seal up right and the one thing.

Whenever I release those videos, you really get to see the people that really have no idea what restaurants look like, because I get a lot of feedback like oh, my gosh, that restaurant is disgusting. Oh my gosh, that's the dirtiest box! Ever you must not work in restaurants very much, because that was a pretty damn clean, pan chiller I have seen. I don't work in disgusting restaurants. So if you think that was disgusting, you got something coming to you.

If you go work in a a breakfast diner or something because oh man, those things are nasty or a asian food restaurant, that's a small mom-and-pop that doesn't take care, not all of them, but some of them and hoo they're disgusting. So but I mean that it just makes me laugh, because that really isn't that dirty. But I kind of shared a few tips in that video of my troubleshooting process, and you know, as I'm always just trying to share the little bit of knowledge that I have. That's what I'm trying to get across to you is that mindset that I have.

I don't know everything, but I just have a mindset that makes me curious and want to figure things out. So I constantly am looking and thinking. Ok, how could this have happened? What what you know, what kind of things happen and one thing led to another on that one right, so we had a fan motor, so I started there had to fix the fan motor first then it led to, as I was doing it. I noticed that it wasn't getting cold in the cold, real temperature controller issue right and then it led to after I did that it still wasn't working and it's not like I'm throwing parts at it.

I mean I was. I was attacking it with logic in my head, knowing how this box should work, and then I went to the roof and found that the compressor was off on overload. I very easily could have just cooled down the compressor and started it up and walked away, but big picture diagnosis right. Why did the compressor shut off on overload and then knowing the sequence of operation? I went through the logic in my head and said: wait a minute, tested the pressure control and found that it wasn't working right, so you know potentially saved a compressor at least gave it a little bit more life.

You know that way. It can last a little bit longer. Ok, so that big-picture mindset. That's like my mantra.

I really really want to push that to everybody, because you know you can be a mediocre service tech like myself, but have that picture mantra or mindset and be that much better because you're just stopping to think and again, you have to be careful with the big Picture mindset, though too, like I mentioned in the video you have to bring it up to the manager. You have to keep them in the loop. You can't just go off on a tangent or a wild goose chase for seven hours and then come to them with a ten thousand dollar bill like you have to keep them in the loop educating the customer, keeping your service manager in the loop, your dispatcher, whoever The entire time, okay next thing and I'm gon na - ignore the chat for a few more minutes and I'm gon na get to my next topic that I want to talk about. The next video that I released was the no power to the cook stores, and that was another really interesting.

One. Okay, super simple ended up being an electrician problem. The unit had a bad breaker, but I don't I'm curious. I like to investigate things.

Okay and I like to kind of figure things out and dig into them, it was very easy for me to say: they're 70 volts going to the Box call the electrician done. I could have been done, but instead I helped the electrician out right. I had the manager call the electrician. I talked to him.

I said: hey here's what I'm finding and I talked in logical terms, so that way he could understand, and he knew that I wasn't just some dumb ass right. I was giving him good information to prepare him. For that call, I said: hey. Can I text you some pictures, here's the circuit breaker! This is what you're gon na need.

So that way he was prepared. Okay, again thinking about the next guy constantly right, the electrician that had nothing to do with me. It didn't matter I mean I could have just build and moved on right, but instead I went the extra mile thinking about the electrician, because I would appreciate, if someone did that for me. So therefore I did it for the electrician too trying to help him along.

So that way he was a little bit more prepared and didn't get out there and you know end up having to drive all around the world to try to find that circuit, breaker. Okay, so always trying to think about the next guy is the most important things in hopes that, of course, I'm gon na be a little selfish here and say that I always hope that I'm gon na be the next guy that they call out right, whether it Be an electrician yeah, that's not my thing, but I'm cleaning up my jobsite. You know labeling everything for the next guy in hopes that it's gon na be me, but even if it's not I'm still trying to help out the next guy right, I always think of it, like someone's gon na, come behind me and try to talk so that Way, I can be prepared and have everything ready so that way, I don't give them any fuel right. If it is another service company, so always try to treat things.

That way. That's the the best advice I can give to anybody. So let me see Deon. You said the electrical on those cooks, drawers look scary, as is what you said, but um yeah.

I mean I it's not scary to me, but I mean the breaker was definitely sketch. You know I wasn't about to reset that breaker and that's another thing. I'll talk about too on the cooks tours. Why didn't I just reset the breaker right, because maybe it would have reset, but maybe it wouldn't have right and they still had equipment running their pizza.

Oven happened to be on that panel and the pizza oven was still working at this time. So how do I shut it down? I don't know when the electrician was gon na, get there yeah. In theory, I probably should have shut down the entire panel, but the restaurant still needed to operate so I didn't touch anything I just observed took some measurements and said I know my equipment was shut off and left it at that, and I told the electrician that You know so you know again keeping the customer in the loop the entire time. Okay, a couple questions that I had so I had a question from the last stream that I never answered.

So someone had emailed me - and I was a little unsure on his question. So I'm gon na kind of paraphrase and go in two different directions. So he emailed me and he said, hey. I got a line set here and I believe he said that code was requiring or or it was required, whether or not it was code or the installation manual was requiring that the suction and the liquid line be insulated.

Now, from the way that his question was worded, I kind of am curious and I know you're probably gon na be watching this. So I'm asking you: are you sure that it was a suction and a liquid line? Okay, because if it was a mini-split, then you had a suction line and an expansion line and therefore because the metering device on most mini splits that I know of is in the condensing unit itself. So the line that goes from the metering device to the evaporator is actually your expansion line and the expansion line needs to be insulated. Okay.

So if you're asking me about a mini split, which I don't know yeah, you would need to have insulation on the suction and the expansion line. Now I do know that it's actually a smart idea in general, especially in higher ambient climates hot climates, to put insulation on a liquid line. Also, a lot of people don't realize that, but your liquid line can actually absorb heat, especially if it's running through a really hot attic or sitting out in the Sun on a really hot roof, with reflective heat coming up from the ground. It's very important that you actually insulate your liquid lines too, because if your condenser is cooling down that liquid line and then it's running across the roof and heating back up, then you're taking away the efficiency of the system.

So I can imagine now I don't know in your certain situation. You asked me if it was code or if it was an installation manual, but it's not a bad idea in general to insulate your liquid lines, especially if you're running in high ambient temperatures okay, but on a mini-split for sure. You need to have that expansion line insulated. I am gon na go ahead and look at the chat here.

I've got a couple more questions I want to answer, but I'm gon na go ahead and look at the chat and answer some questions from in there. Let me see, I see the movie quotes already come up, so let me know if anybody gets the movie quote alright. So let me see what I'm missing in here. Oh a good question.

Someone had posted in the very beginning, I'm asking the chat right now. Did anyone see a blue on ad before the video or during the video? Can you answer me in the chat, because I actually, whether or not I'm gon na continue to do this we'll see okay, but I actually blocked them as an advertiser. I found a way to block them as an advertiser on my channel now, if that grossly impacts. My revenue that I had a little bit of revenue that I do make off of my normal videos.

Then I might end up turning it back on, but for now I did block them. So I'm curious. If anybody saw a blue on ad, let me see so let me know in the chat, if you guys did: okay, hmm, no, okay, all right cool, we'll see all right cuz! I I didn't know if it would work or not Tristan. You did see one okay, interesting, no, okay, so it's kind of 5050, so some of them alright.

So then, maybe it didn't work, but I did try to go into YouTube and block blue on from being an advertised or whether or not it's gon na work. I don't know we'll see if it gives us some time. Okay, well, we'll see, okay cool, so people did get. The movie quote right on awesome, very cool, so yeah it was planes, trains and automobiles was the movie so um.

Let me see okay all right. Well, let's see, let's see if it works. Okay, but again, if my revenue from the videos really goes down like tanks, then I might have to turn them back on, because I don't know if they're the only advertiser or what. But let's see if it just continues to be the same and I just blocked their domain and we'll see if that worked, because I know they were annoying everybody, and I know they very much annoyed me when they tried to promote themselves within the stream without asking The other day that really pissed me off so we'll see alright um Henry you said you want to buy more mana talk ice machine from the state, which is one sin convert to 230 volts, no Henry.

If it's a 110 ice machine, converting it to 230 volts is not going to be feasible. You're gon na spend more money than you would spend on the ice machine because you'd have to change all the components over. So what was the most complicated service call? I have responded to hmm the most complicated service call. Well, I mean that's that's kind of a interesting question because it really depends on where I was in my career.

Recently complicated service calls are usually ones where we've had multiple texts out there from other companies and different things and they've all done little things, and so you have to try to undo everything they've done to find the root problem. Those are definitely complicated service calls. But when they're all said and done, they actually are some of the best most satisfying ones, because you get to unravel the entire mess. So I've had a few calls that I've made videos about like the beer walk-in that I went out to in the summertime that the compressor was off on internal overload and then actually, I think it started out as it was iced up.

And then I took defrost heaters out of it. It was like a whole thing: expansion valve power heads and then it led to a bad compressor. I mean there's several of those calls that it's just like one thing leads to another and they just keep unraveling. But as long as you can keep your wits about you and keep your head straight and just focus on the the you know, they're just the normal service losing my train of thought, just the normal basics.

You know, then you can usually unravel those pretty good. I'm just trying to step back and look at it. Um. Let's see, am i doing any more giveaways Levi, not this time, but maybe in the future.

We did a giveaway last week and Ralph will be sending out the prizes sometime next week for the people that we did do the giveaway for, but not at this time we don't have any giveaways on par. Giveaways are actually kind of difficult for the most part. Unless you have someone like Ralph coming in here, you know opting to give away something as a as a channel it's difficult to do giveaways and I will go ahead and plug my buddy Ralph he's always in here willing to help anybody. If anybody has any refrigerant related questions about replacements or retrofits hit Ralph up, I just posted his email in there, so I did post pay attention to the moderator bought because spoilin actually has a and I've.

I've listened to and paid attention to these webinars before, but spoilin has a webinar coming up this Thursday and there'll be a link in the chat popping up from the moderator thing, with a link to join the webinar and it's gon na be on expansion valve. So it should be a really good one and I've said this many times. I really do like their Super Market series that they've been doing the webinars. It's awesome if you can't make it to the webinar live though it'll also post on Facebook, and then they usually post it on to their YouTube channel when they're all done so, but definitely check it out, because they they have a great series going on right now.

So do I use lockring connectors or only Braves, Dione, great question Dion, so no I've never used any lockring connectors. I've actually never even used the spoilin zoom lock, I'm interested in using the spoilin zoom lock, but I just haven't had an opportunity to use it. Yet, as far as the Vulcan lock ring, I'm a little reluctant to do the Vulcan lock ring because of that sealant stuff. It kind of freaks me out when you watch the installation videos on the lock ring.

You have to put that blue crap on there to like seal the line, and I worry about that blue scrap getting in the lines and contaminating it. I've never used the Vulcan lock ring. So I can't really talk bad about it. It just looks kind of shady to me, but I do know that they use it all around the world with much success.

So I guess I should just be careful about what I'm saying but great question, because I had one on my list of things to talk about to where someone was asking me about stay by eight and why I didn't use stay bright. Eight I've actually had a couple questions recently about this, so stay bright. Eight is a low temperature solder that you use and it's supposed to have real good adhesion to the copper lines and it's supposed to be able to withhold really high pressures really high temperatures. Honestly, I've never used it.

I can't really talk too much crap about it. I will say that I've fixed a lot of leaks on low temp Sauter's, which basically is stay bright ate over time. I haven't had very good luck with I've, never used it, but I've had a lot of manufacturers cold zone which is owned by Russell refrigeration used to solder, their distributors on the brass distributors, or actually they used to solder the expansion valve to the bell housing of The distributor and we would have those those leak all the time always on the solder, so that really gave me like a sour taste in my mouth about the low temp solder. So I stick to 15 % sil foss on copper to copper and 56 % silver solder on any dissimilar metals anytime.

So I'm always brazing with an oxy acetylene rig and yeah silver solder or SIL foss, 15 %. So fuss and that's all I use. I don't use any of the low temp stuff, so just my personal preference, I mean some people swear by the stuff, the low temp stuff. I just don't use it.

So, let's see I'm seeing what I'm missing. Mmm. Okay, I'm gon na go ahead and get to a couple more questions that I have on here right now, so someone had asked me why - and this was in relation to my video, where I had a walk-in freezer - that I said there was some side of some Sort of a restriction in the evaporator coil thinking it was an oil locked coil, and I mentioned that there was no p-trap on that coil and he was asking me. Why would I need to use a p-trap well on a refrigeration system? One of the biggest issues that we have is if oil was to ever make it out of the compressor and oil will actually naturally travel with most refrigerants, and if oil gets stuck in the evaporator, it's actually rather easy for oil to get stuck in an evaporator Coil, especially when a condensing unit is higher than the evaporator, so the condensing unit might be mounted up on the roof and the evaporator down in the restaurant and in that situation.

If you have any really low superheat issues where you're flooding the compressor, you can wash the oil out of the compressor and other things can cause it to, but that oil can get stuck other parts of the system. So we typically follow proper piping practices right when we're piping things with reducing risers and different stuff like that, but you also want to try to install pee traps and suction line risers on the roof as much as possible. Now a p-trap essentially speeds up the velocity of the refrigerant and it basically tries to sweep the oil up with the refrigerant. If you have a p-trap on there, you, like my little hand, gesture there right, like raising my hand.

Soapy traps are typically on there for better oil return is what we use them for. Okay, now there's best practices to say that you know anything over 10 feet above the evaporator or whatever it is, but in general you should always have a suction line or a p-trap on an evaporator where the condensing unit is above, even if it's on top of The wok and put a p-trap on it. It's it's an extra 30 bucks. You know just put it on there and be done with it, and then it solves any problems, any question about potentially having an issue later on down the line.

So let me see what else I'm going to I'm kind of marking off some things, because I always put stuff on my list and then I forget to talk about them. So Adam had asked me to discuss the changes that manufacturers make to compressor. So Adam had asked me in general that he went out to change a compressor and he again, according to him, the manufacturer shipped out a different compressor. So here's the question about that.

Okay and he went to go, install it and the discharge line was smaller in the suction line was smaller. Now I have had that happen, but you need to be careful. Okay, so oftentimes compressors will change. You know Copeland stops, making a certain compressor Bristol stops, making a certain compressor, Tecumseh stops, making a certain compressor and there's a retrofit right.

They change to another one. You've got to be very careful, though, who you're trusting when they say this is the correct compressor. Now, I'm not saying that you're, never gon na see a situation where the new correct compressor might have a smaller discharge line in a smaller suction line, because that does exist and it does happen. But you need to be careful who you trust now, if it's just a supply house, just the counter guy saying yeah, this compressor will be fine.

Well, that doesn't work. For me, fine is not good enough. I need to know. Does the manufacturer recommend this compressor as a replacement, so, for instance, copeland? They have a great ecosystem of apps right.

They have pressure temperature charts, they have compressor service app. So the Copeland mobile app is an amazing app. They have online product data on Copeland's website and within their apps. You can have a cross reference app so and you can also do it within the Copeland mobile app.

But basically, you can input a compressor model number and they will tell you what the appropriate cross reference. Compressors are. That's the best way if you're gon na do any kind of a replacement. So if something seems odd, you need to start doing some footwork of yourself.

So if I get a compressor like that - and I notice this is visually different - first, I'm gon na start by calling the the supply house and I'm and say hey - you gave me a different compressor. Is this what it's supposed to be and then I'll ask them to read me model numbers, and then I myself will go to the manufacturers website and start doing some research Tecumseh has stuff like that to cross-reference information, so you always want to double check. Ok not saying that every supply house guy doesn't know what he's talking about. But when someone says this one drives me nuts, when I call a supply house and they say yeah, this one should be fine.

No, it's not know. I need to know this is what you're supposed to use this will work. I don't want to here should should is not a word in my vocabulary when it comes to you know, compressor replacement or something so all right. So hopefully I answered your question for that.

One atom in general, and let me cross that one off my list of things to talk about I'm gon na go back to the chat and see if I'm missing out on anything um. Ok, mister V cappuccino, you said you've seen me talk about average temp over ambient on walk-ins. Would that work on residential units any so very good question. I actually just had this discussion in a online classroom that I was doing with a educator friend of mine, so condensing temp over ambient.

What is condensing temp over ambient well, that is a condenser TD, is what it is. Essentially, okay, so it's outdoor ambient compared to the condensing tempo k and it's the difference between the two so same thing as an evaporator TD. All right, you have suction line saturation time, use a suction saturation, temp evaporator temp compared to box temp. That's your evaporator TD! Okay and essentially it's a it's - a metric of measuring a performance of the equipment.

Okay, so condensing tempo ver ambient is a rule of thumb. You have to be very careful about using condensing temp over ambience, so there's an old school old school rule of thumb for old 8 seer equipment right. I just saw a super chat Tommy. Thank you very much for that super chat.

I really really appreciate it. Man - and I will get to your question here in just a minute - don't let me forget to answer your question: ok, Tommy, I'm gon na go and finish what I thought I was talking about and it'll actually lost my train of thought here. Okay, there we go convinced in tempo, Graham BIA, so there's a really old school rule of thumb on old 8 SI r r 22 fixed orifice metering devices, and that was that you could take your condensing temp over ambient. You could take your outdoor ambient and you could find your you could add 30 degrees to it, and then you could that 30 degree number should be what you're condensing temp is inside the blocks, your saturation temperature, the condenser okay.

Now you have to be very careful with that: okay, newer equipment changes - you still can use a condensing Tim but over ambient, but you have to know how the equipment was sized properly. Okay, the manufacturer actually specs that information. So if you have a microchannel unit with like 25 seer condensing unit, while you're condensing tempo over ambient, the condenser TD might be 15 degrees. I mean it just depends on how the manufacturer spected out.

Sometimes the manufacturers might give you that information, but you need to be very careful about diagnosing equipment, and/or charging equipment using condensing tempo ver ambient, because it's not always a set in stone number right. Manufacturers do different things, so you got to be very careful about that. You can also have compressors that have two stages. You can have all kinds of weird things that can affect that, so you got to be very careful about using rules of thumb, but there is some interesting ones that I kind of go by as a guideline.

In my head, but in general, when you're charging equipment, you need to follow manufacturer's guidelines, you need to look at what they say to do as far as refrigerant charge goes and then dial it in with your superheat and or lately these days, your sub cooling right, Because we don't see very much fixed orifice metering devices anymore, so you're typically going to be paying attention to your sub cooling. So hopefully I answered your question there buddy all right. Let me get to your question here. Tell me again thanks so much for that super chat, so did I ever think I would grow to have a following that I currently have and what are my current goals for my channel right now, Tommy, I'm gon na make this super easy and super simple.

Honestly, I really don't have a goal for my channel I'm this. This growth that happened to my channel is super awesome and I'm super thankful and super humbled by it, but I really didn't try for this other than sharing it in some Facebook groups. That's it! That's all I did I'm just trying to share the little bit of knowledge that I have okay, so I don't have this big giant goal to become this giant youtuber or anything. Of course, the bigger my channel gets, of course, the more ad revenue I get from it, and things like that.

I'm not gon na lie about that. Like I genuinely do make a couple bucks from this, but that is not why I do these videos and I think it probably I do. I hope that I do a good job of expressing that I'm gon na do these videos. The way that I want to do them and I genuinely don't try and, for instance, again, these live streams.

These live streams, don't benefit me very much at all. Right. I don't make any Adsense on, I'm barely anything and in fact they actually hurt my channel. But I like these live streams because they serve a purpose.

So they're not there to make revenue right, but as far as the channel, because these live streams get very low views right typically like two or three think like 2000 views to 2500 views is what a live stream usually gets. But then you go to another video that gets 16,000 views or something right and if you go from up down up down up down it messes with the algorithm first says: if I had nothing but videos, my views would be high high hi. All the time then, YouTube would promote my stuff, but I genuinely don't care, because these live streams are here for a reason right. The live stream serve a purpose of me not staring at my phone 24/7 ignoring my family.

I've made a deal with my family that hey I come into my office Monday evenings and I still stare at my phone too much. But I come into my office Monday evenings and I spend 3-4 hours right. I spend an hour and a half on the live stream and a couple hours prepping and emailing people and answering questions. So as far as what my goals are for the channel.

I genuinely don't have a goal: I'm just trying to share the knowledge that I have and whatever growth comes from it and so be it. But as long as people are watching and as long as people are commenting, I'm gon na keep making these videos the moment that you know people aren't interested in them, then so be it. You know I'll move on. It's no big deal, but I genuinely just want to share the little bit of knowledge that I have and that's the only real goal that I have with this channel.

So hopefully that makes sense - and I didn't make myself seem like a big. Alright, can a higher rpm Adam s, can a higher rpm and horsepower four compressor motor increase the refrigerant pressure and remove more heat Adam. That's that's kind of a. I mean sure, if a compressor, no Adam, that's kind of a hard question to answer.

Dude. Send me an email, okay, alright, there's a lot, that's a really loaded question. So, let's see no blue hard questions, I don't mind about blue on questions guys and I'll cover it right. Now too, I have nothing against the product.

Blue one. I've never used it. So I can't talk crap about it. I've heard some things about it, but again I don't listen to just one what one person or two people or three people tell me.

I also form my own opinions and genuinely um. I'm gon na be honest with you. I'm probably not gon na use blue on unless someone really makes me use it because of the way that they pissed me off now. Here's what blue on did to irritate me and again, I'm probably again.

This just shows you I'm stabbing myself in the back, for you know, given him the finger basically, but blue one had been emailing me multiple times and I've been blowing him off, because I didn't really want to work with they're, not really what I want to go With with my channel, and then they started targeting the last livestream, and they did this to my buddy Zach too, on his stream, where they came in, I believe they actually used to be a sponsor of his but anyways. I saw them come in and try to advertise within his chat and he got on him well, the other day we were the last live stream. I think we were in here and just in my moderator caught it really quick cuz cuz. He was in Zach's thing too blue on, came in here and tried to advertise and say: hey, try, our app and that kind of stuff without asking me, and that really pissed me off and I'm the kind of person.

To be honest with you. It's probably a fault of mine, but when someone does something like that, that was extremely rude of them to try to advertise themselves. Without asking and honestly I give people free advertisement all the time, but they got to be polite about it, but anyways they came in here and they pissed me off, and so I'm done. I won't ever work with them because of that like that was just ridiculous.

So yeah it is, but I got nothing bad to say about their product in general. I've never used it. So I don't mind people talking about it. I keep you I'm sure people are curious because they're blowing up YouTube right.

They have some hefty hefty money. Basically, coming into there, they have some celebrities, they have big giant air conditioning contractor that put a bunch of money into there, and then they have a venture capital company. I think so they've got some serious money coming into there, so good for them. Just not my cup of tea, so alright, how many more LEGO sets do.

I have other than those three on the shelf, the backyard redneck. Those are actually my daughter's. My daughter loves the Lego. She hasn't been in the Lego phase lately, but she built those three for me: she's got a crap ton of them, I'm always looking for a new car to buy.

I was at the Lego store recently and they have a few things, but just you know haven't bought one yet. So if something else came out that I really really liked I'd be very interested and I'd I'd really like like a late 60s Camaro. If they had one, but I've only seen the Mustang that they haven't seen the late 60s Camaro but anyways alright, let's see what else we got. Alright, I'm gon na get a I'm gon na get to my list of things to talk about so Adam.

Another Adam had asked me if I always use digital gauges, and would I want apprentice that are working with me to learn on compound manifolds versus digital manifolds. That's a good question. I'm gon na be honest with you. If I had an apprentice come with me today, he would probably be seeing me using digital more so than compound gauges, but I do have a compound manifold in my truck and I also have individual compound studies that I'll often use on our 290 systems.

So, of course, I'm gon na show them and give him hands-on experience with a compound manifold, but am I gon na be pushing compound to an apprentice all the time? No, not necessarily, I used to be of the mindset that they needed to learn on that first, but I've kind of gone away from that and I've been really pushing them, just understanding. What's going on and me trying to be able to hold them. Oh that's yeah! I'm sorry a text message it come through, but yeah I just. I just want him to understand.

What's going on so you know, I wouldn't necessarily push him compound all the time. So all right, I'm gon na mark that off my list of things that I covered, because I I've been missing the things that people have been asking me to cover. So that's why I'm marking him off now t-shirt. Someone had asked if I sell merch and would I consider selling merch in the past.

I've really spent a lot of money, designing merch and ordering merch and coming up with t-shirts and hats and different things. And then I ran into a roadblock and I realized how difficult it was to sell merch I've covered this before on my live streams. The last time that I did it, I talked about it on a live stream and I pretty much just said: hey. If you guys are interested in donating, go for it, if not I'll, send you a shirt either way and I sent them out right now.

I don't have any plans, I'd considered it out just before the whole kovat thing, but because of that, I'm just kind of holding off on making any big purchases. But I've got I've already designed a logo spent a bunch of money on samples and different things and then had a bunch of shirts and what I ended up doing was taking them all to the HR. Show with me this last year in Orlando and just handed them out to everybody that came up to me. So at this time I don't have any more merch.

I don't really plan on doing it. I mean at some time in the future, maybe again, but it's just really difficult to try to sell shirts, and I can't give them away completely like because I mean the line time. I made a $ 2,000 purchase on shirts and then I gave them all away. Like that was kind of a hit, I just kind of pushed it off as a marketing expense right, but I'm not really trying to market my channel.

So it was a little difficult to consider. You know buying another two or three thousand dollars worth of shirts and then giving them away again, that's kind of difficult for me so, but I don't know, maybe in the future we'll figure something out. It's just the sales tax. That's a nightmare because there's there's a law that basically says that any municipality state city county can ask me for sales tax.

So if I sell anywhere in the United States, I have to pay sales tax in every single county that I sell in and yes, you have to meet certain criteria and certain thresholds, but it's just a paperwork nightmare. So I started looking into it and I realized this was just impossible and before I get all the emails, Amazon doesn't do it for you. They just report who you owe the sales tax to when you go through these companies like Amazon and whoever else you know sells the shirts for you different ones. You basically still have to file and pay the sales tax.

So it's just a disaster all right have. I used our 290 gauges. What do I recommend Daniel Alvarado? I personally use the field piece Jobling probes. However, I will tell you that there currently is not a certification saying that the field piece jog blink probes are safe with our 290.

You have to make an educated decision, so don't go using them just because I said so. I use the field piece manifold or our field piece. Job link, probes and or I have a set of studies with just little ends on them and I'll put those on to. I think I've shown them in videos many times, but there is not one digital gauge out there, whether that I know of testo field piece.

Borland, smart Pro are tools III. Personally now I could be incorrect, but I have not seen any documentation saying that anybody's smart probes are safe and approved for use with our 290 or any hydrocarbon, flammable refrigerant. Now I use my field piece job line problems all day. Long I've never had a problem, but it's just a matter of being safe and following proper practices, so yeah, but I haven't used a manifold.

I know that JB has won and different things. I haven't used that I just use a normal compound cages. Where can you get our 290 training Adam? You can get free, our 290 training. I mean you.

Can you can go to true manufacturing? They have some YouTube videos. You can go to delfield. They have some youtube videos, but you're, not gon na find anything for free to get a certification, but there's technically no certification. You have to have to work on our tune ID, it's just a safety test.

Basically you can buy it. You can do everything. I don't even think you technically don't even have to have an EPA certification to buy our 290. I don't think I could be wrong on that.

One though, but uh Archie RSES is the best course out there. They have a hydrocarbon training, that's the the most comprehensive one that there is I've gone through that on the member of my local rfcs chapter. If you guys aren't already our SES members, I highly suggest you look into it. If you happen to be a student, they have student pricing.

The last time I checked, the student pricing was like fifty two dollars a year. That was the last time I checked, and that was like a year ago. I can't see that price have gone up too much, so I would highly suggest you look into our our SES if you're a student and if you're, not a student, I think it's like 150 bucks a year or something like that. It's really not that bad.

So it's definitely worth it just for their manuals and different things you can have online has a YouTube channel and he asked me a question. He said after last night's show Zach had John pastor, ello and Ralph wolf on his and they had like a little debate about nylock. Do I use nylon? Yes, I do I every single Flair. I did a flare-nut today, every single Flair that I do.

I take my log before that I would use oil, but now I use dialogue because my log is just pol. I take a drop in I log on the mating surface above the flare-nut, so I lift the flare nut up just where the rim of the flare nut on the top. I put a drop of oil or nylon and then I put a drop of nylon on the threads and I tighten it up until my torque wrench elbow clicks and then I'm good. So that is I'm joking about my torque wrench elbow, but I'm kind of not.

I highly suggest that you guys use a proper torque wrench when you're tightening down flares okay, I do not use a torque, wrench and I'm sure someday. It's gon na bite me in the ass, but I've done flares and I swear there's a little click thing in my elbow and I know exactly when it's the right tight miss the biggest thing about a flare, and they said this on the the stream last night. On Zach's channel and John Pasteurella actually said this, and I actually have a little bit to add to this now I have a theory. If you over tighten a flare, John Pasteurella was is very smart dude.

I listen to a lot of the stuff that he says, but he has said you know flare nuts can crack and that is the truth. Flare nuts can crack over time if they're over tightened. But another thing in my opinion that happens on flare nuts is, if they're over tightened, they actually untwist themselves over time, they'll back themselves off, so you've got to get a flare nut to the perfect tension and not too tight or it'll back itself off later. So it may not leak now, but you'll come back two days later and it'll be loose and you'll be like what the hell will.

You know, expansion and contraction and the flare net backed itself off. But yes, I do use my log and I'm very proud to use it. I have no problem with it. There's other manufacturers like Hoshizaki ice machines.

They say, don't use any lubricants.