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 are you guys doing this evening? I thought about starting this with, like, like the anchorman mic check things, but I'm not that that good at acting so, but I thought that would be funny if you guys heard me over here screaming hideous things under the microphone like.

I was trying to exercise my vocal cords, but anyways. Hopefully you guys are all doing well. Sorry, I my head is full of so many dang movie things. It's ridiculous.

That's all I ever do is think about movie stuff, my before the stream, I'm in my office. Listening to like, as usual, yacht rock right, so 70s, music, yellow that kind of stuff and my wife walks in she's like she goes, I feel like. I should go rollerskating or something I just I don't know what it is, but I listen to like all kinds of music. I even listen to date.

Today's music but like if I want to relax any kind of Yacht rock, is what I listen to Doobie Brothers. Elo, that kind of stuff - just I could just chill out and listen to that all day - long so sorry for you, Joe HVAC, our North, he doesn't understand any music movie. Anything that has to do with digital Joe, doesn't do so. I'm just picking at you Joe anyways, hopefully you guys are doing well.

I am doing well over here. I'm feel like I'm back to normal as far as health goes and stuff. Finally, over this whole cold thing that I had after HR, it's funny, though, because now my wife is down and out and hasn't worked for like four days she's been just you know, sick, it's just like going around my house, but I'm sure it's going around all Over the place, but yeah yeah Joe yellow, afros yeah, that's right, so I got a couple things on my list here that I want to talk about as usual guys if you guys have any questions or anything that you want me to talk about. Please put it in caps lock in the chat and myself or one of the moderators will try and get my attention so that way, I can try to address it.

If, if we don't answer your guys's questions, just keep putting them in there. Okay, I'm really good. Usually it's just saying: hey, I'm not gon na be able to answer that alright, so a lot of times, the chat goes by so fast, it's hard for me to keep up with, what's going on in there, if it's something that I totally miss or if I Tell you to send me an email to HVAC our videos at gmail.com and I'll definitely try to get to there too, or at least answer an email or something like that. So Ernesto you have the coronavirus.

Yeah that sounds uh sounds fun. You keep that up. North up there, okay, Ernesto, so her nest, OS HVAC our vlogger and he lives up in the Bay Area, not lives, but works up in the Bay Area, a lot up in central northern California, whatever you want to call it so hum. Alright, I wanted to tell a funny story because I was kind of talking with primetime in the chat earlier.

We were talking about Hospital stories, so I used to do work for a hospital customer and there I thank you very much man. I really really appreciate that. Super chat, Ike, that's awesome, so I used to work for a hospital customer. I don't do work for them anymore, and it was.

It was a fun experience. Okay, we we parted ways. Just you know a long story but anyways one of the funny things that happened in the very beginning. I started working, I used to just work in their kitchen and then slowly they started taking me onto the floors, I'm working for my own company, but I was doing work for them.

So they had me up working in maternity one time and they sent me up to go. Do preventative maintenance on the maternity ward and it was in a lactation room. Okay, so that's the room where the ladies go to pump breast milk, all that crap. So I'm I'm really kind of uncomfortable going up to this room because it's super quiet, I'm like a dude, the doors shut.

I've been told just knock on the door and if nobody answers you know, you can go in so knock on the door. Nobody answers knock on the door again, nobody answers, you don't want a bang, because there's kids sleeping everywhere right, it's the maternity ward, so knock on the door again, and I open it and all of a sudden, this lady pops, her head out from behind a curtain And she goes oh, you need to come in here and I said: oh, no, no! No! No ma'am! I was so embarrassed, I'm like no! No, no, no! I'm sorry and she was behind a curtain, but still she had her head. Scott she's, like oh, it's, okay sweetie, you can come in and she's talking to me kind of with. Like a southern accent.

I go. Oh, no ma'am! No! It's! Okay! I'm here to work on the freezer, but I'll come back later and she goes honey. She goes if you hadn't seen a titty before in your life. She goes there's something wrong with you.

She goes come on in here and I was like no ma'am. No, no, no, no, I'm good, but I thought it was the funniest thing because I was so uncomfortable because this lady's just like come on in and I'm like new steer clear but there's there's all kinds of funny stories that happen at the hospital when we were Working there there's that that place was really cool and it was a lot of fun. They gave you a lot of freedoms to do stuff there, and I think I've told this one before too, that I had a new guy that was working with me and I told him long story short. I told him to change some fan motors and I gave him the wrong voltage motors and it was in the more cooler - and I think it had like four fan motors and I had him put four new fan motors on there.

But I gave him the wrong voltage, so they called me at two o'clock in the morning saying dude, there's something wrong with the cooler you just fixed: it smells burnt, everything's nasty, that's full of bodys and yeah. We put the wrong voltage motors in and they all ended up burning up, and I swear that that cooler for the existence of me working at that hospital. I could still smell a burnt electrical smell in it four years later and it's funny too, because they were so cool and they thought it was the funniest thing, but it was embarrassing to say the least so, but yeah anyways, oh man. Alright, let me see if I missed anything, how much do you make in the field? Joshua Timmins? It really depends on the area in which you work: okay, Southern California.

You can make as an apprentice about $ 18 an hour. You know ish and then all the way up to a journeyman level, technician can make in excess of $ 45 an hour depending on the experience and expertise that he has so and then you can get into management and make more, but every single area changes. But it's safe to say that if you're an experienced, HVAC technician and you really really have good skills and you're, not a cocky, ass or anything, you are gon na make middle-class income for whatever area you live in for sure, if not upper middle class income, if You're a Salesman working for like a residential company. You know, depending on how good of selling skills you have you can make well and above upper-middle-class, you know just depending but anyways yeah.

This is a great trade. You can make a lot of money. It's hard work, though, so it's definitely hard work. It's not something that you just a cakewalk that you go to work and collect a check.

You got ta bust, your ass, so definitely a good trade, though all right, let me see what I'm getting in here. When was the last time I messed with r12 Tate Thomas, I still have an art, 12 walk-in cooler that I can think of right now at a breakfast place running, so we still have it. I don't have to do a lot of work on it, but yeah. I still work on hour, 12, everyone so well.

I think I still have maybe half a drum sitting in my shop of our 12 that I've just been saving for whenever I have to work on that little walking, cooler or anything all right. Let me see I'm gon na fix something on my screen. There we go. Do I use my videos to show the customers what's going on with their units? If so, any good results, not really, I really don't show the videos to the customers occasionally.

I won't share them under my youtube link, occasionally I'll send them like a clip or I'll go downstairs with video clip on my phone and show it to the customer on-site most of the time we're sending pictures a lot of times, because that's what most of the Corporations want they want pictures of things and different things like that. So it's a it's a gray area with the whole videos thing, so tips for the everyday: carry bag, trying to balance weight versus utility storm. That's a great question! So currently, for the last three months. I've been having major, lower back pain and it's been driving me through the roof and I'm not a fan of taking medicine.

So it's very rare occasionally I might take three advil, but that's about it. I've been really contemplating getting rid of my veto. Tech pack, my backpack, so I don't know I'm still trying to figure it out myself storm to see where I want to go. I might go with the smaller veto backpack and I really do like the backpack, but it's I'm just starting to question whether or not that has something to do with my back problems.

I mean to the point right now: I'm sitting with the dang pillow behind my back in my office chair, because I just need like some sort of lumbar support, because my back just kills me lately, I'm sure there's a lot of stuff. I'm sure I'm not! You know active enough and all that fancy stuff, but how our scroll compressors more efficient than reciprocating compressors Molly. Well, first off Molly, there's there's a lot less moving parts inside of a scroll, compress: okay, there's the potential for I go. I don't know if there's potential for less heat buildup in there, but I know there's a lot less moving parts.

That's a good question though, but I do know that they're more efficient they're built to be more efficient so that one I got to get a little. A little bit of research to find out all the technical terms that what makes them so efficient, I don't know good question: do I have any stories working in a minced mental institution? No, but I probably need to go to a mental institution dude. I've never worked in a mental institution, myself yeah now. I can't think of any other funny stories right now.

How can you get into refrigeration, David, David, very interesting, last name? Is it pronounced Fox or Fuchs Fouchet? How do you pronounce your last name dude? Is that actually, your last name fu CH s, I'm intrigued by that - is that name Asian? I'm really intrigued by your last name, but send me a message: HVAC our videos at gmail.com. I'm really interested! That's a very interesting last name, if that's your last name anyways. How do you get into refrigeration, okay, first off, let's go ahead and go down this path, so refrigeration and air conditioning is a great trade to be involved in to be a a good HVAC, our service technician, heating ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration. You will have to have electrical skills.

You will have to have plumbing skills. You will have to have carpentry skills, mechanical skills, air conditioning skills, so I would say that you have to be the best of the best and if you are a quality HVAC, our service tech, you will be able to fix things and you will be employed for The rest of your life, okay, because you can take that in many different areas. How do you get into the trade just go knock on someone's door. You know go find a company in your area, that's reputable that people seem to like and ask them for an apprenticeship position.

You can try to get an apprenticeship with the Union in your area. If the Union is strong. What I usually suggest is is go to a local Community College and usually they have nighttime classes that you can take while you're still working during the day or whatever your normal day. Job is so that that's the way that I push people the most is to get involved in a trade school of some sort, try to take night classes and then try to get an apprenticeship position even just to get your foot in the door.

If you can get a job at a air-conditioning company being a parts runner, something like that, sweeping the floors, one of my very good buddies. I don't know if he's watching this or not, but he started with a major refrigeration company in their warehouse sleeping sweeping the floor and he worked his way. All the way up to be top level service technician and then he transferred into the Union and is doing really well right now, so you know the you can do it. You just have to be a good mechanically inclined person and you have to be able to communicate properly, to be able to.

You know, work with your hands and all that good stuff, but it is a great trait, so I highly suggest you get involved in it. If you have any more questions, send me an email, hvac, our videos at gmail.com and I'll try to answer it. Okay, let's see what else we got going on in here. I know the chat is like going crazy right now I am.

I got ta try to keep up with it, so isn't the cost of living high out there, even though you can make forty five an hour Brad. Yes, the cost of living is ridiculously high in Southern California, so it really depends. Okay, you know, and not everybody's gon na be making forty five dollars an hour either I mean you have to be the top of the top at your company to be making 45 an hour. Now, if you go get a union job, you'll probably be pretty close to that, but there's a pluses and minuses the unit isn't super strong here in Southern California.

So it's gon na be limited on the work that you can do so you know anyways, that's a whole nother thing, but let me see what I am missing here. Yes, I already answered that one. How old do you need to be for an internship, typically 18 years old Joshua, and it's not going to be an internship per se? It's gon na be an apprenticeship. Okay, I mean I'm sure, there's a company.

You can find an internship with, but once you're 18 you can usually apply, and that has to do with a lot of the liabilities because we're working with heavy machinery it's hard for us to hire someone before 18, because there's a lot of labor laws. California is a very difficult place to live and work as far as the laws and the rules so minors under the age of 18. Just don't even try to hire them, don't even it's not even worth it plus your insurance isn't gon na like that either. So let me see: what's the longest farthest, I've gone for a service call oh wow, 300 miles is what you've done.

So I've never gone that far for a service call, probably I mean from point A to point B, probably about a hundred and fifteen hundred and twenty miles is probably the furthest, and that was like an extreme case where I had one location. That's an hour and a half one direction from my shop and I had another location, an hour and a half in the opposite direction, and it was over time and when I finished at one of those I got a service call it the other one. So for those that are local to Southern California, I was working in La Quinta, California, which is an hour and a half south of my shop. And then I got a call: a service call at a restaurant in downtown Long Beach at the Port of Long Beach, which is an hour and a half the other direction, and it was in the middle of traffic.

So it was like crazy and saying how long it took me to get there so I'd say good hundred plus miles or something that's probably the furthest I've ever gone. Do I have to be a certified electrician, two HVAC? No, you do not have to be a certified electrician. You just have to have basic electrical skills, basic plumbing skills, basic carpentry skills. So what is the longest line set that I have installed? Maybe a hundred foot, that's it! I don't do much of installation Scott.

So I think the long yeah, the longest line set that I installed is probably a hundred foot and that's about it - maybe 75 foot or something I've worked on a lot that are longer, but I didn't install them myself. So how does a glycol work in a system reaching cooler can can dial? No, I have not serviced crack system so glycol in a reaching cooler. Okay. So let's just talk about a kyrat region.

Okay, Chi rack happens to have a glycol region. They have their blue system. Okay, there's a couple different ways that you can use glycol in a region, but Chi rack has their blue system it's a prep table. I have lots of videos on them and essentially you have a condensing unit.

That is a tiny chiller. Okay and what it does is it has a heat exchanger, a flat plate, heat exchanger and on one side of that heat exchanger is refrigerant that just pumps within the condensing unit and that heat exchanger is the evaporator for the refrigeration system. Okay and on the other side of that heat exchanger, the fluid being exchanged is glycol, so they have a pump that circulates glycol through the refrigerated base section where they keep the food and through the cold rail. So essentially, the glycol pump is running all the time and the temperature controller only turns on and off when the glycol temperature gets too.

You know above the setpoint and then it turns the refrigeration system on and all it does is just cool the glycol. That's the basics of a glycol system. Now I will tell you right now that I've got a video that'll be released on Thursday of me, working on a glycol system or a powerpack unit for a beer chiller system. Okay, it's a tiny one, nothing fancy and I do.

I don't visually show the operations, but you see me working on the glycol system, but before the video I actually go a little overview on the glycol system and why we use the glycol system. But that's for a beverage system so for a long draught beer system so that video be releasing on Thursday. If I didn't answer your question enough, send me an email. The HVC, our videos at gmail.com, okay, ran is asking.

If this downturn is gon na affect the restaurant business in a my concern, well yeah, you know I mean I'm always thinking about that. I was thinking about this. The other day wondering - and I've been talking to a couple, my restaurants and right now they haven't slowed down yet. But yes, you know things are gon na change right now, because we're panicking right now because of the corona virus.

Okay, I realize that you know what, if it's hype or not whatever we in general, as the public, are panicking the stock market's crashing all that different stuff. I don't know if I quite agree with the way things are going down, but anyways there's nothing. I can do what's happening right, so I kind of predict that yes, restaurants, are gon na slow down, but on the plus side I believe the restaurants are still going to be there, because I believe people are still going to order food and I have a feeling That what's gon na happen is there's gon na be more delivery services, so I think the refrigeration is still gon na break down at the restaurants. I just think maybe the air conditioning calls aren't gon na be so crazy over the summer.

That's if it actually slowed down, if not it'll, just be a normal summer and it'll blow over also on the flipside here in Southern California. You know I read an article again, I don't know what's true yeah, but I did read an article that says that the corona virus doesn't do really well in the high heat temperatures which we might luck out here in Southern California, because we typically have pretty hot Summers, if that's the case, they're saying that it's not gon na disappear and that it'll continue, but it just won't grow as rampantly. So who knows that might help us and we may just have a normal you know summer, but if it does slow down. I think that the restaurants are still going to be around and, I think, like the uber eats and the door delivery services and all these these funky delivery services, where there's like a million of them right now.

I think those are gon na get more popular and they're still going to be getting the food from the restaurant. It's just people won't be going to the restaurants, maybe, but it's so hard to predict, because we we tend to overreact with everything. So I don't know we'll see how it goes. You know, if that's the case, then I think maybe the residential air conditioning is gon na boom, because you know people are probably gon na stay home more.

If people do panic and stay home, I don't know. I will say it's kind of funny because if you go to Costco our local big-box warehouse store they're completely out of toilet paper, they're completely out of bottled water, and it's like people are panicking and raiding the shelves. But then I go to my local supermarket and they have plenty of toilet paper and bottled water. So I don't know people are weird with the rain we're getting this week.

Do I work in the rain? If so, how do I keep dry, so Steven yeah? So here in Southern California, Steven so yeah, we are expecting a little bit of rain this week, so what I typically do for the entire summertime so pretty much from now. Until the end of summer, I'm gon na throw my easy up in my truck and I use it for Sun Shade and then, if it's raining, I'll, throw the EZ up up, and I also have rain jackets of different things like that. So yeah we try to stay out of the rain as much as possible, but I mean you got to get stuff done. So you know if we got to put on a rain jacket or a poncho or slicker whatever you want to call it then so be it.

But you know if I have to do any major repairs, I'll put the easy up or the canopy up, and you know try to protect myself. That way. So do I use Scott. You asked me if I use the point six per foot to determine the extra refrigerant it really depends on if I'm working on what system I'm working on.

So if I'm working on residential, then I'll follow whatever they say in their system. I know I've heard the point six whatever that is, is a six ounces per foot or something like that, but I think I've heard that change from manufacturer to manufacturer, so it really just depends but yeah. I do consult what the manufacturer's information says. So let me see what else coronavirus about to take out all the old timer texts before their retirement.

I don't know about that, but did I ever try to get the oil out of the evaporator? I worked on Joe 65. No, not yet. I have not done that yet still communicating with the customer the systems half-ass working, I contemplated going back there and just doing a follow-up on it, but we'll see we'll see what the customer, the customer hasn't made a decision on what they want to do with that. Yet I have a feeling they're gon na end up just changing out all the equipment.

It's unfortunate that it's a three-phase system because I'd really like to be able to wire it up, and maybe I can. I have an idea I actually do have an idea. So maybe I can figure out a way to wire it up with a VFD I'd like to bring it back. If I can disassemble it carefully and bring it back and wire it up and see see if we can let the system run at my shop, that'd be kind of cool cool experiment to do what happens if I change a scroll compressor system to a reciprocating compressor System, Molly, hmm I've to think about that.

One send me an email all right, I'm gon na get to some of my list right here, so um, two videos that I had this last week. I got back home to my normal schedule where I'm two two videos a week, I'm gon na try to keep that up, and I had a carrier package unit that had low voltage issues when I walked up to it. We had a Cana Mizer. That was not allowing the condense near the compressors to turn on, but big picture diagnosis.

We saw that the unit has condenser family are going bad. The unit has the gas shutoff to it. Contactors were chattering, a little bit, condensers flattened. I mean there was a whole list of things going on.

We had airflow issues. The pulleys were bad, so basically sent an email to the customer, see what they want to do and we're still waiting on their response on whether or not they're gon na change. That unit or that unit always like to look at the big picture during that video and I'll go ahead and talk about it right now. During that video, I did say that I was looking for service technicians, I'm always looking for service technicians, or at least I am right now I should say I'm not always doing it, but I am looking for service technicians right now.

If you guys are interested. Send me an email, hvac, our videos at gmail.com. Give me some information. Send me a resume all that good stuff, and we can talk a little bit more about it.

Okay, I'm looking for people that are local to Southern California. Unfortunately, it's really not going to work with me moving people from out of state yeah, I'm gon na tell you guys right now, if you're coming from a red state and you're trying to transfer into California you're, not gon na like it, if you're coming from a Slow small town and you're trying to move to Southern California you're, not gon na, like it, it's it's hard for people. So that's why I really don't, like you know, dive into the whole people wanting to move here from other places, because that's a difficult task: okay, because everything is so different here and it's so expensive too. So it's kind of a culture shock for people um.

Could I use a heat gun to get the oil moving? You know, I guess it's possible my solution for getting the oil moving. If the customer wanted to fix, it would be to go ahead and pump the system down put on a proper p-trap, but it would have to be outside the box on the riser. Then I would run the defrost heaters with the evaporator fan motors for a good hour and get the coil nice and hot. Then I would turn the system on and let the system run and try to get some of the oil out.

If that doesn't take it out, then what I would possibly do is cut the refrigeration lines and blow the coil out with nitrogen clean the distributor out. There's always a possibility too, that there's something stuck in my distributor, nozzle or something like that, but I don't think so because of the way it's frosting up, but anyways yeah. So you know I mean heat gun. I guess could probably heat up some of the oil, but I don't know you know, there's there's a bunch of different ways: getting the oil out of a coil.

That old can be very, very difficult. So let me see: hey there Justin how you doing bud right. Let me see what I got um see. What I'm missing in here is that Simpson 260 on the shelf behind me.

Yes, it is, I don't know if it's the 260 hold on yeah, that is the Simpson 260. That was actually my dad's meter like his first meter. He didn't use that towards the end of his career, but his first meter - and I just it - was sitting at the shop and I just put it up behind me. So all right, let's see what I'm missing here rain.

I don't even think you'd survive on 45 an hour for for the older people that want to transfer into California. They couldn't live on 45 an hour here. So all right did I check subcooling when the unit was almost at temp. Rafael, really didn't pay much attention to step.

Dude super heat yeah. I was checking super heat when the Box temp was very low, but sub Coyne doesn't mean almost anything to me. Sub coins only a metric to tell me if I'm like grossly overcharged on that system, because I have a receiver. So all right have.

I ever worked on reefer systems on semi trailers, Joshua Timmins, not the ones that you think of uh-huh. I did work one time for a mushroom farm of all things and what they did was they bought a 53-foot insulated, refrigerated truck, but the refrigeration pack didn't work and before me they had someone go out there and install walk-in cooler, evaporators just standard evaporators in this Refrigerated truck, that's all insulated, so funny thing: yes, I have worked on refrigerated trucks, but they had standard walk-in, cooler, evaporators and a condenser sitting on top of the box, which was kind of silly. But no, I haven't worked on any of the like thermo king or the you know: reefer packs that are standard on the refrigerated trailers. No, no! I have not just got the SMAN 380s any advice or tricks to know that I can think of no there's.

Just a great great manifold set get if you your next thing, if you haven't already gotten them, is pick up the JobLink clamps, those are the wireless clamps and psychrometer z' and all that stuff, because they'll communicate with the SMAN 380. All right, let's see all right, I'm gon na get back to my list right here. I'm gon na go and cover this one real quick! Actually let me talk about this. So then, I had a walk-in freezer call that did not end well with a restricted evaporative call.

I kind of already talked about that right now, but um that was a head scratcher right, because the way that a frost pattern, I had lots of people that had some great ideas in the comments and guys. Let me put it this way. I love comments on my videos. Okay, so please continue to give them.

If you think I did something wrong. You're not gon na offend me. Just don't be a dick about it, but put something in the comments and, let me know hey, I don't think you did that right, okay, cool! Let's talk about it, I'm always looking to learn. So I had lots of people.

Give me some constructive criticism on the walk-in cooler with the oil log, give a poor at least what I think is an oil logged evap. Some people don't think it's oil logs. Some people think it's just a distributor. That's clogged up, you know, there's all kinds of different ideas, but let me tell you that the reason why I jumped to an oil log - and this is something that I didn't share in the video and I thought about it after was when I pulled out that Expansion valve, I noticed that the expansion valve was full of oil.

When I poured it out there was oil dripping out of the valve. So that's what really got me to think and I don't know why I didn't try to blow it out, but I don't know what blowing it out. I mean. I guess it would have helped a little bit, but I should have tried to blow the coil out, but I didn't but yeah when I pulled that expansion valve out there was oil dripping out of it.

So that's why I jumped to the oil log when I saw that funky frost pattern. I was like man but and who knows it's been about a week and a half since I filmed that, and it very well may have cleared up some of the oil too, because it might have by clearing the strainer putting a new valve in there with a Clean strainer, we might have proper refrigerant velocity and it might have helped to move some of the oil out of that coil. So it'd probably be beneficial for me to pay them a visit just to see if we're starting, to get a better frost pattern on that. Coil, so that was the next one that I did so there's a movie chat or movie quotes popping up in the thing and I'm kind of curious.

If anybody can get this one. This was an interesting movie from the early 90s early 90s movie and it had a cameo by samuel l.jackson in it. If people I'm pretty sure that was samuel, l.jackson that I'm picturing right now how to cameo in this movie. So I'm curious, if you guys, can figure out what the movie was from the quote.

So what are some more common issues? I run into an HVAC specifically in California. Low voltage issues is a huge thing here. In Southern California, we have electrical, we have a horrible electrical grid and we have, depending on the cities that you're working in, we have horrible power. That's a huge thing.

We have high temperature swings. So in the summer time we can get two years ago, we hit 120 degrees in the summer, which was insane our average high is about 110 to 115 and then in the wintertime. We have really mild winters. 60.

50 degrees. 40 degrees stuff like that. So is the oil logging from not having proper refrigerant flow through the TXV rent is asking so in my opinion, the oil log has something to do with okay. So I know that the condensing unit itself has been replaced because that's a masterbuilt, condensing it's a master bill, walking and - and someone has changed the condensing unit - changed it to 404, why the original compressor or why did they change that original condensing unit? I don't know so I have a theory that maybe there was a burnout on the original system and I have a theory that there's been trapped in that coil for a very long time, possibly the oil that caused the other condense unit to go bad.

The other thing is: is that there's no p-trap, so there's no suction p-trap to help with oil flow and the strainer on the valve that I changed was plugged up. So I have a feeling all of those contributed to that oil logging or the oil logging and the coil and not making it back up to. The compressor is my thought, but I don't know if that's oil from the new compressor or oil from the old compressor. That's the question so is refrigerant bad for your health or deadly Joshua Timmins.

Yes, it is refrigerant. Most refrigerants are cancer-causing refrigerants, they're they're, not good to breathe, they're not safe to breathe, but for the most part, we're not breathing refrigerants, because we have special machines that recover the refrigerant that put it into tanks. And then we take it places to get disposed of properly what they do. What disposed of properly means? I have no idea, but we typically aren't breathing refrigerant for the most part.

Occasionally, you might get a whiff of something when you're you and you're fixing something, but no refrigerants are not good for your health or not good, to inhale they're bad for you. So all right, it is coming to America, Scott, yes, it is but okay and that yep so Scott. I don't know if he was the first person to get that get that but yeah it was coming to America, and so someone answer me this in coming to America. Was that not samuel l.jackson that tried to rob the McDowell's when, when i i think it was samuel l.jackson? I think it was for some reason: i'm picturing, the guy that comes in and tries to rob the place, and i think it was samuel l.jackson when he was really young alright.

So what was that a new customer? No, it wasn't really a new customer per se. I've worked there for a while. Actually I've worked there for a very long time, but I just don't know why we change the original condensing unit. So you think the oil comes back to the compressor.

You'll lose another compressor. If it comes back, it depends on where the oils from so ran. If the oil is from the old compressor and it comes back and floods, the new compressor out then yeah. I think it could potentially cause them damaged in the new compressor, with too much oil going to it.

But if it's oil from the existing compressor then coming back might help just depending on how fast it comes back. So does the oil in the log evaporator settle to the bottom of the coil? Well, yes, and no I mean, theoretically, you would think that oil settles the bottom, but also it's you got to remember to a lot of the research that I've done on oil log coils. It isn't necessarily just oil sitting in the bottom, the coil it actually coats. The lining of the pipe and doesn't allow heat transfer in the pipe, but yes I mean you know, you would think that oil would sit at the bottom, but you also got to understand that coil has multiple circuits, so it probably has off the top of my Head five or six different circuits, so that means that the bottom of that coil is not necessarily the the bottom, because there's different circuits, there's different feeder lines go into different spots.

On that coil go rewatch. The video and you'll see the distributor tube each one of those distributor. Tubes is a circuit, so essentially each one of those is a different event line coming in one side of the coil going back and then going back. You know - or it might just be one in one out and that's one circuit, and then that happens seven more times so each one of those is its own circuit.

So you know yeah. Theoretically, it should settle down at the bottom, but because it's a multi, circuited evaporator. What's the bottom, it's not like a condenser coil, where the you know like a single circuit condenser, where the refrigerant goes in the top and then comes out the bottom right. This is a Multi circuit at evaporator.

So all right, let me see what else I got going on in here. Have I ever worked on industrial cooling towers? No, I have not. Does every system need a crankcase heater to help with oil? Not every system needs a crankcase heater, but it is a good practice to have a crankcase heater on there. There's all kinds of different methods of oil mitigation dealing with oil issues pump down solenoids are a big help.

Crankcase heaters are a big help, proper piping practices, putting pee traps in and risers, and things like that are good practices. Sizing your refrigerant lines properly is a huge thing about oil return. You can add in oil separators that stop the oil from ever leaving the condensing unit. There's all kinds of different things: low airflow can cause oil issues.

You know correcting a lot of those things can help to get the oil back, but you want to be careful because you don't want the oil to flood all back at the same time. Okay, let me see what else we got. Yes, it does it insulates and hinders the transfer of heat as well. That's right, correct, but they reconnect in the common return right.

Yes, they do reconnect in a common return. That is correct. Yes, all right, let me see all right. I'm gon na go and get to my list right here, um, so, okay, I'm gon na cover this one real quick.

This is a really easy one for me, because I've said this a million times. I had a question this week about a gentleman up in the Portland Oregon area. Asking me whether or not he should go union or non-union. Okay, and what I'm gon na tell you.

Is I'm not gon na make that decision for you, okay, you need to do. What's best for you and your own, what's best for you and your family, okay, you need to make those decisions in Southern California. The union is not very strong, in my opinion, in Southern California. The union is not for me okay, but it could be my like.

I told you my buddy works for the Union and he loves it. So it's good for him, so it really depends. I have no preference either way, I don't think unions bad or or regulars bad or whatever. It's just whatever's good for you, okay.

So if you live in a union, strong area and the Union offers better benefits and they offer better pay and they give you work and it's a good work environment. Then you need to make the decision what's best. Okay, but if you live in an area where the union's not as strong and you're gon na be a little unstable or something who knows okay, I can't make that decision for you and I don't have any opinion. I'm not gon na come on here and say that one's bad or one's better or whatever it really depends.

Now I've heard good things about Union. I've heard bad things about Union. I've heard good things about private I've heard bad things about private. It really depends.

You need to make that decision on what's best for you and your own, essentially, okay, all right, okay, questions. Someone asked me to talk about the different types of motors okay and there I'm paraphrasing their thing, but they said: hey they'd like me to talk about motors on my live stream. They said ECM motors PSC motors and I added a few other ones. So then, we've got VFD driven motors and we have three-phase motors okay first off, just let's just understand something right now, let's make it plain and simple: the motors are typically there to move something: okay, let's just talk about in the most basic.

Let's talk about a residential air, conditioner, okay or a commercial air conditioner, it doesn't matter, we've got an evaporator fan motor that motor is there to transfer the air and to help bring the heat load to the evaporator on a package unit or a split system. Okay, airflow is airflow it to me. It doesn't matter if you're using a PSC motor, a ECM motor, a VFD driven motor, it doesn't matter. Okay, air flow is air flow.

Now, there's there's things to consider. Okay, a lot of people think that an ECM motor was supposed to save the day when it came to poor air flow, and that is not the case. Okay, when you have badly designed duct systems, an ECM motor is not going to do any better than a PSC motor. Okay, you're still gon na have or airflow all right.

We tend to react to things and we tend to try to throw solutions at things when the underlying problem is air flow. If you have bad air flow, if you have a badly designed duct system, throwing a bigger motor throwing a different motor is not going to fix that badly designed duct system. The only thing that's going to fix your system is fixing the badly designed duct system. Okay, so which one is better, I don't know I mean which one has more problems.

I don't know ECM motors, get a bad rap right now, because the the the power module things burn out on them or whatever right, but most of the time. It's because there's poor air flow badly designed ductwork. It's not necessarily the motors fault. If you read the installation instructions and you tested the static pressure before you put the system in and it actually delivered what it was said to deliver.

I bet you anything. You probably wouldn't have as many problems. Okay, so air flows air flow. I really don't have an opinion on what kind of motor I like.

Okay, you know, of course, I'm gon na say that I prefer non electronically computer-controlled crap right. I like old-school, because I'm stubborn and I'm lazy and old school was easy and we didn't have to think very much about it. Okay, that's one way to look at it, but there's no avoiding the new technology in this trade. There's no getting around the fact that everything is computer-controlled.

We have electronically controlled expansion, valves temperature controllers, fan motors, all kinds of crap. We have inverter driven compressors, we have inverter driven motors, so you know we can be stubborn about it and we can hate that stuff or we can just suck it up and learn it, because it's not gon na change us being stubborn about. It is not gon na make it stop. Okay, we just got to deal with it that that's the stuff that's out there.

We got to learn to like it. Okay, all right. Let me get to my next thing mmm, so I had a gentleman that asked me a question he was from a foreign country. I believe he was from South Korea and he had emailed me from South Korea, I'm assuming and I'm gon na paraphrase this question.

So he had asked me something about. You know a split system, air conditioner, the original split system, air conditioner he was used to working on was an art, 22 fix orifice system, and the new system was a 4 1080 XV system and he was kind of confused because he said this new system. The this is what he put in is his thing. This new system, the liquid line, was insulated, and that was confusing him because now the liquid line was cold and he didn't think that the system was gon na work right.

Because of that, so there's a lot going on there. I don't know exactly, and I did tell him to watch this stream. So what I'm telling you, sir, is. I have a feeling you're dealing with the mini-split okay, if you're dealing with the mini-split, you need to understand that the expansion valve is in the condensing unit a lot of times, and what you have going downstairs is actually your your process that your vapor line, your Expansion line; okay, so that is gon na be cold, that's kind of what it sounds like what he was talking to me.

So I don't know why I even brought that up, because I guess this doesn't help everybody generally but understanding what you're working on looking at you know the entire system and reading the installation manual really does help. So that way you understand because - and this I guess the the point I'm trying to make - and this is something that happens a lot and I'm actually gon na talk about this next. To is people reach out to me for help they reach out to me for tech support? Sometimes I can help them. Sometimes, I'm not qualified to answer their questions.

Okay and I'll be honest with them, but I need context when people send me questions when they ask me hey. You know this isn't working, and this is what I'm doing. I need context because I'll try to help you guys out as much as possible, but sometimes I need to be able to see what you're working on okay. Let me look at the chat, real, quick and then I want to cover something else here.

So let me see you found a lot of ECM motors. Don't like power outages, the modules go out after power is restored. Yeah I'll agree with that, because I've had VFDs variable frequency drives, go bad a lot after power outages, and I call that poor power conditioning. That's a whole nother thing.

Let me see what I'm missing in here, I'm looking for capslock stuff, so I'm not seeing anything that I'm missing. So I'm gon na go ahead and let me see okay cool, I'm gon na go and go to my next thing. So I'm looking for and this this kind of segues from what I was just talking about the tech support stuff. So I'm looking for something to help me with technical support.

I do provide tech support to a lot of different people again like the dude in South Korea, like people all over the place right and I'm looking for something that can help me with that. We have so many different platforms right now we have facebook. We have Instagram, we have Google video with all kinds of crap right, all kinds of different ways to do: video, chats and different things like that. I have something in the tip of my my head right now and I saw something at the HR show or yeah HR show called xoa technologies, I'm very interested in what they have to offer.

I've been trying to reach out to them, and actually I was having a hard time because I emailed them back and forth. Someone got back with me, but then they never returned my messages. And finally, today I reached out to them again and someone else got back with me and now we're gon na try to schedule a call, but they have some technology where they have in its more. I think for a business, and it seems very interesting where you can do tech support and they have video chat, features and different things like that.

The reason why I brought this up is for those of you that are watching this live stream. I'm very interested to know if any of you guys have any cool ideas about tech support help so currently at my company right now we all have Samsung phones and we'll do video calls through our Samsung phones - and you know I'll. Have the guy show me stuff, but I'm looking for something better. What I'd really really like is the whole technology where people put on glasses - and I know that's not quite there yet, because the glasses cameras suck at this point.

But I'd really like the idea of be someone being able to put on glasses, and that way they can show me what they're working on and I can help them. This goes for my company, and this goes for helping people on this platform. Hvac. Our videos like in general, I want to be able to help more people when I have the time not all the time, but I'm looking for some cool technology that can help with that kind of stuff, and I'm always looking for ideas.

So if anybody has any ideas on something that can help send me an email, the HVAC, our videos at gmail.com, you know, I, I think the whole xly thing looks interesting. I don't know if it completely tailors to what I need, but I think that's a cool. All kinds of new stuff that is coming out, that seems really neat, so do I prefer any type of refrigerant over another ethan clay. I don't know i mean i'm, i don't like change so like, for instance, i haven't adopted any alternatives to r22, i'm still using our 22 to this day.

So you know if if a system originally had r12 i'd love to keep r12 in it, that's not very practical these days, so I don't know if I particularly think any refrigerants better than the other, no, not necessarily um. Let me see, let me see what I'm missing here. If I had one thing to teach Tech's experienced or not, what would it be if I had one thing to teach text is to remember that when you give someone else information, they need context and even if you don't think it's relevant, it's very important. Okay.

So the simplest terms break it down. Just look at the big picture, that's the simplest thing. I can teach any tech, okay, be patient and I guess I'm going off into a tangent of multiple things to teach text, but be patient, don't jump to judgments. You know don't jump steps, even I do it to this day.

You know. Sometimes I get ahead of myself and it's like hey. You need to stop step back. Look at the big picture, think about it for a minute break it down it's! Okay, unless you're getting into the supermarket stuff - and there can even be an argument on that that that's not too difficult, but unless you're getting into the supermarket stuff, if you're doing like commercial like I do it's really not that difficult and if it's really hard you're, Probably doing something wrong or you're, probably overlooking something, because it's pretty basic all we're doing is transferring Heat.

I mean, that's really all we're doing all right. Let me see what else what type of work software do I use. I use an app right now called Intuit field service management. That's for my dispatching and my invoicing and then, as far as Diagnostics app, I use a program called measure quick.

I don't really use it for the Diagnostics feature, but I do use it for the consolidation of data. That's what I really like it for it gets all my numbers right in front of me. So then I can evaluate systems better um. Let's see what type of okay's already answered that one? What's the most common failure that I've come across on equipment electrical failures? Alright, I need a refill.

Oh maybe I should play this for you wait. I guess that's not playing right now. There you go much better! All right, let's see what else we got here, ok, so great question our great thing. So I did have this on my list to talk about the discord server.

So myself and a bunch of other creators set up a discord server and I'm gon na be honest with you. It just wasn't what I wanted it to be. It got out of hand a lot. You know we had a lot of problems on the discord server.

A bunch of drama - and it just got kind of silly and I just deleted it. I liked the concept of discord. I think it's really cool Brian, I believe that's Brian Milbourne right. I think I recognized your picture.

Thank you very much for that super chat, but I really super sticker. I guess you should say thank you. That is awesome, but I really appreciate it so the discord server. I ended up deleting it just because I don't know it just got out of hand and it went down a path.

I didn't want it to go down and I thought it would be easier if I ever do another one which we might okay there's without going into too much detail, there's actually another discord server, but we just it's not public and we might open it to the Public, I don't know, but it's if we do it again. It's gon na have a lot of rules and it's not gon na be free-flowing. It's it's gon na, be I'm gon na run it with my OCD. Basically, and it's gon na be my way or you can just move on so we'll see, but at this point nothing I deleted the existing discord server.

So let me see what else we got going on here mm. What am I missing here? What kind of gas do I use for brazing? I use oxygen and acetylene so oxygen and acetylene for my system and yeah. That's it I don't. I don't use the the B tanks or anything like that, so yeah moderators and a set of rules like I said, that's a good point.

That is a good point and it definitely just just went down a path I didn't like, and I didn't think that you know with the whole server. I didn't think that we were gon na need rules.