Hello, how are you guys all doing kind of faded that music off a little early? I was getting a little jumpy there, hopefully everybody's doing well this evening. I don't know how summers affecting you guys it's kind of weird out here in Southern California, because we've had a heatwave about a week ago and then mild weather and then this week we're in like the 90s. So it's starting to warm up again. So I imagine what we get another heat wave, but it was kind of nice for us because we were able to kind of catch up.

We got like way bombarded because of the heat wave and then things kind of calmed down and we were able to catch back up and then try to you know, get everything figured out and cuz when the heat wave comes through. You know we don't necessarily have time to go. You know complete every service call like you guys see me try to complete them. You know a lot of times.

We might have to go out, and you know reset a manual reset high-pressure control on a walk-in freezer and then just move on, and you know quote to come back or when we slow down, come back and put an automatic reset on it. Or you know that kind of stuff you know necessarily we can't find leaks when we're super slammed. You know you just kind of get them up and running and then go back and find a leak later. So it's been kind of cool that we've been able to to do that and catch up.

So let's hope the rest of the summer stays. I mean I want to stay busy, don't get me wrong, but I hope it's kind of chill cuz. I just it was kind of crazy when we got that heatwave, the first heat wave we had about a week ago it hit about a hundred and ten 108. I think or something like that, so it wasn't too bad.

Last summer we broke records and we hit 120 for one day, which was nuts we'd, never gotten that high, I think we'd gotten to 118 before which was like record-breaking and that's not normal or normal for the summer is about a hundred and ten hundred and twelve. You know in the heat waves typically so, but hopefully everything's going well for you guys, trying to. I see everybody there in the chat I'm gon na try to get to a lot of the questions in the chat here soon. So I got a couple things I want to start talking about, like I usually do and go from there had a couple.

Videos come out since the last livestream, some pretty good ones. I really liked. I had fun doing that, make up air one. You know some of these videos are kind of fun.

For me, that was the one where I had the evaporative cooling section that the pressure control was keeping the evaporative cooling section from working. I haven't even finished that one, yet either I haven't fixed it. I should say I haven't had a chance to get back there and change that pressure switch, but making these videos is kind of nice because I get to kind of you know, go back to some basics of troubleshooting because a lot of times - and this is something That happens, for you know. I know you experienced guys, probably already know this, but a lot of times.

You know we go in there using our senses and we might jump some steps. You know because we we you know kind of, have an idea. What's going on, you know we can go in there and listen and we can make to them some assumptions. So you know if I go up there and the condenser fan motors running well, I know that I have more than likely have some sort of voltage.

You know so you may jump to the next step and you know do some things, but when I make these videos I try to slow down and as much as possible. You know try to do things step by step, to try to make it a little more simple and it's been a lot easier lately. For me, it is hard for me in general to slow down because I'm a very fast-paced person, but since I have an apprentice working with me pretty much every day of the week, it's it's kind of nice because I can let him do a little bit more Of the work - and then you know, while I'm filming you know, he's usually standing behind me, so I'm talking to him and you know that kind of stuff. So it's been working out kind of nice.

I can join aching these videos. It is kind of therapeutic almost to be able to release them and - and you know, like I say in the end of the videos too, I really do like the comments too, and I say it all the time guys negative or positive. I really appreciate the comments. Okay, even if you guys have something to say like hey, I shouldn't have done it this way.

You know I'm always looking to better myself, so I know there's much better text out there than I. So if you guys have tips on how I could have done something differently, you're not gon na offend me, throw it in there, throw it in the YouTube comments. If you don't want to do that, throw it in an email, send it to HVAC our videos at gmail.com. You can send me a Facebook message either way, I'm always looking for feedback always looking to you know to do better for the next one and that's kind of how you know when, when we do like what I call construction jobs is like changing out, walking cooler Equipment and stuff like that for us, you know when I talk to my guys, you know we always try to I try to reflect after we do a construction job and think you know how could I done this better? How can we do this faster next time? You know how can we be more efficient, not gon na stuff, and so that's what I'm always talking to my guys about and the same thing I think in my head, every time after I finish a service call, I think, okay, how could I have done that? Better, oh yeah, that one trip I went down to the van and I didn't take something down with me.

You know that's how I kind of try to operate so the same thing goes with my videos, and my troubleshooting is: is I'm always looking for? You know way to better myself, so please give me that feedback. I'd really appreciate it. So all right see, I see everybody in there. Hey guys, everybody in the chat was quite a few.

You guys in there right now, thanks for coming in here, yeah California will slide off into the ocean one of these days. So, okay, let me see I've got a couple things on my list. Remember guys, I don't have a moderator and I know Justin you are in here dang it. I keep thinking you weren't gon na, be here Justin.

That's my bad! I think you told me that was next month, I'm in la-la land anyway, sorry so yeah. If you guys do have questions put them in caps, lock, please so that way, myself and Justin can see what they are and try to get to them as much as possible, and I'm gon na try to get two more of you guys as questions today. Hey there Isaiah how you doing, but so one of the questions that I had and I'm just gon na go quickly through. This is what kind of software we use for invoicing and time management and different stuff.

Okay, with our company, we use an older software called Intuit field service management. I believe there's another name that it goes by and it's curry go. We have used that software. I would like to say for at least seven years now: it's one of those things that it's not perfect.

It doesn't do everything you need to do, but I honestly don't think there is a software out there unless you have it custom made that's gon na. Do everything that you want it to do, there's a lot of things that we've had to learn how to do and work with and find workarounds to do with Intuit field service management, but it's solid and I have to say that for the most part excuse me, We haven't had too many problems with Intuit field service management, they've improved over the years. You know little little hiccups here and there and they've worked on it really well. So that is a very good software and I do like to use it as far as pricing goes on, so you guys I'd have to sit down and look the person had it asked me was kind of asking about pricing too.

I believe I don't know off the top of my head, the pricing. I know that we get like two employees free to log in users or something like that, and then you pay for every additional user or something like that, and I know that we're like if I had to guess off the top of my head. We're probably a couple hundred dollars a month or something like that for our software, but it does invoicing it syncs with QuickBooks. You know it, it does all kinds of stuff, so it works well for us.

So that's Intuit field, service management, oh the next one. I kind of wanted to cover something you know I get a lot of questions in the chats and in the like. Okay, I see some good questions coming in so I'll get to those. I I get a lot of questions about.

You know these jobs that I do where I rebuild a package unit or whatever, and then people want to know exactly how much it costs, because they're curious how much the customer spent on that stuff. It's one of those things guys I'm not going to share how much I price things. Okay, I don't mind sharing the hours that I quoted jobs for and then you guys can kind of try to figure it out on your own, but I'm not gon na share the pricing at which I'm charging my customers, just like I mentioned in the last stream - That you know I don't want to, I don't want to reveal my customers locations to protect them. I also don't want to reveal any price.

You know, okay, but you know if you guys have personal questions or you want to get more in depth. Some things that I maybe I don't want to put in a public forum you're more than welcome to send me emails and - and I might give you a little bit more information but, like I said, I'm not gon na give you my exact like this is how Much I charge the customer. This is you know what my markups are and stuff like that I'm not really going to share that on a public forum, so I'm gon na go ahead and get to a couple of these questions. Let's see how many people work for me, so we have, let's see, I have to count right now we have so we have four service trucks rolling on the on the road right now and that's including me so we're a small company.

I also have an apprentice riding with me and then we have an office manager that comes into the office and she works three days a week and then my dad works in the office too, so for service trucks out in the field and then to support staff In the office and those for service trucks, one of those is me so I'm out in the field all day long and I try to I try. I try to stay in the field as much as possible, but typically it's best. If I get in the office at least one day a week to try to work out, some quotes and different things. So, okay, I just kind of going up here through the questions and trying to catch out what type of megger do I use honestly, I do not have a megger in my arsenal.

I haven't really had a use for a mega I've gotten by without one for a long time I've contemplated buying one, but a lot of the research that I've done. You know maegor's are good, but especially when it comes to like scroll, compressors, Copelan really doesn't recommend using a mega for a one time. Diagnosis Copeland recommends on a scroll compressor that using a megger or a mega. Ohm meter is to be used over a time period and analyzing data as a trend.

They don't want you to just put it on there one time and condemn a compressor, because a lot of things that can affect a mega such as moisture in the system. You know that can give you false readings and different things, so I personally don't use a mega because I just haven't had the need for one so, but that also goes for you know the the measures that you can buy or mega ohm meters that you can Buy from the supply house, you want to be very cautious about those, because if you have a very moisture Laden system, it can give you some false readings on your mega ohm meter. You know, so you want to be cautious about that stuff. Let's see, I saw a couple of other things in here right on Isaiah.

I see that you said you got the new s. Man, that's really cool, but refrigeration technology should make sun block. That's a funny one haha, alright. Okay, I think I got to the questions.

Then I'm gon na go ahead and go back down. If I missed you, guys's questions throw them in again in caps, a lot guys and best tools for a beginner in HVAC really first off. If I would highly suggest, if you don't already have a job, you probably don't want to go, buy a ton of tools. Okay, until you actually start your job and the reason why I say that is, is because you're gon na come to the job with a giant tool bag, that's weighed down with a bunch of tools and you're your senior mechanic, or whatever is going to look at That until you dude, you need to get rid of half of that if you're not gon na use it.

So you know - and I mean you know it's okay, if you buy a ammeter or something like that, but I would wait until you start working with someone. Now, as far as, if you're already working, you know, really, you want to buy the best tools that you can afford. Okay - you you typically don't want to, but you don't want to skimp on certain things, such as your your your meter that you're gon na be testing voltage and amperage and stuff like that with you, do not want to buy the cheapest meter. Hey.

Thank you very. Very much fully fully. I don't know if that's how I pronounce your name, but thank you very much for that super chat and I'll try to get to your question here, but yeah. So you want to buy the best tools that you can for your budget.

You don't want to you, don't want to kill yourself, but at the same time you don't want to short yourself. Okay and you don't want to skimp on an electric meter, you want to buy a quality electric meter. There's a lot of opinions out there, probably the the best meters you know. Of course everybody will probably agree that fluke is on the top of the list as a great meter.

I carry a fluke in my van, but I don't carry it as my everyday. Carry my personal everyday carry is a field piece SC 660 and that's their fully loaded, clamp meter. That's just my choice. I, like the features that that meter has, and it's accurate enough for what I'm doing, but you know there's other meters depending on what you're working on that are more accurate for what you need to do.

So you want to be cautious about that and again I would reach out to your senior mechanic and/or, the company you're, going to work for and ask them what kind of electric meter they recommend that you get. You know, because they're gon na have some good insight on what works for them in their field. So, but just don't don't skimp on the tools that can you know, protect your life, such as a meter and stuff like that, okay, as far as hand, tools go. You know just whatever you can afford.

I personally am NOT a fan of buying the cheapest hand, tools in the world. I like Klein screwdrivers, I like some of the Milwaukee stuff, so it really just depends, but I'm not going to typically go to Harbor Freight and buy most of my hand tools, because I don't need them to brake while I'm using them at the same time. I know a lot of people that swear by some of the tools from Harbor Freight, so you know to each their own on that one all right, I'm gon na keep going down to the list here. Let's see see what else I'm going, Damon abets, you said: how do I choose what company? What do you mean by that Damon? Do you mean what company to go work for give me some clarification on that question and I'll try to get to it now the question that came in on the super chat, it says a two-stage carrier unit are both stages connected.

How do they work? I kind of need some more context to that question. I believe your name is folly if I'm pronouncing that right, but yeah, a typical two-stage carrier package unit, you know, is controlled by the thermostat and the stages are not connected, except for you know they might share a common condenser, but the condensers are piped separate. So the condenser may look like it's common, but it's actually two separate stages, but I kind of need some more context on that question. There: okay, Isaiah, you said, use the Cline backpack, that's really cool man.

You know I'm not a fan of the climbing backpack, but I know a lot of people that do like them. So good man, I'm happy you like it have. I worked with the Bosch inverter heat pumps. Yet no, I have not.

I have not done any of the Bosch systems again, I don't do much residential guys. So if I was to do you know any residential really just beyond family and friends, but I really don't so. Okay, have my guys organized yet you mean, as in have they gone Union? Is that what you mean knock it off? Have you worked with the Bosch? Okay? So I'm going through that one. So all right, I'm going to address I'm going to address some other topics that I have on my list right now.

So this is another one, and this is something that goes with. You know what I've been talking about with the apprentice, that's riding with me right now too, is you know when I'm going to do a service call? I really try not to overthink that service, calling the drive over. It's really easy to like already think that you have it diagnosed by the time you get there and then you're like totally in the wrong direction. I kind of approach every service call with a clean slate granted.

I do have some things like I said in the beginning of the stream that I might you know, make some assumptions when I go when I walk into that service. Call. The first thing I do every single time is: I walk up to the manager. I shake their hands his or hers.

I hello ask him how everything's going try to make some small talk and then you know ask them what the problem is what's going on and then I try to ask him. Excuse me, my nose is itching like crazy and no I'm not a coke fiend. Okay. So I I asked the managers, you know, how's everything going what's what's the problem, how long has it been happening? What are the symptoms and then, when they tell me the problem, I might ask him some questions related to that.

Even if I know what's going on, I still make that small talk. Okay, that little bit of small talk and then you know I walk up to go diagnose whatever I'm gon na diagnose and I kind of start from scratch. Okay and I'm gon na start from square one and start checking things out, moving down the line and I'm using my senses guys those headphones are not in my ears. I can't stand when people troubleshoot with headphones.

Okay, because I need to be listening, I need to be walking up to the unit. I need to be listening to it. Listening to the motors run. In my opinion, headphones are not a good thing, because you can't hear things: okay, if you're listening to music, while you're trying to troubleshoot it's gon na in my opinion, create some problems.

So you know every once in a while I'll have a job site. Radio, if I'm doing a construction job or something like that, but I'm never gon na walk around with headphones in, because I find that to be a major safety hazard so but yeah, I approach each call. You know with a clean slate, I'm not going in there completely diagnosing it before I get to the call because, like I said in my opinion, that can lead you down the path, the wrong way you can get there and think. Okay, it's got to be this and then you just you, know one site.

You know what's the right phrase, you know you're going in there with with something on your mind and you're, ignoring other things. So I try and and again I'm not perfect, but I try to start clean every single time on every single service call. So how do i schedule training with the new tech during the busy season Jeffrey? So the new tech basically is riding with me 24/7. So I've taken it upon myself to go ahead and take him as an apprentice, and you know he just rides with me and he learns occasionally.

I get to build for him because I try to take on jobs that might require two people, but for the most part, I'm not billing for that new text time so he's riding with me: I'm paying his wages and we're really not making any money off of Him so he's able to just observe. Sometimes I have time for him too. You know try to troubleshoot some things, but then sometimes he has to step back and just watch me and then we'll reflect on it or talk about it when we're done so. Okay, let's see what is the headphone brand? Are you talking about the ones that I'm wearing mr.

Johnny boy, I'm wearing Audio Technica headphones? I'm gon na do a video cuz I've had I don't know if it was you Johnny, I think, or someone else had asked me about my video equipment and stuff like that and I'll, do a video guys breaking everything down what I use, how I use it? What my office setup is like and what software's I used to do my videos, so that'll be coming up soon and also tentatively, I'm gon na be releasing another how we live. The HVAC, our life, videos, Syria, that I'm doing with my wife, I'm gon na be tentatively releasing another one. I think this Wednesday. This is the one we're going to talk about.

You know get kind of dive into how we've dealt with my anxiety and my anger issues and then how my wife's health issues kind of played into everything. So we've got that episode. I'm planning on. I need some more editing with it and everything goes well I'll release it Wednesday morning.

So let's see micro Channel condenser coils. What cleaner do I use? I use the Viper a heavy-duty, cleaner, it's aluminum safe, so it's safe for micro, Channel coils. It doesn't itch the coil, it doesn't brighten the coil okay. So what that means, if you guys don't understand when you're cleaning a coil dude, my allergies must be kicking in, because my nose feels like it's starting to itch like crazy and run.

Oh gosh man. I don't know it's it's like a nervous, tic or something that I get or my nose will start to itch anyways. I use the VIPRE heavy-duty condenser coil, cleaner by refrigeration technologies. That's a great, cleaner, it's very safe, it's not harsh and if you guys don't know like some of the other cleaners that make the coil all shiny and bright when they're, making it shiny and bright they're actually eating the top layer of the aluminum off.

So you got to be very, very careful with some of those really really heavy-duty cleaners. They can really really edge that coil and damage some things, so I don't always use the Viper cleaner, be because one of the problems about the Viper, cleaner and that's made by refrigeration technologies is that it's not as readily available as new Calgon products. New Calgon is an illness, every supply house right. You see it everywhere and it's super easy to go to a supply house.

For me and say I need four cases: a new cow gone because I'm going to do a big AC cleaning job. You know it's very hard for me to find a supply house that has at least one case of the Viper heavy-duty cleaner in stock. I've heard that some Johnstone's are starting to supply them, but where I get my Viper cleaner from is I'll usually order it from true tech tools and or I can have my supply houses bring it in. So I've had my local supply house, allied refrigeration, bring in some some of the refrigeration technology stuff, but it's special order.

They typically don't stock them on the shelves, so, but I think the more popular that it gets. The more we're gon na see it being stocked on shelves, and I think that's a good thing, because those guys over at refrigeration technologies seem to make some good products. I have no affiliation whatsoever with them. I just like their products guys.

So, okay, I'm gon na, go down here and see what I'm missing here: okay, yeah in the Viper stuff, like my Aled, is the only supply house. I think that stocks, it you'll you'll, occasionally see the nylock by refrigeration, technologies and majority of the supply houses. But I think some of the united refrigeration stock, some of their stuff too, but I'm gon na get into another topic here. That is just a pet peeve of mine, guys and I've talked about this before is impact guns.

So I am NOT a fan of using an impact for majority of the stuff out there. Okay, in my opinion, this is just my opinion. Most people don't know how to use the trigger on an impact, and they don't know how to let off the trigger, and when you hear that clicking sound of the clutch disengaging detect a touch, a touch it you know, tighten it down. Actually, it's not the clutch on an impact, that's actually like the hammer, but that's not good, especially when you're taking screws out of a panel that drives me nuts.

I we have an epidemic of more panels being stripped out the screws on panels being stripped out in the last five years than we ever have in our trade. You guys went and for you younger guys, it's probably hard to understand this, but you know when I was coming up a drill, a cordless drill at that was very hard to come by and they were very expensive. The two cordless drills that were the most popular were the mill wok or the makita, the big giant green one with that giant green battery and then also the dEWALT's, the DeWalt, but they were heavy cumbersome things you couldn't keep them in your tool, bag. You had to keep mean you had to rope those things up onto the roof and the case, and they were super heavy.

So it was very rare that we would actually use a cordless drill. Then you know, as things got cheaper and cheaper, they started to get more and more popular, so we used to take panels off with you know: a 5/16 nut-driver, that's what we used to carry, we didn't carry. You know cordless drills and our bags, and so, if you were taking all the panels off of a unit, you were using a 5/16, and so it was very rare that you stripped anything out. But nowadays you can go by almost any carrier package unit and there's probably 20 holes because someone's drilled, a new hole because when they drilled the new hole they stripped it out and they stripped it out, they stripped it on they constantly strip them out.

So that drives me nuts, so, in my opinion, impact shouldn't be used now I know that there's some new technology that Milwaukee has this. I think you can program the thing to have less power, different stuff like that and that's cool, but you know I'm a fan. If you're gon na use, you know cordless drill, I'm a fan of using a normal screw gun and or drill that has a actual clutch on it. And you set the clutch to like number four and number five and you put the screw in the panel and it it starts to.

You know clutch basically when when there's any tension on that thing, so you don't strip everything else. So that was a question. Someone had asked me about which one they should buy an impact or a screw gun. You know, and I'm an impact serves a purpose if I'm gon na use an impact to do heavy duty work like if I'm lagging condense and units down to four by fours.

If I'm tightening bolts, you know yeah I'll use an impact, but I use it in a certain situation. I don't use it for an everyday okay and also to for me, it's kind of ridiculous to have to buy a special drill bit to put it in impact. I think that's silly when you can have a normal screw gun that doesn't have some silly drill bit. That's expensive.

You know to try to use it. So, okay, that is okay, see what else yeah, and so I, like that idea bill that that you can. You can reduce the torque, you know, and I wish that people would use that because I even find people taking their their cordless, drills up or screw guns and not using the clutch either and stripping out the screws. So it's not always just the impact.

I think it's just people don't know they, don't they just don't care is what it is. I mean bottom line and find people all the time just or are you know trying to screw things in and it's like guys come on. You know, let's not strip everything out so so your question is: how do you calculate the load of a walk-in freezer and also, why does the supply house sometimes count the compressor with horsepower, sometimes with BTUs? Well, most refrigeration equipment is rated and horsepower. It's.

I don't know the technical answer for that, but you know you have a two horse three horse condensing unit, but then also occasionally, they'll talk about the tonnage as far as how to calculate the the capacity or the the required capacity of a walk-in freezer you're gon Na take, you know basically the diameter, the height the width and the depth of the inside of the box, the space that's being refrigerated and then you're gon na do a heat load calculation. I would highly suggest that you look into a software program. You can go to Russell refrigeration, I believe they're software programs called Russ box and then I believe I believe, Trenton has a free software too. There's a couple: refrigeration manufacturers that have load calculation software's, and they basically help you to do that, and that is something that I've already talked about.

Doing a video on to basically how we use the software, because I do do load calculations quite often, and you know I typically don't pay attention to the horsepower of the equipment. I'm usually looking at the BTU, the output BTU of the equipment, and then you know sizing it basically by the BTUs that it can put out at certain temperatures. So I would highly suggest that you send me an email and remind me about that. One and I'm gon na try to work on making a video, so my email is HVAC our videos at gmail.com and I'd be glad to make a video about.

You know how to do load calculations on walk-in, freezers and walkin cool, there's a lot of things that go into account the type of a product that you're keeping in there, how many times the doors being open how many lights are in there. You know that kind of stuff. So, let's see, should you go with analog or digital defrost clocks, you know, I'm I'm old school and I haven't jumped on the digital bandwagon yet and I'm gon na tell you why it's because I don't know how to use them. I can install an analog, defrost clock and it's really easy to just turn the dial and not have to think too hard.

So it's because I'm being stubborn, that's all that it is I'm comfortable with the analog clocks and I just haven't jumped to the digital's. Yet I really need to make the jump to the digital's, because there's a lot of benefits with the digital's, but there's also some cool things about analog clocks, because you can just see them. You know - and it's not just in the processor, but I realize I need to make the jump but which one's better, I'm not gon na, say either one's better. I think that each one has its purpose.

You know I use a grassland defrost clock for situations where I don't have blowing sand. I use a Paragon electromechanical, defrost clock in situations where I have blowing sand because the grasslands get gummed up and the Paragons tend to do a little bit better because they're actual gears and it's not little plastic gears. The grasslands are plastic gears. So I don't have any experience really with the digital ones.

I have been using the key to therm, temp plus defrost products, a lot lately. Their temperature controllers that have built-in defrost I've been really liking. Those actually I got a randomly got one in the mail yesterday from Keita therm for free and it said like summer promotion and I started doing some research and as best as I can tell it's, because I guess they have like a promotion. If you buy like four or five of their products, you get one free or something like that.

I didn't even fill out a claim form. It just came in the mail to me, so I'm assuming my supply house filled it out for me, so that was kind of cool, so they got some kind of promotion where, if you buy so many you get one free or something like that. Why do commercial a/c units have vents on them? Mr. Johnny boy? What do you mean by that? But do you mean the the outside air dampers? I'm gon na wait for you to reenter that one here there you go mr.

ice analog clocks, just and it's a stubborn thing for me just because I've been using them for so long that I just deal with it. So mr. Johnny boy yeah, give me some context on that is. Are you asking about the outdoor air dampers on the AC units, so usually spending someone who doesn't rate you just know, but every okay, I see what you're saying they're primetime yeah I've always used the software to double-check, and I I don't lean on the supply houses.

I usually do my own load calculations, so Geoffrey Arnold, thank you very much man. I really appreciated it. That's super awesome. Do you think using smart probes are considered invasive or non-invasive? That's that's invasive.

It still is invasive. You know the official chart, the official definition of non-invasive is just using temperature, clamps and, but typically you have to so the the way that I would think would be proper to use a non-invasive system is when you do a start-up on a system you commissioned it And you set benchmarks: okay, when I did the startup the static pressure when we're talking about an r2 unit. Okay, the static pressure was at this, the total external static, the the you know, the woody woody call it the condensing temperature over ambient. Was this the you know, delta T was this and all these different numbers and then you have something to reference back to to benchmark.

So then, at that point you know you know a year down the line if nothing has changed, except for maybe a dirty condenser. You can just put temperature clamps on there and you can say my you know: discharge air temperature coming out the condensed or the heat that's being rejected. Is this temperature? You know, and you can kind of get some formula, so smart probes are still invasive they're. Definitely better than putting on full-on service gauges, but non-invasive would be just using temperature clamps so and if your could see like referring to like measure quick, that's what they mean by that.

What is the best donut shop? I hit up the best donut shop. I hit up that's a good question, I don't know dude, you know one time when I was a kid. This is totally not what you were asking me and I know you were just joking with that. When I was a kid I used to go see my grandmother and she was in a nursing and I was like sixteen and I Drive down there and she was only coherent in the morning because she had like dementia and stuff.

So I would swing by the donut shop on the way and she liked plain donuts and I have to say if you could ever get a plain doughnut with nothing on it, but it has to be fresh, like I'm talking still hot out of the fryer. It's the best thing in the world: a plain, doughnut they're, amazing. They taste nothing like a plain doughnut after it's been cooled off plain donuts when they're cooled off tastes like dirt. So mister, I okay! So wait! Let me see: okay, the? U and Archie! U stands for unit stop saying rooftop unit, damn it ha ha RT.

U unit, I say RT, u unit, which is even more stupid, right, rooftop unit unit. That's funny, my bad okay! Let me see if I'm missing any questions. What's the best donut already got to that one right: do I think, using smart phones, okay, so yeah exactly okay. So what do I require my new hires to supply for their truck and what do you supply for the text? So, as far as our text goes, we supply all the big stuff.

I want them to bring a set of gauges. I want them to bring as they get to be more advanced tech, I'd like them to have two or three sets of gauges. You know at least two probably, but we expect them to bring a cordless drill and their tool bag and basically hand tools, and then I supply torches vacuum pumps, recovering machines, the big giant, expensive stuff. If I want them to carry a fancy, you know whatever compressor analyzer or some fancy tool or something like that will supply that big stuff.

We supply leak detectors we supply all the materials they need. Will supply a rolling cart ladders, that's all on us and they just bring their hand tools. Essentially. So, what's the comment on your back while used for I don't know what you mean by that Carter Carl's, I don't know Krispy Kreme nah.

I don't like Krispy Kreme in that stuff's too sweet. I can't handle the sweetness of of that stuff. It makes me sick. So, let's see see what else I'm missing, Whataburger versus in-and-out never had what a burger in and out I've grown up eating it to the point that it's like old for me right, but I still like in and out, but I just discovered something you guys never Watched that burger show it's produced by the people that make the show hot ones, and it's got that big giant dude that eats burgers all the time and he makes them so anyways.

If you don't watch and check it out, it's called that burger show. I think and it's on YouTube, but they just like blew my mind when they told me this really cool thing. So if you go to in-and-out, you can get, they have these little yellow banana peppers right these little chilies and I usually always ask for them and they come in a little baggie and you eat like three of them. If you go in the restaurant they're in like a little bucket and you can grab them, you can ask for those to be chopped up and put in your burger.

That just blew my mind. So my favorite burger at Aenon out is a regular cheeseburger with grilled onions but fried mustard. So basically they put mustard on the patty while it's still being cooked and then they flip it over and it fries that you know: cooks, the burger and mustard. And then I do chopped chillies on it and that just blew my mind.

I found that about three weeks ago and it's like, oh so good and those little chilies are hot too. So try that one out, but yeah I've never been to Whataburger. Okay. How do I, like my new field, piece gauges? Are they better yeah they're definitely improve.

Mansouri is what I have they're a huge improvement over the SMAN for 60s and when I say huge improvement, the biggest difference is, is they they basically redesign the gauges? They moved. The temperature, the thermocouple ports into the back, they have a dedicated outdoor airport for outdoor air temperature and the coolest thing about them. Is they have the wireless features, so they work with the JobLink probes and you can now link them with the app. So you can, you can open the field, peace app and you can link them with it.

It's really cool. So I like the new manifold. I think it works really well yeah, good stuff. So what else? Let's see? Okay, Chili's yeah, the Chili's are the bomb so have I ever used the field piece micron gauge you bought one today couldn't say no yeah.

I was one of the that was one of the things that were the first things that I beta tested for field piece was, the, I think is the SVG. Three, I think, is what it's called the field piece, micron gauge, it's cool. I mean it works. I I don't really got nothing bad to say about it, I'm more of a fan of the the a Q tools, blue vac, whatever gauge that's kind of my favorite go to right now, but the field piece one works.

Fine just make sure that you keep the sensor cleaned. That's the only thing you know you got to use alcohol to clean it every once in a while, but um yeah it works. Okay, let's see what else all right, I'm gon na get to another one of my topics right here. You guys got more questions, throw them in there make sure you put them in caps, lock, okay, so I have a question for you guys for you guys in the chat.

This is mainly I want to get your guys's opinion on this. So you know my youtube channel. I've never like I've thought about doing certain things, but I've talked myself out of it, such as you know, when this new tool came out, I'm gon na not name which one, but there was a new tool that came out and it was it was before it Became popular and I reached out to the manufacturer - and I said: hey, I'm really interested in checking that tool out. How would you guys like to send me one and I'll show it on my youtube channel all this different stuff right and then I thought about it.

After they said, yeah we'll send you one great and then I emailed them back like an hour later, and I said you know what I take that back - I'm not gon na I'm not gon na, take a free tool. I kind of had like a change of heart. I didn't want to take a free tool. I wanted to buy it myself because I felt like I would have more.

I don't know whatever I just felt like I'd give a better honest opinion, but at the same time that tool I still I have that I ended up buying the tool and I still haven't really done any reviews on it and I kind of don't. I don't think my channel is really it. It just doesn't seem like a tool review channel, I kind of like where it's at in being educational videos, and I kind of don't want it to be a tool review channel, but I mean for you people in the chat right now. What do you guys think? I mean: would you like to see tool review stuff I've even contemplated just making a separate channel just for tool reviews, and it would just be my style, like I'm gon, na review these tools? How do you guys think in the chat? What do you think about that? Do you think that that I should because there's all kinds of tools I want to talk about, but I just I don't know I just I I like I like that my channel the way that it is right now and I just didn't - want it to become A tool review channel, I figured that maybe I would make another channel and have that just for tools.

What do you think? Let me know what you guys think in the chat, so Tim Bosco, you said: what's the meaning of my name: hvac are heating ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration? It's an acronym for what we do. So I'm an HVAC our technician, so HVAC our videos, Rocky Mountain HVAC. Our I will say it again, I will say it every single time: new text for refrigeration order, the book, commercial refrigeration for air conditioning technicians by dick worse. If you look in the show notes of this video, this video will post later tonight, there will be an Amazon link for that book.

That is a great book. It's a great resource, written by mr. dick. Worse, all right! Okay, I think allies need to give free tools, don't be a tool.

I got it no reviews, maybe on it, see and that's kind of how I'm thinking guys, I'm thinking more of a different channel yeah that that's kind of I didn't want to cloud the the channel with tools. I'm feeling that way too. You guys are saying that and I'm I've kinda already thought that way. So I already actually have another channel.

It's called HVAC our tools. I don't even think I have any subscribers, but I've had it for like two years, so I think maybe I'll start. I think I have like one video on there and I think I'll I'll start posting videos on there and I'll should win it when I start posting on it I'll share it, but yeah the the channel title like I said you probably won't even be able to Find it right now because it's nothing, but it's just called HVAC our tools. I don't even think I have any artwork or anything on there, but um yeah I'll.

Maybe I'll start doing that. So my thought is is as far as his tools go. I'm kind of torn on that one too, my thought: do you guys know who Leo Laporte is Leo Laporte the tech guy he's like a computer guy he's been around forever, and I really like the concept of how he does things and his concept is that I Know in the beginning he accepted free stuff, but he doesn't accept anything free anymore. He buys everything himself and that's kind of like how I wanted to go.

I kind of wanted to be the person to say no, I'm not gon na accept free tools and I think that's the route I'm gon na go. I think that if I, if I do take off with the HVAC, are tools or whatever channel that I think it's gon na be only tools that I've purchased and I won't accept anything for free and I feel like in my opinion, I would trust someone's opinion On that now, the next thing, too, is that it's gon na be my style of channel. You know the way that I run my YouTube channel that we do right now, the HVAC our videos is I've, had you know like a channel sponsor before not the one that I have now, but I've had another channel sponsor that like wanted me to change titles And different things and know: that's in you know so I'm gon na do it my way, and I think that I think that I'm gon na do it where I don't take anything for free and I only purchase everything and then that way you guys get an Honest review, so that means I won't review everything it'll just be you know whatever I Cho whatever I thought was worth buying, and that would benefit me. So I think that's what I'm gon na do, but again that's gon na be on a separate channel.

It's not gon na be on this one. This one's just gon na stick to whatever I do and you guys see. I have casual mentions every time every once in a while about a tool that I like or something like that, but yeah it's Justin still here. I think he is Isaiah, I think so, let's see, would you create another channel about tools? Call it HVAC our tool review.

Mr. Johnny boy, it's called oh holy moly, Julio Mendez. Thank you very much man. I really appreciate it.

I really really appreciate it, but the super chat was awesome. Dude holy moly. That's a that's an awesome one Julio thanks! So much. Why is my thing not on live chat there? You go yeah.

So that's what I'm gon na do guys for that other channel. It's gon na be tools that I buy and I'll give the link and everything. Once I go yeah holy superjet. I know that's awesome.

We want a certain way of doing it. Like your channel yeah, I don't yeah. That's that's kind of what I'm thinking. I'm not gon na accept anything for free, so and I'll buy things things that, I think will work because then my second channel is pornhub dude.

If your channels pornhub that's flippin, awesome man, you're rich, I wish I was rich who made the channel pornhub and who owns that because they were super smart, all right, okay, so I'm gon na go to the next thing. I have. Let's see what else do I got in my thing? Oh, so this is another good one too. I had an interesting question and it's kind of hard for me to fathom this question, but someone asks so.

I released my video yesterday on a carrier package unit that had it was blowing the fuse right and then it had about disconnects which, if you guys, haven't already watched check it out but you'll see on my channel. What I ended up finding was that the the line 1 disconnect blade was not engaging properly and it was causing the the this the you know that leg of power to overheat and it caused the fuse to blow so someone had asked me: why did I change All three fuses: okay and here's my logic - and this is a hard one, because I thought this was just common sense, but maybe it's not. My thing is: is that if, if you're, ever working with three-phase power - and you have one of those fuses - go bad - it's always best to change all three fuses, because the other fuse in that circuit could have been weakened. Okay, so remember one leg of that power.

If, if you've got a three-phase system, some of the components in there might be single-phase right. So I had a three-phase packaged unit, but my condenser fan motors were single-phase, so at least two of those fuses are always going to be used at the same time, and so my logic is, is that if we blow one of the fuses there's a chance, we Could have damaged the element in the other fuse? Okay, so that's why I go with that logic of changing all three fuses, plus, it's just good practice. The same thing like: why do you change a capacitor on a condenser fan motor when there was nothing wrong with the capacitor, because it's just cheap insurance, okay, same thing, with the fuse? It's just cheap insurance? Okay! Now, if that fuse cost nine thousand dollars or something you know, we may give the customer the option. But you know when you're talking about a six dollar fuse it's best to go ahead and change three and in all honesty guys when I change fuses, like, for instance, in that unit, I always leave three extra fuses too.

So when I sold that disconnect to the customer, they got charged for three fuses that I installed and then they got charged for three extra fuses that were left inside there. And what that does for me is that basically, is helping the next technician to make sure that he has those 45 amp fuses that I needed for that, because what happens if he doesn't I'd like to have extra fuses. So whenever I sell fuses, I always sell an extra set to and put him in the disconnect just to help the next guy. So exactly change them all.

Okay, let me see what else I got going in here. You posted the video recently working on those old carrier units. Have you worked on any of the new units with the motor master for the condenser fan motors or the VFD drives for the blowers yeah. I've worked on a lot of the two-speed carrier units that have the VFD drive for the blower.

I haven't worked on any of the new that have that giant. Axial fan I've been seeing pictures and videos on Facebook where they don't have a belt-driven blower motor for the indoor they have that funky-looking DC axial fan or whatever I don't know what they call that I've never worked on the ones that have motor masters for the Condenser fan motors my units usually aren't that fancy, but title 24 is our energy code here in southern cutter in California, and title 24 requires anything over five tons to be a two-speed indoor blower motor. Basically, so we have to have a VFD drive on it, so we have that. Thank you very much for that super chat.

Dallas. Thank you. So much man really appreciate it so yeah. I have worked on those two speed ones and those two speed ones can be a pain in the butt man.

Sometimes I had one the other day, I'm trying to piece together a video, but I had one where the customer complained. I don't do any work on the vrf stuff, but but the summit there's some other great YouTube channels that do vrf stuff. So I wish I could, but I don't so mr. Johnny boy mean direct drive.

Vf d stands for drive. Here we go again. What did I say, what did I say, VF D Drive, I'm sorry, I'm a when I shouldn't even say that that was that was impolite I'm silly when it comes to that stuff. I got you man, I got you.

I know you're just messing with me too. Can I post one of my special Amazon links for your copper, tube benders yeah I'll, give you guys amazon links? If you guys, I'm gon na make a point to you guys, one of the things that I'm trying not to blow this channel up with advertisements and different things. Obviously I have spoilin as a sponsor, but I'd really appreciate it. If you guys pay attention in the show notes, if you guys are interested in either tools or stuff, like that, I always post little Amazon links down inside the the show notes and those amyl on Amazon links are typically like affiliate links.

So I do get like 2 % or something like that of the sale or something you know some some silly thing or something like that. So if you guys do want to support that's a good way, if you guys are gon na be buying anything from Amazon is just use. One of those affiliate links, interesting thing is: is that if you guys are going to be doing shopping on Amazon too, if you just use my affiliate link for whatever tool, you don't even have to buy the tool. If you just go to the Amazon page click on that link - and it takes you to that tool and then you search for something told different.

I always I also get like credit for that too.