You, ah it's time to chill out and get ready for a mediocre q, a live stream if you're old enough grab yourself your favorite adult beverage and if you're not stick with apple juice, put your feet up and relax. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the chat and now, let's queue up the intro music, so yo, hello, everybody. How are you guys doing this evening? I hope you guys are doing well um, as usual got a bunch of stuff. I want to talk about and then uh fix some audio levels.

There we go. I couldn't hear myself very well um. You know i get a lot of people asking me. Why do i use this fancy stuff? Why do i use headphones? Why do i have this big old mic? You know um, it's i'm just like to be able to have a decent production.

I know it's not perfect or anything like that, but um you know and also the headphones. Those are actually really important when you're streaming, because, especially when you're using a mic like this, i have to be a certain distance away and i'm watching the audio levels as the stream's going on right now, and you know being able to hear myself really does affect The way that i enunciate and talk and things so it's all about trying to have somewhat of a decent stream um or videos too, at the same effect like i know that i could easily take these off and just talk into the microphone. But then you you know, i can hear things i can hear when i get too close or too far away - and you know it helps me to to you know - have better audio quality so yeah. That's why i do that kind of stuff um.

I see a lot of cool people in the chat as usual. If you guys please please, please do me a favor wherever you guys are watching this on um, give the video a thumbs up if you're watching it on a phone. All you got to do is hit the back button it backs out. You can usually find the thumbs up button um and then the same thing.

If you're on a tv, you can even do it on a tv, but if not, if you're watching this on a tv, i highly suggest you at least have a phone or something pulled up, because there's an awesome chat that most people don't even know, because if They're, just watching this on a tv, it's a little difficult, sometimes to see a chat. So there's this whole live chat, going on sometimes they're talking about the same thing. I am sometimes they're talking about other stuff, so it's always cool to interact with these and uh and get you know, there's like community of people that always come to these too. So, ah, let's see i'm looking at the cool chat.

So, as usual, if you guys have questions or things that you would like me to talk about, please put them in caps lock in the chat and that helps me to see it a little bit better. Sometimes you know you got to keep asking your question because i miss it. The chat sometimes there's a lot of people moving around and it's hard to pay attention to everything. So keep re-asking it and tell myself or one of the moderators tells you to stop.

And if i miss your question all together put it in uh email format and send it to hvacr videos, gmail.com and i'll. Try to get back with you, okay, so um, but yeah. This is uh there. You go hey laska, you know what he's watching it on the pooper.

So you know that's funny. Uh, let's see um right on okay, so um, you know the elephant in the room. I released my end of the year video that i'd been teasing for such a long time. I do want to address a few things with that too.

Okay, first and foremost, i beat to the tune of my own drum i like to do things a particular way. Okay, nothing against the other people that do giveaways that make you like subscribe comment. All these different things, i'm just not into that. I like to operate a little bit differently so again, nothing against the people that do giveaways and announce things and stuff like that.

But i genuinely wanted to pick people that didn't know they were gon na, be chosen right, uh last year. You know a lot of people know how i did the giveaway and uh. You know i wanted it to be something different, so i actually posted about a month and a half two months ago on social media and then had all my friends just like i said in the video post the same question so it had been out there lingering, But i like the whole thing of it, was you know random, you know and and nobody knew it was coming and and i even discussed it - and you know true tech tools. They were really awesome with this whole project.

In fact, let's just say this truetech truetech tools reached out to me before i reached out to them about the end of the year. Giveaway and we've been talking about this pretty much most of the way through the year. So it was really neat that they were eager to do it again too. Just like myself and of course you know they get promotion and stuff from this, but they truly are a great company.

So if you guys haven't already, please go check out truetechtools.com, um and then remember a great way to support the channel. Is i use my offer code big picture. One word: uh you'll get an eight percent discount as of today um and uh. If you know what you're going to purchase when you want to shoot, buy something from true tech tools, shoot me an email, i can generate an affiliate link.

You know the same thing goes for guys. I don't really talk about this kind of stuff very often, but i think it is something important when you have creators when you have people that are putting themselves out there. Yes, of course, you know some of us are making money. I make money from these videos.

Okay, youtube puts commercials on them and obviously i have sponsors too right um, but still uh any creators out there that do anything. Any method of support that you can give creators when they're watching or when they're making this content you know benefits all of them. Okay and support doesn't have to be money. You don't have to give people money.

Necessarily some people choose to help that way, but the simple thing of watching the videos commenting leaving interactions. You know, that's why you know. I include other people oftentimes at the end of my videos. I try to promote other channels to try to help those channels grow because it's a small community and we kind of all try to help each other out.

You know that's one really cool thing about the youtube community, with hvac majority of the people all get along and they they're not competing per se. You know everybody out, there is just having fun and they like to share their knowledge. You know so anyways um. Let's get to uh, can you get a picture of me on a t-shirt? I can't say that i would ever do that.

Um, let's see uh yeah exactly uh, what's a good alternative to r22 with similar pressures, but not a blend. No such thing to something that is a good alternative to r22. With similar pleasures pressures. That's not a blend doesn't exist.

Okay, um, the the there's several alternatives that do work uh in replacement of r22, but there's all kinds of factors that go into those alternatives. So you always want to reach out to the manufacturer of each particular refrigerant and find out their recommendations for system conversions. Okay, i'm going to go out on a limb here and say: 99.9 of the r22. Alternatives need to have polyester oil and or in the uh instructions, for the refrigerator usually had some kind of wording in there.

That says, works best under certain circumstances with polyester oil, which essentially means it works best with poe. Okay, so you know r22 could be used with mineral or polyester oil, but most of the blend replacements are all going to be with polyester oil. I know that there's going to be people in the comments right now saying that, if you add six ounces of polyester, oil or or you know this or that that it'll make it work better, who knows okay to each their own with what they want to do. But i'm a fan of being sure when i sell the customer, something that it's going to last and there's no ifs, ands or buts, or issues that you're going to run into.

So if i was to use an r22 alternative, i would be doing a full oil change and or compressor change, depending on what the customer wanted. Okay, so uh. I actually had a question about this. I had a video since my last live stream and it was called.

Did the k, uh uh? Let's see the kitchen ac had a trip to breaker part two, i think, is what it was called or whatever it was about a week and a half ago um, and it was the the return visit on an original video where i went back and changed the Compressor and then did a burn up clean or burnout cleanup, and then i charge the system back up. So the question was: did i use r22 in that video? And yes, i did not use an alternative to r22. I still, as of this day, i'm still using r22 refrigerant, but i always put it in my customers hands and let them make the decisions i'll give them the the the pros and cons of each one. And you know usually they want to stick with our 22..

As of this previous year, every one of my customers has told me to stick with our 22 through the entire year. Now we're coming up to a new year. So i'm going to approach my customers again and give them options and give them the prices and the you know the things we need to do if we wanted to convert to an r22 alternative and if they wanted to do that, if they want to do it, I will i will use alternatives, but i just put it in my customers hands: okay. By doing that, i'm taking some of the burden off of my chest because of the complications you might run into minor efficiency losses.

Um. You know pressure drop problems, uh poor oil return problems. You know things like that. Obviously the price is a big factor.

They're going to be spending. Sometimes you know a large significant amount more to use r22, but majority of the time, even though they know the prices are high, the customers go with 22. okay, so i will be having that discussion with all my customers again soon and we'll see where they want To go with it: okay, um back to uh. Let me mark that question off and then get back to what i started on so um.

I just recently, actually today just decided to release my into the year giveaway video, so i kind of talked about it. For a minute, but what i was saying was you know i really do like to do things in my own way. Okay, so i wanted the people to be randomly picked. I didn't want them to expect it um.

I didn't want people trying to to um. You know win this. I wanted people just to be honest, and then i just picked people, okay, so uh again, nothing against the way other creators do their work uh. I just like to do my own thing and with that being said, let's discuss this too, because this is a good segue.

I've had several people reaching out to me telling me that you know the end of my videos is getting to be way too long. I'm talking too much or i get people that complain. If i don't do one, you know they go back and forth. Look i'm not doing you know.

I do take comments and suggestions into consideration, but majority of the time i'm doing things. The way that i want to do them, okay, um, so you know there's a reason why i do closing words at the end of my videos. It's so that way. I can address some of the potential comments because i already know when i make a video what people are going to comment.

I can tell you what majority of the comments are going to be. A lot of them are repetitive, and so i try to address those in the end of the video because it saves me. It keeps me sane from having to answer the questions over and over and over again. You know these live streams.

They originally started as a way for me to consolidate the questions, because i was finding myself. You know just completely spending all my life staring at video comments, so i started doing the live streams and it's even gotten to the point that i can't even address all the comments and live streams and it's a good problem to have first world problems over here. Right but at the same time, i'm going to continue to do things the way i want to do them. While i will take suggestions into consideration, don't assume and don't be offended.

If i don't listen to you, you know i'm just this is my way. This is it's just how i'm gon na do it? Okay, uh, let's see what else we got going on here. Uh do i use the fleur for checking liquid level refrigerant in receivers for a pump down unit, uh yeah, i mean i've used the fleur one pro. Several times in my videos, when i'm checking liquid levels uh, you know a lot of people might say: that's an odd way to check refrigerant levels in a system uh.

You know it's not accurate. You should do this way. You should do that way regardless. You know everybody can have different ways to get to a certain goal right, and sometimes you can have multiple ways that can get you to that goal.

There's reasons why that i've laid out many times in my videos as to why i check liquid level fill it up to the three-quarter mark, i've. I've said it probably in nauseam too many times how many times i've explained that right um. But you know that's just the way that i've always done things. It works for me and i make sure that the systems are operating properly.

Okay, uh! So let's see what else we got going on in the chat um. It says that uh you're watching from denmark. That's really cool. I really that's really neat to be reaching all around the world with these videos.

It definitely is really cool. Let's see if i have a lot of automatic defrost on a heat pump, would adding a heating element to the outside unit, solve the coil frost in order to add a heating element to an outdoor coil, it's really going to be extremely inefficient and it's not really Going to be practical, because you know when you have a heat element as supplementary heat on the inside of a heat pump right, sometimes i'll put a heat element. There that's contained into a duct, and it has precise coverage of the heating elements and they're sized to heat the air in order to put a heating element that would work properly on a heat pump outside you'd have to have a ginormous heating element uh to be Able to get the proper heat transfer, so it's just not really a practical thing to do is add a heating element to the outdoor coil you're. Just gon na have to deal with the defrost.

Now um, you know older heat pumps. They definitely had all you know. Consider considerably more issues with icing up, and you know: uh cold environments outside right, um, the the newer heat pumps, they're actually doing really well with their efficiencies, and they can operate them in much lower temperatures without significantly icing up the coils to where it affects the Performance so the newer heat pumps, they are amazing and then you have inverter technology and you know, while i'm not a huge fan of having circuit boards and everything you know, you know the technology that these inverter systems have is amazing. So you know um.

The future is cool. I am optimistic in the way that things are going. It's really cool uh, let's see what else we got going on in the chat right now. Uh, let's see you just use your flare today on a walk-in freezer to check the receiver.

It was 60 full right on dude, you know and and often times 60 full might be enough. You know the the the 80 90 percent full that i use or three quarters full is really just because i know that's the maximum amount of refrigerant, but you know, i think, the key to doing anything when you're checking liquid levels in a receiver is to have Some way to mark where you left it, that's really important. So if you know someone's charged it and they've calculated the internal volume of the system and uh, you know, then they pump the system down and check the liquid level mark it with a paint marker. You know because then you know and put the date right there.

Then you know from that point forward. It should always be at that level. You know, and then you don't have to put three quarters or whatever you know. The three-quarter thing is really just because i'm walking up on a system that i have no idea what the proper level is and there's no way to calculate it when there's refrigerant in it.

You know so um all right. Let's see uh air-to-air heat pumps have come a long way since the old days when you started in 99 wow yeah jason johnson we've been pretty much in the trade just about the same amount of time. I mean i've officially been in it since 2001, but right around the same time as when you started um, but obviously you know for those that are watching that don't know. I grew up working for my father, doing air conditioning and refrigeration.

So it's in my blood. Second generation um and uh uh, you know so i already had a kind of fundamentals down. No, i wouldn't say i had a huge understanding of them, but i had the basic principles of how things worked and from junior high on i was doing rooftop preventative, maintenances cleaning, media pads on coolers, and you know filters and condensers and all that fancy stuff. So all right so got a couple things in here.

First, i had some really interesting uh points, so mike had asked me a great question and i'm just going to go ahead and read this because it was just a great question all together and there's a good story in here. So mike is saying uh his here's. His scenario, one of his techs, installed a three ton scroll compressor on a seven-year-old linux split system. Over the summer the compressor was shorted to ground at the time.

Okay, um, then that compressor, let's see the compressor, was shorted to ground that compressor failed. Two weeks ago. Okay uh, they received a compressor a week later installed it and then two days later the compressor was bad again. Okay, so i'm kind of paraphrasing, but he's saying that he checked pressures voltages.

You know all these different things and he wants to know. If i have any ideas on where the problem might be, okay, i'm going to say that you need to be able to autopsy one of those compressors, okay, the manufacturer, more than likely uh depending on. If i understand that correctly, depending on how many times you changed it, you may not be able to uh to autopsy it or not. You may not be able to warranty it, but if you can get your hands on that compressor, i have been told i've never done this before, but i have been told that if you return a compressor under warranty, you can actually request that they do a physical Inspection of that compressor now i've heard that i don't know it to be true.

I've heard that about copeland um that may or may not be true, but still the whole idea that you can request for them to send you a report. They'll basically push it to the top of the list, because you know they want to get them cut apart now, um another thing to understand too, if you guys don't already know this, if you're ever working on copeland's semi-hermetic compressors, i know this for a fact with The semi-hermetic compressors copeland, encourages you and myself any of us hvac people, even if the compressor is under warranty, if it's a semi-hermetic to open it up, pull the valves apart as long as you can get all the parts back in the case and close it up. That's all that they care about. They encourage people to autopsy the semi-hermetic compressors because they're just bolts, okay, obviously you know they don't want you cut and open a hermetically sealed compressor, but if the compressors are not under warranty, i highly encourage everybody out there to try to autopsy them safely, even myself.

In you know the last three four years when i've really been cutting open, compressors i've learned a significant amount just by opening them up and noticing patterns, and - and this was a grounded compressor - there's no oil in it. You know, or things like that, uh pour the oil out, that's so important to dive into things, and it's that mindset. I think that you know can help us all to be better. Is this just the curious mindset right kind of like the curious hvac guy? That's my buddy bill uh.

If you guys also don't know, i do an overtime uh. The hvac overtime show, with my buddies on friday evenings about 605 pm pacific, usually uh. We go live with the four of us uh adam bill, joe and myself, and we just recapped the week. We have a lot of fun.

They actually helped me with ideas in my giveaway video that i just did. If you guys haven't seen that video. I highly encourage you to go to my channel it's my video that i just released today. Uh, it was my end of the year giveaway.

I have to say again thank you to everybody out there. That's watching right now. You guys made this possible for me to be able to do something like this, and you know the the it it's very awesome to be able to do this kind of stuff um. I'm reading right now, uh, let's see what is the service call about um? It's better, not it doesn't say emergency, so um, yeah cool yeah.

I don't think that's an emergency, but um yeah service calls are always coming in right. All right, uh, let's go ahead and get to my list of things to talk about. Um george asked me a good question too uh. When i do compressor changeouts, you know, and he was referencing a video that i did for a liquor store uh, maybe six months ago it was a compressor replacement and it was an older walk-in cooler and they only wanted a compressor.

That's it only a compressor and uh. They um. You know, because in the video i said, something's happening, the owner doesn't want to spend any more money than he has to okay, um and uh. I i can't reveal what's going on yet because i don't think it's official yet but anyway, so in that video i went out there and i changed the compressor.

Then i found some other parts and then i changed the liquid line, filter, dryer and a sight, glass and george was asking me when i do a compressor replacement like that. Do i put that in the invoice without telling the customer? Do i tell the customer that i change a dryer? Do i itemize it, you know do or do i just try to change it, because i change the dryer every time so he's asking you know. Do i tell the customer that i'm, including that in the quote, do i give them options? And yes, i tell the customer i'm including that in a quote, because i do itemized breakdowns, my quotes break the parts down for each individual item with the price of each individual item. Then it all adds everything up.

So the customer can look at my stuff and do the math right. So i don't try to hide anything. But let me address this if a customer wanted me to change a compressor without changing a dryer. No, that's not the kind of customer that i want to work for.

Okay, because i follow the best practices that i can and i'm going to try to do work. You know that i feel proud about, so i'm not going to go out there and just change a dryer or not change a dryer on a system that i worked on. It's it's gon na happen. Now there is times that i will make exceptions.

You know, let's say that i just worked on it yesterday and i put a dryer on it. You know and then i came back out today and i just needed to change the refrigerant. I don't know whatever right um, you know sometimes with the when a day. If it's within a day or so i might not change the dryer okay but i'd, say 99.9 percent of the time.

I am changing the dryer. No questions asked okay, it's not an option, it's something that i'm telling the customer i'm doing. But i'm saying this is how i will be willing to perform the job for you and that's it. You know i'm not going to just go in there and start doing shady stuff.

It just leads to problems and as a business owner running the business, it's so important that the processes processes - i don't know how you say that that we have our employees follow, be as easy and as clear as possible right. So i don't want to be out there trying to figure out how to make all these different aftermarket parts work in weird situations. I don't want my guys doing that. I want my guys focusing on what they're supposed to do and putting all their effort into that um.

You know instead of having to worry about crazy technical stuff. If i have to get something crazy, technical and you know occasionally, will help a customer out in a weird situation, i'll be the one to go out. There take a technician with me and try to train him as we're doing it and we'll decide. You know the best ways to attack things, but i usually don't let my guys get too crazy into the thought process.

Um, let's see what else we got going on here. Uh didn't get any alerts for a new video today, raphael gomez yeah, i don't know. What's up with youtube, i i hear that from people. Sometimes i sometimes i wonder if there's a way i got to figure out a way to like maybe go around the youtube notifications, like figure out a way to notify you guys with like text messages, or i don't know i'll.

I, if you guys, have any ideas. You know on ways that i can help to notify more of my viewers, because a lot of my viewers aren't getting notifications because youtube changes the way the algorithm follows things you know, and it also is another thing that you know people that watch youtube. They don't always subscribe anymore because it's kind of going it's it's kind of so difficult to be subscribed to every single channel, and it's also because a lot of people watch on their television. So it's a little bit harder to subscribe.

You know, but um. So the way people do things is different. Let's see what else we got in here, but you know so i don't know i i guess i'd like to try to find a way to notify people that way. I cannotify more because it's interesting when you see that the analytics to see how many people are watching my videos versus subscribed and it's interesting numbers um.

Let's see, i got some other good questions in here too. What makes me decide to use a notched belt versus a v solid belt when i use a notched or a cogged belt, an ax or a bx belt. In my opinion, those are the best belts out there. They have the longest wear cycle.

In my opinion, if tightened properly - and they also don't heat up as much because of the notched gaps or the gaps right so because of those they don't get as hot and they actually last longer, they stretch less and they're just overall, the best kind of belts. Now, oftentimes, you know i'll, say: hey, let's use a cog belt or a v-belt or whatever v-notch belt, whatever you want to call them, but um, there's uh! You know times that the supply houses don't have them right. In my recent video uh about the exhaust fan that had the blown breaker and stuff in that one, i used regular belts because the supply house simply didn't have the notched belts at the time. Okay, uh - and i want to talk about that video too, because a lot of people have a lot of good feedback and and oftentimes there's things that i don't do in videos or i don't show - and it's so it leaves people curious, uh, holy majoli peter smart.

Thank you very much for that super chat, wow bud. That is an amazing super chat that i you did not have to do that, but i'm very grateful. Wow bud, that's really really cool. Thank you.

Man, um wow kind of, took me off guard. There threw me off track man, but that that was awesome, but wow that was just great um cool uh. So um, let's see, let me see where i'm at on this did i i totally got sidetracked, oh yeah, but with the a belts or the notch belts, i prefer the notched or the cog belts um, all right uh. Let me see what we got going on in here, all right, cool uh.

Then you get a banded belt. Oh okay, you know what else too um, if you guys haven't. I keep those rescue belts on my truck um. I have usually a big enough belt to do all the b-belts and all the a-belts with those um those power twist belts, i think, is what they're called or whatever they have little couplings, that you can take off and put them together.

Those things are great and they they they last and they're a great emergency thing. So then, i don't got to carry 50 billion belts in my van, usually i'll put a you know, one of those adjustable belts on there and sometimes, if it's only for a day, i'll go back and take it off and i'll just keep it in my van And reuse it so those notch belts are great. You can charge a rental fee or whatever um, let's see what else uh yeah. That was awesome, um.

What refrigerant leak detector do i recommend well uh, there's two leak detectors that i carry in my truck today: uh the the inficon stratus or the detex stratus, and i also carry the field piece. Dr 82 leak detector they're, both uh infrared leak, detectors, um and they're. Amazing, in my opinion, uh with within the normal budget level of a leak detector. Those are the two best on the market.

In my opinion, okay, you can also argue that um, the h10 is, is neck and neck with those ones. Some people say it's even better, but then you can get into really really crazy. Expensive leak detectors um that do amazing stuff. But for me the you know the normal consumer version, whatever you want to call.

It is the field piece, dr 82, or the infocon stratus, but there is a significant price difference and, in my opinion, both of those leak detectors perform equal. So you know the the stratus is 500 more than the field piece one. I think so. It's kind of like, oh man, you know the field piece, one does everything that the stratus needs to, and it's it's great uh matthew, mccrum.

Thank you very much for that super chat. That is amazing. The support is, is very humbling. Thank you guys that that is really cool um.

While we're talking about this there's a lot of people in here, probably that weren't in the very beginning in the video so um or the stream. So i did do my my end of the year: giveaway video, um and uh. You know that was a really cool experience for me. I'd been working on that all year, long um, oh wow, peter smart, dude, holy moly um.

That is amazing. I did uh. I i believe i saw your comment somewhere about that, but holy moly man. That is amazing.

Thank you very much, but i'm blown away, matthew mccrump. That is an amazing thank you, matthew, yeah. That is amazing, too. Okay.

So, thank you guys very much for these super chats. If you guys don't know what i'm talking about, there's a chat going on and people are donating to the channel via youtube. You can just hit a button. You can donate there's other ways you can support the channel um.

I say it all the time in my videos just watch the end. I want any one of my videos so where people in the chat can tell you, let's see um, so the leak detectors yeah. Both of those are amazing, let's see what else we got going on in here. Brian guzman.

Have i ever worked on vrf systems? No, i have not worked on vrf systems. They intrigue me. I really would like to work on those. Unfortunately, my employees they're not qualified plus.

I don't think that they would want to work on those things. So i'm limited to the the scope of what my employees can do. I would love to get into that kind of stuff, but you know some people don't want to get into that and that's what i mean by my employees, not necessarily wanting to um some of them probably would but the technical, computer, skills and stuff you have to Have to work on the vrf stuff, you know. Sometimes people just aren't that interested in um all right, but i'm i'm awesome.

Man i'd really uh love to get into the vrf stuff. It sounds fun. Um uh, let's see um rich, all uh! That's an amazing thing! So rich says find a charity that is close to my heart he'll match all my super chat donations up to a thousand dollars. It has to be kids health issues, so basically rich is saying that he will match whatever you guys super chat in here.

If i donate it all to charity um, i would be cons willing to do that. If people i mean even for the people that have already donated i'd, be totally willing to donate that to charity. So thank you for that and rich. I will probably take you up on that offer and uh.

We will talk later um you and i so, but regardless yeah any super chats from this stream tonight. I will gladly donate to um some sort of a children's charity yeah that that is a great thing. I think to do, and i i probably should do stuff like that more often so um rich do me a favor and send me an email too. So that way i don't forget, i'd really appreciate it or text or whatever man.

Let's see what else did i fix my appian core tools yet uh? No, i did not fix my appian core tools, yet i think i bought two more. No, i swapped them yeah. I swapped them out. That's right.

I took them to the supply house because i had just gotten those and i had them swapped out. So yes, i did um, let's see what else uh uh yeah rich is the man um and i'll, keep saying that moderators. Do me a favor uh, we'll probably get about another half hour on this stream. So do me a favor alaska.

Thank you very much, but again uh any donations to this right now uh. I will donate everything from this um uh live stream to charity, so uh. Let's see what else um all right - uh, okay, i'm gon na get to one more of my questions that i already answered that one. Oh, oh anyways! I got distracted here guys.

I totally got distracted, uh gabe's reef tampa. Thank you very much. Keep the super chats going and it'll all get donated to charity, so i think i um i got distracted and it didn't answer mike's question. Okay, so anyways mike you keep having a compressor failure: okay and you keep running into the same issue.

What i would encourage you to do kind of what i said earlier and got distracted on. It is try to autopsy the compressor if you can at least get the oil out. I would bet that you have some sort of an oil related problem. I think that, knowing what caused the compressor to fill is definitely going to help you, but i would off the top of my head guess that you're having some sort of an oil problem i'd be very curious to see if you are missing all the oil and It's jammed up in your system somewhere, causing some issues, but, of course i would need to know a little bit more about your particular situation.

Is it a trained package unit with a 3d scroll? Is it you know, insert whatever here give me more information, feel free to send me an email, hvacr videos gmail.com. We can talk a little bit more about it. Okay, but i know you already sent me a message but yeah um, so the 98 deville. So what we're saying right now, guys if you guys don't already know a few people came in here and some people made some very, very generous amazing donations to the channel and uh.

I said that any donations that come in tonight i will donate to charity and one of the viewers my buddy rich, came on and said he would be willing to match my donation up to a thousand dollars. So whatever you guys donate tonight, no matter what the amount i will donate all to some sort of a children's charity. Okay, i know i keep saying that, but sorry um so ryan had asked me a very interesting question too, and he said: hey um. If i was uh working on a nail salon, sizing equipment for a nail salon, what kind of precautions would i take in sizing the equipment and he's worried about the chemicals and the um that could potentially attack the coils okay uh? First of all, i would definitely reach out to the manufacturer.

There is many many nail salons out there, people do make and they understand of the situation so reach out to all the manufacturers find out if they offer any options at a minimum. I would say: hey: maybe the coils need to be coated, but you also need to understand that the types of chemicals that are airborne are not necessarily what most people have coatings made for most of the time that there's coil coatings they're there to keep corrosion from Salts and vinegars and acids you know if you start having things like acetone and stuff in the air, there may not be much you can do. Who knows it's hard to say: okay, but always reach out to the manufacturer. I'm sure you can find some case studies online about that too, but that is a very, very intriguing question, so um all right.

So that's a good one uh! So wow guys these these. These uh super chats are amazing. So, yes, any donations that come into this stream tonight i will donate and we already have someone willing to match the donations um so uh. I will donate whatever you guys give in super chats to charity, to it'll, be a children's charity, i'm sure and i'll announce it on the channel and stuff.

We'll do all that stuff. Okay, um: let's see what else we got going here. Uh this live stream has so many cool cats in it. That is right man.

It definitely does it's amazing people guys. You know guys. This is what we're talking about. I made my video today about how we need more kindness right and it took someone else's kindness.

They gave me a donation, then it took someone else's kindness of saying they would match that donation. That led me to doing this too. So we just need more kindness for those people. There was a few commenters that had some really negative things to say about how we don't need kindness in my video today and that's not true.

We need more kindness, the fear and the hate that we have for each other in general is sad. Okay, so kindness is the key um. That is awesome, guys you guys in these super chats man. This is amazing yeah.

This will all be going to charity man. This is absolutely amazing: um, really cool, really, really cool, all right, um, let's see uh so guys. I have been you know, kind of saying things on social media and i am going to be working on myself a little bit. Lately.

I've been having a hard time with you know, just how i delegate things or the lack of delegation that i have you know i don't uh. You know, usually let other people help me with stuff, so i'm gon na be trying to do that. I'm not changing anything really with the videos, but i'm trying to make it better for myself, so i'm gon na be reaching out to get some professional help with the videos and stuff like that. Maybe some people that can help to manage things and stuff like that, and just so i can continue to have fun with this, so shouldn't be changing anything.

Everything should should be the same. I just want to try to you know, take some of the the weight off of me when it comes to these streams and these videos and stuff. So i encourage everybody out there too, if you guys ever have any ideas you know like of wanting to film your own service calls or try to help. I i either can help to promote you.

I can help to get you in contact with people that you can work and do stuff for so um feel free to reach out to me. If you guys ever want to get into the videos things you know, and things like that, because i'm always willing to talk to people as long as i have time just understand. Sometimes it takes me a while to get back, because i got a million things going on so um wow. This is amazing, guys uh, it's just money right, no um! That is absolutely amazing.

All these uh super chats guys. This is. This is great um, all right again for people that are just coming in right now, they're all going to charity, so uh happy holidays. That is right.

It is uh a great time um, even though you know, there's there's some craziness going on and everything it's it's. It's a great time of the year, so um so uh. In my video with the exhaust fan too, you know we had a lot of comments. Uh, where i had the the tripped motor starter and people were right.

You know people reached out and said: hey, you know what in that video in the very beginning they saw me grab a wire that looked burnt. I looked at it and they're saying that they think that is what caused the breaker to trip. You know it's a possibility. I did repair that it is a possibility and it makes more sense as to why the breaker tripped, if it was an electrical short for sure i did repair that section of wire, but i was able to cut it short kind of, but um yeah.

I was able to repair that, but i still changed the motor starter, because i wasn't happy with that. We know that the exhaust fan had bad bearings and i was just worried that that motor starter had not tripped. So i was just just to be on the safe side. We changed the motor starter too, got that taken care of, because you don't want to be damaging expensive motors like that um.

I just had a service call that i haven't even been able to make a video on where it was a very similar situation and i'm going to be working on it, but it's a very interesting one where i kind of talked about it on the hvac overtime. This last week, but where i keep tripping a motor starter and it's just really difficult to figure out what's going on um, so that'll be a fun one. Uh we're still working on that one, but all right, let's see what else um so yeah everybody uh! This is amazing. This stream is awesome.

Okay, so um, let's see uh. I already talked about that um i already uh. Oh, i didn't really discuss this one, and this was a good one. So uh released a video this last week of a a job, walk or a site visit that i did on a potential customer and i went out and looked at the walk-in that was missing the evaporator and then i was kind of saying on social media that I was kind of i felt bad that i had given them so much information, because you know there is truth that i see things that normal people don't so when i'm walking into a job.

There is a value on my knowledge um, you know, and there has to be a price of some sort uh. You know you know, maybe not for everybody. Of course i give my knowledge to you guys. You know the little bit that i have, but there's always stuff that i want to be able to charge for what i know to my customers.

You know so as i did, that job walk and i realized when i was done as i'm driving home. It's like man. I was blown away that there was that many problems with the building they were just about to open the general seemed clueless. You know couldn't even get me in with mall security, but whatever um.

You know that that was just crazy, but i mean i was just blown away, but in the end i was like man, you know i told them all these things that weren't going to allow them to pass code and they were completely ignorant of them all. It's kind of sad to think that people go into this, that unprepared, but hey you know who knows um wow, that is amazing man um bill. Even orphans need big pictures. That is amazing.

Everybody. Thank you all for these super chats and, and they will be donated to charity so uh. This is amazing yeah. This is really really cool.

Um great way to show the to do this, let's see um, let's see i'm going through this the questions right now. I already kind of answered those ones, um cool, so i'm i'm kind of through my questions. Uh have i got a service call of a walking cooler at near freezer temperatures. Um yeah.

I actually have i've had uh. That's amazing, rick hvacr survival. That's amazing man! The the super chats are awesome, um, so uh and also um, just to be clear, uh i will be donating the full amount of what is actually being donated. Even you know, i will make up the difference for what youtube takes.

Basically um so we'll make sure that whatever the amount that is donated will be an even amount and it will not include youtube's 30 take of everything that you do for them, um all right uh. So, let's see what else we got in here, um you needed to call paul blart. That is right. I needed paul blart for sure uh.

This is amazing. You guys these super chats are awesome. This is really cool, um uh, so anyways yeah, how uh sorry john deere fan have i got a service call in a walk-in freezer that was too low, yeah yeah i have our walk-in cooler. I've had that happen many times where uh liquid line, solenoid valves are stuck open and all the products at 15 degrees.

You know the customer's freaking out because it ruined all their produce and stuff yeah. It's happened many times on walk-in coolers. So, let's see what else? What are some questions? You ask future employees on interviews, okay, so free flunky, i'm going to tell you right now that i do unconventional interviews and i've heard many people who teach how to do interviews, and things say that my way is wrong and it's really toxic. But what i actually do when i do an interview, i have a conversation with the person um.

It is a genuine conversation and i i have a few talking points in that conversation, but i'm more interested in having a general conversation with someone, because i feel like i get a better idea of their character and the type of people that they are and again Of course, we're going to talk a few things about qualifications, but it's not a. I want you to come in here and prove to me that you're, a good person, no we're we're having a genuine conversation and we're interacting and we're feeding off of each other. Because remember when someone's doing an interview right, let's say i'm the employer and i'm interviewing someone i'm being interviewed in the same way. We have to understand that as a reciprocating interview, we each have to ask each other questions because we're trying to prove to each other that we're a good fit okay.

So the biggest thing is is that i have a conversation. Okay, then, we will usually discuss some of their employment history. You know reasons why they left. You know that kind of stuff, and i also like to hear what employees don't like about their previous employers.

So that way, i can have a general idea of what i'm getting into again. These are all questions that lead to the same thing, which is basically the person's character and their work ethic, and that's the important thing so i've heard many people say that's the wrong way to conduct interviews and stuff, but hey i've always done things to the tune Of my own drum right, all right um see what else rita loy. Thank you very much for that super chat. You guys, i there's so many super chats coming in that i can't even keep track of them, but if i missed any of you, thank you very much and again um the chat revenue right now.

You don't have to keep adding it up. I can show you guys this 454.90, i think that's after youtube's cut so i'll make sure i figure that out um but yeah we're almost at 500 right now so um. This is amazing. You guys these super chats are are crazy.

Thank you. So very much. This will all be donated to charity some sort of a children's hospital, something like that for sure we'll make sure that it goes to kids and we also have another viewer. Um uh rich in the chat, has agreed to match the super chat donations up to a thousand dollars so up to a thousand dollars.

Rich is gon na duplicate, the or donate the same amount or whatever, and we'll make sure that it gets to a charity. So um this is awesome guys. This is really really cool, um, all right, uh, let's get through the chat, see what we're missing. You know what man i have to say that this tea uh joe.

Thank you very much man, everybody wow! This is amazing, so uh this is a chamomile tea and it really does help when i'm doing these streams to drink some hot tea, all right, um yo. This is amazing yeah. These super chats guys aardvark spleen, kevin sullivan, laska uh joe uh, rita loy, my goodness hvacr survival, rick uh, curious, hvac, guy bill, uh, 716 appliance guy murad, alaska, rafael, john cruz, scott hvac, rookie, jason johnson. You guys are amazing, ryan murray, joe t will speed nathaniel hedge hamilton mechanical, the 98 deville gabe's reef, tampa laska again, my goodness peter smart, matthew, mccrum, and i know there was a few before matthew.

Mccrum too. That is amazing. You guys are absolutely amazing. We are at 513 dollars.

This is all going to a children's charity, matthew mccrum again, that is amazing man, all right um, let's see uh uh, my buddy bill says that he replaces gas valves with txvs when they fail bill. You always cease to never cease to amaze me, i should say buddy all right, um he's being uh sarcastic by the way adi plumbing. What's the difference between a normal exhaust fan and a main exhaust fan? Well um, when i say normal or main it really, you doesn't you guys, don't have context for that, but you know, depending on the restaurant, there's really should be no difference. It's just a name.

Some restaurants may call the the main part of their kitchen, the main exhaust you know, and then you have fry exhaust and griddle and different things like that. But it's all just how the customers name them. That's why we call them that, so there could be the exact same thing, tristan james young. Thank you for that super chat.

These are all going to charity, guys um. Let's see we're at yeah, 5 20 right now, allen. 100. That is amazing, so we're at 6 19 right now.

So this is absolutely amazing. You guys are all great um, wow uh, all right um, let's see where's the overtime merch at ryan, marie um murray. Actually, we are about to launch a website, and i know bill has been working his butt off. Getting all that stuff figured out.

I just transferred the domain in his name and should be launched here within i'd, say a week. Probably so it's going to be awesome. Uh alan uh, quiet tone, 610 again joe come on man. That's amazing man, you guys are are absolutely awesome.

Uh. We are at 650 right now. This is amazing, um, absolutely amazing. All right uh, let's see so um yeah, we're we're making it through this.

This is great um, so i did repair. I already talked about how i did repair that wire on the exhaust fan that was shorted out um yeah. That is correct. Let's see, um look at that rich right.

There gt350r. He says he'll match up to one thousand dollars: um we're at 6, 50, 49 right now um. This is amazing, all right um! It's already answered that one. Oh! I did want to talk about this too.

You know in the video uh. You know that i went to the the vacant restaurant, and you know, was amazed with that in that video um, those air handlers for the air conditioning split systems are in the attic and those air handlers are completely inaccessible, and it's things like that. That makes me cringe when i have to say this, because i'm not a fan of regulations. I really am not.

I think we have way too many, but in that situation i need more regulations. I wish that we had to have a legit license to do this. Obviously that it would be a legit license and there was no corruption in it. But i wish that we would have to have to prove ourselves to be hvac technicians, and i wish that you know more.

People would have to pull permits on jobs and and do things the right way, because us, as service technicians and business owners having to work on that equipment in those horrible locations, is just crazy. You know it's nuts peter smart um. That is amazing. You guys in these super chats holy majoli man, uh everything, hvacr good, gosh, guys peter smart, again, you're amazing man, um.

Let's see uh ever have to work on equipment installed by subpar general contractors. Yes, i have. I have also been the person that refused to do things the way that a general contractor wanted me to do. I shouldn't we shouldn't, say general contractor because there could be really good ones too, but just shady contractors, i think, is the way to say it.

Okay, so um, you know, sometimes they want you to do things because the customer demands certain things and they know that they can cut corners and you know whatever um and uh. It can get frustrating. You know um, but i have said no. You know i.

I did a few installs on it for a major chain that started up and i don't usually do new installs, but i did a few installs and uh um. I refused to do things. You know they wanted me to just coil up the line sets on top of the walk-in, and i was like nope not doing it. You know my quotes, cutting those line, sets to length and strapping them down appropriately.

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