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 w this: Oh oh oh, this live stream is brought to you by Heatcraft Refrigeration Find out more about them at Heatcraft Rpdc What is up everybody? Welcome To the Hvacr videos Live stream: Glad to have you here looking at the chat if you're listening to this in podcast format.

What you don't know is there's a whole video format to this and uh uh, doesn't matter what platform you guys are watching this on if you are watching the video platform. but I will tell you that YouTube has the biggest community of people that are having a full-on conversation. uh, majority of the time I Try to come into the stream a little bit early. Uh, today I was in the chat before the stream for a good I Don't know? 20 30 minutes before having a conversation with a bunch of the regular people that are always in there.

So it's really awesome. This is really cool what we have built and I can't take credit for it because yes, I'm the person that's putting content out on. YouTube But the community of people that we have in here all really awesome. Awesome people and you guys know who you are.

Thank you for being there and thank you for being that! Community Because it's awesome that we all get to help each other out. We're all having great conversations some of them that have nothing to do with HVAC and it's just really awesome. So thanks to everybody out there and again, welcome to the show! So my name is Chris for the new people that are here and I'm an Hvacr service technician here in Southern California Run a small business and create content, but the content actually started for my employees as a training aid. Now of course it's still for my employees.

but I Realize that the general public watches this now too. so we get to benefit my employees. and some of the general public gets to benefit from watching me make mistakes, Watching me have successful service calls and a little bit in between, right? So it's awesome And again, thank you everybody that's out there. All right? Uh, Brian Sanders thank you very much for that! Super Chat Man, again, you don't have to do that, but it is very much appreciated my good friend, You always so generous with that So thank you my good friend.

Um, let's see what else we got going on on in here. Yeah, lots and lots of great people in here. Lots of great regulars. As usual it's awesome! Okay, if you guys do have questions or comments or things that you want me to cover, please try to put them in caps lock so all capital letters um it helps myself and the moderators to see you can keep trying to repost it if I don't get to your comment if I miss it altoe Which it's very possible because there's usually a lot of people commenting in here.

Feel free to shoot me an email to Hvideos Gmail.com Okay, um, let me see. so I want to start talking about, uh, something? There was a conversation in the chat before the show. Um, and we don't need to go into complete detail, but um, it was a conversation with someone talking about people that come to work just not giving a crap. Okay, um, you know, people that are working with you and wearing headphones to where And that was a conversation that was going on where you're trying to work with someone and the other person's wearing headphones and they can't hear what you're trying to get them to do.

Okay, that's frustrating. When you come to work, you come to work. Okay, headphones I Have That's one of my biggest pet peeves is people putting headphones on now. I Make an exception for headphones if you have them in pass through mode.

Okay, because I wear um, airpods right? and you have pass through mode. so I can hear everything around me but I can still hear my phone if it rings right and I can take a phone call like that I Get and also hearing protection. Of course, if you're in an environment where there's loud noises, of course you need to have hearing protection. But the thing is is that when you come to work, you're there to work.

Let's get the job done. Let's be safe. You know you wearing headphones at work can affect everybody, not just yourself, but it also can affect your safety. Okay, if someone's relying on you to do something and you're not there, who knows what can happen, right? It's dangerous.

Plus, when you're on a rooftop, it may seem boring. It may seem repetitive, but when you're doing a maintenance, when you're just up on a roof, you're also listening to everything around you. You can generate work for yourself just by simply listening. You could be up on the roof working on one package unit and you can hear something all the way across the roof and say, hey, that doesn't sound right.

That happens to me quite often when I'm on a roof, I'm just up there working and it's like, oh, that's that. That's not the sound that condenser fan motor should be making. You know and you walk over and you're like, hey, I'm going to go bring that to the customer's attention, right? Same thing when you're doing routine maintenance. It may seem boring.

It may seem like you're doing the same thing over and over again. But not only are you there performing a service and cleaning the equipment and checking its operation, you're also listening and you know you're just getting used to the sounds. There may not be anything wrong on the roof that day or the next day, or the 15th day or the hundredth day that you're up on that roof, but the 101st day you might notice. hey, that doesn't sound like it always sounds.

For this, you know certain amount of time that I've been working for this customer and you start to recognize things and that's the true technician right there that is looking at the big picture that is listening that is using their senses. It's so important. Okay, so again, always protect your hearing right. Make sure you're wearing ear protection if you're in a loud environment.

But when you're working with other people, you got to be able to be there and be present in the job. Um, let me see what's going on. What? See, uh, Brian Sanders says he doesn't wear headphones. Hearing is important and listening to the unit.

That's 100% true. Of course, there's a time and place to wear headphones. Okay, I mean I'm not saying that I've never worn them I have. But you know when you're on a job, you're there to do some work and listen to everything around you.

Okay, um, you know like I kid you not I've told a story before that you know I and this had nothing to do with headphones. but You know, I've been on a roof before when the fire department came up and I just heard a noise in the background and I happened to turn and it's like you know they. they came up onto there because it was a nuisance call but still. you know you could have another employee yelling at you saying something's gonna happen.

Watch out, be careful. you need to be able to hear that stuff. Okay Preston thank you very much for that. Super Chat My good friend, that is awesome.

It says you have an apprenticeship interview and you're only 3 months into to tech school. Any tips for interviewing? this is your second interview with this company. Preston So here's some tips that I would give you first and foremost, be yourself and be honest. Okay, own up to your shortcomings, but let them know that you want to grow.

See: Letting a company know ahead of time of your flaws and your weaknesses, tells them that you recognize it and make sure that you tell them. When you tell them about your flaws, say hey, you know what in the past I've had a hard time doing this, but guess what? I recogn I that and I want to be better so you know I want to do this kind of stuff. Let them know ahead of time. uh, you know and again, you're already at your second interview.

so you've already done this. but there's nothing worse than not telling someone that you have a bad driving record when you want to go work for a company that needs you to drive a vehicle, right? We had that happen to us. We had someone come to work for us and uh, you know, once we found some things out, we realized that we couldn't insure them and that became a problem, right? So own up to things, be upfront with people, be honest with your employers and pay attention right? what? I tell to new people that get new jobs in the trade. people email me quite often and they say hey, do you have any advice I've been in the trade for a couple weeks I want to be the best technician and here's what I'm going to say and listen carefully.

Okay, shut your mouth and know when to ask questions and what I mean by that I don't mean to sound like a jerk, but there's a time and a place for questions. Okay, there's a time and a place for you just listening and observing. All right and every job's going to be different. Um, there's been times that you know I've had people you know I used to have a technician that would get in my vehicle every morning.

he was an apprentice so he was riding with me in the mornings right? and uh, he would jump in my vehicle every morning and he was excited for the day and he just would just start d da da da da talking to me the whole time man every morning for the first half hour I need 30 minutes of driving before I'm ready to talk and that's what I just had to tell him one day I was like hey I don't mean to be a jerk but like you know when I jump in my vehicle in the morning I need. that's my my decompress time right? So I need 20 30 minutes and then you can talk my ear off all day long. Just give me a few minutes, turn on the radio, drink my coffee and get going. Everybody's going to be different.

The journeyman you're working with might be different. You never know, right? So you have to learn to gauge everything. But it's so important to know when to shut your mouth and know when to open your mouth, right? And I don't mean like you're going to be a jerk, but I'm just saying like there's a time in the place for question, right? Something really important that happens to a new person, an apprentice when they go to work for someone. Is there's there a good amount of people that first start out in this trade, They start to feel like their job is simply to go back and forth.

being a gopher, right? The person that's going for that wrench that's going for the Torches that's going for the oxy acetylene. I mean The uh, um, the nitrogen bottles? That's going for the recovery machine. But there's value in that, right? You're not just that person that's running down going to get tools every single time. That's not your entire purpose.

There's a point to being a gopher. and there's value from being a gopher because if you are an apprentice that is constantly being sent down to the vehicle to get parts over and over and over again and tools and different things, learn from that and grow from that. Become that person that hey, guess what you've done you've You've been with me three times. We've changed compressors.

By the fourth time I'd expect that you start to pick up on some of the things that I'm going to ask you to do, right? Hey, every time we change a compressor, what's the first thing we do We go up on the roof, we get the recovery machine. We verify the compressor is correct, right? There's going to be a steps that you're being taught right. Start to recognize that you will start excelling past that entry phase. that goer phase.

The moment that you start to anticipate the things that I'm going to ask you to do, There's nothing better than an apprentice that's done a couple compressor changes with me and then all of a sudden before I even have to ask him, he went down. he said, hey, I'm going to run down and get the nitrogen, the leak detector because I know we're just about getting ready to pressurize this system and check for leaks, right? without me having to ask him. Those are things Okay, so I know I kind of went broad with your question there, bud. But just be honest, be open and uh, you know, be humble and be observant, right? And something that I'll say is is, you know if and when you get the job One of the most important things a new Apprentice that's going to work for someone is not only are you listening, watching, and learning right, and asking questions when it's appropriate when you can do this.

And and I say this because sometimes you have to be careful. There's some sensitive job sites that you'll work on, but when you can do this, walk around the roof when you have a few minutes and take pictures of the equipment. that's really interesting to you. Take pictures of the model numbers, the serial numbers, and learn about that equipment when you go home.

Now you got to be careful because sometimes you can be on job sites and there's a good majority of people in this chat right now that probably have been on job sites where you're not allowed to take photos, right? You don't want to violate company policies when you're at work. social media, you know it's awesome, but you're there to work right. Stay productive, right? It's okay. I Guess you know as long as your company's okay with it.

If you take a picture here or there, you send a message here or there to a friend or something like that. but you got to remember that you're there to work, right? You're not there to stare at your phone for four hours, right? I Mean, let's be honest, even myself go to your phone and go to your usage. Most modern phones have usage in there. Mine right here tells me that I've used my phone for eight hours today or I don't Actually, I think that means it's been active being used, right? So it's connected to my Bluetooth all that different stuff.

But it also tells you that I was on messenger, right? Uh, Facebook Messenger for an hour and six minutes today talking on my phone 100% That is talking to the HVAC overtime guys and our super top secret private chat. But still right. that's an hour of my day. If I was supposed to be at work all day long that I wasn't working right, you get where I'm going with that.

Okay, so I want to talk about something in the chat? hello to everybody that's out there that's really awesome. Uh, you're watching this with your daughter. Can you say what it do? Baby boo please? There we go. I Just said it right? So I I I humored your strange strange thing.

Um, Will says his Apprentice has been with him for a month and seemingly has not read the training docs or paid attention to the process of work. So remember something as an apprentice, right? As an employee of a company, right? It's not even just an apprentice. As an employee, you get paid for what you do, right? But here's the really cool thing. all the knowledge that you learn while being paid is yours to keep forever.

Kind of like double dipping if you think about it. You're getting paid to learn, especially as an appren, right? but still as a normal service technician too. Take all the training you could possibly get as long as it's beneficial to the company you know and the maybe the company's paying for it or it's beneficial to yourself. Never stop learning.

Continue to take the training classes right. Your knowledge is yours to keep. The more knowledge you have, the more value you're going to be. Another thing that I want to address too was there was a there was a comment going around in one of the social media groups I noticed a person that commented something and uh then I saw another very similar comment pop up in another Facebook group and it was the same person, right? And this particular person was and I'm sorry if you're watching this but I'm I'm talking to you Okay, this particular person um, was.

actually they commented in the overtime group first right? because my Facebook group with my friends and they commented that someone in the overtime show was talking highly about Feris State University and the fact that they have you can get a bachelor's degree in HVAC at Ferris State University of Michigan That would have been me because I've always wanted. that's a dream of mine that I just don't have the time to do do I need a bachelor's degree in Hpac? No I don't Okay, but I'd love to have one just to have it right. That's something I've always wanted to do but this particular person was talking negatively saying I can't believe you're talking about fairis State University because I got a degree from this again guys. listen I'm gonna I'm I'm kind of paraphrasing this conversation right? but you guys are going to understand what I'm talking about.

but this particular person does see doesn't really grasp the concept of what's going on here. Okay, this person is upset because 20-some years ago they got a degree from Feris. State University They have a bachelor's in HVAC and that job has gotten them nowhere and they're so frustrated because the school failed that person 20 years ago. He still can't promote.

He still can't move up. He's been working for companies for 20 years and that degree just doesn't do anything for him and he's so upset ET And he's also upset because he doesn't get a raise and he can't make decent money at what he's doing. and he's worked for several different companies and none of them want to pay him what he's worth and it's really frustrating to this person. Okay, the only person that you can blame for that situation my good friend is you.

and I hate to say this, but it is you. You are the person to blame for why you couldn't get a raise for the last 20 years or why your back Bor of Science degree from FIS State University did not benefit you. Okay, that's your fault, that's nobody else's fault. That's not fairis State University's fault.

Okay, that's your fault because you didn't apply yourself or you didn't move up. right? There's something blocking you anytime that you struggle anytime that you have issues like this. I Say this to myself all the time is I Always look at myself first when people email me and they say Hey you know how come my boss won't give me a raise. How come my boss won't let me get promoted to this management position I Always tell the person look at yourself first.

Think about it. Okay, the only person holding you back is you, you need to change something, right? If you're unhappy at a job for 20 years, the only person to blame is you because you didn't quit that job and move on to something different right? So now that I got off my Soap Box let's keep talking. Um I Want to talk about in the past in the late 80s and early 90s, there was a phase of heat pumps that were popping up all over the industry Because heat pump technology at the time, right? Heat pump technology in the late 80s, early 90s was. ooh, this is really awesome.

This is really cool, right? So they started pushing them out to the masses, residential, homes, commercial buildings and stuff. Heat pumps, Heat pumps, Heat pumps. And then all of the sudden the entire industry turned against heat pumps. Heat pumps were the worst thing ever.

They were the stupidest idea. They never should have been. They don't work. There's a stigma that a gas furnace is better than a heat pump or a heat heat pump is better than a gas furnace.

There's always some weird stigma about different things, but Heat pumps. Heat pumps. Heat pumps. They're horrible.

Because of the late ' 80s and early 90s and all the drama that happened then and now. There's a big push for heat pumps again and and again. Here we are. People are saying it didn't work in the 80s and 90s.

It's not going to work now. Okay, that's not the truth. The heat pumps in the 80s and 90s. Of course they didn't have the technology that we had today, but I'm going to go out of Limb and say 90% of people's problem s with the heat pumps from the late 80s and early 90s was because that equipment was not designed and installed correctly.

I'm sure there was a little bit of error there and there was some manufacturers failures, but I would argue that 90% of the failures and frustrated people was because heat pumps were not being properly sized and not being properly installed. Okay, is the heat pump the solution to the end of the world? No, Okay, you know heat pump sounds great on technology. I Put a heat pump in my own house and it works great because it was designed and installed as best as I could. Okay, I'm not going to say the best design or the best install ever, but I did my best.

Okay, um, but is a heat pump the right unit for every situation? No, you know sometimes gas furnace is going to make more sense so we can't just go out there and say that a heat pump's the best or a heat pump's the worst or gas furnace is the best or gas furnace is the worst. You got to evaluate the situation. You got to look at everything. Okay, what's the price of the fuel, right? Are you doing a gas furnace? What's the price of your combustible fuel that you're putting into that furnace? What's the price of your electricity for the heat pump? Those are things that you got to think about.

And then you got to think about the design right? I Am not an expert by far, right. but the The I've been doing a lot of learning over the years and really paying attention to load calculations even more when we just designed the system for my house. you know, and in the last 10 years load calculations have been intriguing to me. The more and more load calculations I do for refrigeration systems and the different things that you change and you start to see Trends And and it's really interesting when you see um, you know load calculation estimates, what's required and when you change like a few different aspects of the information you put into the load calculation and then how much that changes things.

Uh, I have learned so much about load calculations, but what I have learned in the last 10 years probably is where it really rung a bell in my head. Is that 90% of our industry again I'm going out on there on a limb. 90% of our industry is not inputting the right information into the software and or not doing load calculations correctly me included. Okay, I didn't and I still have that weird mental block to doing load calculations properly.

Okay, and what I mean by that is one of the biggest things is that what we don't realize is Manual J when you're looking at manual J the load calculation designed uh, criteria by AA right? And there's a whole series of books and you can learn from it all. But when you're looking at manual J when you're looking at the load calculation, all right, they've already factored in a little bit of wiggle room into those load calculations. so don't add any extra tonnage to your equipment or BTUs to your heating capacity you know required via the load calculation. You understand what I'm saying, right? So don't oversize your equipment when we're doing a load calculation for the longest time.

When I was doing load calculations, I would look down and I'd be like, look, you know, Um, the biggest thing for me was designing to ambient temperatures, right? So I would do a refrigeration calculation. Let's just say, even as far back as six years ago, I'd be doing a refrigeration cck load calculation. and when I'd be inputting data right? because you need to know your outdoor ambient conditions, your indoor ambient conditions, the humidity, all that stuff, right? Well, when I would input outdoor ambient temperatures when I'm sizing condensing units, I would always look at the hottest day of the year like I've been out there when it's been 120 degrees. So we need to make sure that that equipment is going to operate in 120 degrees Like that was my logic, right? But that's not necessarily the right logic to think about because your outdoor ambient temperatures, uh, change your condensing unit delivered.

Capacity is what they do. Okay, but if you like in the past, I would look at the highest outdoor ambient temperature. Let's say it's you know, 10 days out of the year it's 120 degrees here. Okay, that doesn't change much.

Okay, your load calculation is. you don't need to be putting it at 120 degrees. Basically you I learned that what you need to start doing is look at design conditions set by Ashray. Okay, and start paying attention to, uh, historical weather data, not just two extreme days of the year.

Oh my gosh, you know you need to look at numbers. And there's there's reasons why we average design temperature days when we're doing certain things right. So we basically take away from this is start learning and start bettering yourself right? Load calculations are a big thing in this industry. They were I'd say 90% responsible Improper load calculations when it came to the the heat pump.

Saga That happened in the 80s and 90s was just because people weren't sizing or installing their equipment correctly. Okay, um, let's see what else we got going on in the chat right now. Uh uh. this person says is best to have a vent before or after a P trap on a on a drain line Mr Green is asking.

So Mr Green is saying should you have a vent before or after the trap on a drain line typically you're going to want to have it after. uh, so that way depending on the type of system that it is. But typically you're going to want to have it after the vent, right? But I actually put a cleanout. So if I'm making a P trap I put a cleanout before the Trap after the Trap going away from the trap like I put cleanouts everywhere.

but I only vent the outside of the Trap Basically okay. uh, let's see what else we got going on in the chat. Um, um, all right I answered that one. Okay, cool.

what do I think of Ultrasonic? Leak Detectors Dave M is asking Dave Okay, uh, my good friend. Rick Derm from the Hvacr Survival YouTube channel. If you guys don't subscribe, go check it out! Rick's a cool dude, right? Rick really really likes his ultrasonic leak detector, right? Rick is a great technician. Dude can work on such a variety of stuff.

you know, he used to work on a lot of kitchen stuff like me, but now he's delving more into the industrial Supermarket stuff but then occasionally comes back to the kitchen stuff. But dude is a smart dude, right? So, but Rick likes as ultrasonic Now for me: Ultrasonics Don't work and I'm going to tell you why a good majority of the time I'm working in kitchens that have fluorescent light bulbs. Okay, if you've ever used an ultrasonic leak detector and you put on the headphones and you're anywhere near a fluorescent light bulb, what you're going to hear is a consistent hiss. Okay, from the fluorescent light bulbs, it sounds almost identical to a refrigerant leak when you would hear the hiss of a refrigerant leak.

So whenever I tried out an ultrasonic leak detector, all I ever heard was the the um the light bulbs around me so it just didn't work for me. But Rick loves it. So to each their own and I would say that ultrasonic Leak Detectors are a great tool to have on you if they'll work in the kind of equipment you're working on right? Um, see what else we got going on in the chat? uh Brian Sanders says Ultrasonics are awesome. They work better if what you are checking is damp or wet.

and I could understand that because if you're looking for a leak and something's just a little bit wet, you're actually going to hear the ripples of that water too as it's moving across. So definitely a cool tool. Um okay so I already answered that question and we worked on that one. I'm going through a list so when I do these live streams I have like a bullet point list in front of me? So um oh one thing I got to ask you guys okay please please please if you guys and we don't need to be jerks.

but if you guys notice this if you guys are in my my comments and you see comments I got to ask one thing of you okay please. if you see people out there guessing restaurant names or stating restaurant names that I'm working at, please say something to them. Let me know about it. Please the people that are doing that.

Let's not Guess the Restaurant names. Let's not name a lot of you guys that work in kitchen stuff. You know what restaurants I'm working at. You know it, You recognize it right? But I got to protect my customers.

So please just keep that out of there. The general public doesn't understand the stuff that we deal with on a daily basis and you know the general public sees something in my video and they think that's the nastiest thing and that customer should be out of business and just all this stuff. and it's like guys, really, you don't even understand what dirty is really I do not work in disgusting restaurants I eat at all my restaurants Still okay I don't do it that often because um I usually don't go out to eat that often. but yeah, I you guys, what the general public thinks is gross is they they're in for a world of hurt when they start to realize that.

So please don't try to guess restaurant names in my chat. All right, let's see what else we got going on in here. Um, we can talk about the restaurants that I used to work at all day long. I'll I'll tell stories about those.

Those were fun, right? Um, do I ever have lunch or dinner from at the restaurant I'm working at I do Yeah! Dale Uh my my wife and I recently took my girls out and so here's here's a funny thing. My wife, um, used to be a waitress at one of the restaurants that I did service work for. Uh, she actually worked at that restaurant chain we didn't meet there. we met in high school, but she's been a waitress for a good majority of our married life.

uh, different types of restaurants. So she used to work at one. We went back to the restaurant. she hasn't worked in like three or four years, but um, we're fortunate that you know she doesn't work.

so I'm very thankful for that. But um, we went back. So yeah, we eat at the restaurants it doesn't you know? and I guess what guys I do not work at Subway but when I go to Subway and I get a a sub sandwich I get ice guys I I know what their ice machines look like I've never cleaned one but I know what they look like but it's I don't know that stuff just doesn't bother me as much as it bothers the general public. I guess maybe I'm just numb to it.

but I don't know. Um, have I picked any collectible tools lately? you remember had a phase for a hot minute. Friendly neighborhood maintenance guy. So uh yeah I have those weird phases.

Uh, got some bipolar Tendencies to myself too. where I go in extreme directions and kind of start doing certain things. or maybe it's like 8hd or who knows I don't know but uh no. I kind of fell off the uh, the HVAC tool bandwagon for a while cuz life just got busy and I haven't had fun with that.

but uh, it's funny because I was kind of cleaning up my office and recently wanted to start digging into some new tools and stuff and find some old cool stuff. So uh, can I explain beep codes for the Hoshisaki ice machines? Eric Well I don't know the codes off the top of my head anymore. Uh heck. I don't even have a Hosaki book back here.

but um, shoot me an email and I can probably get you some links but all you got to do is go to Hosaki Am.com download their technical manuals and it explains everything. and we also have ice machine training season so reach out to whoever your Hos Shizaki distributor is. Uh, they're going to have training classes soon. So my local Hoshisaki distributor is doing uh training classes at a separate supply house at RSD which is my main supply house.

Now is where Hosaki is doing the training this year. So um, just go find the training classes because they're out there and it's going to help you with all that stuff, right? Uh, let's see what else we got going on here. Uh, but feel free to shoot me, uh, an email if you want to know more information I can get you some information. Okay, so um I posted uh show I don't know if it was a short I made a social media post about last uh just before Thanksgiving uh last Wednesday I went to go do a scheduled Meetup with a fire alarm company.

Long story short, I've been working on a a project and I'm actually filming it so it'll be kind of cool. but I went to go work at a restaurant and they had a tripped duck detector and their the smoke detector duct detector and it was a really crappy location. it was up in the attic it was really hard to get to. really sketchy.

wait till you see the video of what the previous company did. uh before I was there like it was freaking Bonkers what they did to access the duct detector. But anyways long story short I talk the customer into letting me relocate all the duct detectors. so I have a whole video showing the process of me relocating the duct detectors up into the package units where they're totally accessible, routing the alarm, wiring, the test and reset station wiring.

It was a cool little thing and I had to do it with a functioning restaurant. So anyways I had a scheduled Meetup to finalize the entire job and the alarm company didn't show up and it was really kind of irritating. and I just posted something about it on social media. Well, um, lot of comments and a lot of questions from that, right? So if I have a vendor that I'm scheduled to meet and I did everything right on my correct on my side along with emails and phone calls, confirmations and all kinds of stuff, these people just dropped the ball.

They didn't show up. Um, so the questions that everybody was asking is did I build a customer? Yes I build the customer for all my time as part of my and I this actually wasn't even a quote. They told me just to do it but that you know four and a half hoursc or four hours because we had two technicians there, myself and another guy waiting for two hours that day and they didn't show up Finally. So anyways, yeah, we built for that.

Okay, I'm not I'm not eating that. it's not my fault it was is on the vendor and the customer and I'm choosing. Basically I didn't call the other alarm company the vendor out. that's the customer's alarm company.

They build a customer. They don't build me. So yeah, no. I build a customer for all my time on that.

um someone had a great question and I don't think they understood my sarcasm. Okay so here's the question if you guys work on Hoshizaki ice machines. one of the highest failure parts that fails in that ice machine is the cube guide. It is a plastic tray that sits under right where the ice drops down.

The ice drops onto that Cube guide plastic tray. Then it runs down. That plastic tray has slots in it for the water to run through, so that way just the ice cubes bounce on it. Those things break all the time.

Over the years, they get brittle, the ice hits them, they shatter, the little pieces get stuck in the sump, and then those little pieces float through the system and get stuck in the water pump and then burn out the water pump. Okay, so so many people, So many people have asked me this question: Why is it that Hosaki doesn't make their Cube guides out of stainless steel? Okay, you want to know something Hoshizaki used to make their ice machine Cube Guides out of stainless steel If you ever worked on the DSs U model units. Okay, those were from the late 80s. Those units they all had 502 in them.

I Remember working on those things, they had stainless steel Cube Guides never had a cube guide failure. Okay, so why are they using plastic Cube Guys and the person in the comments All I said was because if they used plastic ones, they wouldn't be able to sell so many. Or if they used stainless steel ones, they wouldn't be able to sell so many plastic ones. And the person didn't understand that comment.

guys I Hate to say this, but I mean it's really true. if they made stainless steel Cube Guides they would have less water pump sales. They would have less Cube guide sales and they wouldn't be making as much money. So that's why they don't make stainless.

Ste Cube Guys, Um, all right, let's see what else we got going on in here. What type of guarantee do I offer my customers on my work? Aaron G I'm always going to back my work up. This is what I tell my customer on paper I Honor manufacturers warranties. Okay, so typically if I install a part for the most part I honor those part warranties that those part manufacturers have set right.

So most of the parts that I buy, they're good for a year. uh, manufacturers warranty. So I'll honor the part warranty, do swaps and different things. As far as how do I guarantee my work I guarantee my labor for 90 90 days basically.

But here's what I tell the customer I'm always going to make things right right if I find out that my braze joint failed a year later and it's obviously mine issue like it's right in the middle of the solder I didn't clean it enough I'm gonna take care of the customer. Okay, but on paper, 90 days labor onee Parts is what we have for warranty. Um, all right and you know why? Is it a lot of people in the comments they're saying you know California and all of our crazy energy requirements and uh, you know, we're just, you know, crazy. It's not just California Federal Government's pretty heavy in the um, compliance side of things, making sure regulatory side of things.

California definitely jumps on the bandwagon in general. You know, arguably a little bit too much with some things, but you know for the most part I mean I think that the policies a good majority I'd say probably 40% of the policies that come out of the state. they do have good intention. It's just they're not executed properly and they're implemented a little weird.

I mean it's not a bad idea. You know to be a little bit more strict when it comes to designing of equipment, right? California has a lot of rules about equipment that can come into. California California has a lot of rules about Labor We we have higher minimum wages than a good majority of the country, you know, and so while some of that stuff is hard for a business to have to take in, it's good because people are making more money, you know? So I mean there's there's give and take about all of it. but it is one of the things you know.

You know, we have to deal with a lot more regulations here, you know? Um, so the the comment kind of came from someone saying that the two-speed units were kind of stupid, right? So I have equipment that and this isn't a California thing. But in general, the person was kind of saying that this is kind of silly that my air conditioning units stage the evaporator fan motors at different speeds. basically. okay.

um and uh, it's multi-stage air volume. and um, that's actually a really good thing. that's not a California thing. That's a a common sense thing if you think about it.

If you have a package unit that's 15 Tons of cooling, right, you're not going to need the same amount of air for. you know the 15 Tons as you are for five tons for the air conditioner to work effectively and properly. So it's smart to slow down the air in that situation. So you know, While it's kind of frustrating that maybe some of the things that are being mandated for that, the concept of it is a good idea in my opinion.

So um, let me see what else we got going on in here. Uh, so interesting. Ly enough, Freon Leon says the Earth is flat because of California. So I was listening to a Chris Kyle interview.

Uh, the Navy SEAL Um, that was, uh, killed, uh murdered. But anyways, a lot of you know the story and stuff. but Chris Kyle was just telling a story about a shot that he made that was almost, uh, you know, just over a mile. I think it was a mile and a quarter long.

One of the longest shots at the time, you know. and the stuff that goes into play with that, you know. And he was talking about the curvature of the the Earth and how the I think it's the Borealis effect and just so many different things that affect the way that physics works. you know? So uh, the Earth is not flat because of California So that's why I was going down that path.

All right. Um, have you ever done something so dumb to the point that it's actually smarter than the original? Oh, that is a good question. Local Ohioan I Don't know if that said that right. That is a really awesome, interesting question.

Have I ever done something so dumb to the point that it's actually smarter than the original? I Mean I would love to say yes, but I can't think of an exact moment. but I'm going to need to think about that, my good friend. I'm gonna actually write that down. Do me a favor, shoot me an email HVAC Rideos Gmail.com and ask me that question again because I want to think about that and maybe I'll ask the overtime guys and maybe we'll talk about that this.

Friday on the HVAC overtime show. Uh, that' be kind of cool. So shoot me an email, anybody, shoot me an email and remind me about this question. Have you ever done something so dumb to the point that it's actually smarter than the original? I'm sure I can think of a cool story with something like that.

so shoot me an email, Anybody remind me about that? Okay, all right. Um, Hpcr videos gmail.com That's right. Have I seen a bad fan? Motor smoking? Oh yeah, definitely. John Dear Fan: Uh yeah I've seen it I've seen Motors catch on fire I just had a video where a motor catch caught on fire so it does happen.

Um, reading through here what in what's my opinion on field piece tools? I have a good good amount of field piece tools I have a Fieldpiece recovery machine, vacuum pump scale, electric meter uh pressure probes, temperature clamps I have a good amount of field piece stuff uh for the most part I Like almost everything that they make. um I will say that some things have been changing. I've been kind of seeing some changing changing with the company of field piece and stuff so hopefully it doesn't go the wrong direction. but uh, the quality of the products that I have is amazing and I haven't heard you know much bad.

They've been very good on their warranty and stuff. So I think it's good products right? I'm not being paid by them I'm not currently I have worked with them in the past but I'm not currently working with them right now. So um, Subco Sells Motor Smoke now. Great deal on it next to capacitor fluid at any supply house.

and I bet you anything that was a trade Fox designed idea, right? Subco, Capacitor oil or Motor smoke? Yeah, that's funny. Uh, what was the worst attic you have ever seen and how stuffed was it? o yeah, that's another one you're gonna have to email me about my good friend. Okay, Hvacr videos Gmail.com I'll have to think about that. um in my videos I Get a lot of viewers from around the world.

A lot of viewers from Europe and um I acknowledge the fact to the European viewers and the Australian viewers and mainly the viewers that aren't in the United States I realized that a lot of our terms and phrases and different things that we use in this country and color combinations and the fact that we don't use the metric system I Know a lot of that stuff seems really odd to you. Um, and you know I recognize that a lot of the things we do are are definitely subpar to some standards and quality items that other countries do and and vice versa in different ways too. But um, yeah, you know I recognize and it's kind of funny that you guys bring that stuff up. Like the fact that I say safety switch.

You know, safety switch, you know, confuses a lot of people and it's it's just that it's just a switch. just there for safety. You know I mean but you know it's all good. Um, you know someone.

There's a person that's in my YouTube comments and and I I find comic I find I don't know I just I find it funny. Some of the comments that I get. they do make me kind of laugh, but there's one person that's constantly criticizing me about my brazing skills when I'm welding stuff or soldering stuff together, right? Um, first off all, be the first person to acknowledge I've never been formally taught how to braze. never never went to brazing school.

never took it in trade school. never I never I never finished my Community College certificate. I'm like two classes away from being done with the whole program. uh, technical math and brazing was the two classes that I had left when it when I went to trade school you know, 18 years ago or whatever it was.

Um, but yes, I've never been formally trained in brazing. Okay, but why is it one of the things I criticized about a lot by people and you can clearly tell that they're not um, uh, very experienced HVAC technicians that are the really really old school people. Okay, because I get criticized because I braze in the wrong direction. Okay, a good majority of the time that I'm brazing, the way that I'm pointing the heat is being pointed that way for a reason.

Okay, in a perfect world, when you're brazing, you should be pointing the heat away from the Stick of solder in the direction that you want the solder to flow right? So that way you draw the solder into the joint. I Get that. But when you are directing the heat in that direction, if you're working next to a sensitive component such an expansion valve, a filter dryer, a wall, or something like that. Sometimes in the real world you have to learn how to braze incorrectly.

Okay, and what I mean by that is is when I don't want to burn the entire cup of a dryer and I don't care how much heat paste you put on the dryer, heat blocking putties, and different things, you still have to control your heat when you're using that stuff too. Okay, so if you're pointing towards the dryer, you're going to burn the paint off that dryer. Eventually, you're going to dry out the heat blocking compound or the heat gel and it's going to burn the dryer. It's going to burn the expansion valve, burn the certain component right? So there's a time and place to follow all proper procedures and the time and a place to have to do what you have to do to get the job done.

So hopefully that makes sense. Um, see what else we got going on in the chat? Um I Want a crash course and brazing? You had a crash course in plumbing soldering and suck at that. You need more practice? Um, yeah, that would be cool actually. Uh, you got a bagel stuck in the toaster said Chris Maru My toaster keeps catching something on fire every time we turned it on this week.

So I was trying to clean the Dank thing out, but it was cool when I was doing that. I got to pull my wife and my daughter over both my daughters and they thought I was oh man, here comes Dad! He's going to teach us another life lesson and I was taking the toaster and I was explaining to him how it works and how you know. and it's the simple things that a lot of people don't realize, but common sense to us technicians right is uh, how some people don't understand. And so I got to explain to my family why it's so dangerous to try to put out a fire in the toaster with water as opposed to using a fire extinguisher or dry substance that's not conductive, right? So we got to have a whole conversation about that.

So it's kind of fun how we have these moments where we get to educate our family and our friends and our peers too. So um, let's see what else. o Great great question that I had from someone. Okay, I mention this quite often.

hold on I mentioned this quite often I have a couple Vfds right here, right? This one's a lens drive and then uh, we have a a bigger higher quality AB drive here I've had sitting here for a while and I don't know what I'm going to do with them but point that I want to make is Vfds. So systems that have Vfds I say it quite often. Vfd variable frequency drive I say this quite often in my videos and some people don't understand exactly what I'm talking about. So I'm going to use a Linux unit for example.

Okay, and this happens on a lot of different systems but a lenux unit. the higher end Linux units. Some of them had bypass contactors. Okay, so you had an indoor blower motor contactor and then you had a bypass contactor and what happens is is in a time of a failure or when something happens, you can manually bypass the drive by doing something in the programming of the unit and it would automatically restart.

So you have two contactors there. And what I would always say in my videos is you never want to push in contactors on systems that have Vfds if you don't know what they're doing. And here's why: on a Vfd bypass contactor, it's going to bypass the Vfd by bringing line voltage into the load side and that can be a problem. On a Vfd, you never want to have line voltage in on the load side of a Vfd.

Those of you that are watching right now know exactly what happens and I've seen it happen I've had technicians where it's happened where they pushed in a bypass contactor or they miswired a Vfd and brought incoming voltage to the output point of the Vfd. I Want to ask the chat right now: What happens to the drive? if you bring the input voltage into the output on a Vfd? Let me know in the chat. Um, so you definitely want to be very, very careful when you are walking around units like that because if you push in the bypass contractors, yes, exactly what happens is. uh, the drive will explode, the capacitors in the drive will explode, they'll they'll burst and it can be pretty violent.

Sometimes people can get hurt so you got to be very careful about that. Understand the way that units work and don't go around pushing in contactors because you'll sooner than later you're going to hear something go boom. Okay, Um, what? AC and heating roof units have the most problems need the most fixing. I mean okay.

I'm going to give you the generic Sppy Answer that you know most people are going to say is that a good majority of the units are failing of all manufacturers because they're Pro improperly installed and technicians don't know what they're doing. Okay, so there's a lot of failures with equipment simply because it's installed incorrectly. Um, so it really depends on the piece of equipment and how it's been installed, but people will ask me often. You know, Like let's say a consumer will reach out to me and they say hey, I Live in this area? What's the best unit for my house, right? And my answer to them is going to be reach out to a contractor.

A contractor that you trust. Find a contractor that you trust someone that is in your area and local and can get to you because it doesn't matter what equipment you're going to buy, it's going to break down. But if you have a contractor and they have a preferred brand, you're best to go with that preferred brand because typically that contractor is more well-versed than whatever brand that is for me. If someone was to ask my company what brands I would want to sell to customers, it's going to be Carrier and Linux Carrier and Linux are my two favorite air conditioner brands for my customers.

Okay, certainly I can work on Train and York and Aons and all kinds of other stuff, right? I've worked on all those different other brands, but I'm just more comfortable working on Carrier and Linux Okay, so it really depends on your contractor. So I'm not going to say that Train is the worst air conditioning company in the world because there's bad things that carrier Linux Train York Aon They all do. Everybody has flaws. Okay, so um, I don't have one brand that I truly hate.

Well, well actually I do have one brand that I truly hate and I know the comment The comments: no what brand, what brand out of carrier Linux Train York and Aon and Goodman what brand do I hate the most Okay, I'm not gonna say it, but I'm gonna guess the chat is I I bet you anything the chat knows what brand I hate the most out of those. Um, okay. so I I Got some comments coming through so far nobody's guessed the right comment. Oh wow.

I'm surprised that you guys haven't guessed this comment. Let's see. let's see anybody. It's it's not any of the ones you guys have mentioned yet.

It's not any of those what supply house is in my area. if parts are not available, it's also a consideration. That's a very good point. J.R Smith Yeah, 100% man, 100% Wow you guys, Nobody has guessed the the the least favorite brand of mine.

Not one person has guessed it yet. That's so funny. There we go now. Someone got it.

I'm not going to confirm what the brand is, but someone finally got it. So all right sometimes I Don't show everything in my videos. Okay, first and foremost, my main priority when I go to do a service call is the customer and the call at hand filming. the call is secondary to all of that.

So I'm always going to focus on the customer first. So I don't go into these jobs with a mindset I don't have a camera crew behind me I Don't have someone interviewing me asking me why I did certain things. You're just hearing the inner ramblings of my brain. It's not always a complete concise, you know explanation of what's going on.

Sometimes you just hear ooh, boom Smell Smoke bad. You know that might be all you hear from me, right? but I mean in reality I'm not perfect. Okay, so sometimes I use the incorrect phrases. Um, sometimes I say things incorrectly.

I'm not perfect I'm human, so deal with it all right. Um, someone asked In the comments in my recent video I mentioned that we changed a compressor into warranty and I also mentioned that I thought that the compressor had probably failed due to lack of. Maintenance Why is it that the manufacturer would still honor the warranty? I'm not getting involved in that drama I'm not I Don't work for the manufacturer directly I work for the customer. Um, of course you know I'm just going to let the customer and the manufacturer deal with stuff.

Uh, the manufacturer of this customer. I'm going to tell you right now, they do so much work for them. Like they make so many units for them. They have national accounts.

They don't care if they have to warranty a compressor. they're getting so much more in sales and E units on a daily basis. So not that I agree with everything. But you know Why? Is it that duck detectors are so confusing to people? Duct smoke detectors Really? I Know they're confusing because they used to confuse the heck out of me.

The biggest thing to understand with duck smoke detectors and I have lots of videos and I'm currently making a video right now where I'm going to do a breakdown sequence of a duck detector and the operation and everything. so stay tuned about that. But duct detectors are really simple. They have an input power source okay and for the most part they have about six to eight dry contacts.

That's really all a duck detector is with some logic built into it. Okay, that's the biggest thing to understand is all the contacts are for the most part majority of the contacts. Ox a. The alarm contacts oxb the trouble the supervisory contacts.

those are all dry contacts. There's no power source. you have to power those. Once you realize that that'll that'll make things a lot easier for you.

So each contact has its own common leg to it that you bring power to and then you you know, complete the circuit with the normally closed or normally open contact. Okay, um, but stay tuned. We got a video coming about that soon, so let me see what the chat gots going on right here there we go. Cool, all right? Um, yeah, I already answered that one I said it in the beginning of the stream I'm going to say it again.

Guys, please stop and people I should say ladies and Gentlemen please stop guessing the restaurant names. Those are the only comments I really delete whenever comments come through. We need to protect the customers a little bit more. Okay, so just keep the restaurant guesses and names even if you know where I'm working at.

If you really want to talk to me about something, shoot me an email. Okay, um, reading through here right now. Interestingly enough I have a service technician right now Um I have a service technician out on a overtime service call right now and so this is an interesting one. The customer called me and they said hey, my walk-in is not working and I go.

Okay so customers this is I wish I could film this right but I can't but this is this is literally I'm gonna paraphrase this conversation that I have with my customer. The customer called, they said hey, are walk-ins not working and I said okay, what's going on with it and they said the fans aren't working right? Okay I said so are the breakers on no the breakers off you know, like it was very like, not concise I don't know, it was very short answers they were giving me. okay. but finally what I got to was they were cleaning the inside of their box because they have a big inspection going on and they decided to take it upon themselves to take the evaporator covers panels off of each evaporator for the walk-in cooler they have.

Two of them pulled the covers off and we cleaning in there and they had shut off the the breaker because they didn't want anything bad to happen. But now they put it all back together and the fans aren't working Okay and they're saying that the intelligent display. This guy right here. The intelligent display is saying enter master password and they're asking me what's the master password so we can make our equipment work and I said you don't need to know the master password There's nothing that you need and this is the customer.

Trust me, corporate doesn't want me telling them what they're asking me. Okay, so I'm not whatever, but they don't need the master password. There's nothing in there. If you've ever worked on an intelligent unit, you don't need the master password.

That means that they were pushing buttons and they got deep into the programming of that board, right? It's just like good gosh. So now I got a technician out there trying to unravel this and I'm gonna have to probably go back tomorrow, but I'm we're getting the equipment operating but that's going going to be a fun one. So um, let me see what we got going on. Spencer H Thank you Chris Thank you very much man.

I really really appreciate that. Um oh, that's funny. How many pounds of 404 does a walk-in cooler take? It's bo. Uh, walk-in cooler is gonna take it.

It's typically not going to have the weight of refrigerant, so it's going to be based on the length of the lines and the sizes of the lines and the size of the condenser and evaporator. That's going to determine how much refrigerant a walk-in cooler system needs. Most walk-in coolers and walk-in freezers are not package units so it's not stamped on the side. They're not engineered that way.

We field modify those systems, add to the line set and stuff like that. so I can't tell you the exact amount that it takes. Um, all right. cool.

Uh. can I get your password to this equipment? Uh, no, absolutely not. That's right. Will speed? Um so uh, if you guys didn't know, I've kind of talked about this I Don't think this has been really announced very much, but um, if you work on heatcraft equipment, if you work on QRC evaporator coils, that's the old line.

before the Intelligent, the QRC evaporators can actually be converted to Intelligent. Now this is a retrofit kit to convert a QRC evaporator into an Intelligent basically using the same expansion valve that's in the system. the same everything because it already has all the the Transformer the exv. um it already has that in the QRC So you just plug and play and you put in this new Um retrofit kit that they have so that is is definitely going to be used soon.

and then also um also got the uh Intelligen uh what are we calling this again? This is a Ifm. This is a complete setup right here. Um where you can remote? Well, I wouldn't say complete, but you can remote the intelligent display outside of the box. So I've actually got this going in on a job? uh, here.

probably in the next, hopefully before the end of the year. Uh I hope to get to it before the end of the year. We're going to be doing a walk-in replacement with this guy, so stay tuned because it'll be nice to be able to mount this outside of the box so that's going to be fun. All right.

Well it is time that I wrap this up because my family is ready to eat dinner. Okay I really do appreciate you guys all coming to the stream. Uh, any questions that I didn't get to. Comments: Shoot me an email Hvacr videos Gmail.com Thank you to everybody out there again I really do appreciate you.

Okay, uh yeah. Jason Johnson they do use Corell or no they use yeah Corell Eevs on the intelligent uh systems right now. Um Trent Marquez I Definitely can explain winter charge and summer charge. but I need you to shoot me an email HVAC Rideos Gmail.com and we'll definitely talk some more.

Okay, my friend, um, isn't R290 just propane? Yes, it is. It is. It's glorified propane, but it's actually highly purified. So the barbecue propane you use at your house is definitely has more moisture content and more contaminants than the stuff that we're using in refrigeration system.

So you can't just use barbecue propane for refrigeration systems. All right. So I'm am going to queue up the outry music I Really do appreciate you and uh, we will catch you guys on the next one.