All right guys, we're back! Fourth Annual Symposium and I Just want to show some of you that can't be here some of the cool stuff that's out here. We have sponsors that have come and helped give back to education, give back to the trade, brought out some of their stuff uh that are making our jobs easier, helping us get work done. Chris Why don't you introduce yourself and just tell us what you got here? Hey everybody I'm Chris Eads with easy solution Technologies We've developed a a T and A fitting system to uh, maintain your condensate drains. This has been out for a little while we're here.

Last year we did a video but over the summer we were running into problems in my HVAC company with running out of nitrogen. My guy's using nitrogen to clean out drains. there's a nitrogen shortage so we got into the shop vac method and dissected the system a little bit and found a better way to use a shop vac. The problem is on our trucks.

With a shop vac, you have a shop vac and most every service truck has a five gallon bucket. But the shopback. When you go from dry vac to wet black it's a problem because you've got to remove the filter and if you don't remove the filter you get a wet filter. The filter falls apart and it's compounding problem and it's time consuming cleaning out a vacuum.

So also I came up with the bucket because of the volume. When you have a small shop vac your vacuum is going to fill up. You're up in an attic on the second floor. You get about a gallon in and you've got to come back down and save your bag.

You got to come down, empty it. restart it. Well, the bucket allows you to have volume so you can just go upstairs and get all the you know. It turns your drain line into a central vac system pretty much.

And the side effect which I didn't even realize. but the vacuum stays dry so that you're not going to have a problem with a wet vacuum anymore because everything stays in the bucket. The Bucky's buckets easy to clean. This is a dust collecting stuff.

It's all available online. These buckets will collapse on you. We put a metal ring in there to help it. That's a 90 mil bucket.

The standard Home Depot buckets seven emails and it'll it'll collapse on you if you put the suction on it. This fine vacuum is the king of vacuums. It pulls about 90 inches of water. The Cordless Milwaukee pulls in the 70s.

It's very good too. I Have a little fuel that pulls pretty good. I Do like the cordless for the aspect of the durability, but the small fuel 12 volt vacuum is ideal for the van. doesn't have much room.

Yeah, it's only about this big yeah and it actually has a stronger pull than a lot of vacuums out there. So for years this is what we used. This is the Stinger It's 39 bucks. It used to be 29.

Uh, if you like you know it's very but it it doesn't do a good job. It doesn't have the volume to do it. So we're going to turn this vacuum on and show you what this thing can do. This has a hole in it so when we insert that, it's just going to pull it from there one way.

See? So now we're we're getting suction here. This should be hot soapy water. Go into customers kitchen or tub and get as hot as water as you can get. It helps if it's hot water, put a couple drops of soap in it and then insert it in here.

You can see the cleaning effect you're getting. It helps to pulse it in and out together. And another added benefit, if you're in the attic and your drain Pan's full of water, you take a small vacuum hose. This one that comes with the Stinger will work, but this is nice and convenient and short.

it's in my hand. Pay attention to this. When you're cleaning out the secondary drain, look at this. fitting.

The fitting right here seals back to the air handler. so all of your suction is coming from your vacuum that's hooked up outside and you're just cleaning out the drain pan. You don't have to come and go. You don't have to carry anything from inside to outside.

Simple as that. and you know if You got a couple gallons of water in here, that's just more cleaning of your drain you're going to get for pretty much free. You're not taking anything in the Attic with you, but this to do it all. and you can clean inside of your drain pan.

You can clean out trash, You can vacuum out different stuff. you just got to be careful not to suck anything into your drain line. We have a screen a faucet screen that goes in here that will help or you should have some type of screen to avoid sucking trash into your drain because you don't want to clog it. So this is the vacuum that was being used.

You can see it has a vacuum bag and it's completely dry so you can go clean the customers grills. You can vacuum your plenum and all that stuff with a dry vac and you're not cleaning it all out again. You just have the bucket. You can see the bucket.

All the water ended up there. easy to clean. You could take this hose and stick it in there with a little bleach and sanitize it so you're not having to. uh not growing anything, not growing anything.

Over the weekend we've all done it here. Get a vacuum and it gets wet and over the weekend and then come uh come Monday You got a science project? Yep so all of us all of us guys have this these fittings on our van. We started getting them and trying them out but you can see how that will come in and actually seal on the back side so you can focus your your uh your suction or if your tea is the other other way you can see here. Ali has this this attachment in here is Seal into the side walls right here.

so going in past the T so if your T is that shape and it's not pulling anything, no air from here as he has it hooked up to the vacuum so he's got a couple feedings that slip down into the T's and actually help you when you're cleaning that out and sucking from whichever direction you actually want to. So pretty pretty pretty helpful stuff. What else you got over here? and if you have to, uh if you do have to use nitrogen or CO2 this fits the typical quarter inch male fitting and you can hook your line up to it and use uh, use it to blow it out. um awesome and in Florida we do a lot of stuff that's underground and chases that's in the garage.

You can use a hose and just stick it in here and hose and and hit it with a hose as well. but just when you get the situation, your air handler is upstairs. It's white carpet. You don't want to drag a hose to a customer's house.

so that's where the vacuum comes in. the really comes into play. awesome and then the assurity line this flow. plus I Really like it has a it's a waxy tab.

Okay, and they last a waxy tab that, uh, a lot of tablets fall apart pretty quick. Yeah, hours and hours. It stays in there for a while. Okay, you know you got to treat your drains and new installs.

We'll put some drain treatment in there. Yeah I Like these as well. Those last forever. You can lay one of those right in the front drain pan.

Nice. Cool. All right. Thank you.

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