Um, i have no idea if the quality is going to be any good. Let me know, let's see what this does here, can you guys hear me anybody in the chat? Let me know: can you guys hear me, okay, see if this is working? I never tried to do this on my phone before so we'll have to see. Can you guys actually hear me in the chat? Hey guys, okay, cool, all right, cool, hey we're gon na! Do this um, so it's labor day monday, i've been slammed all weekend. I was at home, um yeah, i'm stuck on a service call right now, i'm actually just leaving the service call, but there was no way i was going to make it home in time.

So lots of service calls this weekend. Um got some things i want to try to cover. As usual, i got a little list of stuff to talk about, so all right, cool, i'm glad um we're gon na see if this is gon na work or not as we go through. Obviously, i don't have all my fancy music and all that stuff, but we'll have to see hopefully uh the the internet kicks in and stuff and works.

Okay, so um had a couple videos this last week, uh that i um that i uh published uh. They were pretty interesting videos because it's been really hot here, so we had uh. Let's see this last weekend, um at my house we hit 121 degrees. So that's pretty unheard of, i'm pretty sure.

That's a record breaker for me, um yeah uh, it was. It was pretty insane i'm gon na try to pull over right here, i'm not driving at the moment. So but yeah we had a record-breaking weekend. Uh service calls were kind of crazy because most of the customers haven't been doing pms because of the whole covet thing.

So with the customers not doing pms, it just really killed us this weekend, because most of my calls were stuff that could have been prevented. You know or stuff that could have uh um could have uh. You know at least been found sooner before they turned into disasters. Basically, so we had uh.

I think i had four walk-in freezer calls. A beer walking call two air conditioning calls all this weekend, which you know if, if we weren't going through the covet stuff, it sure would have been even busier, but that that's pretty busy for us, because we haven't had service calls over the weekend. In a long time um it's definitely been uh been interesting, so i ran out of parts in my van i've got i've got places. I've got to go back on on a walk-in freezer because um i didn't have an evaporator fan motor, multiple cadets or fan motors.

That are bad. I had to do temporary fixes, so basically, this whole weekend, all i was doing - was triaging. I was just going out putting out fires getting things operational and then this next week i've got i've got work for everybody for the next week at least um. You know, and i had customers.

You know like right now. I just came from a walk-in freezer and a beer walk-in that were down and uh when i get there they're like hey, can you look at my ac and i said no, it's it's labor day. It's double time like no. I was already pissed and i had to come.

Do these calls and it's not the customer's fault, but you know i still get agitated, so i was already agitated and it's like. No i'm not looking at an ac, that's not an emergency. You guys can wait. You know so we definitely prioritize our calls when it comes to this stuff um.

We we um, we look at the calls, and you know if a customer called me right now and said i i need a reach and cooler fixed on double time. I'd say: no. It's not going to happen, it's just not. You know, i i need some time at home.

You know it's crazy. It sucks because, like i've been planning for this stream, i had you know all kinds of stuff set up. I was setting it up early this morning and i was in the process of making dinner when i got the service call. So i had to you know, stop what i was doing and come out and do the service call and it it sucks it does.

You know, i appreciate the fact that i have work, but it's just you know it. It sucks. You know it's just we're human. So i'm not perfect.

You know yeah. I appreciate the fact that i'm getting paid for this stuff, but it still sucks when you know you just want to spend a little bit of time but um that's kind of refrigeration. You know that's how refrigeration goes. You just never know.

What's gon na happen, so um the last two videos that i had this week: uh one of them was called one leak after another, and that was on the third okay, that was the york uh. Here's a quote: it needed a new evaporator and new condenser. Even before i found those leaks, i just knew that the evaporator leak wasn't going to be easy. So for the last three months, i've been going back and forth with the customer scheduling the replacement of that york package unit and it came down to basically they're on a shopping mall's property.

So we had to get the shopping mall involved and once i got the shopping mall involved, the shopping mall gave me a stack of paperwork of the requirements for the crane and all the insurance and all this stuff. We went through five different crane companies to try to find a company that had the amount of liability insurance that the shopping mall wanted, and it was a nightmare that particular crane company. We were just gon na lift that tiny, seven and a half ton package unit, guys okay, that crane was gon na cost me over two thousand dollars, just my cost, without even marking it up uh, because that's how crazy it was with the requirements that the mall So once we get them all involved it also in that paperwork was the fact that they wanted to get the city involved, which you know hey. It is what it is that you know you got to pull permits and all that stuff, but the city getting involved turned into a disaster because the customer was providing their own equipment.

They did not want to go back with a york unit and they wanted to go back with um a linux unit. Well, if you go back and look at that video again we're talking about the one leak after another, one where i had a bunch of refrigerant leaks, if you go back and look at that video, that was a very odd install. It was a york package unit that was ducted for out the side shot right, but the down shot. The normal bottom of the unit had um.

That was the return, so they wanted to go with a linux unit which would have required an adapter curve, but it would have been a disaster, let alone going with the linux unit. It was going to weigh more than the york unit and then going with um going with a curb adapter that was going to add more weight to the unit and go with the new unit. So they were going to have to get structural engineers involved to make sure that you know everything was safe and by the time we got to that part. It was just back and forth for a couple months.

Um the customer basically said nah just fix it. Do whatever you can and then they finally sent the email to fix it in the midst of a giant heat wave, and it was just a disaster. So i had i quoted that job for 30 hours because i didn't know what was going to be involved. I had no, i thought we were going to pull that whole evaporator out.

We didn't take nearly that much time but still um. I had three technicians out there. It was 115 degrees 100 and something like that. It was crazy hot.

So we had to take our time. It was just a pain in the butt, but as frustrating as that is um, you know i i do what the customer wants and for those of you that are asking. I see the comments right now popping up how come we install the customers equipment when you do chain restaurant work, that's just how it works, so um uh fish meal. What customer put you on to my channel, i'm very curious, but uh or fish smell fish smell? What what customer put you on to my channel? That's a very interesting thing, so um yeah, california is very interesting.

I mean i on one side. I understand why they need to, but oh my stream labs moderator bot is going to post links from last week. Sorry about that, it's posting the webinar that already happened ha. I wasn't able to log into the stream labs thing, so it is what it is: um all right, so um one of my technicians that was there with me as i was brazing the leaks on that and then you know it started creating other leaks.

He was like hey, why don't you change the tip on your torches and go to the number one tip or a zero, and i ended up doing it, but i was raising with the number two being a little stubborn and that's part of the reason why all The leaks were happening so very interested to know that yeah. I know it's buffering guys if it's horrible, it is what it is, i'm streaming over cell phone data, so um yeah. I don't know what to say about that: um yeah, sorry guys. If, if it dies, it dies so um all right uh.

So the next video that i released was the ac unit sounds like an earthquake. That was a very interesting one and i'm not driving at the moment guys, i'm just sitting in my van. So if i'm driving, i wouldn't be looking at the screen - um. Oh yeah.

I don't know why the sound's only in the right channel huh, that's a bummer yeah. I don't know what up with that um. I understand if you guys can't hang in here if it's horrible, it's horrible um, i'm just doing my best to try to get something out there. So um, let's see uh yeah, so the next one was uh.

The ac unit sounds like an earthquake, so that was another one too. I got lots of questions on that, one about the adc unit that why did i change both blower wheels? Um you like that huh you, like that hat. Don't you that's my work hat um! Okay cool, so it's just one person all right, cool, um, so yeah. Why did i uh? Why did i change both blower wheels? Instead of just power washing the blower wheels on that uh sounds like an earthquake video? Really it has a lot to do with um.

The price i mean you know i could pull the blower assemblies out. I could try to clean them um. I could uh take all that time, but for cost effectiveness and for the customer to get the best bang for their buck, knowing that more than likely one of those blower wheels was damaged, it was just better to go ahead and replace them both and that's just Something that comes from experience, i've, uh yeah, that's really interesting. I don't know why right side audio, it is that's very interesting.

Huh yeah, i don't know um, but uh yeah, it's just it's just about money when it comes to replacing both those blower wheels. So um. Let's see yeah, i'm definitely all scruffy guys. You guys probably aren't used to seeing me this close, and you can definitely see the grayness in my beard too, coming out, there's lots of gray in that thing.

Uh! It's interesting, though i don't know about you guys, but i engraced the bay, the bray or the gray. I should say um. I could care less. I kind of like the gray um, i'm looking uh yeah.

I don't ever mess with the gunk once a blower. Well gets so bad, it's just time to change it because it'll be out of balance. Um yeah, let me see. Is that any better for the audio i mean, i guess it's possible that my phone clamp was covering the the mic.

Um yeah gray is definitely wisdom. So um here in socal right now it is uh extremely hot and uh. It is um yeah. So it must have been the phone clamp on the stupid thing by the way you guys uh.

Let's see if i can do this without ending the call uh. My van is a disaster right now, uh everything i don't know. If you guys can see well, you guys can only see the shadow but back. There is a disaster too, but here in socal right now it is extremely sm.

Like uh just smoky i mean you can see the sun, it's it's horrible right now, um yeah! It's definitely crazy. It's just smoke everywhere right now, because we have fires going on everywhere. So for those of you that are just coming in here right now, um. Let me go back here that are just coming in here right now.

I am currently um working and i didn't want to miss at least some of a stream. I probably won't be in here as long as usual, but i just wanted to come in and uh just kind of talk about a few talking points: um yeah, 115 in death valley. We hit 121 yesterday at my house in riverside california. It was flipping nuts.

So definitely crazy. Can i do a donut in the parking lot? I don't think my van could get going that fast. So, no not going to happen. It's nuts we've got multiple fires going on everywhere.

Right now, so uh yeah, it's just definitely crazy um. So i got a couple talking points i want to go over real, quick and then i'll pay attention to the chat as usual too so um. I had my wife. Send me an email with my list of things to talk about um, oh great question, so on the the the vibrating video with uh, the shaking of the blower wheel uh.

I had said that you know when i was cl opening the return door on that that i noticed um. There was a lot of suction in the return side and when you work on these units a lot you tend to start to notice things, and i noticed that that's not normal, so i kind of knew that there was a static pressure issue. So i went down to the return air grill and i found that the retainer grill wasn't horrible. It was a little bit dirty, but i was still kind of concerned, so i pulled the return air grill down because it was hinged and i noticed that the turning veins there's turning veins inside the duct work and it's built into there and the turning veins were Completely plugged up there's an argument to be made about that about having like filter grills, but unfortunately, for a 15 ton package unit.

You can't have a filter. Grill you'd have a filter wall to be able to have. You know the right amount of airflow on that. So it's pretty much impossible which which sucks when they put those turning veins in the ductwork, because how do you ever? How do you ever deal with that? You know later on down the line, so will i remove the turning veins? No, i don't think i'll.

Remove the turning veins, we just cleaned them. You got to think that there's more turning veins in there, but you would hope that majority of that stuff is getting stuck in that first, one so definitely smash the like button guys. I know this is a little bit of a different kind of a stream, but it really does help out the channel again. I i'm sorry.

The audio is not as good and all that stuff, but i just kind of wanted to come in here at least and give you guys something so um. So you know another thing i wanted to cover. You know this whole year has been crazy. A lot of us have been going through a lot of crazy stuff um, and this you know labor day weekend is typically the uh official end of summer, even though we're gon na have some heat waves still after labor day but uh.

This was a way to go out in a bang because we broke records for sure so um we would definitely we definitely broke records and uh. Two years ago we hit 120 at my house, and this is the first time i've ever seen. 121. So um definitely definitely crazy, so yeah.

This is my old office for the og followers i used to um do a before. I had a studio and everything i used to outro my videos. If you go back to my very first videos, you'll see i used to outro them sitting in my seat right now, um and the reason why i kind of changed from that was because i didn't like the audio and stuff like that and that's why i changed To being in a studio for my outros, but um yeah definitely been one of those years for sure 2020 needs to end yeah um. Let me see what else we got going on in the chat uh.

Would i rather do hvac a negative 10 or 120? Definitely in 120. um i've worked in it my whole life. I i couldn't those of you guys that work in the the the subzero temperatures i couldn't do that every day you guys are hands down, but i mean i'm sure that the guys that work in sub-zero would say that they couldn't work in 120.. It's just what your body's acclimated to for sure so have.

I had any blackouts yet, no, not yet no blackouts at the time as of yet so um. No i've never worked with cryo pumps, yeah, no apple juice. For sure i got a bottle of water. That's about it so can't be having apple juice when i'm driving down the road.

That would be an ultimate stream, though huh for sure i'd probably end in a dui in the end of my uh and some other headaches for sure all right um. How long have i been doing? Videos so november of 2017 was when my youtube channel was started uh. The original reason why i started my youtube channel was a training aid for my own employees, so go back and watch my very first uh two videos and you'll notice that i'm very direct i've since kind of changed a little bit. But basically i started making these as a training aid.

Difficult service calls because uh you know it was just easier that way. Then what i found myself was every morning. I would be briefing the guys at the shop and it's like man just telling them about the service could be so much easier. If i made a video so november of 2017 was when i started it um.

I think i really didn't post my first video. I might have posted one in november and then i think i posted the second one in january or february of 2018. um and then i became very regular on my channel. I think actually, when i first started out my channel.

I was posting three videos a week monday, wednesday and friday that got old, really quick. So now i go down to two videos a week, so um definitely crazy what happened with the channel and how it grew and everything it's insane. So for those that are just coming in here right now, i know there's a lot of new viewers and stuff uh. I'm not at the office uh, i was out doing service calls today, so i um decided to go live on my phone.

So that's. Why we're here right now so um. Let me see, let me see what else we got going on in here. Um all right.

I really appreciate it it's kind of it's very humbling to know that. There's people that don't work in hvac that watch these videos - that's a trip for sure so uh hvac our wiz. Thank you. So very much for that super chat.

Man hey. I really appreciate the super chats and the support you guys have given um. It's not necessary, you guys don't have to do it, but thank you guys so very much, there's a couple different ways that you can support the channel. If you guys are interested, you do not have to give shell out your own money, something as simple as if you guys want to purchase any tools um and you like the prices at truetechtools.com uh.

You guys can use my offer code. Big picture. One word uh. It i get a small commission from that, it doesn't cost you guys anything extra and in fact, if you guys are going to purchase tools - and you know what you want, do me a favor and send me an email and i'll generate you guys, an affiliate link.

If i generate you affiliate links, i actually get a little bit more of a commission, so it actually helps me a little bit more so but no worries again. You guys don't have to do that kind of stuff, but i appreciate it so um, let's see what else labor day yeah labor day was an interesting one. Just lots of calls. This weekend.

Last night i was working super late, uh on a walk-in freezer call, and then i got another walk-in freezer call after that i made it to the restaurant. Just in time, i was literally, it was so hot here that i just had to i've been going around resetting head pressure controls, because some of my restaurants still have manual reset pressure, controls and uh um when you, when, sometimes when it gets so hot. The manual reset pressure controls they they aren't as accurate and they'll trip a little early and it gets to be a problem so um if uh, if you guys, are trying to get me to answer a question. I'm streaming on my phone right now and the chat is going by really fast, so it's a little bit difficult to see so bear with me here: okay, um! Let me see, let me make sure that my audio doesn't turn on and let me see uh yeah.

I can see a little bit on the chat, so let me move something around here and then i can see the chat a little bit better. There we go so now. I can see it um. So let me see what we got in here: uh, the smoke at my house is pretty nasty, there's a lot of it for sure, so it's definitely uh pretty gross to go outside um.

I see that there's actually been a few super chats that i didn't catch because they probably well roto vicious. Thank you for those of you that are doing it. I really really appreciate it um. Thank you very much for the super chats uh yeah.

I did see roto vicious said that uh ernesto's van got broken into that's a bummer man uh. You know you got ta it's crazy. These days, you got ta, make sure uh at my company. We have uh puck locks.

We keep our puck locks on our vans. 24, 7 and that's actually uh a known thing. That's an employ in our employee handbook that if you don't have the puck locks on your van there's going to be some serious repercussions. So i'd advise for those of you that don't have puck locks.

You guys need to get them because, yes, a puck lock, can be cut off of a van with a sawzall. But it's really fast and really easy to push a lockout to punch a lockout on a van and most people when they see a puck lock. They get turned away because they don't want to draw attention, they don't want to make noise. So it's really important that if you guys don't have those locks on your vans, i highly highly suggest you guys get those locks because uh it um.

Definitely uh will um save your bacon a few times so about 12 years ago i got my van broken into. I was at a restaurant in signal hill, california, they had cameras. I was in a home depot parking lot that had a restaurant, and i was parked there i had gotten out of my van, i walked into the restaurant, came back out to get something, and i was on the phone with my dad actually and i opened up My van my slider and i went to go grab something and i was really confused because there was a bottle of coil cleaner. That was leaked out all over the floor in my van and i keep my coil cleaner in a place where it doesn't leak out.

So it didn't dawn on me what happened yet so i um i was tripping. I was on the phone with my dad, i'm like. Why is there coil cleaner all over my van and then all of a sudden? I looked and i go oh crap. I realized what happened so i have my van super organized with containers and bags and everything's all you know consolidated and someone punched.

The lock on my van before we had puck locks and took everything from my van guys. They had gotten 20 000 worth of tools. Refrigerants all kinds of things like that this was like 12 years ago: um, it was insane and the problem with getting your van broken into, and i'm sure ernesto knows about. It too is that um yeah uh with um the i lost my train of thought there for a second but um.

Oh the problem with getting your van broken into. Is you don't realize what's missing for a long time, because there's obscure tools in your van that you don't use that often and then, when you go to get them six, eight months later and you're like where's this, oh, no, that's another tool that got stolen! You know so man, it really really sucks for sure so um yeah yeah, my manager is going to call me. Ernesto was my wife going to text me um, no, i'm running with my van on because the air conditioner is blowing on me right now. So um yeah definitely man.

People are crazy, so oh yeah, but in my situation, when they got in my van it just so happened that there was two cameras at the restaurant and the middle camera. That was pointing on my van that would have got the guy's license. Plate and stuff wasn't working so conveniently so yeah that kind of sucked made it seem like it was an inside job for sure, aaron jonathan, i don't remember what your comment was on the locking collar bearings, but i used to use the train of thought that you Want to tighten the locking collar the opposite direction of rotation, and someone had said something to me many years ago, and i realized that i was wrong. So if you read the instructions to the locking callers or at least the way that i interpret the instructions from brownian or timken or whoever uh you, you tighten the locking collar in the direction of the rotation of the blower wheel, um and uh.

That's that's why you do that so um. I know there's a lot of feedback on the locking collars, but that's definitely confusing for sure. So let me see what else i'm missing in here. I have a couple other things i wanted to talk about so um.

So when i, a couple weeks ago, i pre had a video on a kitchen ac, not working, and the unit had a bad breaker and um the uh someone had asked if my ac has ever broke down yeah it has in the past, but not recently, because I'm i usually am in pretty new vans, but it's broken down for sure. Alarms on the van doors alarms on the vans are annoying to me because they go off at the most inopportune times. So i'm not a huge fan of alarms slick locks are pretty easy to install to preface that, though, like i use slick locks on my van, you can kind of slick lock off with a sawzall. You can but it's going to make a lot of noise and it takes a long time to cut it off.

So you know i mean if someone really wants something they're going to get it all, that these slick, locks and alarms and different things do is just make someone think twice about breaking into your van if they truly want it they're going to get it okay, but You know it is what it is um. So, a couple weeks ago i had a video where i had a kitchen ac that wasn't working properly and on the kitchen ac. We ended up finding that the breaker was bad. We had lost a phase and a half.

It was weird, so i had an electrician come out. I got a lot of feedback on that one. So the story of that one was was a customer called me out there saying the kitchen ac wasn't working. I took another tech out there because it was out in the desert and it was extremely hot, so i kind of knew that we were going to run into some problems.

Second, tech, when it's really hot, really does help out: okay, so um, but uh. If i miss really quick guys, i see a lot of questions flying by right now and if i miss the questions, uh do me a favor, an email at hvcrvideos, gmail.com, um and i'll try to get them on for the next live stream. Okay, so on the ac video that i had a couple weeks ago, um i ended up having them call an electrician, so a lot of people asked hey. Why didn't i just change the breaker myself? Well, first off, i'm technically not licensed to change a circuit breaker.

While i have done it while i can do it, i'm not licensed to do it. My insurance doesn't cover me, okay, so um uh, it's it's one of those things where i i don't really like to get too involved in that kind of stuff. I have done it, but especially when i'm really far away from my shop, okay or if it's an old breaker panel, different things like that, where i don't feel comfortable. So i had the electrician come out change the breaker and i had mentioned something you guys you guys get to hear a lot of my my random talk in my head.

When i'm working i had mentioned hey, you know what this breaker size is different than the fuse size. You know i'd really like to upsize the breaker. I say things a lot of times, but then i think them through, and i realized that after i said that in that video that that we had number 10 wire on that and number 10 wire couldn't support a bigger breaker. So we left it out number 10.

um, even though i would have loved to have seen a 40 amp breaker on that unit. We had to leave it at the breaker. I think it was a 30 amp. We had to leave it at the 30 amp because of the wiring we we didn't want to oversize the breaker to where we had a potential problem where the wiring would catch on fire.

Theoretically. So but i am not an electrician and that's why i have uh um, that's why i have uh, you know. Had them come out. Uh john deere fan asked.

What's the most flawed rack i have ever worked on. Um master built racks are pretty lame because uh they're under a negative air pressure, so meaning that when you pull the panels to get to the compressors uh, you bypass the condenser. Basically, the condenser fan motor pulls from where the panels are so those things kind of suck. I really don't care for those masterbuilt racks, um, i'm sure there's more, but you know that's all i can think of at the moment so uh.

What's my thoughts on a 12 volt water source heat pump for the van water source, heat pump isn't going to work in a van because where's your where's, your water, going to come from uh. You know on a water source heat pump heat pump. Typically, you have a cooling tower or you have something that's going to act. You know cool down your your discharge, water.

Basically so a water source heat pump isn't really going to work. Now i realize that um, you know if you have some some way to cool that water, the fluid down uh, you know then yeah, but water source heat pump, wouldn't really work so um. Let me see what else we got going on in here: um, any any walk-in videos coming out soon, uh yeah, we'll have our. I mean my videos range all the time.

So this weekend i was working on walk-ins all weekend. Now this weekend's videos like a lot of them, were really short like hey, i got it going we'll be back and we'll follow up kind of thing, i'll, probably end up doing a mashup where i have like three or four service calls of the ones. I ran this weekend a lot of the stuff i have to order parts for and go back so um. Let me see, can i explain more about the control boards and hvac systems? Is it all proprietary firmware and circuits, or are there interchangeable third-party boards? You can use it's very rare that uh tikitak asks that question.

It's very rare that they use boards that you can repair and or create yourself, i'm sure if you had enough money, you could do it, but for the most part it's proprietary circuit boards, every once in a while. You can use an aftermarket ignition control board, but even that is kind of shady i tend to stay with oem for liability reasons as much as possible, so yeah. I need to get a bigger van for sure, but you know in california it's so hard to drive them anyways. Have i ever done or service supermarket rack systems? No, i have not uh, that's i i'm very interested in them, but no it's not something that my company will ever take on.

So no i've never worked on ammonia either so uh. Let's see, it is 5 22 p.m here in california, and it will be dark like pitch black dark uh in about two and a half hours so um, something i wanted to point out. Let me see how do i record all my videos, because phones don't have that much memory. Uh ernesto, i use my phone so um.

I have a uh uh, a large memory card in my phone. I i record actually with my um samsung s10 plus, and i have a memory card in here too, and what i do is i um usually will only have two to three videos on my phone at a time and then i have to clean it off because, Yes, my phone's memory does get full really quick. I transfer them to my computer and then i'll edit them from my computer. As far as editing software, i don't use anything fancy.

I use a dumbed down version of adobe premiere. It's called adobe premiere elements um. I have adobe premiere pro, but i find it to be very difficult to use and to be honest with you, i'm not trying to make a a movie like a production movie or anything. So for me, adobe premiere elements works, okay, uh every once in a blue moon i'll record with adobe premiere pro, but i don't really do it anymore.

Um. I edit my thumbnails with a program called adobe spark and it makes editing really easy. I basically have the adobe cloud suite whatever, where i can have access to, like almost all the programs, but ironically adobe premiere elements is not part of the adobe creative cloud, so that is something i have to purchase. Basically, every couple years i buy the updated version costs about 200 bucks.

I try to make my stuff as simple as possible. I love recording on my phone because it's just easy, you know and i don't have to work too hard. I've bought fancy cameras. I have a really fancy: um camcorder, like high high quality super high quality, ridiculously expensive camcorder and guys it just sits in my office.

I don't like it it's too difficult to use. I love uh. I love using my phone because my phone has one of the best cameras for the for the size and everything and it's awesome and in fact i want to get the new galaxy s20, because my wife just recently got that phone and i dig the camera in That thing, so i'm probably going to be upgrading my phone um yeah, you guys with the the big nate. I love trolling, you guys so i've said this many times and i know nate knows this but um.

I i made a mistake a couple months ago or a couple weeks ago on a video, and i got so much feedback that i started trolling you guys by misspelling the thumbnails purposely because it was just so fun for me to see everybody lose their minds because I put an apostrophe in the wrong space or i added an apostrophe to a word to try to make it plural. When you didn't need to do that, it is so funny to see everybody freak out about that stuff. So um do my neighbors ever stop by and ask me to look at their ac units um, you know. Occasionally i get a neighbor that has asked me here and there for the most part, i usually say no, i have friends and family that'll call me too, and i usually just tell them ahead of time.

Like hey, i, i recently had a friend and i just said no offense um, but i can't install he wanted me to help him with a mini split and i will i'll help him eventually, but i told him not till october or november, i'm too busy right Now so um can i get a haircut where i live or do i have to go to nancy pelosi's salon, um yeah, i think there's a few salons that are opened uh or no, no yeah. The salons just opened up, i believe, but um uh. In the past there was a couple salons that were doing haircuts outside in the 100 degree weather. Luckily, for me, i shaved my head.

It needs to be shaved again right now, but um. I have clippers at home and i just do it myself and ask my wife to trim up the um, the back uh brad newman, trigger control experts yeah. I don't know if i'm gon na do those shirts i'll leave that one to rick, because i was actually trolling rick hvacr survival with the trigger control thing um any smoke in the air where i'm working at today, yeah. Let me uh pan the camera around.

No wait, that's not working! How do i do this? Please, let's try not to log out, so i mean you can see the sun. It's complete smoke right now. This is in murrieta, california, it's smoke everywhere. So yeah you can see.

There's my uh. My topics to talk about all right, um. Let me pan this back all right. Let me see what else what do we got in here? Um, not all caps.

I do that on my uh, well, first off two things, but alan all caps in the chat is so that way they get my attention. That's the best way for people that want me to answer comments is if they post it in all caps and or if you're, referring to me doing all caps on my thumbnails. I do that just for attention because on youtube, it's easier for someone to read all caps. So that's why i do that so um formicari corrosion uh.

I don't know a whole lot about formicary corrosion, probably wouldn't be the best person. I know my buddy brian orr talks about performing carry corrosion all the time. He probably knows a little bit more about it than me. So i'm more of a dumb knuckle busting mechanic, not the smartest dude in the the orchard.

So uh, i am not insane uh. Can you mix r12 with any other refrigerant on a medium temp system? No, absolutely not you never! Ever ever mix any refrigerants. There is not a single refrigerant manufacturer out there that will approve you to mix refrigerants. If someone has told you that a manufacturer tells you okay, it's okay, they're, absolutely lying majority of the time.

That's false information spread by supply houses. We are not chemists. If you mix refrigerants you've now made a new refrigerant and you do not know the properties and what's going to happen to that refrigerant, so no there's no refrigerants you can ever mix nyloc blue or leak lock. Well, knock it off.

I grew up with leak lock. I used it my entire career, we didn't call it leak lock, though we called it blue death uh. The reason why we called it blue death is because, by the time you were done putting it on it would be the death of you. It would be in your nose, it would be on your ear and uh on your clothes, okay, um, but i grew up working with blue death.

I used it my entire career and i never plugged up a txv with blue death, but the moment that i found nylog okay. I realized that i liked nylon. Now, let's differentiate between nylon and blue death, though, or leak lock, blue death was a thread. Locker, blue death got hard and locked flare nuts on leak.

Lock i mean uh nylon does not do that. Nylog is a. Is a lubricant um. It's an oil-based loot, it is oil um, it just has a higher viscosity.

Basically, but it's just a lubricant. It's for lubricating, flare, nuts and or mechanical joints and or gaskets nylog is not a leak sealant. However, i have installed nylon like on flare nuts and different things like that, but it is not an official leak sealant, unlike leak lock. That kind of technically is a leak sealant, but leak lock is a nightmare so um.

What's the difference from a refrigerant blend and mixing refrigerants great question, timothy, the difference between a refrigerant blend and mixing refrigerants in the field is that someone who's paid a lot more than us. A chemist in a factory has come up with a proprietary blend and uh. He came up with a pressure temperature chart on how that refrigerant reacts to temperature and different environmental conditions. So if we have a 404a for instance, which is a blend refrigerant, we know that at a certain temperature, 404a is a certain pressure period, but once you start mixing other refrigerants with 404, then you no longer know what you know is going to happen within that.

So that's the difference. Okay, so be very cautious about mixing refrigerants um. Let me see leak lock, sucks to clean off. If you have to yeah, it does for sure definitely sucks um yeah, okay, uh.

Let me see what else we got on my list here: um blower speed, so adjusting blower speed. When should we do it? When is it appropriate? First off, you have to understand the repercussions of adjusting blower speed, i'm talking on commercial systems, but this applies to residential systems too. Okay, when you adjust the blower speed, what you're doing is you're changing the rate of heat transfer within the system? Okay, so we're talking about an air conditioner, but this applies to refrigeration too, but let's just air conditioner is the easiest way. So if we have a blower - and we run it too fast, then what we do is the air runs through the coil before it can absorb the heat of the evaporator, coil, okay or the heat of the air.

I should let me step back and rephrase that if the blower speed is running too fast, then the air is flowing across the evaporator too fast. Therefore, the evaporator doesn't have the ability to absorb the heat from the air passing across it properly. Okay, vice versa, if the air is going too slow across an evaporator, you can have issues there too. Okay.

So when we're working on commercial package units - and we find out that the units uh over amping at the motor okay, the the blower motor, we have to understand how the system works and we have to be careful before we start going and adjusting the motor motor Speed now on a package unit that is belt driven, we adjust the motor speed or the blower speed. I should say by adjusting the pulley, the motor pulley and or the sheave okay, you can adjust the driven pulley also, but uh you got to be very careful. Most of the time we adjust it via the motor pulley or the motor sheath. Okay, when we tighten down a pulley when we close the pulley down, we're going to speed up the motor and when we are we're going to speed up the blower and when we open the pulley we're going to slow down the blower.

So if we want to drop the current draw on the motor we're going to open the pulley up and slow it down, and vice versa, if we want to you know max it out, then we close it down, but you have to be very careful about doing That you have to understand that when you adjust the blower speed you're affecting the building balance. Okay, when you affect the building balance, everything gets thrown off. Also when you adjust the blower speed, slow it down or speed it up, you're affecting the efficiency of the unit. Okay, very very important to understand that um you can make your your efficiency go down the drain.

If you adjust it one way or the other the wrong way or too much or too little so be very cautious. Now, in my recent video, where the air conditioner sounded like an earthquake, i had changed the motor pulley or motor sheath. Okay, i call it motor pulley. Everybody else in the world calls it motor sheave, you guys are all wrong.

Okay, it's a motor pulley, all right! Um but um so uh when i, when i completed everything, i noticed that my motor was over amping. So, in order to reduce the current draw on the motor i reduced the amount, i basically opened up the motor pulley and slowed down the blower okay and that's how i was able to adjust it. Have i ever had a unit miswired out of the factory. Yes, several times, i've had units miss wired, great question, because that leads me into my next topic.

So when we're doing - and i don't need my bluetooth on my ear anymore - i just realized that, when we're doing um when we are doing uh installations or um commissioning uh, where it's very important that we commission equipment - okay, i have several pieces of refrigeration equipment. I work on the heat craft, condensed units all the time i install them for one of my customers on a regular uh, maybe once or twice a month, i'm installing heat craft refrigeration equipment. It's a very common theme. Next time you guys do an installation on a heat craft, condensing unit.

What i want you to do on the condensing units. They have a discharge service valve okay and it's there. So you can do a compressor change. It's a it's! A service valve like on a residential system and most of the time when you're, when you're running working on the system, you have no need to use the discharge service valve because there's a liquid line port well oftentimes, i find very often i would say one out Of every five heat craft, condensing units that i install the discharge service valve is almost all the way closed, meaning that you're going to theoretically ruin the compressor.

So, as a part of my commissioning every time i install a heat craft condensing unit, i'm always going through those units checking the wiring checking every service valve to make sure that they're fully back seated on the particular service valves that are on there. Sometimes they may need to be front seated. It just depends so, but on the heat craft, condensed units, the discharge service valve needs to be back seated all the way, and i find them all the time, not back seated, all the way which theoretically could cause some problems with their compressor. Okay, so commissioning equipment is very important, always double check.

Wiring double check, tightness, um, you know and make sure that everything's good. I will say that linux package units from the factory i've found several linux package units that the driven pulley or the drive pulley on the actual blower wheel are often times i found them not to be tight. The set screws are not completely tightened down and i've had several linux package units where i installed them, and i didn't check that - and i came back a couple days later to find the pulley laying in there and the motor just spinning away, because the pulley just Spun right off the the shaft of the blower, so it's important that we commission our equipment properly. So um.

Let me see what else we got in here. Uh have i ever worked on zero zone. Yeah i've worked on a couple: zero zone cases at rite aids before in the very past. I don't do any of the work anymore, but i just did some warranty work for zero zone way back in the day.

Let me see what i'm missing in here. Uh, can i do a tech video on the effects of fan, blade position in the fan shroud? It's funny that you say that brad, because the video that i shot over the weekend, i had a a package unit, spoiler alert. I had a package unit that lost a condenser fan motor and it was a york package unit that had an 800 850 cfm condenser fan motor and i didn't have one of those and there they needed it asap because their computer systems all shut down, because their Ac wasn't working, so all i had was a 1075 cfm condenser fan motor and what i found was by installing the 1075 cfm condenser fan, but our condenser family was spinning too fast and um. It was uh still causing high head pressure.

It wasn't allow. It was the air wasn't going slow enough through the condenser to reject the heat of the condenser, so i ended up having to reposition the fan blade to pull less air out of the condenser. So that way, the air would slow down running through the condenser and it would reject more heat. So the position of the fan blade in a shroud is very, very important, and one of these days i'll make a video where i really break it down.

But it's very very important, so let me see what else tristan asking about buying merch from other countries? Okay, so i'm still working on that guys for those of you that don't know i do have a merch store. It's hvacrvideos.com! I have hats and shirts available um. This is the hat right here. These hats are actually the reason why i made this hat.

This is a flex fit style, hat okay, it has a black under bill and it only says hvacr. I purposely did that it does not have my logo on it. The reason why i did that was because i didn't want you guys to represent my brand when you're at work. I wanted you guys to be able to wear these hats at work, so i made them generic and just saying hvacr, with my color scheme on it and that's pretty much it now.

Anyways the hats are available, but as far as shipping to other countries, i have not figured that out yet and to be honest with you, i've been so busy that i just haven't been able to deal with it, so i will look into it. I know i have people from uh europe. I know i have people from australia quite a few that want to purchase them and i just haven't been able to figure it out at this point in time, i'm able to ship to canada and mexico and that's it so um, but i will okay. I really do appreciate the support, though all right um.

Let me see oh right on. I really appreciate that yeah cool yeah! That's why i like these hats, because they're generic and everybody can wear them so um, but anyways yeah, hvacr videos.com. All right! Let me see what else we got going on in the chat right now, so um yeah, the van video again for those of you that are just coming in here right now, so um, i'm out on a service call. I wasn't able to get home in time to do a proper, live stream.

So that's why i am streaming from my van i'm just streaming on my phone. I know the audio quality is not the greatest and all that stuff, but i figured i'd rather get something out than than have nothing. So let me see what else do a van tour um i'll show you guys my van there's nothing nice about my van right. Now, though, it's a disaster, an utter disaster, let me show you, let me pull the thing and let's position on over here, you can see it's still really smoky outside so um.

Let me open this bad boy up see. I got the puck lock right here, always always always got the puck locks. Every time i go to and from my van it's puck locks guys they suck, but you got ta. Have them all right.

So there's the disaster of my van it uh. It is a nightmare right now um, this really hasn't changed, much guys, it's a mess because it's been a crazy weekend. It's really not that bad! Really! I just uh, you know just need to move some stuff around. My hoses really aren't where they go and other than my hoses being out of stock out of the place um, you know that's pretty much it uh.

I ran out of hoses over the weekend and this was the only hose i could find at the time. I'm gon na take it back because it sucks one of those stupid collapsible hoses. This is that 850 cfm motor, but nothing special about my van guys. I made this rack right here.

That's a harbor freight tool box, and this is from american van i'm able to keep. I do dig this and the way that i positioned it is, you can still open it in a parking lot and have people park next to you. So that way, you can have all your stuff um, but yeah. It's just a mess: contactors temperature controllers, defrost clocks, miscellaneous capacitors, thermostats that kind of stuff.

I just bolted all this stuff myself, it's bolted down in the back, so the van could move around there's. Actually, this uh - i don't know if i've shown all this stuff or not in a tour video, but there's all this right here, um, it's like a c channel that came on there almost like a strut and i got strut clamps and i was able to bolt Through right in here and uh, you can see so this is all bolted. I made uh, i took strut, you guys can't see it, but i have these brackets that hold my nitrogen, so this stuff isn't going and i have ratchet straps that hold two bottles of nitrogen and then back behind that you guys can't see it right now is An oxy and acetylene tank way back there and it's all secured so nothing's going anywhere. As far as the back of my van, i keep my torches up front.

The back of my vans just got extension cords back there um all my refrigeration technologies. Chemicals are down there uh i used to bleed only yellow, but i got a lot of milwaukee stuff now too, but yeah cases wiring refrigerants, so nothing too crazy about my van um. No, i haven't done a new van tour. This is a new van i've.

I just set this one up, i think at the beginning of the year, so i haven't done a tour on this one. There's some things that i still haven't figured out like i don't have um. I don't have a way to charge my batteries right now and uh uh. I don't know if i want to put a battery charger back in here, so i'm a little worried about it because with my battery charger that sounded healthy, didn't it that's what happens when you try to shut a damn fitting adapter in there? Oh so yeah! That's my dirty ass van tour right now, so let's get back in the air conditioning! It's not that bad right now, but it's still pretty hot, but yeah van is a mess right now for sure all right, let's uh transition this back! That was my bad.