So, 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. Are you guys really ready for a mediocre livestream from someone who's made, so many mistakes that i actually have a youtube channel about? My mistakes. Remember um.

Just because someone's on youtube doesn't mean they know what they're doing um and i love uh whoever's in the chat right now. Someone has a really funny name in the chat. I saw it a minute ago here, keep calm, i'm youtube certified! That's an awesome name! Man! You know everybody makes mistakes. I talked about this on the last live stream, too.

Everybody screws things up, um. In my opinion, if we can learn from those mistakes, we can grow from those mistakes uh you know and nobody's um without fault. Okay, we all make mistakes, and again the best thing we can do is try to learn from them. The whole point of this youtube channel is for me to share my mistakes.

Um i've said it before it started as a channel for my own employees. You know on how to you know this is how we troubleshoot the very first video was finding an electrical short. You know we don't just replace fuses and - and if you guys have watched my channel for any length of time, you kind of see that that's how things go. I i'm not like crazy, but i like to get to the bottom of things as best as possible.

You know i like to dig into things i like to figure out. You know why um my buddy bill he's got an awesome name and, and i'm gon na steal some of his name too, but his name's curioushvac guy on youtube and i'd like to think that i'm a curious person too. You know, but i will also say that some of my um ability to troubleshoot - or you know whatever you want to call it - is from the embarrassment of the mistakes that i've made. My gosh i've had some embarrassing moments in my career having to go to people.

I i can still remember how embarrassed i was when i got hung up by a technical support person, because he had asked me what superheat was, and i told him i don't know what superheat is, and you know he hung up on me and then having to Tell the restaurant manager, you know in a creative way, because i wasn't going to tell the restaurant manager. I didn't know what i was doing. You know i came up with this really creative way of you know it's working, but i'm not super confident in it. I think i want to let it run through the night and i'm going to come back in the morning.

I want to talk to the manufacturer and then i'm going to dig into it a little bit more, but i think you're going to be okay for the night. You know - and that was my bs way of saying i don't know what i'm doing, but by the time i come back tomorrow. I will know what i'm doing you know and i've been driven. As you know, in my short career um i've been driven by embarrassment.

You know those few times that i was that i felt embarrassment or shame or whatever you want to call it. I never wanted to feel those those moments again, and so it drove me to try to better myself. You know coming up in the trade working for my dad. I learned everything that i know from my dad.

Okay, and what i mean by that my dad was an old-school technician. Uh he's still my dad's still around my dad. Well, because he's not a tech anymore, but um, he was an old school tech. You know beer can cold charged to a certain pressure that kind of stuff - and you know, while that worked in the very beginning part of my career, it doesn't really work now.

So we had to evolve and you know i was watching things and i was watching how we'd operate, and i was watching how many parts we would go through. I got to give credit where credit is due, though my dad taught me one of the best things that i could ever learn, and that was integrity. I've said this story too. I can remember talking about or asking my dad why he didn't charge the customer for all the parts that we put on the air conditioner.

You know and my dad said. Well, i only charged him for the part that fixed it. Okay, my dad was throwing parts at it right. He was.

He was struggling to figure out what it was, but he learned from those mistakes and i learned from those mistakes - and i learned a lot more because i learned integrity and honesty and uh. I didn't want to see you know. I saw those parts that we were using and it was like wow. You know that that gets expensive.

You know, but we're only charging for the part that fixed it like at first. It didn't make sense to me, you know, but then it really you know now i look back and it's like wow. You know i learned so much from my dad and uh there's nothing wrong with what he did. I mean old school was different right um.

I know there's some old school guys in here in the chat right now and you guys kind of know what i'm talking about you know. Equipment was forgiving. Customers were forgiving, it's not that way anymore. It's really interesting how the industry has changed.

Um, it's not forgiving whatsoever conor! Thank you. So very much for that super chat man. That is a really awesome, very generous thing of you to do conor uh. Thank you, you're very consistent with those, and that's really awesome bud.

You do not have to do that, but i'm very grateful for it: okay, but um. You know this industry has changed in that the equipment. You know you can't just kind of it'll get by. It doesn't really work that way with all the digital circuit boards and sensors and different things we have in our equipment.

We have to be precise and the customers, you know they don't really tolerate uh, that kind of stuff. You know, customers will fire you in a heartbeat these days, whereas you used to be able to get away with so much as long as you weren't ripping the customer off. You know um, but nowadays man, you know they'll jump ship and you know change to new people and a heartbeat but hey. We got to learn to be better service technicians and i am certainly learning every single day and that's a really important thing about this.

Trade is, is there's, you'll, never know at all. You never will know it all. There's always something new to learn. There's always a new technology coming out, there's always something bigger, greater and better.

Okay, so hello to everybody um, i have got a list of things that i want to talk about as usual, and i definitely want to get to the chat too as usual. Okay, do me a favor if you guys have questions in the chat put them in caps lock. I will definitely try to address them. If i don't get to those questions, please send me an email to hvacr videos gmail.com.

I do have to say that the amount of emails that i get these days, it's daunting. It's it's a lot harder to go through all the emails, but i try. I really do um. So you know if i, if i skip your email just you can you can send it again? Okay, it's okay! If i, if i miss it, sometimes i mean they literally get buried.

So if i miss your email um, you know you can you can send it again until i address it, you know or say hey. You know what this isn't something i can really answer whatever it may be: okay, but anyways. I hope you guys are doing well. Uh here in california, it was just announced today, just like a lot of the other states that we are slowly going to start reopening things again.

Our reopening is going to be a lot different than everybody else's they're, just going to open our restaurants to outside dining, meaning that they can set up tents outside the building and they can start to seat people out there again now in the midwest and back east. I realize that's almost impossible for you guys out here we have mild weather, we don't even know what cold is here in california heck my house today. It dropped to like 35 degrees outside for a brief. You know two hours we had like this little cold snap come through and we had sleet coming down and stuff, but that's that's unheard of for us.

Okay, the normal winters for us are in the 50s, so we've got the perfect weather to do outdoor dining. I'm thankful for that we've been very slow as far as work goes for me. I had two guys off for like two days last week. Everybody was off today because we didn't have any work and then it's funny because the outdoor dining thing they opened it back up, or at least they said they were gon na open it.

And then i kid you not seven servers. Eight service calls come through. You know, and it's like wow, you know so it's crazy, i'm hoping that we start to pick back up it's interesting, because i was telling my wife yesterday when we were driving. It's really frustrating for me because uh, you know when we don't have work for everybody.

You know, and we tell people we don't have work. Then an emergency service call comes in like i'm the person to have to take it because everybody's already off. You know that kind of stuff and uh it sucks, because i'd really like to be able to take some time off, but it i can't because i got to be available for work so hey. You know what first world problems.

I'm super thankful. I think i've said this on the last stream, i'm so thankful for my petty problems. My problems are nothing in comparison to many others that have far worse to worry about. I know that some of you have family members in the hospital.

Some of them are sick. My condolences go to you. I hope that everything goes okay. You know i again, i'm i'm so thankful for health happiness and safety first and foremost for my family.

So hey all right! So, let's see what this chat goes on. Yeah uh, greg murcell. He lives up in the high desert um higher in elevation than me close to where i used to live and yeah greg. We had kind of snow flurries down here, but it was just for a brief moment, but where i used to live, i used to live up in victorville california, and we used to get snow about two to three times a year.

That would last for a day at the most, but when i say snow, i'm talking, you know an inch at the most. There was one year that i did live in victorville for those of you that are local to socal. I was stuck down the hill, because victorville is what we call the high desert. So it's up a big hill and i was stuck down the hill for two days because we had this crazy snowstorm, where it was insane for us.

But we got like 13 inches of snow and my wife was home with my first daughter. My second daughter wasn't even born yet, but with just my first daughter - and it was her my first daughter and my dog and i was stuck down the hill, because i couldn't go back up there and fear that i was gon na get trapped up there, because The roads were closed and all that stuff, so that was definitely an interesting experience, so okey doke um. I want to cover something really quick before i forget my moderator bot is going to be posting a sporelin webinar that they're having so in lieu of the hr expo so normally at the ahr expo sportlin will talk about their new products, their existing product line and Different stuff, like that they've got a webinar series, just like most other people are going digital with stuff. They've got a webinar series that they're doing so they had the first episode this last week, um the second episode part two: it's going to be called their um virtual product review.

Okay, the first episode is on sporland's website uh spoilin spoilin video is what it's called on youtube. It took me a minute, but if you just search up spoiling you'll see it that's the first episode and the second episode is gon na be uh coming up uh. This on the fourth of february 1pm central time, do me a favor guys go register for that and check it out. Sportlin does a good job with a lot of cool products and they usually have some great information on there so definitely check that out.

I also want to say that uh, somewhere in the middle of this stream, i'm going to let a few more viewers come in here, i'm going to do a couple. Little giveaways, nothing crazy, but i have uh some spoiling hats. Uh spoiling sent me a little leatherman uh, a tiny little leatherman like almost like a keychain multi-tool, and then i have a couple of my hats that we're going to give away too i'll tell you guys, when it'll be a little bit in the stream right now. So um, let me see, let me see what else we got in here.

What do i think about shorts everything hvacr you mean as in like uniform shorts. I don't know what you mean about that everything hvacr, i'm assuming you mean uniform shorts. My technicians are not allowed to wear shorts as their uniform for liability reasons. It seems, like it'd, be much cooler, but i'm just worried about people getting messed up on the legs.

Getting their legs cut and different things like that. Our insurance company would not like us if we were walking around wearing shorts, so we wear pants as far as my employees go. I hope that's what you were asking me about, but as far as far as our uniforms go, we supply a shirt to our employees. They can choose long sleeve or short sleeve, and we just tell them that we prefer to them to have black colored pants.

They can choose whether or not their jeans cargo pants whatever they want. I personally wear dick or i'm sorry. I used to wear dickies tactical, but i wear the 511 tactical pants now the strike pants and i really do like those for southern california. They do great in the heat in the cold cold winter.

They wouldn't be the greatest thing. You'd have to wear some thermals underneath them or something like that, but the 511 tactical strike pants are great for the summertime and california winters and they also have knee pad inserts. You can put into them. So super nice pants.

Let's see what else we got in here um, what do we got? I'm looking at the chat right now, um all right, short videos. Oh sorry, i thought you meant shorts like as in pants see. I knew i knew. I knew that was a little weird that question, so he was asking short videos yeah i've thought about doing shorts before um.

As far as videos go but uh, i just don't want to mess up. I don't know i'm still kind of torn on that, like um short videos, they're neat brian, does a really good job of doing shorts as far as videos go um but uh. I don't know it's something i'd consider, but i just don't know. I'm still kind of torn about those things um.

Let me see: okay, i'm gon na get to my list of things to talk about here. Oh i wanted to address something else too. Someone brought up to me and i've seen a few people bring this up. So um, i know that youtube has really been bombarding you guys with super long commercials and don't feel bad for not watching those super long commercials.

Okay, i totally understand all right. It's ridiculous that youtube would throw in a 30 minute commercial, 20 minute commercial or something like that. That's insane! Okay, just so that you guys know i i can't control um how long the commercials are. The only thing that i control is how many to commercials how many commercials to put into my videos now in the very beginning, i didn't really understand the commercials.

So i've got some videos from way back in that had way too many commercials. But my um metric for commercials go is that for every 20 minutes, i'm gon na put one commercial and if i go to a 30 minute video i'll put two commercials? Okay. So, but i don't i'm not worried if you guys don't watch them, okay, it just. I just throw them in there.

You know it's just one of those things, but i totally understand the other issue that or thing that people bring up to me all the time is certain advertisers. Okay, in the past, i have blocked uh certain advertisers from my channel um. I i think that what because i noticed that that particular advertiser started popping up more and more um and it's fine, i'm letting them so long as they don't irritate me again, uh. Basically, i can't tell youtube who to pick as an advertiser, but i can go and say: hey.

I don't want this person advertising on my channel, or at least i can block a domain now, whether or not i noticed that someone that i had previously blocked has popped back up within the new year. So i don't know if youtube like cleared those out and started them over, i'm letting it be, and i'm not really pushing it, i'm just going to leave it be so long as they don't start advertising or irritating me again. So it is what it is. I don't mind them being an advertiser, but they work through youtube.

They don't work through me. So, okay, um. Let me see what else we got in here uh. How long did it take me to feel comfortable doing service by myself abe? It took a very long time for me to feel comfortable, i'm the type of person, that's very reserved, and i can remember saying to my dad hey.

I need you to come out and do the service call with me and he's like. No, you got this. You know, and i just kind of had to figure it out so before i felt super confident in my service work. I was a couple years in uh, maybe three four years in before i like totally felt confident and even then um, especially early on in your career you're gon na have these moments.

I remember my dad telling me this and my dad would say you know you. You seem very confident in what you're doing and he was very happy with how he was performing, but he said, don't get cocky and he said you're not at the point yet where um or he asked me. If i was at the point where i got knocked on my butt yet and what he meant was - and i wasn't but what happened? Is you get to a point where you think you're doing good, and then you get whacked in the face with this particular problem or whatever, and then it humbles you, you know so. You're gon na have many of those moments in your career.

I've certainly had many of them going along, but the first one happened within like the two three year mark, where it kind of knocked me back down it made me realize: whoa slow down. Buddy, you don't know everything you think. You know you know, and so it takes a long time, but two three years i started to feel pretty confident in what i was doing and then i got knocked down a few times and worked my way back up, and you know you just keep learning and Learning so all right, um, let me see what else we got in here. Uh, don't know what that is.

Um just bought two field piece test probes from truetech. What do i, like my probes for the most you seem to think ice machines will be what you use them for gary um, honestly, i've been using my probes more and more every day i mean the amount of times i pull my manifold gauge set out of My van is becoming less and less because i'm getting more comfortable with my probe setup, i love the probes for working on small refrigeration for working on r290 propane units ice machines, but see i don't work on very many self-contained ice machines. Most of mine are remote ice machines that have you know nine to 15 pound refrigerant charges, so using service gauges is no big deal when you've got big charges like that, but um probes are convenient and while we're talking about probes, i have some questions inside here. So i get this question quite often, and it kind of surprises me, but i guess there's some people that just don't follow the online community as much as i do so.

The question that i get is this: how come when i use my field piece job link, probes, which i use very often how come my screen on my tablet doesn't look like their screen when they're using their field piece, joblink, probes, okay, the only thing i can Think of is that they don't realize that i'm using a different app with my fieldpiece joblink probes. I am using the measure quick app, so fieldpiece joblink probes can work with two app systems. They can work with the fieldpiece joblink app and they can work with the measure quick, app, okay, those are the only two apps that the fieldpiece joblink probes work with. I personally choose to use the measure quick a little bit more, but there is times that i still fall back on the fieldpiece joblink apps for certain situations.

Multiple superheats was one of them, but measure quick is integrating multiple super heats into their app again or or they are now so um, but but yeah. That's the reason. Why is because the field piece job link app is one, but then you can also choose to use the measure quick one. So i use the measure quick quite often so um.

Let me pull that one off of my list here. I don't even know where that is, but let's go ahead and get to this uh do an hvac fails channel uh yeah! That's a lot of work that i don't think i have you guys um, i genuinely so making these videos uh on average. Now it's taking me about four. Well, no i'd say: on average i spend two to three hours every single day, working on youtube.

So when i come home from work, i spend two to three hours, every single day, working on youtube and then, when i do uploads, i spend four to five hours on each video because it's it it doesn't seem like. I put a lot of editing into my videos when i'm not crazy about the edits, but there still is a lot of time. That's involved in them. So, as far as like i created another youtube, channel called hvacr tools and i've only uploaded one video, because i just i'm so consumed by my normal hvacr videos channel.

It's insane. It's so hard to to keep on my schedule too, and speaking of that i may have to change my upload schedule because being as slow as we are right now, i am running out of footage so we'll see i'm gon na try to continue doing two videos. A week i do videos, uh thursdays and sundays. I'm gon na keep trying to do that, but uh there may be a chance that we might have to go down to one video a week, depending on the amount of footage that i have.

But we'll see i'm going to keep trying to do the two videos a week but but yeah it definitely takes a lot of my time. So um no greg marcel, i really don't come across electric strip eaters. Very often i'd want to say me like two three times in my career. I've come across strip heaters um, it's been a long time since i've i've come across them, so all right, uh yeah.

I just try to keep the fails in my videos so um we covered that one. I had two videos since the last live stream this week and uh keep in mind everybody. That's in here in a few minutes, i'm going to be doing a giveaway, i'm going to let a few more people pile in looks like we have 328 people in here. Do me a favor get that light count up guys um.

Let's get that light count up. Uh as high as we can get it that way, it uh it. It definitely helps out the algorithm and helps my channel to be noticed by youtube. Okay, so start smashing the like button and we'll uh throw out a giveaway here in just a minute.

Uh pack attack. Thank you so very much for that super chat bud. That is a very generous and thank you very much um, okay, so two videos. Since the last live stream uh we had the walk-in freezer upgrade and that's the one where i built the another unistrup platform for the walk-in freezer, i'm really starting to like it.

Actually, it's i'm not going to have very many more of those, but the ones where i can go and do most of the work, because i'm moving the equipment to a new location. I like doing that because then i'm not there for an entire day. Normally we have to do our walk-in replacements and we have to get them done all in one day, so it's usually a really long job. So if i can split it up between two days, it just takes a lot of stress off me and i'm really liking that the next video that i had was the symptoms kept coming, and that was actually back in september that video that i filmed - and that Was a typical ac service call for me, okay um.

We have to learn to be able to troubleshoot when we have multiple things going on so i walked into that unit and we had some obvious problems. We had a dirty condenser and we had a broken belt, but you know moving through the troubleshooting steps and then you find this thing and that thing and this thing and that thing and it leads to all kinds of problems: okay, refrigerant leaks, compressors that had failed Condenser fan motors that have failed all because you know they aren't doing proper preventative maintenance, but i'm not blaming the customer for that, because this is a crazy time right now and cash is king everybody's trying to save as much money as they can, and i know It doesn't make sense to a lot of people, because people think these corporations are just full of money, but they have people to answer to also, and if the corporations these big giant restaurants, that are chain restaurants and they're, you know they have shareholders and everything. When those share prices start dropping when the company's not doing good, i should say when the company's not doing good, the share prices will start dropping the shareholders aren't happy, they start selling. It becomes a problem.

Okay, so um these customers. They try to do everything they can to stay above with their numbers and everything, okay, plug and play. Thank you so very much for that super chat man. That is awesome, i'm very much appreciated.

Okay, so um, you have to learn how to troubleshoot and when it comes to these multiple problems like on that ac, that i did, we got to start looking at it and you got to just take it one thing at a time so start with the basics. What's the number one thing we need on that ac to work right is airflow. We need the blower motor moving air across the evaporator and we need the condenser fan motors moving air across the condenser. So start.

There then work your way backwards. Okay and then you know if the condenser is dirty well, you're not going to have air flow. Okay, the same thing goes with refrigeration too. It all comes down to airflow, okay and then, of course, you need a compressor working and all that different stuff too.

But uh alex thank you silver, uh or love um. Thank you. So very much for that super chat man, you guys this is amazing. Thank you very much, okay, so um.

Let me see what this way, but you just got ta, learn to keep your cool when you're in those crazy service calls jeremy cole. That is amazing bud. That is amazing. Thank you very much for man for that.

Okay, that is very, very cool. Um. You guys are very awesome with these super chats. So joseph had asked me about low temperature solder.

He saw another youtuber very, very popular youtuber and that particular person was using a low, temp uh solder, slash brazing, alloy, okay, uh stay silva 8, i believe, is the name of it um and he was asking my opinions on it uh. I personally have no opinion. Oh, i i've never used a low temperature, brazing rod or solder, whatever you want to call it. I've never used stacelate.

I fixed leaks on low temp solders, but my personal preference. I stick to two brazing alloys. When i'm doing my work, i stick to 15 percent silfos for my uh, copper to copper connections and i use 56 silver solder for my dissimilar metal connections. Okay and if i'm doing plumbing stuff i'll use like a tin, solder, okay, but for refrigeration.

I just choose the six to fifteen percent silphos and 56 silver solder. I use a oxygen and acetylene brazing rig. I choose to not use a turbo torch or a b tank. That's just my personal preference.

Okay, i'm very particular about the things that i do and i don't like change. Okay, um, the the b tank or the turbo torch is very loud to me, um and i'm just not very familiar with it. I've learned on a oxi, acetylene kit and i just continue to use that. Okay, it works for me.

Yeah there's disadvantages to using an oxy, acetylene kit. You got to lug the the case around and stuff like that, but hey i like it and it's what works for me. You do you if you like something different, if you like a b tank, i know plenty of great service technicians that, like using b tanks or turbo torches good for you, okay now next thing is: when you're using the low temp solders, you can get away with Using map gas torches and different things like that now again, i i don't know how those solders work. I know that they have a very low melting point and i know a lot of people think that you don't need to use nitrogen or anything like that um.

I beg to differ on that one, but i still think you should be purging with nitrogen, even if you're using a uh. You know a lower melting solder and stuff, but hey i'm, not a genius when it comes to that stuff. So i just stick to what i do and uh that's what i'm comfortable with so all right have i ever had any issues getting oem start components for r290 seems so many times it's back ordered for at least a month or two with avantco uh sean s. Um, you know, i don't work on any avantco stuff, but uh sometimes getting oem components can be problematic.

Okay, but always when it comes to r290. Stick with the oem, because the last thing that you want is a liability issue when it comes to r290 refrigerant and some sort of a fire, or something like that. I personally have not really had an issue. I do a lot of dell field, refrigeration, repairs and you know i've run into different things.

The one thing i will say is: if you can't get them from avantco okay, what i would highly suggest is look at the manufacture of that compressor and try to order the oem components from the manufacturer's distributor, because then you're still sticking with oem. You know, but i don't know you know i really haven't had that problem so has a repair ever been done, has a repair ever done more bad than good to a system um. You know. That's that's an interesting question.

Okay, so i can say that yeah, i don't think i really have a story for that question. I can't say that i can think of a repair. That's ever done bad. I can say that sometimes the system has been so ill maintained and it's been running with loose belts plugged up condensers and things like that for so long that by the time you clean it up and start getting it operating properly, the damage is already done.

So it may seem, like you know, cleaning it and getting it operational is what broke it, but really it's the fact that it had been operating in such ill condition for so long, so all right um. What do i think of a leak saver, direct inject into a small system alex okay, so good question? I personally do not like any of the additives that you add, leak, sealers and different things like that. I have not had any good luck with any of those. I have used them.

I can count on my hands how many times i've used them. I've used a leak, detecting die and i've also used leak, detecting stuff that you put in the system and i've had very bad results, always still leaks. That's my personal uh experience. I very well could have been using it wrong.

I don't know i prefer to either fix the leak or replace whatever component is bad in the system i have had. Customers demand that i try to put leak sealer in the system to try to get it by and it has not worked in my experience, but what's interesting is i have some other people that i follow on social media, some other influencers youtube people that use leak, Sealers and seem to have very good success with them. I personally don't choose to use them, so that's just my preference all right um, so we got a decent amount of people in here. Let's go ahead and do a giveaway really quick.

So here's the deal um. I am going to go ahead and give away hold on. I've got a uh sporelin leatherman, it's a they. Have it branded with zoom lock it's a little tiny one, though it's a leatherman squirt little guy right here: okay, little multi-tool, it's a leatherman, squirt ps4 and it says zoom lock on it and then i also have a spoiler hat and i'll go ahead and send That to you, so what i want you to do is go ahead and start commenting, and i will pick a random person.

My moderator bot will pick the person in the chat here in a minute. So go ahead and start commenting right now guys get the chat, going, get your comment in there and i'll i'll pick one person and give that hat to them. So go ahead and start doing it and i'll give it a couple seconds for the comments to start rolling by and then i'll hit pick. So do that and i'll keep talking for a minute.

Let's get that comment section going really good um. Let me see what else we got in here um and here they come right now, so give it a second start getting in there there they're going uh it also it's it's for the last five minutes too. So if you've commented in the last five minutes, you're good - and there goes the comments right now, so i'm going to go ahead and the moderator bot is going to go ahead and pick someone right now. So current i'll give it another couple seconds.

At the moment we have 92 99 eligible people, keep going i'll, give it another couple seconds: let that number get up there and i'll pick someone and send that hat and that little leatherman tool to them. Okay, i'm going to go ahead and pick it right now. The moderator bot is going to throw it in the chat and i'll announce it too. So the winner is, mr mo joey 89.

So mr mojoey 89, you are the winner. So what i need you to do so that's, mr mojoey. 89. What i need you to do is send me an email to hvacrvideos gmail.com and put sporlin leatherman in the um.

The email comment, so i know it's you and uh, mr mo joey89. You are the winner of that: okay go ahead and uh um, keep it rolling guys i'll pick another winner for i'll. Do an hvacr videos hat so go ahead and keep the comments going again. Real, quick and i'm going to write this person down.

Mr mojoey89. Send me an email to hvacrvideos gmail.com, so, mr mo joey, i'm writing that down right now go ahead and keep the comments going. Go go: go, go with the comments and i'll do another hat right now, so keep them rolling go, go, go mo joey, um, 89 and i'll. Do an hvacr videos.

There. You go, give it a second um. Let me go ahead and uh cancel and i'm going to go ahead and pick another person. This is for an hvacr videos hat boom, michael prescott, michael prescott.

You are the winner i'll, send you an hvacr videos hat. What i need you to do, michael prescott, is send me an email to hvacr videos, gmail.com and let me know what size hat you want small, medium or large extra large and give me your address. Okay in the mr mo joey 89. I also need your address too.

Okay, so michael prescott, you want an hvacr videos, hat okay and let's do it again: let's do another hvacr videos hat twisted candle company. Thank you very much. Man um go ahead and do another uh start commenting again i'll give away another hvac our videos hat so go ahead and uh um start commenting again. Get that thing rolling again and i'll pick another winner.

So let's get it going again start commenting. Go go, go! Go go and i will go ahead and throw another name in there. Right now and uh looks like we have 152 eligible users that are commenting at the moment. We're gon na go ahead and pick a random person.

Real, quick - and here you go air faults. Air faults: you are the last winner, air faults. Air falls, i'm writing those names down. Okay, that's it guys! That's all for the giveaways so go ahead and stop with the crazy chatting right now: air folds you win bud um, so uh the winners, the three people that i picked your name send me an email to hvacr videos, gmail.com and go ahead and uh um.

Give me your address and i'll get your prizes sent out to you, okay, cool, so i'll! Try to do these a little bit more and i will tell you guys right now that um with my uh thanks so much for the super chats i see coming through right now. That's awesome, guys! Um! I s i plan on doing um kind of as like a hundred thousand subscriber thing. I wanted to do a big giveaway, i'm actually going to do it on my discord, server. Okay, i'm not giving the dates as to when i'm going to do this yet.

But i would highly suggest that you guys go join the discord server because the giveaway will be announced on there. I will also announce it on youtube on one of my videos that hey there's going to be a giveaway going on, but it will be in the discord server. It will be coming up, so i'd highly suggest that you guys go check out the discord server and go ahead and join the discord server. Okay and i'll, give you guys a link for the discord server right now too real quick.

The moderator bot gives links for it all the time, but i'll give one right now so it'll be coming i'd, say in the next couple weeks we're going to do this giveaway and what we're actually going to do. There's the link for the discord server. I just posted it in there. What i'm going to actually do is give away a full merch line.

Okay, so you're going to get one of every shirt. So i have big picture shirts. I have three different colors. I have hats.

I have beanies. I have a sweatshirt and then i also have my flag shirt design, so we're going to do a giveaway for that, but it'll be over on the discord, server and it'll be in the next couple weeks. So just join the discord server now figure out all your roles and all that different stuff and then it'll all be announced over there. The reason why we're doing the giveaway over there is because of the rules and the terms of service when it comes to giveaways on youtube and um instagram and different things like that.

It gets really tricky with breaking the rules and stuff, and i know a lot of people do giveaways but um. I just want to keep my channel above board, so i can direct people over to the discord server and it's a lot more lenient over there. So we can do a better giveaway, so definitely go join the discord server and you will get um uh. You know you'll get notifications and then also i will.

I will notify in a youtube video. So as long as you watch my videos on a regular you'll, see in one of the beginnings of the videos or something like that i'll announce the giveaway too. Okay. So but, like i said, that'll be a full merch line and it will be eventually in the next couple weeks on the server all right.

So let's get back to the normal stuff um. What do we got going on in here? I'm looking at my my list of things to talk about so uh. This is a question i get quite often. Okay, don't take offense to the way that i'm gon na answer this all right, um and i i don't mean to offend anybody - um and i may have took in the question wrong, but the concept is still there.

Okay, so sami is in school and he's asking me uh, his plans are when he finishes school. He wants to start a business and sammy wants to know if there's room within the hvac trade for another business and if it's a profitable or you know, if it's going to be successful and all that different stuff, so, first and foremost sami um, understand something and Again, i don't understand the context, your question and i'm not being rude or anything okay, but nobody has business, trying to start a new business coming straight out of trade school. Okay, it's just plain silly: don't do it? Okay, to start an hvac business. You need to be successful and a competent service technician.

You need to be also a competent businessman. All right, i'm not saying that you can't make money. There is people out there that have started businesses that are the crappiest technicians in the world and they don't make money and different things like that. My personal opinion on the matter, though okay, my personal opinion, is that you need to be a qualified service technician and you need time in the industry and then learn how to run a business and then start a business.

So i realize i'm probably gon na get hate emails and all this crap. Okay, but trust me, you need to understand hvac. We have nothing but new businesses in this trade right now and there's too many of them with people that don't know what they're doing and it's hurting the industry you're dragging the industry down for the five bucks you're gon na make now you're dragging the industry down Because you're out there um, you know driving companies out of business, because these new businesses start up and these people don't know how to operate a business. They don't know how to price themselves.

They think if they go in there and price lower than everybody else, then they're going to be the most successful business because they drive other people out of business. Well, no because you're actually hurting yourself more because you're setting yourself up for failure. Okay, you need to charge a good wage. You need to charge a fair wage, but you also need to be competent in your repairs.

So again i don't mean to be rude and don't take offense to what i'm saying but okay, it's okay to have ambitions to open a business someday, that's great okay, but you just need to be prepared. You know you need to understand that it's going to take time to get to that point, okay, shadow. Thank you! So very much for that super chat bud. That is amazing.

I really really appreciate it bud. Okay, um! Thank you for that. Super chat dude, so um yeah, it's gon na take time after school. Okay, you have a good three four years because before you become a competent technician coming straight out of school and then you need to work in the industry and understand the ins and outs of the industry.

And then you need to work your way up to become a business owner and start your business okay. So if you have ambitions to own a business, that's a great goal to have okay, but don't be clouded and think that you're going to have the most successful business in the world coming right out of trade school. It's it's not very practical! I'm not saying that! You can't make money, but i'm saying you got to be careful and remember that you're dragging the industry down if you come in there and start pricing yourself too low and all that stuff, okay, um all right. Let's see what else um have compressors always been induction motors.

Is there compressors that were brushed motors, uh cyborg, sheep um? I don't know man, that's that's! That's a little beyond my my knowledge. What causes a compressor to make knocking noises like the symptoms kept coming? Video um rion in my recent video i had a compressor that was knocking. I think that that compressor was internally arcing. I think that there was a direct short that was intermittent in that compressor um, something like that.

A terminal was arcing or something and that popping noise uh was the signs of a terminal vent about to happen. So that's why i was, i don't know if you guys saw it in the video, but i was scared. I was like whoa whoa whoa step away. Turn that unit off as fast as possible, because if you hear what i heard, which was arcing sounds within that compressor, the terminals are about to blow out.

So you need to step back. You don't want to be there if you have a violent terminal vent where it shoots, flames out the compressor or something like that. So in my situation, i think that what happened was that compressor had an oil return problem just like the third compressor did and had been running for a very long time, and there was internal overheating damage or something like that. There might have been acid in the system because i did mention that there was a funny smell with the refrigerant too, so i think we were about to have a terminal vent and luckily i shut it down in time.

What causes it lack of preventative maintenance. So um, let me see what else uh. What are we missing in here? Um: okay, what happened to compressor number two on my most recent video. I just explained that, so how do i shop my competitors to see if i'm charging a fair rate? Well, craig um? What i do again, i'm not the best business person, okay, so i'm not the person to seek financial advice from, but the way that we operate is we look at our costs and we look at what we think we need to make to be profitable by looking At numbers and different things like that, and then we come up with a number and then we compare that to a few of our competitors and just say: okay, are we in the ballpark, but my main goal is looking at my numbers to see what i need To be profitable and what i think is a fair wage and then i look at my competitors just to make sure i'm not like 50 an hour higher or whatever okay.

So i can tell you right now that what i need to make or what i charge is actually a little bit lower than some of my competitors, but i'm not the lowest. I'm i'm like right about three quarters of the way up with the the the group of competitors that i'm looking at, so i'm not the cheapest and i'm certainly not the most expensive. But i'm on the higher end and to be honest with you, i'd love to raise my prices because times are tight and stuff, but i have to be careful, especially in these these crazy financial times right now, we don't want to to price ourselves out of the Market so um all right, i'm gon na get to my list of things to talk about. Uh lewis asked me - and this is a great question - and i'm gon na answer this, because i get this one - a lot lewis emailed me and he wants to know where i get my own chart.

So i'm assuming he watched a recent install video where i, where i used an ohm calculator and uh um and calculated the the resistance value of a crankcase heater and then checked the performance of it. So that's simply just the ohm's law formula is all that it is okay, so um but uh. You can go on any app store and you could just look up. Ohm calculator, okay and i downloaded it and it.

But you can do the math yourself by hand. The next question that he had is: how do i figure out what all these new refrigerant pressures should be, and this one is kind of like a you're you're triggering me right now. Okay again, i am i'm not mad, but i understand the question because i used to think in this way too. What pressure should i run, stop looking at pressures? This is what i'm trying to tell everybody right now.

I get this question so many times what pressure should r22 be on a walking cooler. I have no idea. I threw that number out of my head. I used to know what i thought the pressure should be, but i forgot them because i don't need them anymore, because all that i'm concerned about is temperatures okay, saturation temperatures.

What is the saturation temperature of a walk-in cooler that has a 10 degree td? Okay and i want to maintain a 35 degree box temperature 25 degree saturation temperature on the evaporator. So that means that my vapor saturation temperature should be 25 degrees. Okay, what is the condensing temperature of a uh, a system that has a? I don't know? You know uh 20 degree condensing temp over rise when it's 100 degrees outside well, if it's 100 degrees outside my condensing temp should be 120 degrees. Therefore, if i look at a pressure temperature chart, my pressure should be corresponding to 120 degrees.

Okay, you have to be careful when you work with some of these glides and you have to learn how to work with the midpoint and stuff like that. But the important thing that i'm trying to tell you guys is forget what the pressures are. We have too many different flavors of refrigerant on this pressure chart that you guys can barely see half of it's got all these different refrigerants on it and they all operate at different pressures. There's too many things to remember, but if you just remember temperatures, okay, you're good, to go right because you know saturation temperatures, then you can look at the pressure chart and you can calculate what it is.

So forget. The pressure numbers throw them out the window and use the saturation temperatures okay. Now i'm not faulting any of you for doing that. Because majority of my career, i focused on pressures, but it started to get way too confusing with when i first started: um we were still using r12, 502 and r22 and then r12 was on the way and 502 was on the way out.

So then we dropped in uh, mp66, mp39. 409A. 408A. Then you started putting hotshot in there hotshot 2, all these different flavors, and it got way too confusing to know what the pressure should be start focusing on the temperatures and your life will be that much easier guys.

Okay, all right. Let's get to the chat and see what i'm missing um. Let me see what is my thoughts on a heat pump versus electric heat versus gas heat. This is texas, so, like me, they only use heat a few weeks out of the year.

Well kevin. It really depends on your utility costs, but here in southern california, electricity is through the roof, so running a heat pump in the winter is probably not as economical as running a gas furnace. Okay, we have a lot of gas furnaces here, but on the flip side, you're not going to get carbon monoxide poisoning from a from a heat pump. So you do the math there if your electricity costs are low enough and you can get away with using a heat pump, so be it go for it.

Okay, um do what my buddy nate adams says and electrify your house. You know get rid of your your! Your gas combustion appliances and all that stuff, but me personally um my gas furnace does just fine and uh. You know my my utility costs for natural gas are really really low, except for i have an outdoor, barbecue and uh. We barbecued some food, the other night and i forgot to turn the barbecue off because i usually when i'm done barbecuing i'll, scrape it to clean the grill.

And then i turn it on high and close the lid and it runs off a natural gas. And i totally spaced and went to bed and woke up 12 hours later and my my barbecue outside was still on high and it's one of these big barbecues that so i can't imagine what my gas bill is going to be. It's going to be insane because that thing moves some move, some crazy gas through that thing and it was just going but but for the most part my gas bill is usually really really low. My electric bill is through the roof.

Okay, my electric bill uh regular. The bill that i pay usually on on average, because i have like an averaging bill. I think i pay 250 a month and then, as we get into the summer, even though i'm averaging the prices still go up, i end up paying like 400 a month in the summer, so my electric bills are insane and i don't even live in a giant House, it's like a 1700 square foot, nothing fancy! We don't have a pool or anything like that. So all right, let me get to my list of things to talk about here.

Um! Oh in my recent video, where i had to clean the ac, i got a lot of comments and i've addressed this before i've actually shown it in a video. When i have no water pressure, how come i didn't use a booster pump? Well, a lot of people were commenting that i should get the m18 milwaukee transfer pump. I actually had the m18 milwaukee transfer pump and it didn't quite work for me. So the transfer pumps they do boost the pressure ever so slightly.

If you get the big giant, milwaukee batteries, they work really well, but the problem is: is that you need to bring a bucket of water. Someone had commented in my comments to bring a five gallon bucket of water, because what will happen is my water, pressure's still so low that i put the transfer pump on there. The transfer pump will start to cavitate because the incoming water it'll it'll pump the water out faster than it can bring the water back in right. So in that case, i need to bring probably like one of those big giant trash cans on the roof and fill it with water and have the transfer pump, pull them from the water.

Then have the water hose fill up, the trash can, and that just seems like a lot of work, so you know i get by for the most part.