Ah, it's time to chill out and get ready for a mediocre. Qa 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, hello, everybody. Hopefully you guys are doing okay.

I guess I don't know that's kind of. I guess I should wish you well but anyways. It is what it is. I always stumble over that one, so I'm gon na start this off, like I normally I have been doing just because we've had a lot of new viewers.

My name is Chris, I'm an air conditioning, refrigeration or HVAC. Our service tech. Here in Southern California, I specialize in restaurant refrigeration and air conditioning. I make these YouTube videos on YouTube to share just a little bit of knowledge that I have and mainly they're geared towards my own employees, and I decided to make him public I'm just kind of given the cliffnotes of it all.

When I started making these videos you know, I realized that I was getting so many questions that I decided to go ahead and start doing. These live streams as a way to kind of save my sanity, because I was staring at my phone all day. Long answering comments, so I used this live stream as a method to answer the YouTube comments. Okay, I really appreciate you guys stopping by to check out the stream.

Usually I have a list of things to talk about and then also I'm totally open to answering questions within the chat. The only thing I ask of you is is that if you guys do have questions, please put them in caps, lock, myself or my moderator will pay attention, and you know the caps lock is really what draws us in to the questions, because usually there's so many Things going on inside there that sometimes there's conversations within conversations and it's hard to keep track of it all. So, just do me a favor, throw the questions in caps lock. If I miss you guys this question, okay put him in there again, all right, usually there's so much going on.

Sometimes it's hard to get to them. I'll, usually be upfront, honest and tell you hey, I'm not gon na answer that question. So if I haven't addressed it, just keep throwing it in you're, not gon na make us upset okay, unless a moderator tells you to stop or something so, but um yeah. We definitely got all kinds of interesting stuff to talk about, usually like to cover the last two videos and then I always want to get to the chat too.

And then I got you know all that good stuff. So hello to everybody, that's in here and thanks again for coming in, I want to start this off with something that I wanted to address. So you know over the last year and a half people have chose to support this stream. My videos via patreon YouTube membership.

Super chats and I'm super grateful for that stuff and I've been kind of going back and forth on what to do with that. I know that we're in a really really hard time right now, so what I'm gon na do is I'm gon na encourage those of you that have chosen to support the channel? If you need to please stop the support. Okay, I I appreciate everything, but I know that right now everybody needs the little bit of cash that they can get their hands on. So please don't feel obligated once you've started or anything like that.

I assume that you guys would would hit stop if you really really needed to, but please I encourage you guys and you're, not gon na offend me. It's gon na be okay, so you know if you guys have chosen to support over this time. Please you know if you guys feel the need to go ahead and pause, it stop it. You can start it up again, some other time if you want to, but I really want you guys to save your cash for yourselves, because I know that everybody's kind of struggling right now in this really strange time and there's a lot of you know a lot Of worry, I guess I should say so.

Why don't we just go ahead and start this off right and go ahead and dive into that. So you know everybody knows what's going on, we got this craziness going across the world right now and I'm here in Southern California - and you know, 99 % of my work is Restaurant refrigeration. Well, the restaurants have pretty much all shut down. Okay, they're still open, but the the you know they're not breaking their equipment, basically because they're so dead, slow.

You know they're only allowed to serve to go so you know we are pretty much dead. I've been sitting in at home. All my guys are sitting at home nobody's really working. I think I ran one single service call today.

My whole company, you know we're a small company too, so it sucks it really does. I will. I will look at the chat here in a minute, but I'm just gon na finish talking about this, so definitely a scary time, but you know what we're gon na get through it. It's just gon na be a challenge.

It's something we have to work at. So you know it's it's definitely III, I don't have any advice to say hey. This is how we're gon na fix it or anything we're just gon na. Take it one day at a time and do what we got to do.

You know: okay, I'm gon na. Take a look at the chat here, real quick. Let me see um Stephen mah Montanez. You asked me why I didn't install the hinge kit on the fan prior to wiring it in.

Oh, that was just a mistake. I mean you know I just kind of got ahead of myself started wiring it in thinking that, and what he's referring to is the video that I just released about the exhaust fan replacement, where I showed the crane lift and did the hand signals and all that Stuff, so let me go ahead and recap on that one. So we had a service call about a week prior on that exhaust fan about a funny noise coming from it, and what I found was the whole insides of the fan had separated. So what I did was I quoted to the customer that you know: hey: let's, go ahead and replace the power pack because it was a captive air fan and you can actually buy a power pack that comes with the motor and the wheel already attached.

The customer declined that quote and then just went ahead and replaced the fan. They actually ordered their own equipment, so they ordered a new fan and I installed it and doing the installation. I went ahead and wired in the electrical first and then realized that I made the electrical too short because I planned on putting the hinge kit somewhere where it didn't work out. So I had to redo everything.

So that's what he's referring to so all right. Let's go ahead and see what else what happens if my company shuts down due to the pandemic, mr. johnny-boy, well, first off my company is not shut down. Let's go ahead and address that one right now too, because a lot of people have asked questions so in California we do have a stay at home order.

Okay, what that means is the governor came on and just basically said, all non-essential personnel needs to stay at home, no groups, no anything like that. Okay, a lot of the media is hyping that, as all kinds of different things, we have a stay at home order across the whole state of California. That does not mean that the police are standing at your door waiting for you to walk out, so they can lock you up. Okay, it's a voluntary stay at home order.

They encourage you to stay home now. They do say that you know if they find that you're going out and go into large gatherings and stuff like that. They'll give you a citation, but guys it's not being enforced. It's just more of a voluntary stay at home order.

Okay, there is what they call essential and non-essential personnel as construction workers electricians. Basically, all the trades are considered essential personnel so long as they're not doing new construction and again there's so many different. You know so much red tape to this. So new construction technically is not allowed unless it's essentially needed for infrastructure kind of a stuff.

Okay, but service work is totally perfect. You know you can do that. I don't have to carry a notice in my van driving around there's, not road blocks or anything like that. Okay, the media hypes everything up, it's it's just! Basically, when you get up in the morning like when I went and ran a call this morning, I'm driving down the freeway there's probably about 10,000 less cars on the freeway 15,000 less cars around you know and the roads are a little bit clearer, but I mean There's still people moving about.

Alright, all the the retail workers are still going to work. All the grocery store workers, all the doctor's offices, the police departments, anything essential. You know I mean I think they even break it down to essential personnel as exterminators right, so they can keep pests and different things out of the building. So there's still quite a few people moving about and working whether or not that's correct, and you know who knows, but you know so it's not what the media makes it up to be.

It's definitely crazy. You know, a lot of people are scared. The grocery stores are definitely packed to that kind of stuff. My family and myself.

We thankfully, are doing okay. We have plenty of food, we have plenty of everything and we're safe. So alright, I'm gon na go and get to a couple more questions here in the chat, let's see, hope my yeah. We are healthy, yeah, it's it's a bummer.

A lot of people are getting layoff notices. You know the plus-side about a layoff, I'm not gon na sugarcoat, it being laid off, is goddess suck, okay being a business owner, and knowing that you only have so many months of capital saved up to you know float. The business is also another scary thing, not downplaying anybody's fear. I mean there's fear on all different sides of it.

Okay, so you know we just take it one day at a time. You can't let it worry you too much. Let me go ahead and get down to here just kind of get into these questions right now. Do I see a lot of carrier compressor failures, true peers.

As far as carrier no I'd say, I see an equal amount of compressor failures, all across the line and majority of the time. I'm going to be honest with you whether it comes to any manufacturer carrier lennox train. The failures are usually related to installation problem or maintenance problems for the most part. Occasionally you have some weird design system, that's doomed to fail, but for the most part most of it is user error.

You know via lack of maintenance, or you know, lack of proper installation that causes compressor failures, so I don't see any more in my side in carrier than I do other brands. So all right over sizing, evaporators and condensers, absorbs and rejects more heat thoughts right well. Adam there's there's truth in both of those statements to a certain extent. Okay, over sizing, a condenser and evaporator - can have adverse effects too.

So you know oftentimes, they may oversize an evaporator coil in a in a hue in a situation where they have a really high latent load. I mean they may do some weird things and essentially you know the higher seer ratings. Essentially, they just put in a smaller compressor and bigger, condensed or bigger, evaporator and optimize the TXV for that system. So there's there's truth in it, but when you oversize it too much, you start to get into big problems.

I wouldn't suggest trying to engineer your own evaporators and condensers I'd, leave that to an engineer or a proper design person to make those decisions, because there could be a lot of adverse effects with that you know you could oversize it too much, and you know basically, You could all cause all kinds of problems. So what is the duct length limit for exhaust fans? Dogs green? Well, it really just depends. I mean there's not one set limit. Just like there's, not one set limit for a residential air conditioning system either.

It really depends on the factors right so most of the time the exhaust fans are set up to run and move so many CFM's of air within a certain static pressure rating. Just like any fan, that's moving air. You know, exhaust fans typically are moving grease. You know late in air, essentially so a lot of times, at least when it comes into the restaurant.

So you have to have ducts that are designed, usually stainless steel ducts that are designed to allow for the proper movement of grease and then also to allow for that grease to not get trapped within the ductwork too. But I mean I've seen. Restaurants, like I, have a video of a captive air and no fault of captive Aires where it was installed and the ductwork is like 150 feet long and the static pressure is like three inches of static and the fan was designed for an inch and a half Of static pressure, so you know the fan therefore doesn't move enough air, so it really depends on the the static pressure rating of the fan and what the manufacturer, specs. You know the maximum static pressure rating is so hopefully that helps you a little bit more.

If I don't answer your guys's questions enough or you still have you know, questions about, it feel free to send me an email, the HVAC, our videos at gmail.com. Okay, let me go ahead and get into here does oversizing matter as much with inverter compressors Paul yeah. I mean you don't want to over size whenever right, because even if you have an inverter compressor, that doesn't mean that you can over size and not have to worry about the system. Sizing and an inverter driven compressor is meant to run within a certain design criteria.

So don't think that you're gon na get away with throwing in an inverter compressor on something that has an oversized ductwork or or I'm sorry, oversized, condenser or evaporator. Again, it all comes down to properly designing your system. So how do I like to leak check, parallel, racks and circuits Ryan? Be well, I'm gon na be honest with you right now that I don't do any large commercial refrigeration, so I don't do supermarket rack refrigeration, which is typically what you're referring to when you say, parallel compressors, okay, parallel compressors usually have like a common suction header common Discharge header and there's multiple compressors in a row and they may stage on and off, depending on the load of the system. So as far as how do I check for leaks? Okay again, I don't really do any work for parallel systems, but ideally you would have to shut the system down, but with that comes some repercussions, because you have a lot of other systems on that system.

Typically right, so you have multiple cases and different things like that. But honestly, I'm not going to go into the supermarket stuff, because I understand, but I'm not very qualified to answer those questions. But I would imagine that you'd have to shut the system down schedule. A leak check and do a properly check, then I guess you can shut down the fan.

Yeah, there's yeah again, I'm gon na stop talking before I back myself into a corner. So how would I consider the residential side of HVAC business stays soft if business stays soft? Oh, how would okay, so I think I get what you're asking me right if I would consider going to the residential side, maybe if the business stays as slow as it is sure, I'd consider anything right now. At this point I mean I was just talking to my wife about it yesterday you know like hey. If we got to do it, we got to do you know I can start getting into this kind of work or this kind of work.

So you know, as far as the restaurant refrigeration goes right now it's definitely slow. It's definitely slow right now so and I'm not the only company out there, it's pretty much across the board. The resident I mean the restaurant refrigeration. Companies are hurting right now and a lot of people are getting laid off.

So it's a bummer, but how does roof curb size get calculated? Do you have an ideal preferred height transit biker? Well again, this is more designed questions, but I'm gon na do my best to answer this. Okay, so a lot of times, at least here in Southern California, you have code inspectors and you have a Planning Department. The Planning Department typically wants your equipment to be hidden behind some sort of a parapet wall, meaning that, let's say you have a restaurant: they don't want customers or houses. That may be, you know across the street or anything like that to have to see your equipment.

So oftentimes they'll design the equipment to sit behind a parapet wall parapet wall is usually like a faux wall around the top of the building that hides the equipment. Sometimes they'll put a pair of pit fencing or something like that. So with that being said, the curb height is gon na affect the height of the unit. At the same time, some other things you need to take into consideration with the curb height is - and this is the natural curve - is that you need to have proper airflow through that curb too.

So if you're using it like a retrofit adapter curve, those create a problem because they typically add a lot of static pressure to the duct design, basically, okay, because they don't allow for smooth airflow for the most part on the transition curves. Now, if it's just a standard, roof top package unit, curb that's built into the roof, so it's cut into the roof oftentimes. It's really just a platform, usually six to twelve inches above the roof deck. To give you the ability to transition.

You know your ductwork down into the Attic so for, if I had to say rule of thumb for most commercial air conditioning systems that I deal with. Okay, not large industrial. Your roof curbs are typically six to twelve inches tall, so but it really depends on the design and the airflow needed. Okay.

What do I do when refrigerant is leaking a lot? Mr. Johnny boy? Well, if refrigerant is leaking a lot, you need to shut the system down and you need to find and repair the leak because there's a point at which a systems leaking too much, no matter how much gas you add to it. It's just gon na keep leaking out, so you got to fix it, okay, but there is other times like, for instance, I just went on a service call this weekend and I will release video of it eventually, but it was an emergency service call and we had A refrigerant leak, but it wasn't big enough for me to search for the leak at this time. So I just topped off the charge and got the system operational now, those of you that are watching from other countries, because there is some people in the European area that are watching these videos and these streams in the States, the United States.

We have allowable leak rates and if our systems are usually refrigerant, charged 50 pounds or less, we really don't have any leak rate laws that apply to us. So we're allowed to keep adding gas no matter what now it's not ethically correct. You still need to talk to customer into fixing things, but it is allowable for us to just top off a system. All right, let me see in my exhaust fan video.

Why didn't? I install the hinge kit prior to running the electrical Stephen Monson, as I actually addressed that question, and it was just a mistake. That's all so am I ever gon na use blue on refrigerant, because I'm being a good sponsor, even popped up before the live started. That's a really great question, so I'm gon na tell you guys right now that blue on contacted me about sponsoring my videos, and I chose not to pursue that just because I really don't use any alternative refrigerants, and I find it ironic, though, that they are advertising On my channel I kind of feel like they went around me and went directly to YouTube and said: hey we want to advertised on this guy's channel. So it's it's kinda.

I was actually just talking to my wife. It's kind of funny like I chose not to work with them and it just seems like they wanted to advertise anyways, so they went around me and just advertise directly through YouTube. I don't know if I like it or not. It's not that I don't like blue on I've, never used this stuff.

I just chose not to work with them. You guys I am my own worst enemy when it comes to sponsors and working with people because genuinely I am NOT in this for the money now. I'm not gon na lie and say I don't make money sure I make money from YouTube Adsense, but that's not the reason why I make these videos, and so I really pick and choose who I want to work with. Spore'ln is my sponsor for my stream.

I mean for my videos and I love them because they're they don't make snake oils. They don't make these weird products that I really don't believe in, but again I'm my own worst enemy, because I not trying to brag or flex or anything. But people reach out to me and I usually don't even answer the emails just because I'm just I'm not in it for that, but it's it's. It does kind of irked me a little bit how blue on had been contacting me.

I've got --, let probably three or four emails where they kept contacting me and then now they're advertising on my channel inadvertently with MELP me controlling it. So yeah, you know, I don't know, I don't know how I feel about it. It's kind of kind of a weird space right now so Jim mr. Johnny boy will I use blue on to replace our 22? No, I mean maybe someday I'm not gon na, say that I don't.

I won't ever use the stuff, but right now I use our 22. I don't use any r22 alternatives. If my customers asked me to, then I would present them with all the facts. Give them my opinion about an alternative refrigerant.

I'll, be very honest with you. If I was gon na use an alternative to r22, more than likely it would be 407 C and I would do a proper oil change, but I have nothing bad to say about blue on I'm, not gon na talk crap, because I've never used this stuff. So alright, let's see what else what apple juice tonight, so I am drinking sparkling water from Costco guys. I don't know about you, let's go ahead and get into this right now.

So one of the things that I wanted to talk about on this stream - and I don't think anybody is addressing right now - okay - is what's gon na come of all this craziness right. I already have have done several videos where I did the videos with my wife and talked about my mental issues. I've gone through depression that kind of stuff - I you know all kinds diagnosed, all kinds of things. It was a struggle that I went to probably ten years ago, but guys guess what just because I went to the doctor and just because I was diagnosed whatever and I took medicine for it and I feel like I got better and I stopped going to the Doctor doesn't mean that you ever stopped fighting that once you have, you know mental struggles, whatever it is anxiety, depression, it stays with you for life.

You just learn how to manage it. So with that being said, I'm struggling with it right now. I'm not gon na lie to you and say that I'm not starting to go down a deep dark hole when things start getting bad. You really start thinking like.

Oh my gosh, I'm not gon na. Do anything bad, but I'm just saying like you, you, you really have to try to fight off that depression again and that that you know uncertainty really is a gateway to you know that depression. It makes you scared and makes you think twice, I'm doing. Okay.

Luckily I have a support staff. I have my wife, I have my kids. I have my dad my mom, my family, you know that's there for me and I really am okay. I don't need any help, but I do want to extend out my hand to anybody right now because I know there's so many other people out there dealing with anxiety and depression, and this does not help with anxiety and depression.

What we're going through right now! Okay, it's scary, so you know I I'm. I can't say that I'm gon na pick up my phone every single minute. I can't say that I'm gon na be there to answer an email every single minute, but if someone needs someone to talk to feel free to send me an email to HVAC our videos at gmail.com, okay, I have done this before I have talked to people believe It or not, I have not made any of this public, but I've talked to people and the people that I've talked to. You know who I'm talking about your you might even be in here.

I've talked to people before and about things you know, and I encourage you to go see a doctor if you guys are feeling upset or angry, go, see a therapist or something like that talk to someone, even if you don't want to take medicine just to a Family member, you guys the one thing about depression and anxiety and any kind of mental disorder PTSD all that stuff. The the biggest problem with that stuff is, when you don't talk about it, when you bottle it up and I'm the kind of person that bottles things up. I bury it inside my chest and I don't talk about it and then you explode or it eats you alive. So one of the biggest pieces of advice - and I am NOT a medical doctor whatsoever, but is to talk to someone - that's the first step.

Okay, talk to a family member talk to a friend. Sometimes you just need to vent. Okay, if you guys can't get ahold of a friend or something like that, and you just need to vent. Send me an email, okay and in fact, pay attention to the chat right now.

There you go. I may be crazy, but in the chat right now, oh damn it hold on that's the wrong number huh hold on just a second in the chat there you go. I just put my phone number in the chat. Feel free text me: okay, that's not my normal phone number! I'm not that crazy! I'm not giving out my phone number that I used for cell phone service every day, but that numbers linked to me.

I get messages. Send me a text message: if you just need to talk, leave me a voicemail. If I have time I'll get back with you, you know but talk to someone, because right now a lot of people are going through stuff, and sometimes you just need someone to talk to. Okay, all right, I'm gon na get to the chat a little bit more and see what I'm missing here so Paul L is the discord coming back soon would be a good way of staying active during the corona mess.

I'm gon na be honest about the discord. The discord server I had a discord server. I currently have a discord server. I have another one that I never made public and discord just became this thing it was like.

I was babysitting. It was more of a problem for me on discord than anything. So I don't know if discord is gon na come back, it was kind of a headache and it just turned into a big babysitting fest, and maybe, though you know, maybe let's see what else says some of the PTSD going through this pandemic with kids. It's heavy tack, heavily taxing transit, biker for sure you know my kids.

I got to be honest with them and share things. You know one thing that I again, I'm not an expert whatsoever to talk about any of this, but I'm just gon na say that you know I'm trying to to give my kids some sort of confidence and give them some sort of sense of you know. This is gon na be okay, and of course I reassure them. My children are gon na be fed, they have a roof.

They're gon na be safe, but you know I. I have something to remember and a lot of you guys remember this too. You guys remember. 9/11, for the most part right, most of you guys do 9/11 was a scary time and I was on the west coast.

That 9/11 was scary. For me, I remember being at work that day and there was a plane heading for California. That's what the news was saying and we didn't know we're in California - and you know it was scary right. Everybody in the in the country and the world was scared.

When 9/11 happened, we all thought what the heck you know that day. There was a lot of fear and a lot of anxiety, and you know it was a scary time when 9/11 happened, not that that whole year, though you know in the year following and the year following, that was scary, but we survived and we came out of That and we got stronger from that, so you know we will survive this thing going on right now we will come out of it. We will get stronger, but some of us are gon na have a hard time coming out of it, because you know a lot of people are losing their jobs and a lot of people know no fault to anybody right, but a lot of people don't have a Lot of money saved up in the bank to weed out the storm and that kind of stuff. So you know this is a hard time for sure.

So again, I'll put my information in there and again there's my number feel free to contact me guys. If you just need someone to talk to okay, all right, yeah 9/11 haunts everybody. Imagine for you just and my moderator, because Justin lives in New Jersey. I mean you know for those guys on the East Coast that live in New York in that whole area.

Over there I mean it's just oh gosh, but we came out of that. We will come out of this. Okay, all right all right can a loose terminal connection at the secondary of a 480 to 240 volt transformer blow. The one amp fuse can a loose terminal connection at the secondary of a 480 to 40 volt transformer blow the one amp fuse.

I would imagine so so you're saying on the 240 volt transformer side. They had a 1 amp. They only had a 1 amp fuse on a 240. So it's just a control voltage circuit.

That's interesting balance. Tech, I mean I'm sure it could any kind of a loose terminal, but if you're the fact that you're asking me makes me assume that you fixed it and you're doubting it, so I mean there's always a possibility, there's something else going on too. Let me click on this yeah there we go live chat, much better, all right for those of you that are Jaime you're in the UK I mean you guys are going through this like crazy. You guys probably have it worse than us.

So it's it's scary, yeah. It it's it's a hard time, so, alright, let me see I'm gon na go through here right now, all right, um. Looking what I'm missing here inside the chat again, questions guys put them in caps, lock any quick safety tips on replacing compressors on our 290 or just working on our 290 in general, rookie HVAC, our adventures, yeah, okay, so the biggest thing about our 290 when we're Working on our to 90 systems is following proper refrigeration practices. Okay, so that's doing uh, you know being safe when you're changing the compressor or making a repair okay.

But when you work on a flammable or hydrocarbon refrigerants, you have a few extra safety precautions to follow. It's still the basic stuff you're still going to evacuate your system, you're still gon na leak chest your system, but you have to understand that your components that you use have to be specially designed for an are 290 system. So you can't just grab an off-the-shelf compressor when you're working on the system before you open up any r2 90 system before you apply a torch to it. I should say: is you you want to do your best to cut components out whenever possible, but you can you have to be practical and understand that there's gon na be some times on an AR 290 system that you can't cut a component out if you can Make a cut before you do that.

I don't you know unswept something then then that's best, but you definitely have to purge the system with nitrogen make sure all the scylla need valves are open, give it a nice sweep with nitrogen and then have the nitrogen flowing. While you're trying to unswept something because they're typically will be a flame out of some sort, I have a couple different videos on our 290, where I show the flame out, I had a compressor completely out of the system and, oh, my goodness, thank you very much For that superjet gyro, Jeron Vangie. I really appreciate that. But that's I thank you very much ma'am, but I hope that that doesn't put you in any kind of a bind, but thank you very much.

Okay, so yeah with the our 290 systems, you know have a fire extinguisher, handy and okay. I guess I'm a pessimist when I say that I always try to assume the worst. So when I'm working on a system on our 290 system, I I do. I assume the worst.

I assume it's gon na catch on fire. So then I think what do I have to do to put out a fire if it catches on fire? That being said, wet towels fire extinguisher spray bottle. I have it all handy: try to work in a ventilated area, make sure that you're not trying to recover are 290, because you you are, you are supposed to just vent it into the atmosphere. Your recovery machines aren't meant to handle or 290 definitely go check out.

My are 290 videos that will give you all kinds of tips. Okay, and if I haven't answered everything, send me an email, the HVAC, our videos at gmail.com. So all right, let me see what else do you become a pilot or an HVAC technician? Well, I'm gon na be selfish here Paul and I'm gon na tell you to become an HVAC technician, because we need all the help we can get, but it really depends on what's best for you and your family, okay. That seems like a very extreme different career choice.

There, pilot or HVAC technician, but HVAC technicians are gon na, be down and dirty you're gon na be busting your butt. It's not going to be an easy job, I'm not saying a pilot's an easy job. That's a very stressful, difficult job I would imagine too, but we need every HVAC technician. We can because our industry has a huge shortage of HVAC technicians.

So I love this trade and I will continue to do this trade, it's amazing. So I have a question for you guys inside the chat, real, quick, okay answer in the chat, so in another life right in another life, not changing your family. Of course, I'm not telling you to change your kids or your wife, or anything like that. But hypothetically, if you were to wake up in another life, what would your career be? Okay, you can't choose the HVAC.

What would your career be outside of HVAC? I've said this before and I use this a lot, but I would be a park ranger. I would be a park ranger in a national forest somewhere again another life. You know you, you you. You know not saying that you want to change anything about yours, but I would be a park ranger.

So I'd be curious. What you guys in the chat would be if you can't be an HVAC technician in another life. What would you be doing so I'd be curious to see your guys's stuff? You guys. I appreciate the super chats.

Thank you very much again guys. Please do not donate if you guys don't have the means to okay. I totally understand everybody's going through a tight time right now. Okay, so thank you very much, though.

Hey there bill curious, HVAC guy, how you doing bud all right, um curious to see if they come in a CDL driver. Okay, filmmaker okay, gunrunner engineer right on electrician career, military, okay, all right military is another thing. I almost went down that path. I kind of regret not going the head of a cartel there.

You go Matt Gordon you'd, be a continued to be a soccer player. Okay, all right cool, a chef, okay, you'd be a male stripper, that's a good one, Joe hey! So my wife told me today that, because strip clubs are not considered mandatory, there was like a meme going around Facebook and it said that now they offer topless delivery. Food delivery companies. So now the strip clubs are making food and they're offering topless food delivery.

I thought that was pretty funny. I think it was a joke, but a police officer, okay, game, warden, rookie refrigeration, see I would be a park ranger. So that's pretty close to it. Have I ever replaced an a/c drain pan and what's the process yeah HVAC Smith? It really depends on what you're working on so I've done a lot of the carrier packaged units and those ones are relatively easy.

You just kind of lift up on the evaporator slide the drain pan, underneath I've done the Linux packaged units, I've, I've fabricated drain pans for friends on residential a-frame coils. So I've done that many times to the owner of Amazon yeah. All right. Let me see what else we got in here.

If ever I've done any videos on box, repairs, floor or wall repairs for moisture and rotation and filtration I've never done any floor repairs. I mean I've done walk-in door, replacements and walk-in freezer door heater replacements. Where I place the threshold, but I've never done replacements of the wall panels or anything like that. No, I don't even do those installations.

If someone asked me to I'll refer them to someone else, a firefighter okay, cool, yeah, you're, doomed. All right! Let me see what I'm missing here. You should have been a cop HVAC, grandpa, okay, so I'm gon na get to my list of things to talk about right here. Am i selling my shirts quality HVAC are no.

I am not selling my shirts. So the story behind the shirts was last year. I ordered shirts because I was gon na sell them, and then I placed a rather large order and realized how difficult it was to legally distribute them and when I say legally, distribute them because of Amazon. There's a new rule that basically says every single City: pretty much can ask for sales tax revenue from your shirt sales see in the past.

It used to be that you would only have to sell shirts and where you had your Nexus, which is the place where you live or store them, but that has been changed so when I realized how difficult it was gon na be to get to hat to File and pay sales tax to every single city and county, basically across the United States. It turned me off completely. So no, I am NOT gon na sell my shirts. What I did was I ordered that big old supply and I actually gave them out on a live stream many like a year ago and then just sent them to people.

You know so at this time I don't plan on selling my shirts. I have my design and I took them to a HR, so maybe for next year's HR I'll bring a bunch of shirts again, possibly and hand them out at HR. But at this time I don't plan on selling them. Have I done any door? Retrofits chai HVAC? Yes, I have I've done several door retrofits.

I don't know if I have them on videos, but where I'll put pocket doors in bolt on doors, that kind of stuff I've done that many times. That's a very common thing. We do where we take out the old door. That's in the wall.

We don't take out the frame we just put a bolt on on and replace it many times. I can't remember. I don't think I've shown that on a video, so janitor and a peep show. That's funny all right, let me see it's bad when there's a thick layer of ice on the top part of a walk-in freezer condenser.

Is it bad when there's a thick layer of ice on the top part of a walk-in freezer condenser? It's a very good possibility. Send me a picture of that and let's talk about a little bit more to HVAC our videos at gmail.com. That's my email! It's saying right down there! Next to the stream Labs thing send me some pictures of your issue and then we'll talk about it through the email. Let me see what else we got: no tech tan, it's just if I miss your guys's question, just keep throwing them in caps-lock, okay, it's cuz! There's a lot of stuff going around tech Dan.

I assume that there's a question that I didn't answer put it in there again, but because it's hard for me to scroll up and see everything bill put sparkles in my beard and go okay. You're talking to Bill! Alright um, let me see what I'm missing in here: yeah there's a lot of stuff going on way above there, so Instagram model, okay. So I'm gon na get to my list of things to talk about. So I already talked about the exhaust fan replacement with a crane lift, but I do want to cover that one real quick, so I showed some crane hand signals right.

It's very important that you know you look at your local codes and you talk to your crane operator, because what I find is a lot of different crane operators, kind of want you to use a few different signals between them, so Chiney tow. Yes, yes, I have changed out a muffler Berrien. That's my biggest thing that I sell to my customers. All the time is muffler bearings.

Muffler bearings are my that's. You know we give. We give perks to our guys for all the muffler bearings they sell. They get a $ 5,000 perk for every single muffler bearing they sell so Joe.

Thank you very much. Man we're doing okay, we're surviving over here, hopefully the same with you, but all right, AC Tech. You said you had an HVAC helper blast. You in the chest, with coil, cleaner, ripped off your shirt on the way to the restroom and rinse.

All the ladies were whistling that's funny all right. Okay, so I'm gon na go anyways so yeah. I showed the hand signals on that crane, video and I'm sorry. I'm getting distracted by the chat have I ever been able to not complete a job due to it being outside my ability to diagnose reto Felix.

I can't say that I've ever been mid job and had to stop, but with that being said, I typically won't get involved in a job if I find that it's too complicated so like, for instance, I've had a customer. A hospital customer cost call me for like an ultra low freezer that had a weird refrigerant blend and I walked up to it and I looked at and I said, I'm not qualified to work on this. I don't have the gases, you need to call a scientific company and then I walked away. So you know I've done that where they've called me out not giving me a description, but I won't get involved and then say: oh my gosh, I'm not qualified to work on this and then stop I'll, usually know my limits before I start on something.

So, let's see how many guys work at my company jomama um, let's see four trucks, including myself, so we have four trucks out in the field, including my own. So I have three service techs. Well, two service techs and a maintenance guy out in the field so and everybody's sitting at home. Right now, Volkswagen model cars are dope yeah, so those are actually Legos of all things hold on just sec.

This is one of my favorite ones right here. This is the Mustang my daughter built this. I was gon na say my daughter, and I built this, but this one's a 67 Mustang, but it's all made out of Legos. It opens up, but um yeah she's, all into Legos, so I started buying them.

I was like, if I buy them, you build them and then this one, of course the beetle. This is awesome, but again Legos in my favorite. This is like my dream: car to own a bus, Volkswagen bus. This again all Legos.

These things are awesome and they're, not cheap, though he's like a hundred bucks or something but they're fun. Alright, let's see what else were missing in here, alright. So, let's get back to this. The next video that I released was a walking cooler that wasn't cold enough and actually showed the equipment replacement.

Now this was the first dual intelligent evaporator installed that I did nothing too difficult about the dual intelligent evaporators. The only difference is, is there's a few things like the the startup is really easy. You only have to set up one evaporator and because they're synced together via communication cable, you don't do anything with the other evaporator, but you just got to follow proper installation practices. Don't over pressurize a system like I have done in other videos, you'll ruin, transducers and TX, V's or TVs, or not TVs, TVs, that's right, but yeah, the biggest tip.

I can give you if you're doing a dual evaporator install with the intelligent. Is you have to install shielded cable as a communication cable between the two? And, if you guys, don't already know a lot of people, don't understand: okay, shielded, thermostat, wire, right or shielded cable. It basically has a ground wire installed on it. That's the easiest way to put it okay, very important.

You have to understand that to properly terminate a shielded, thermostat wire, you only ground one end of it and the other end you do not land it on the ground terminal. Okay. I know that sounds counterintuitive, because a lot of people think on a shielded cable. You have to ground both ends, but no you don't! Okay on a shielded cable like that, you only ground one end of the thermostat wire.

So that's the biggest piece of advice. I can give you the intelligence startup other than that. Don't electronically turn the system on until after you're done with your purge and your vacuum because they come with the expansion valves already open from insta from the factory. So once you power them up the expansion valves close and then you have to do stuff inside the board to get them to open up to do your evacuation and everything so have I ever done any residential HVAC work.

You'd love to see some videos on it. Paul l, you might end up seeing some of those soon as things get slow. I don't know, but no I mean I've done residential for family members and stuff like that. But I've never done it through my business, but who knows maybe we'll have to get into the HVAC side on the residential stuff.

So it's a very good possibility. Is relative humidity, the sweat off my uncle's balls? That's an interesting question. I guess I see why you're asking that, because it is relative, humidity, yeah. I guess I get that joke all right.

Let's see what else yeah I wish. I had a VW bus quality, HVAC arts Zak right, I'm pretty sure your name's Zack. I think it is so I think I've called you Zack and emails and different things like that, but does Arizona heat strain compressors in the equipment I service well, first off drew Pierce. I actually live in Southern California and I work in Southern California.

Not quite well. I our weather, similar to Arizona it's a little bit more humid here. There's is a little bit drier day. We pretty much get the same temperatures in the summer time because I kind of live out in the desert of Southern California, but they just have longer periods of heat.

So I mean it's relatively close in temperatures it's just their summer. You know they. We typically have a hundred and ten degree in the middle of the summer for like a month and a half while they have it for like three or three months: okay, so but yeah, the heat puts a strain on any equipment. Okay, when you have high heat outside what it does is it causes your condensing temperature rise when you're condensing temperature system loses efficiency, so you know any any high heat situation puts a strain on equipment.

Equipment has to be sized for your area. So therefore, if my house, let's just say that my house required a three ton air conditioning system in Idaho, okay, it would be totally different in California because of the heat load in the infiltration right, the outdoor air temperature, the humidity the the wintertime temperature. All that stuff, so you you have to design your equipment. You have to do a load calc on your building, your home, your commercial building, whatever it is to find out how to properly size your equipment, because it may be oversized for longer run times.

It may be smaller for shorter run times, there's all kinds of different factors that go into sizing your equipment, all right. Let's see what else we got in here. You don't see me installing mechanical timers. Am I not a fan? Reto Felix, that's so funny that you don't see that, because some of the questions that I get is, why do I install so many mechanical timers lately? If I have a choice, I've been installing the key to therm, temp Plus defrost controllers on walk-in coolers, but I still use mechanical defrost timers all day long.

The 81 45 is like the industry. Staple 81. 45 20 is the mechanical timer by Paragon and then there's also the grassland eta v 40. I use those all the time, so it really just depends.

Let's see what else, what is the thing on top of my right cabinet with wires coming out of it? On top of my right cabinet - oh, that is a hermetic compressor analyzer hold on just second, so both of those are hermetic, compressor, analyzers and what they do. Is they give you the ability, via these dip switches, to simulate different capacitors? So, on a compressor, we typically need a a certain size, start capacitor to get it to start up. Okay and that particular box basically allows you to simulate different sized capacitors to try to start a compressor. So if you go up to a compressor and it's not running what we can do is put that analyzer on it and we can potentially start it up before we drive to the supply house and by starting components, because it either be a bad compressor or bad.

Starting components so with that box right there, it allows you to simulate starting components. Nowadays, I don't use those very much anymore because we have little three in one start kits and I use those temporarily to try to start a compressor and then, if I can get it to start and it runs fine, then I'll go by the factory starting components. For it, so do I still use that dial a charge, or is it just for show yeah the dial of charge is just for show. I have never used a dial a charge in my entire career, one of my technicians, actually his dad bought that at a garage sale.

He doesn't work for me anymore, but he had brought me that so ran dude. Thank you very much for that super chat. That's very awesome, but thank you. Thank you, but whatever happened to Fritz Rochester here on YouTube, I don't know what happened to for it to Rochester.

I honestly don't know I wasn't involved that was pre YouTube before I was involved in it. I know there was a lot of drama back then, between a lot of the guys, there's a lot of the og guys that were on YouTube, Zac, Ralf Fritz Steven and John. They were all kind of around the same time, and so I don't know what happened to Fritz. Just I don't know you know, I don't really know much.

I know a lot of people that know him, but I've never asked them about him. So I used to watch his videos myself too. Have I ever encountered an oversized AC, and what did i do? Baxter Jones, I have an oversized AC in my house. I have a 4 ton air conditioning system that the runtime on it when it goes into cooling mode, is about 4 minutes and then it shuts off and then 20 minutes later it Donegan and then on and often it just short cycles like that.

So yeah we encounter a lot of oversized systems, it's just something that I haven't chosen to replace in my house. Yet I just deal with it same thing with the furnace. The furnace is probably a hundred thousand BTU furnace because it's a 4 ton air handler yeah. Maybe I don't know it's probably way over sized too, so you know when you have oversized equipment.

You're, probably gon na have short runtimes and you're gon na have repeated short cycles. Basically, it's going to turn on turn off turn on turn off, there's other things. That can happen too. If you're in a humid climate, we don't know a humidity here is in Southern California.

But if you have an oversize system in a humid climate, you might not have proper humidity removal and you might have moisture and mold and crap growing on your walls and dripping off your ceilings and your windows and stuff like that. So but again it's really easy to operate with improperly sized equipment here in Southern California, because our relative humidity in the summer times like 30 percent or 25 percent, or something like that. So we don't know what humidity is ever use a sling psychrometer HVAC, our novice. The only time I've ever used, a sling psychrometer was in school other than that I've just used digital.

Whatever happened to Jim Patton, Auto Jim Patton, auto actually commented on one of my videos about a month or two ago, so he's still out there and he still just stopped with YouTube. I've heard some things, but it's not fair for me to repeat them on here, but nothing bad. I just think he just chose not to be on YouTube anymore. That's about all I can say, but he's still there.

I think he he he HEIs active under his name, Jim Patton, auto on YouTube, and he still watches my videos. Apparently so that's kind of cool. Let me see, do I have a website? If not am i planning to make one mr. Tech Rick's? I have several domains that I own a long time ago.

I plan on making a website, but I never did so yeah, maybe a possibility, but it's just one of those things. I just kind of do things on my own terms, so I looked into it but again I start getting so obsessive about everything and everything has to be perfect, like I'm not kidding with you guys with these shirts. I've shown these before, but with these shirts. I am it's stupid how much money I spent designing these shirts with the purse ordering samples having them tweak this ordering more samples.

It's stupid amounts of money that I spent, and it's my own doing, I'm just so obsessive about everything. I try to control every single aspect and I am my own worst enemy when it comes to a lot of stuff. So something like the website same thing. It's just one of those things where I don't want to.

Sometimes I just know it's better, just not to do something right now. So all right, let me see, have I ever watched. Doctors are cloth. Yeah, I watch.

Doctors are cloth. He was one of the og guys that I used to watch too.