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 yo hello. How are you guys, hopefully uh everybody's doing well, i know there's a lot of craziness going on out there. Um things are going pretty well over here had a good weekend actually.

Well, i should say i had a good sunday, we uh for my wife's birthday. I got her um, i shouldn't say her. I mean i got him for everybody, but we got paddle boards for everybody, so we took him out for kind of a um. What do you want to call it uh? You know kind of a shake up kind of figuring it out.

You know to a figure out what the problems are going to be, and you know just kind of whatever you want to call it, but just figuring out how comfortable my daughters were going to be, and you know we had a good time. It was good. You know everybody was just getting used to paddling and stuff and it was kind of stressful a little bit. You know just being out with boats and stuff like that, and i have a young daughter, so you know trying to explain to them how to maneuver them and stuff like that.

But we had a good time. It was cool. It was nice to get away for a day. You know it seemed like there was a lot of preparation that went into that.

I feel like i don't know. If you guys are like me, i know i'm probably one of the most insane people when it comes to this kind of stuff, but i have a really hard time: hey scott! Thank you so much for that super chat, but i really appreciate it and yes, happy birthday to jill her birthday was on the 14th, so that was nice but um we uh. I tend to not take enough time off. You know it's interesting like, for instance, my wife we're going away this upcoming weekend too, and my wife uh i'm taking friday off and she had a.

She had a dentist appointment on thursday and she was asking me if i could take my daughter to school, so that was she could make it to her dentist appointment and it's really hard because i'm you know a week before i'm getting all anxious thinking that i'm Gon na have to go into work late on thursday and then i'm taking friday off and like that's making me panic um. I don't know how to get around that. I just you know. Like i don't know, i have a hard time not being able to focus on work if i have stuff going on throughout the week i mean i know that that you know i i need to take time off and stuff like that, but it just stresses me Out just knowing that i'm not gon na, be there um.

So that's just something you know. I know i'm crazy. Probably not many people deal with the craziness that i have to deal with, but yeah. It's definitely uh.

Definitely hard um, no alaska yeah. I used. I used up the stimulus to get my paddle boards. I've been talking.

You know it's funny, because i'm sure you guys remember before the whole pandemic. I was talking about getting a kayak, and this is how long it takes me to finally do something like that. Like i've been thinking and thinking and researching and researching, and then i finally do it and it takes me forever to finally get anything that i want. I just drag ass on that one: it's crazy but yeah.

I don't know if you guys are like me, but it's just it's really hard for me to take time off and uh. You know i don't mind, relaxing and chilling out on the weekends like when i'm not on call and stuff, but when i'm on call like, i can't go anywhere when i you know, i just i'm just ready to go basically because i just hate to have plans Ruined and stuff like that, so um elise, if you go to my website, hvacrvideos.com super easy. I have merch available on there. Anybody else.

That's interested hats, shirts, beanies all that stuff, but i've got these hats in small, medium and large extra large, so they're available on the website, so um. So as usual guys, if you guys have questions things, you want me to talk about put them in the chat. I'll try to catch them. We've got a couple moderators in here.

Do me a favor. If you guys do have questions or things you want me to cover, put them in caps, lock that helps to get my attention when you put them in caps, lock. Okay, um. Remember you know sometimes there's a lot of stuff going through here and i just can't get to it all.

So if i miss your questions, feel free to send me an email to hvacrvideos, gmail.com and i'll get to it, okay, so um! I wanted to start this stream off real, quick and i've said it a few times, i'm gon na say it again uh. You know i am looking for a new service technician. Right now. I am potentially looking to train someone and or potentially looking to hire a fully experienced tech, but you guys, if you watch my videos, you know what i expect.

Okay, i want everybody to perform like that. I want to be thorough. I want to be meticulous about things, so, if you guys are interested, send me an email, hvacr videos, gmail.com, let me know i'm not promising that i'm going to hire everybody, but you know i'm definitely looking for tax, as almost everybody else is in this industry. Right now, because we're coming into the summer time and everybody's starting to panic so um, i wanted to start off this stream.

Someone had asked me a question and let me get to it right here, i'm going through my list of things. Uh phillip had asked me what school i went to and he was asking if i recommended a particular trade school okay. So i kind of wanted to talk about that for a minute so um i came up in the trade working for my father. Okay, as a little kid i can remember, i mean people still.

I still run into cooks and restaurant managers today. That remember me from when i was a little kid holding that four cell d flashlight maglite for my dad or you know, being really distracted because as a little kid you can never hold anything straight and you're. Just like we look at that um. But i came up working for my dad and when i went to work for him full time i decided to go to trade school.

I went to mount sac or mount san antonio community college in walnut california. They have a great hvacr program. They still do to this day um i went there and honestly, i never finished school um, but i've got the fundamentals that i needed. I think i honestly still have two classes left a technical math for hvac and a welding class.

One of these days i'll go back and take those, so i can get a certificate, but back to the question, do i recommend a particular trade school? No, okay. One thing i want to start this out with and explain to everybody is you need to understand something? The trade school is not going to do everything for you. Okay, you're, gon na have to do the work. The trade school is gon na, give you the materials and the study, information and you're gon na have to go for it.

Okay, you're gon na have to study hard. Now some trade schools are better. Some are worse. Okay, you can also get union apprenticeships and different things like that.

Um just understand that it's not the job of the trade school, the union um, wherever you want to go the you know the person that you're working under to make you retain the information and understand it. Okay. Now, of course, they can do a better job of explaining things to kind of give you information that'll help you to understand it, but you as a a student is gon na really have to pay attention. Okay, so um there's several different types of trade schools out there just understand that okay and also be very cautious when the trade schools tell you that you should be making this much money or you're going to be experienced.

I'm going to tell you guys the one thing right now that drives me nuts and i may be crazy. Okay, i get resumes quite often and when i see a resume from a trade school student. Okay, that says he has experience in ice machines, welding refrigeration, air conditioning that drives me nuts. Okay, when i know he doesn't have the experience, the trade schools tell him to put that information on there because they spent three weeks talking about ice machines.

So now that person puts it on their resume. I prefer a more honest approach from someone someone to come to me and say: hey. I went to trade school. We had training in these things.

I personally don't have experience in these things. Okay, when someone puts on their resume that they have experience and things to me, that should mean that they genuinely have experience and they've had their hands on it. They've worked on it day in and day out, not that they spent two weeks on it in a trade school okay, so that one drives me nuts, i don't know if it's just me, maybe i'm just a weird particular person. So, but that's just me: okay, but be honest, okay and just absorb as much information as you can, but also understand that the trade school is not going to teach you everything the moment you finish with trade school the moment you get a job.

Okay, all that information that you learned in trade school for most people, it's just gon na sit there in their brain they're, not gon na go to work one day. Don't let these schools fool you and tell you that you're gon na go to work and you're gon na be a master mechanic? No, that's not gon na happen. Okay, you're gon na go to work and you're gon na have to put in some time, you're going to have to start learning, asking questions, getting your hands dirty and guess what? When someone works with me - and you know, i send them down to the van to go, get parts or something like that. They should be learning when they go down to the van to get parts.

Everything about your job should be learning even as an experienced technician. Okay, everything about your job, you're learning all the time, but don't ever feel like just because you're, a gopher someone that's going back and forth to the van to get parts; you're, not learning anything, because you are, if you start paying attention as a gopher okay. So if i send you down to the van to go, get a the the you know, the tools that i need to do, a compressor replacement start remembering that so that way, the next time. I don't have to send you down to the van and you come up to me and say: hey since we're changing this compressor.

Would you like me to go get these particular tools, because i know you're going to need them. Okay understand that okay, but so i don't have a particular trade school that i recommend find any school in your area. Any in from any training you can get is better. Okay, be very cautious about spending a crap ton of money up front to pay for a trade school all right.

I really have a hard time when i see people paying 19 to 25 000, whatever it is for an education and it's like. Ah man, you know that that's kind of a gut punch, so it better be a darn good school if you're paying that much money. Okay, if uh just just be cautious about that, i'm not saying that private schools or public schools are better either way. Okay, because they all have value in them, just be very cautious about these schools that make crazy promises like you're guaranteed, to have a job within so many weeks after school.

If they, if they follow through on their promise as a trade school and guarantee that you're going to have a job with an x number of weeks after the school, more than likely they've set up some sort of a deal to where you know, people blanket hire. People or something like that, just be very cautious about that kind of stuff right, i don't want to say any trade squad, there's bad, but just just be cautious, because sometimes i know there's a lot of amazing trade schools out there, but there's some that you know They they promise the world and they don't really deliver so be very cautious about that. Okay, but any particular trades go and comment. I do not have one that i would tell you to check out other than the other okay um, i mean other than my local schools.

Here uh, i am gon na go ahead and uh promote sporland's webinar that they have going on this week. You guys please go register and consider subscribing to the spoiling video youtube channel if you haven't already just look up spoiling on youtube and it'll come up, but i just put the link to their webinar. That's going to be on the 22nd this week on compressor failures. So you guys can register and check that out.

It'll be a great class. Sportlin does a really good job of teaching, and you know the really cool thing is: is that if you guys have been living under a rock and you don't know, this sporland is a sponsor of my channel okay um, but it's really cool, because i really do Like the people over at sportlin - and they genuinely are a good company um, you know it is a pleasure to be able to work with them so and they give great training. They have great products and uh they're, just a good company, all together, very nice people. I've met a lot of the the higher up people and stuff, and very very nice people, so really cool company to be working with um all right.

So i'm going to get to the chat and see what else we got in here so um. Are there any filters that handle dusty or smoky areas better and do i use them uh any of them. So i mean obviously the higher the merv rating on the filter um, the more particles that the filter is going to capture but at the same time, the higher the merv rating, the higher the pressure drop or um yeah pressure drop across the filter. So you have to be cautious: okay, be very leery of uh.

The big box stores telling you that this filter is the best filter to to get viruses and all this different stuff like that, because you have to understand something that the system has to be designed for the filter. Okay, modifications will have to be made for super high merv rated filters, okay, because they create too much of a pressure drop and if there's too much of a pressure drop the air no longer flows at the proper rate. Therefore, your unit cannot properly heat and or properly cool and or properly refrigerate. Okay.

So it's really important to understand that my preference is the the biggest or thickest filter you can get um. It is better okay, but you obviously want to be very cautious about the merv ratings, be very cautious about going anything over merv. 10 merv. 13 um.

You know once you start getting past, that you're creating a pretty big pressure drop and even those can be dangerous too, to your system if it wasn't designed for that. Okay, so be very cautious about these, these uh marketing uh, you know slogans and different things that these filter manufacturers put on their information or on their filters. So all right, let me get to the list of things here and see what goes in here. Um uh biggest issues uh this person has with new people, are when they don't understand what tools they need um.

You know and that's a fair thing as a new apprentice or a new person coming in uh, so i'm gon na say when i hire someone. I do find it kind of funny, and i tell everybody out there when people think i know that people are in trade school and they get super excited because they want to buy all these tools. So they can hit the ground running the first day of work. Unless the company is requiring you to bring a bunch of tools, i'd slow, your roll there, okay, because when someone comes to work for me and they have a giant bag with all these different tools in there i'll look at it and i'll say: okay, those are It's cool, i'm happy that they have tools but majority of them.

I can look at them and say: they're, not gon na work, they're, not high quality or they're junk. I'm not saying they have to buy the most expensive tools in the world, but you know when people come to work for me and i realize it differs from company to company, so my company, i provide all the big ticket tools. Okay, i provide vacuum pumps, recovery, machines - you know nitrogen regulators, all the big fancy stuff. Okay, the things that i ask my technicians to bring is a manifold gauge set, preferably digital.

I asked them to bring hand tools and a cordless drill. Okay, i'll give them tubing. Benders and all that big fancy stuff, but you know even that they may want to work for a while. You know with you and then realize, hey you know what this this is, what you know chris uses or whoever else they're working with at my company, uses this, and they seem to work really well or you can ask the opinion of the people you're going to Work for and say, hey, i'm thinking about buying this.

Is this a good investment? Do you think so, and they may say you know what that thing's a piece of junk. I know that sometimes you know when you're in trade school, you get. You know uh, you you, you have manufacturers reps, come to your school and, like say hey, you know what i sell this digital manifold and it's the best manifold in the world, but that's the marketing person selling that manifold to those students. Okay, it's not necessarily the best manifold out there, so slow your roll when it comes to buying really expensive tools, i mean basic hand tools.

That's fine! Okay, but you know when you go to buy your first digital manifold gauge, set. Do some research and kind of see what people use and what people like and don't necessarily just buy it, because you saw it in a class one day when the local rep from that digital manifold gauge came and talked about it because it may not be the Best out there, that's just my thing so um. Let me see what else we got in here. Uh.

Do i ever get frustrated with spaghetti water wire, spaghetti inside packaging? It's yeah i mean i do get frustrated, but i'm also so used to seeing the crazy stuff that i see all the time that it doesn't. Surprise me. I really, let's put it this way, you know yeah. It frustrates me when i see units that are a wiring mess, but i get so much enjoyment out of cleaning that wiring mess up when i have the opportunity to truly do it and do it properly.

Okay, so i mean, but it doesn't bother me, you know it's just. It is what it is. That's just majority of the equipment out there. So all right, let me see what else we got going on here.

Um, let's see um, i'm looking through the chat right now to see if i'm missing anything hey, you know what scott was looking at the website right now and he says that i have uh 26, small, medium hats and 56 large in stock. Actually, my wife - and i were just talking about maybe ordering some more ahead of time because we just bought. We just bought 100 of the large and we're already down to 56, so yeah they went pretty quick um but i'll to be fair. I i rarely plug the hats on my normal videos and that's why they there was a run.

I don't like to like kill everybody with merch advertisements and stuff, so i don't mind doing it on the live stream and then occasionally i'll mention it on a video. But because i mentioned it on a normal video: that's why they sold so fast, so um. Let me see, should you stop sending resumes and just go company to company in person gary um? No, i mean i would still send a resume, but i mean if you, if you know of a company that you really want to work for you know, then sure it probably wouldn't be a bad idea, but but also be cautious so like for me. I run a small company and we really don't have the ability to take people banging on our door asking if we can hire them.

Okay, um, it's just not. It doesn't really work out that way. Okay, because maybe someone's not in the office or maybe one person's in the office, so so you know it really depends on the company i mean if they, if they have a commercial address and uh, you know you can go bang on their door, then you know. Maybe they'd be okay with that, i don't know uh.

You know it's it's a little bit different for us, so all right, um, okay, so um had two videos this last week: okay, uh, the dining room ac is not working uh, the one with the dirty blower. Okay and then also the dining room is too hot the one with the bad condenser fan motor okay, so both of those videos were basic videos. Nothing too crazy, of course, there's always multiple problems and i try to tackle them the same okay, um. One thing i want to tell you guys: you know you want to be very cautious about about overthinking things, okay, but at the same time you want to look at the big picture.

Okay, when it comes to service calls, when someone calls me and there's a service call, you know, even though i do it, i try not to get too far into it. I try not to diagnose or or or figure everything out on the way to the call. What i mean by that is sometimes you'll be driving in your truck and you're. Really thinking about everything and by the time you get there, you have tunnel vision because you've been thinking.

Oh my gosh, it's got to be this. It's got to be that and then you'll get there and you'll sometimes ignore the obvious okay, so as best as possible, and i'm not perfect, but i tried it to start every call like i'd, never been there before. Okay, i just try to go through the basics. Okay, remember for uh to move heat from one place to another.

We need uh airflow. Okay, we got ta move air. If it's a uh, a dx system, we've got ta move air across it so start with the basics. Does it have airflow work? Your way from there does it have power, you know and move through.

If you understand the sequence of operation it's best, if you do, it makes it a lot easier. So that way you can skip staring at a schematic for an hour and you could just jump right into it. Okay, but the more technical the systems get the more you have to rely on schematics and um. You know, and then you really got to start going through it, but just be cautious about over analyzing things on your way to the call, because it can give you tunnel vision and then you can get lost in the call and ignore some obvious things: okay, um In my recent video, where i had the uh philip, thank you so very much for um, let's see what this is.

Phil, that's super chat, but that is amazing. Okay, i'm reading your your comment right here in european mcdonald's. Their minimum wage employees are entitled to 22.50 an hour and two months per year, paid vacation and sick leave um yeah, so the u.s has a different way of doing things. It definitely is, there's mandatory sick, they call it pto or sick leave that you can get here um.

So my company, we you know we try to make it fair for everybody. And let me let me say this: okay when i say that i'm crazy about not taking time off. I don't push that on my employees, okay, my employees. They can take the time off that they need to um.

I can't really deny them time off, which i don't okay, i realize it's just me in general, i i basically you know just obsess about the company, so it's not my employees that i do but again, thank you, philip for that super chat, but i really really Appreciate it: okay, um, let me see what i missed in here. Um, let's see any thoughts on geothermal honestly, i don't do any geothermal work, so i really can't talk too much about it. Okay, um a mentor can give you tunnel vision if they give you too much info when you're dispatched as well, and that's a very good point: andy, okay, okay, so pre-covered right before kova the and i still haven't, figured out how i'm gon na deal with an Apprentice but again i said it in the beginning: i'm gon na say it again. I am hiring right now, i'm potentially willing to train an apprentice from the ground up, but i'm also, hopefully someone that's gone to trade school, though that's what i'm looking for and uh.

Let me preface that with saying that you need to be able - or you need to live in the inland empire area where i work. Okay, i'm not gon na bring people across the country. That's just not really going to work, especially coming from before the summer. I'm also looking to hire experienced people too, but pre-covet.

The way that it worked with me was when i hired someone, especially an apprentice. They would ride with me for six months to a year in my vehicle and they would shadow me at work, okay, uh and then i would slowly get them into a vehicle and then slowly let them go out to service calls before me. When i would come back, you know i'd give them an hour head start, get to a service call, let them kind of play with it once they get comfortable. Okay, i try not to throw people to the walls.

Now i haven't quite figured out how i'm going to deal with this after pandemic crap. You know, because i don't necessarily want to be riding with someone in the vehicle, but we'll figure that stuff out. Okay time will you know, work that one out, but i try not to throw people to the wolves. I try to give them an opportunity and, as i feel comfortable with them, depending on the technician, because every person is different, there's no timetable.

I can't just say you get six months period that doesn't work, because some people need more. Some people need less. I've had technicians that were master amazing mechanics and they just needed the six months and they hit the ground running and wore the best text. I ever had in fact one of the best service techs i ever had.

That was the deal okay um, but then i've had other people that needed more time, but they turned out to be great techs too. Okay, um, it just takes time and every person is different, all right, so i'm gon na get to my list of things to talk about okay, but with the dining room, ac, the one that uh it had a bad cfm. That was the one that i just did: okay um. I left a mistake in there and - and you know i want you guys to see that it was really hot that day and i was doing more work than i needed to do and it was silly and it was simple, but it was a matter of.

I was sanding, the condenser fan blade just out of almost muscle memory. I was sanding the shaft putting rust buster on there, trying to break the fan, motor free or fan blade free, and then you guys, if you paid attention, you heard me say: oh man, i have a brand new fan motor and fan blade. Why am i trying to sand this off? Sometimes you get into that thing where it's just like you know: boom boom boom, i'm changing a motor, and i'm not even thinking about it. I'm just sanding everything it's like.

Oh, i didn't need to do that. I did extra work that happens when it gets hot. Okay, hvac can be different depending on what part of the country you work in here we have extreme heat where i'm at in southern california. You know it doesn't get very cold, but it gets extreme heat 120 degrees last summer is what we hit for an extreme high.

Normal average is about 110 115 throughout the summer um, but we hit 120. It was kind of crazy, uh jose. Thank you. So very much for that super chat.

I really appreciate it. You guys. The support that you guys give is amazing: okay, um the the comments, the the the likes. I i'm so thankful for it.

Thank you guys very much. Okay, i'm just trying to share the little bit of knowledge that i have and you guys are amazing, um all right thoughts on uv lights, steve, okay, steve! I don't understand uv lights. I don't understand uh, ionizers, bipolar, ionizers needle point bipolar ionizers. I i don't understand that stuff, okay, they kind of seem like voodoo magic.

To me. I have read documentation and information that says uv lights do kill things, but you have to be careful depending on the type of uv light that you use. I will say something that um in the near future. We are going to be having our good buddy big clive from big clive live um uh on the hvac overtime, youtube channel and he's going to be talking about air cleaners and um.

You know the goods and the bads and uh if everything goes well, he's actually going to be debating someone that doesn't believe in air cleaners. It's not going to be me because i'm certainly not smart enough. Okay, the only thing i'm going to say is when it comes to any of these indoor air quality products, air cleaners, lights, uv lights. Any of that stuff be very cautious about what you believe and what you read.

Okay, i'm not saying they're bad, i'm not saying they're good, but i am saying that the marketing department of those companies does a really good job of saying things. That may not necessarily be true. Okay, third-party information is the best information because it's independent, it should be. Theoretically, independent and unbiased uh, you know you hope that they have good information, so be very cautious about information you see from the manufacturers when they try to provide you with information, because oftentimes that information would be written by the manufacturers and paid for by the manufacturer.

So just be cautious. Okay, i am a firm believer because i don't understand the science of these indoor air quality products. The one thing i do understand is cleaning your units doing proper preventative maintenance, cleaning, the coils, putting good air filters that your system is designed for and bringing in fresh air and doing air exchanges. I do understand the science behind that okay and uh.

So that's that's kind of my thing is bring in fresh air, but i don't you know with these air cleaners. Sometimes it's voodoo magic and you know you have to trust the information that someone has given you. So i really don't have a a good answer for your question. Sorry bud all right.

Uh, let's see what else we got in here, i'll debate, big clive, just turn off my speaker and you win exactly that's pretty funny. In my opinion, what kind of mistakes warrant employee termination, mr green uh? What would warrant an employee termination is going to be multiple offenses from from a certain technician of breaking said rules? Okay, like, for instance, i have an employee handbook and in the employee handbook it says you can't do this now. There is a couple things in my employee handbook that that, if the employer or employee does they will lose their job. Okay, um bottom line is, is that the customer needs to be respected and taken care of and treated as if they were family.

Okay, the customer is king right um. Of course, i will defend my guys if a customer is unruly and rude, but for the most part i don't have any of those customers. Okay, so i mean it just depends on a case-by-case situation, but majority of the time it's going to be multiple offenses. From said employee of doing something that he's been written up about warned about, and they just keep doing it over and over again and then that's gon na warrant determination.

But if a technician came to work, drunk he's fired on the spot. If the technician was intoxicated in any way at work, he would be fired on the spot that kind of stuff uh. On another note, i would say you need to be very cautious about that kind of stuff because um, you know, there's all kinds of labor laws and different things. So being an employer is a fun thing.

Let me just say that all right, let me see what else we got in here um, why live streams on monday instead of friday? Uh, i don't know, live streams just happen on mondays, because i just recap the week um it just started that way. You know i've been doing these live streams for over two years same time. Every week, um same format. I have to change my office a bit because it kind of creep.

You know i get go crazy, stir crazy, looking at the same thing all the time but yeah i just chose monday two and a half years ago or whatever it was, and it just kind of stuck so all right, um, let's see brute it says you run Some large cfm air handlers with the bipolar needle point, ionizers can't say much for air quality being delivered, but you can say that the mixed air sections are cleaner than the ones without good information, and i don't dispute the fact that they do something. But my question is: if they do something, what are the repercussions, and i don't know i'm not saying that they're bad, i'm just saying that i don't know what they do. I don't know if there's bad stuff that comes from there and good stuff. Okay, i've certainly read very convincing information on needle pulling bipolar ionizers.

I've certainly read good information on uv lights, but then i've also read conflicting information for both of them too. So i'm confused and i don't know what to believe it's it's a difficult thing for me to figure out, but i also to be fair, am not a super genius when it comes to this stuff, i'm not the smartest person in the world and uh. You know, as you guys know, i don't do a good job of reading installation instructions and things like that. I have a hard time so um, i shouldn't, say installation instructions.

I read instructions, but i don't really understand the science behind all that stuff. So um, forgive me i'm you know the the beautiful thing about technology in this day and age is that uh um when it's hot, i can turn the air conditioner on with my phone and that's amazing. I love doing that. It's amazing what you can do on a flip note.

2. I got it behind me. One of these days i'm going to make a video probably, but i got a new thermostat and i got that scentsy predict thing for my ac and i was just kind of curious, so i bought one i have it sitting behind me. I just need to deal with it, it's funny, because i showed it to my wife the other day and she goes how long ago did you get that i was like? I don't know a week and a half ago or something she's like.

Why haven't you installed? It yet - and i was like i just haven't - had time it's just sitting on the shelf i'll get to it, though all right right now, i'm a twisted candle company. Thank you so much for that super chat man. I really really appreciate it: hey dude, cactus coolers. If i was drinking soda, they are my jam.

I don't drink soda anymore, but cactus cooler is amazing. I drink these sparkling waters which i'm sure are going to be deemed unhealthy for everybody in some way or another, but cactus cooler was an amazing drink. When i did drink soda, so all right, so tyler had asked me a question about what tablet i use when i'm working with measure quick now tyler has kind of a multi-part question because he needs a tablet for his business and he just had some questions about What type of tablet how much i like it? What i think it can do, can he do business functions on the tablet that i have with the tablet that i have, i would probably say. No, so when it comes to the tablet that i typically use or have been using with measure quick, it's a samsung tab, a it is a very inexpensive tablet that i bought from costco purposely because i'm afraid that i'm going to lose it.

I just keep it in my smart probes bag and just use it just for that. The reason why i use a tablet is because i find that - and i don't know if you guys are realizing this too, is that the more smart devices that i use when i'm at work. I've already got my cell phone right here that i'm getting phone calls and emails and all kinds of stuff on right all throughout the day, and then i've got a bluetooth connected to this phone. This is a galaxy s10 plus i've got a bluetooth connected to this phone draining the battery um and when i start using this for measure quick or the fieldpiece joblink app or the accutools bluevac app or whatever app insert name here, i tend to notice that the Battery just drops significantly so i use a different smart device, which is just my tablet for for my smart probes now.

Would i do business functions on my tablet? No, i wouldn't it's not a fast enough tablet. Um, if you're a small business owner, i would look more, i'm a samsung fan, so i would look towards some of the samsung tablets with uh internet connectivity, um lte cards or whatever you want to call it um. I would do that uh. You know the reason why i still lean towards tablets for business use is because you can put otter cases on them.

Of course, i was always interested in getting like a surface computer tablet, whatever you want to call it microsoft surface, which is a full-fledged pc just in a small package, but i'm leery about you know dropping those with the tablet that i have. I can beat the crap out of it and it's no big deal. Okay, um. I have also thought about and it's very interesting - i'm not an apple person, but i know people that love the the ipad pro and all that stuff, and you know hey if that works.

For you that's great um. I've always been a pc android person myself, but the samsung stuff. Does me really well? I really appreciate it. Uh i'm interested in you know: samsung came out with their dex app, which you can basically connect your phone to a monitor and use that so i've always kind of wondered like how i could make that work, because i genuinely have you know a smart pc right Here and if you've ever used the dex app and you plug it into your pc, it basically gives you a pc like experience that you can use a mouse with and stuff like that, and it's pretty smart.

So you know that might be something to think about too, if you, if you need to do that um but yeah, so i just use the samsung tab a as the the type of tablet that i use right now. Um, what happens when you cannot get any sub cooling out of a condensing unit on a walk-in? Okay, when someone asks me that question the first thing i say is is well either. You do not have enough refrigerant, because if you can't get any measurable, sub cooling whatsoever or you've got a problem with your probes. Okay, if the system has a receiver, is your sight, glass flashing? It probably needs refrigerant.

Okay, if you have a full column of liquid coming out of the receiver going to the expansion valve - and you don't have any measurable sub coin you're doing something wrong now. Are you going to have 10 degrees, sub cooling on a refrigeration system, not necessarily especially on older systems but you're, going to get some sort of measurable sub coin, because the physics behind it says that you can't have a solid column of liquid? If you don't have some sort of sub coin right, but if you can't get any sub cooling, then either your probes are messed up, something's, wrong or you're. Undercharged would be what i would say, but again there's a lot to that i mean: is your compressor operating efficiently, there's so much going on there. Okay feel free.

If you, if i don't answer enough, send me an email to hvacr videos, gmail.com um, let's see uh james gavriel. Can you send me an ipad pro uh? Send me an email about hvac our videos. Gmail.Com i've never used an ipad pro. So i don't know all right um.

Let me see what else we got here. Dex is bad as hell as in what do you mean like it doesn't work? You mean um or you really like it, john i'm kind of curious about that uh. What is the best controller dixon or benefits and drawbacks? Okay? So you know it's all about what people are comfortable with. I'm a super fan lately of the ke2 therm temp, plus defrost controller uh temperature controller.

That thing has been i've been selling. Quite a few of those they've been doing me pretty. Well, i've been pretty comfortable with them. I've used several dixoe controllers too, and they've done really well.

So it really goes from a case by case before the ke2 therm, temp plus defrost controller. I was using the ronco, etc 140 1000 or 11 000. Both of those are good controllers too um, you know, so it really depends on what you're going with uh. If you're looking for a one stop item, i'm lately i've been a fan of the ke2 therm temp plus defrost controller.

That one's been doing me really well, because you have the ability to turn on defrost if you want it, but just keep in mind as you go from controller to controller uh, the the the dixo controller, you can launch a space shuttle with that thing. There's so many things you can do, it can get quite confusing programming it too, if you don't understand, what's going on, especially once you get into the advanced parameters, let's see what else we got in here using the field piece job links have i ever worked on An r600 system, no uh danny using the field piece job link, oh you're, saying you couldn't get any measurable sub coin. Assuming everything else is correct. It sounds like you don't have enough refrigerant in the system and or your probes are improperly placed, but dude send me an email.

Let's talk more about it, i'd love to help you a little bit hvacr videos at gmail.com, okay, oh no sight! Glass! That's interesting! Yeah! Send me an email with some pictures. That'd be: let's talk about it. Um. Let me see what else we got in here.

Uh yeah, no worries tyler. I appreciate you asking anybody that asks questions. You know i try to get to them and answer them in here. It you know as much as possible, so um all right, alexander asks what method and solder do i use for brazing copper lines.

So, judging by your question, alexander, there's apps first off, i'm going to say this: there's absolutely nothing wrong with sending me an email, even if you're, not a contractor or an hvac tech, or if you don't have that much experience, i'm totally okay with answering homeowner emails. I you know i try to. I can't get to everything, okay, but judging by the way that you asked your question, alexander kind of sounds like maybe you aren't the most experienced and or you are not an experienced tech and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that. Okay, but alexander asks what method and solder i use for brazing copper lines? Okay, so i'm going to answer this as a broad question, because i get questions about this all the time i use an oxyacetylene rig, that's oxygen and acetylene and i use uh, typically a zero tip or a number two tip or a rosebud tip, okay uh.

When i'm braising copper lines together, copper to copper, i'm going to use a 15 silfos, that's silver and phosphorus in a rod, it does not require any flux and it's a 15 brazing rod. That's typically what i use for almost everything: copper to copper. If i'm doing any dissimilar metals, meaning copper to brass copper, to stainless copper to steel, i use silver solder, high silver bearing solder. So i i go high on my silver bearing solder, and i use 56 silver solder and you do have to use a silver solder paste flux with that, i'm personally not a fan of using the brazing rods that have flux already on the rod.

That's just personal preference, there's nothing wrong with you. If you like to use those, i've just had bad experiences with some of the brazing rods, especially if they've been sitting in your van for a long time and the flux starts to break break off and it just creates a problem. So i like paste flux, but you got to be cautious with paste flux because it can get in the lines and contaminate the system, so be very cautious about that. Okay, um and i had a few questions this week about brazing copper.

You know if i'm working on a u-bend have i ever had a hard time and or plugged up a u-bend uh brazing u-bins, like welds on a condenser, can be very trick or be tricky, because the copper is super thin and it usually flares out, meaning that When you're trying to braise it it boom it pops and flares and then there's a big hole if you're skilled you can plug those holes, but you don't want to plug the line up. You just patch the hole, it's kind of tricky you got to lay solder across it. It can be kind of a interesting thing to do and it can be tricky but to answer the question: whenever i'm brazen, it's typically fifteen percent, so fast and or fifty six percent silver solder, i am not a fan. I've never used them.

I've repaired a lot of leaks on the soft solders like um the the low temperature solders and things i i don't really use those very much okay. I know some people swear by them, nothing wrong with it, but i i just don't like using them very much. Okay, most refrigeration, guys that do a lot of refrigeration work. You've, probably fixed quite a few distributor leaks uh on expansion, valves where they use low temperature solders and they tend to leak after the years.

So that's just my experience with them all right. So hopefully that answers your question. Alexander um devin asked a really good question and i'm going to answer this so devin asked me a question: why do the restaurant air conditioners break so much when you can have a window unit or a window shaker that can last 20 years? Okay, first off, i'm going to say these days: if you buy a brand new window shaker that's one of the units that you get from home depot, you know and you mount them on the side of your window and they cool your house off right. If you buy a window shaker these days, i can pretty much guarantee you you're not going to get 20 years out of them.

Okay, they're super cheap super crappy made okay, but the window shakers of the 80s yeah. Those things were bulletproof and they lasted forever. They had real copper in them. They lasted a long time.

Now. Why do the window shakers last longer than a package unit on a restaurant? Why does it seem like you have to work on package units all the time? It really depends on the environment that the air conditioner is running in okay, a window shaker operates typically in a consistent environment. Um, it's a sealed system for the most part. Unless someone's worked on it, people aren't servicing it putting gauges on it all the time that kind of stuff that causes systems to not work right.

But restaurant acs take a lot of abuse because they run a lot. Okay, there's a lot of contaminants in the air. In restaurants and things like that, i work for a certain restaurant chain that has crap in the air that all the evaporator coils on all their acs are rotting away, because the air is really acidic and it has to do with sauces and different things that they Put on their food, it's crazy! Okay, so it really has to do with the environment that the air conditioner is running in and why the restaurant air conditioners break so much. It's very.

You know it just happens. So um, i'm looking right here. Real quick, as this comes through okay, perfect um, so hopefully that answers your question for you bud. So leonardo had asked me a question about my office and you know: leonardo wants to start making videos himself.

This is a common question that i get from a lot of people, guys there's a lot of room on youtube. Okay, everybody can start making videos. That's fine right, just be cautious about what you're sharing if you're, not an experienced person. I don't suggest that you start sharing information, because some people will take your information as you're the most experienced person in the world and they'll run with it, and that can cause problems.

So, if you're, not confident in what you're talking about you, probably shouldn't talk too much about it. Okay, i've been guilty of saying some things. I probably shouldn't have said too. As far as what software's that i use for editing my videos and stuff, i use a lot of the adobe products.

Okay, adobe spark is what i use to make thumbnails uh adobe premiere elements. It's a super. Easy editing program is what i use to edit. My videos, if i want to get so super crazy, i can use adobe premiere pro, but that's really difficult and has a steep learning curve.

Okay, so i use a lot of the adobe products. Um chandra asked what are my thoughts on the copeland x series condensing units. So if you guys don't know what the copeland x series is um, it kind of looks like a mini split. Okay, copeland came out with a refrigeration condensing unit that has a lot of technology in it.

Okay has circuit boards pressure, transducers, variable, speed, compressors variable speed, fan motors, it's it's a very high tech, sophisticated equipment and it's the copeland x-line series units. I personally have not had any experience with the x-line condensing units. I have not installed any of them, nor have i worked on any of them. I've seen them in the supply houses and the one thing i'm going to tell you just like any new piece of equipment coming out today.

They put in all kinds of microprocessor, controlled equipment and even on the equipment that i work in the package units and different things that have inverter drives and microprocessor equipments. The one problem is our power grid and brown outs and power issues in my area, and especially with the restaurants. We do not properly condition our power. We do not have low voltage protectors installed in the restaurants.

We do not have surge protectors and different things like that. If we did that more, i think a lot of this equipment would last a lot longer. I wouldn't be changing vfds on package units, so much stuff like that. Okay, so when it comes to the oh copeland x line, i think it looks amazing.

I think copeland's put a lot of product development into it and it looks amazing. I worry about poor power issues, that's what i worry about with it, but i have nothing bad to say about the x-line units. Just haven't had any experience with them. So hopefully that answers your question for you.

Okay, let me get to the chat and see what i'm missing in here and then i'll. Get back to my questions. Can i change a ke2 therm controller from a reverse defrost to the air defrost in the parameters chris cooley uh yeah yeah, like on the evap efficiency controllers? Now i'm not a ke2 therm expert right, but i've done a little bit of work with the evap efficiency controllers. That's the walk-in style units and uh.

I'm almost positive. You can change, but i'm not going to. I don't want to step on my tongue here, but you you can pretty much launch the space shuttle with those things. So i would imagine you should be able to.

One thing: i'm going to say is every interaction. I've had with keto therm, so it's ke2, therm right, ke2, therm uh. Every experience that i've had with calling their technical support has been very good. Those guys are on it.

They answer the phone at night time and different things like that. So if you have any questions about the ke2 therm products, don't hesitate to call them uh give them a call. They have a lot of great knowledge that they'll they're every time i've called they've been amazing. So i would think that you should be able to change from reverse cycle defrost to air defrost, but give them a call, i'm sure they can help you.

There might be more things you got to deal with with the system to be able to do that. Let's see what else we got in here, what's the point of variable speed, compressors todd the gamer. Well, if you have a variable speed compressor, it would actually solve a lot of my problems: minus the inverter that has to drive the compressor. I have restaurants that, let's just say, i have a refrigeration rack on the roof.

It has a two horsepower compressor in it right and it's running multiplex system, meaning that there's multiple systems downstairs with temperature controllers, solenoids and evaporators. Some of them run at plus 10. Some of them run at plus 25, okay, medium and slightly low temp and there's times when only one of those pan chillers it's a kyrex system will be calling when all the medium temperature refrigeration is satisfied right and but you still have a two horsepower compressor on The roof that still wants all that refrigerant coming back to it, but you just don't have the capabilities because you've got a very low btu pan chiller, so meaning that when the the demand isn't there, the compressor can slow down instead of running. So in my situation, when the pan chiller is running with nothing else, we're running really low, suction pressure, because there's not enough heat to to to you know, move basically, and the compressor is oversized.

So if i had a variable speed compressor, that was programmed right. That compressor can slow down and theoretically become a two-ton compressor or you know, a half-ton compressor because it slows way down and you know, still operate properly. Now, it's not as easy as just throwing a variable speed compressor in there. The system has to be designed appropriately, of course, you know but variable speed.

Compressors i mean the technology is amazing. When you think about it, i don't get to work on very many of them. I've only worked on maybe one or two but um. The technology seems great all right.

Let's see what else we got in here. Zero zone has the best support. I've talked to zero zone once or twice when i've done some drugstore work. It's not very often that i deal with that.