It's time to chill out 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. Hopefully you guys are doing okay.

Hopefully you guys had a nice weekend and we are getting ready to go back to work out here. As far as the restaurants opening back up it's coming, so I've gotten confirmation from several restaurants that they're not gon na open back up with a hundred percent capacity. They're gon na go limited capacity, but they are gon na be opening up. I think G this week.

Some of them, so it's gon na, be interesting, we're gon na see. I have a feeling in my area, because so many restaurants are gon na open up. At the same time, it's already. I've already got a bunch of calls lined up so we'll see how it goes.

Welcome to the hvac, our videos livestream I'd uh. If you guys don't already know, I'm assuming you do, but I do these every Monday evening, 5:00 p.m. Pacific. The whole point of these live streams is to kind of give my family more of my time when I started doing these YouTube videos they consumed me, because I was addicted to the comments I was addicted to the numbers.

I was addicted to everything and it was really difficult to not be staring at. My phone 24/7 to you know, answer the emails and the questions and everything like that. So hey there, I see Dan young you're from Springfield Missouri. I was actually born in Rolla Missouri Dan, very interesting.

I haven't been back there since I was a little kid. I still have family there, but but anyways back to what I was talking about. So I am, you know, that's the whole point of these streams is just try to give it more time for my family. So that way, I can focus on all the questions and emails that I get in the stream itself.

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Okay got a couple things that I want to cover as usual, and then I want to get to the chat talk about. What's going on there, I don't know about you guys, but I am done like with this whole virus thing Marcus. Thank you so very much for that super chat, but again much appreciated, but not expected. Okay.

Thank you very much, sir. So this whole virus thing's driving me nuts right. We have been going crazy slowly, we've been getting out more and more. We went to our local mountains because they opened up a bunch of the trails.

Last weekend and the week before this weekend, we actually had some close family friends come over. That was a trip. It was really interesting. We hung out and barbecued in the backyard.

You know tried to keep our distance and all that stuff, but it was really cool. It was nice to see human people and talk to human people and interact with human people. You know it just seems kind of silly that we can't, but again, let's not get political, but I'm just ready to get to some sort of normal. Coming out of this, you know whatever it's gon na, be I just I want to get on with it.

I'm ready to be there. Okay, I'm sure, as you guys are too it's a trip, we're just all ready to come back out of this. So hopefully you guys are safe and healthy, and I'm gon na look at the chat and see what I miss and if you guys have any questions, please post them in caps-lock. Okay, so make it all capital letters that helps myself or the moderators to see them, and then that helps to make sure that I actually get to the questions.

Okay, let me go ahead and get to a couple things. So the last two videos that I released - I released two videos this last week and they were: let's see we had kitchen AC. They were actually both AC videos. We had the kitchen AC was too hot.

That was one. It was a Linux packaged unit. The customer called me out there and I had to do a temporary fix, because the thermostat was bad and I didn't have a thermostat and I didn't want to open up a supply house. I really didn't want to be there any longer than I had to, because it was a late, I think, was an overtime service call if I remember right yeah, so I got them up and operational by taking the thermostat faceplate off of another thermostat.

Okay, because we're in the midst of this virus, we had a restaurant, that's not allowed to have customers in the dining room and the kitchen AC was down had about thermostat. I stole the dining room thermostat. It was literally just taking it off the wall, putting it on making sure that the program was right and it got me through the weekend until I can go back out there and replace the thermostat of which I did in the video and then also made some Major recommendations about preventative maintenance work to the customer of which they declined right now, um. You know I'm bummed out that the customers are declining the preventative maintenance work, but I understand it because everybody's just trying to survive right now, I'm just thankful that they call me to do any sort of a repair right.

So that way I have something coming in. I know that I'm gon na get the work. It's just you know it's gon na come at a later time. You know they're gon na have to do the maintenance work.

I showed a blower assembly that was about to shake off the roof. You know because the blower assembly was all out of balance like we're gon na get to fix that stuff. It's just gon na take time for or the dining rooms to open, back up and then they're gon na want it fixed it like. I said it is kind of a bummer, but you know I get it.

I understand everybody's just trying to survive as far as the restaurants and stuff, so they got to do what they got to do. The next video that I released was another Linux packaged unit and actually released it. This morning, this one was last week. It was for a couple days last week, actually was last Saturday and and then I had to go back out there Monday and then Tuesday.

But that was an interesting one, because I was called to a location that I do not normally service because they were having a problem with their existing service company. So they had me go out there and they had me. So I got distracted by the chat for a second, but they had me go out there and diagnose the unit found that it was an electrical short and then you guys saw in the video like. I went through the whole process and it was really a head-scratcher because it was an intermittent electrical short that happened, but then it didn't happen.

You know, went through the troubleshooting procedure, got it operational again. Another restaurant that needed a lot of preventative maintenance that they declined. Right now we will get it, but it's just going to take some time. I'm actually having that particular customer is calling me out to more and more their locations that I don't normally service, which is kind of out of my comfort zone, because, as the freeways open back up or you know, as business starts moving again, you know traffic is Just gon na jam up the freeways again right now that location that I released in the video today is about an hour and 10 minutes away from my house without traffic.

But you add traffic to the situation. It'll. Take me about two and a half hours to get there two to two-and-a-half hours depending on what time of the day you go. So I don't like to service that location just simply because of the traffic situation.

You know I don't know we may consider servicing that on a more permanent basis, but I'm gon na have to make some agreements with them where they're, maybe gon na pay me for travel time home or something like that, because it sucks to be working out in Los Angeles area and sit in two hours of traffic key at home every night. That's that's not what I want to do and not getting paid for it. You know yeah, not really my thing so ernesto hvac, our vlogger. You had to ask me a question about when I'm gon na have my shirts and stuff, so I'm supposed to get, I placed a big order.

What I consider to be a big order - it's probably not big in the grand scheme of things but like 200, something shirts and like 50, something hats or something like that that I ordered when I say big, it cost me a crap ton of money to pay Up front, but I place that order and I should be getting it late this week. I think I think, towards the end of the week, maybe like Thursday or Friday, and then I got ta figure out all the fun stuff of it. Okay, I am it is such a pain in the butt to do things, the way that I'm doing them, and it's because I'm so picky about the quality of stuff that I do and I liked I just like to control everything. I'm a freak when it comes to everything, I'm a control freak, so I I ordered eight it'll be here.

I got a set up some sort of a distribution whether it would be a website or something like that. I've already got the business license and the seller's permit and all that stuff figured out, but I just need to figure out the so you know the way that I'm going to distribute the products. I kinda only have a couple ideas of websites that I'm gon na use, but I need to design a website or come up with a method of doing that, and that's the hard thing for me, because I'm so particular in the way that I do things like. I don't want just a generic, you know page with just like real simple, I its kind of hard.

I have this in this vision in my head and I always want things to be this perfect way, and it holds me back in a lot of different ways. But hopefully so. The short answer to the question that you asked me or nesto is hopefully in the next two weeks. I should have a website set up and stuff with the ability to go ahead and start selling the merch distribute it so, like I said, and I will order more - they had a quick turnaround time when I ordered it and they printed everything and stuff.

So I'll be able to get more and more, if, if I see the product moving quickly, then of course I'll order more. I just like to do that way because then I control the product and I have it in my hands and I get to make sure that's something that gets sent out to someone looks good and isn't misprint or anything like that. So alright, right now, inde Iceman. Thank you very much man.

I really appreciate it. Man clean ballsed, it was it it was it a freakin, nut, cream, commercial or something like that that you had to watch. That's funny: dude man, Molly penderson, liquid entropy and liquid enthalpy. That question hurts my head.

I I would have to look that up to properly answer that question. That's that's too much information and I'm sure you can just type that in the Google search bar and Google will answer that for you. So all right, let's see what I already answered that one! All right can I ever show you the York predator unit test mode in one of my videos. Oh helpful and cool videos yeah.

So I remember you asked me a while ago about the York test mode and I thought I think they do, but I don't know for a hundred percent. If they have a test mode, I'm I think they have some sort of a test mode in New York. Predators, but you know I don't work on the York predator units very much so you know if I ever get an opportunity, sure I'll look into it. I think they have it on the newer ones.

They have a new circuit board and I think they have it on those, but I don't have any of the units with the super new circuit board, but um yeah. You know if I ever get the opportunity you got a guy's got to remember that I don't really plan my videos. My videos are based off a service call. So when I go out to a service call - and I have an opportunity to film something I do so - it's not like I go out and say: oh, I want to film a walk-in freezer call and I go find a walk-in freezer.

It doesn't work that way. I just happen to get a lot of walk-in freezer, walk-in, cooler and air conditioning calls. You know refrigerators all that stuff, so I tend to do the walk-in freezer walk-in coolers in the AC calls more than I do the small refrigerators, because I tend to send the employees to the refrigerator you like the little refrigerator calls and stuff. So you know it just just works out that way.

Let me see what else I got going on in here. Let me see, there's a test button. Yeah yeah, I know there's a test button. It's just I haven't.

I don't know if I've gone through the the test function of it. So all right, so I'm gon na get to my list of things to talk about right here. Okay, so I did talk, you know as far as the update about the virus and stuff is, you know we are slowly getting back to work. Work is picking up.

All my employees have come back to work, we've got them all back now we have traffic is starting to pick back up, and most restaurants, like I said a few minutes ago, are gon na be opening back up soon, so slowly getting back to normal. I think we're gon na have a real hit for the restaurants, though, because when they do open up, they can only open up to so much of a dining room. So that's going to be interesting whether or not it's gon na get enough to keep them up and running. That's gon na be the difficult thing for the restaurants, so let me see Leonard beers.

I don't know that I've covered a picture that you sent me Leonard. I don't think I got a picture, I don't know if I did or not. So let me see what else here are 290 question about using the pinch off tool with refrigerant in it. What was my opinion on it? Adam Neil, I use the the yellowjacket vice grip style pinch off tool with refrigerant on the other side of it or our 290.

That's really the only thing that I use it's a little bit sketchy at first, when you first do it, because you are pinching off with a flammable refrigerant on one side and you're, using an open flame on the other side to braise a line shut, but I've Never had a problem with it, you just be safe and be smart about it, but that's what I've always used. Is that pinch off? I love it. So I shouldn't say I love it, but I mean I I tolerate it so um. Let me see what else we got going on here: helpful in cool videos.

No, I did not know that you're, 11 years old, that's very interesting cool. All right can I use a DVD to run a single stage system like a variable. If so, how? I don't know what you mean by a DVD sorry, but a VFD. Can you use a VFD to run a single stage system like a variable? If so, how? No only if the system was designed for it, the compressor has to be capable of being ran by a VFD, and you know most of the time you have variable speed, compressors that are set up for that.

So that way they can slow down and speed up. You have to remember that if you just slow down any compressor, potentially you can cause overheat. Is you still have to have enough suction gas coming back to cool the windings of the compressor, there's all sorts of things you have to consider when you use a variable speed drive basically, okay, cool right on yeah, exactly Ernesto Ernesto lives up in Northern California, guys In the Bay Area he has HVAC our vlogger yeah, I know the traffic he sits and I don't sit and none of that stuff. Dude night I couldn't tolerate three and a half hours as a normal thing.

There's no way you boy, Daniel hack, work and commercial. There's all kinds of hack work and commercial. I've done plenty of hack work myself. So alright, let me get to my list here so Evan had asked me about advice on how to start applying at shops.

Okay, if I remember okay yeah so Evan is a new guy going to school, getting ready. I think you said he was getting ready to graduate and he wanted to know for advice on applying to shops, and then he also kind of had some questions about why employers asked for so much experience. Okay in general, right now, our trade is hurting very much for employees. We struggle for employees right now, especially experienced employees.

In fact, I announced on my video today that I'm looking for an experienced mechanic to come work, and might you know in my service area it's a struggle because, as a business owner, we have a lot of things now. I have no problem training people, I've trained. Many people over the years there's good things and bad things about training people, but training people is expensive, it's difficult and it requires a lot of your attention: okay, for instance, the way that I roll. If I have a trainee working with me for the most part, he's gon na be working with me every single day, okay, so what does that mean? That means that I have to be available to work every single day to keep him busy.

So that way he can work. The reason why I do that is because I want to be responsible for training of my service technicians. Okay, that way, they can see the way that I want to do things you know, and occasionally I'll put them with one of our other service mechanics, but for the most part I like to do the training. So it's a struggle sometimes also you know, training a service technician for me is not a profitable thing.

You know it's a gamble that you make in hopes that they stay so that way in the future they become a better service, technician and start to generate revenue. For you again for me the way that I do things you know, I bring a a trainee on basically as an apprentice, and he rides with me and essentially I really don't make much money off of them. While he's riding with me, okay, I usually occasionally will charge for his time and usually it just breaks, even because you also have to remember as an employer. I have to worry about employment taxes.

You know in all sorts of things like that and it gets expensive over time. Okay, the gamble of you know hiring someone and training them again. There's a gamble with that, I said, is that you're gon na put all this time and effort into this person, and then they potentially will leave when they're done being trained and take that knowledge that you gave them and move on somewhere else. Now, unfortunately, there's nothing.

You can do about that. I've had that happen many times. In fact, I can think of a service technician that uh that worked for me for a year straight. You know, and I trained him trained him trained him, and then you know he decided to go work somewhere else and it's like wow.

I didn't even get the opportunity to make any money off of that technician. It's it's that struggle that you have to do. Okay, in no way am i the perfect business and no way am i doing that, I'm sure there's lots of incorrect ways about or incorrect things about the way that I do things, but that's just how I roll okay. So to get back to your question, why? Our company is looking for experienced tax or why do they want all this experience is because we are desperate right now and we need service technicians that can hit the ground running right.

Now, I'm being bombarded with work to say you know, I mean in a way the Kovan thing happened, but before the Kovan thing you know I was being bombarded with work and you know the potential is there. I need the help, but it's hard because you you bring on a new service tech and you have to spend all your time doing that and it gets kind of difficult another thing. For me, a difficult thing is is when I have an apprentice riding with me. I still get the super difficult calls and I still take the super difficult calls so oftentimes the apprentice is going to get a lot of overtime, he's gon na be working late nights and things like that, so that becomes even more expensive for me.

So, of course, as a business owner, I want to find that diamond in the rough service technician that already has experience that can hit the ground running. You know, and then I realize that I'm gon na have to train him a little bit on. You know the ways that we do things and procedural and stuff like that. But as far as your question goes, I do employers.

One experience. It's just you know it's. It's cost-effective for us to hire someone that can hit the ground running and start generating revenue versus the amount of revenue we lose by training, a technician, but I have trained some really good service technicians. You know, and eventually everybody moves on, there's nothing.

You can do to control that you know you can do your best to try to keep them, but so tips about how to start applying at shops. Okay, so, depending on the legalities of your area, I always recommend this. Unfortunately, we can't really do this in California anymore, but I would highly suggest is reach if it's, if they can do this and it's legit, you know as an apprentice, reach out to a shop and say: hey. Can I come work with you for a couple days for free ride with them interview them just as much as they're interviewing you show them your work ethic and you know start your your potential application that way.

Okay, if someone is having a hard time saying, I just need someone with experience or throw on the fence about hiring him see if it's possible to offer your time for a day or two or longer to ride along and show your skills to them. Okay, that that's that's one way to do it like. I said, though, I can't really do that in California anymore, because the laws are so strict, it's a nightmare. We have to bring people on, it's just a liability.

Hopefully I answered your question. I know I kind of went off on a little bit of a rant as usual, but hopefully I got it all right, let's see um. What am I missing in the chat here? Let me see: Oh huh, that's funny. Yeah stream lab promoted the HVAC overtime show.

If you guys could please go subscribe to the HVAC overtime Channel? Okay, the reason why I say this is because they are threatening to kick me off of their show. Okay, I was invited to become a guest host. You know - and they kind of told me - you know they kind of teased me with this semi-permanent thing and then now they're threatening to kick me off and less subscribers go to their Channel. So please go subscribe to the HVAC overtime channel, so I can stay.

I really need that gig. You know, I'm just messing with you guys, but I am gon na be on the HVAC overtime show. You know whenever I can work permitting, so go check out that channel guys it's it's a cool Channel and it's a really cool. Hang out with myself and the other guys, and we you know, have a lot of fun just talking and stuff this last week I was super busy at work, so I ended up kind of calling in while I was on work.

You know and doing that. But it's it's a fun show so check it out. Okay, all right! Let's see what else Adam Neil! Thank you so very much for that super chat. That is awesome, but okay yeah.

I was still busy. That's right. They have right on all right. Let's see Chester Wolfe.

Thank you very much for that super chat. Have I ever worked on liquid pneumonia? Heavy industrial? No, I have not. I have not it's very interesting to me, but I've never worked on the heavy industrial or the ammonia refrigeration. So let me see what else what am I missing in here all right, I'm gon na get back to my list here.

The next question I had was from Lucas and Lucas wanted to know and - and I'm gon na read the question kind of you know that he wrote okay, he said he wanted to know where I got my skills from and how he could get them. I'm kind of paraphrasing a little bit there. Okay, and then he asked me if he should join an apprenticeship he's from Canada, okay, Lucas first off, and he had mentioned in his email that you know he was somewhat of a mechanically inclined person. I can't tell you where I got my skills from okay, my skills.

I do not think my of myself as an amazing service technician, I'm just another guy that happens to. I think, just how I think. The only thing that separates me from every other service technician, er that makes me unique - is that I'm inquisitive and I and I learn really quickly from my mistakes. Maybe okay, but majority of the information that I give and I share in the warnings and the tips is because I've made those mistakes.

Okay, I am human. I am not perfect. Alright, I have screwed up a lot of stuff. Luckily, I got away with it on a lot of it: okay, but some of it I had to pay the price, because I ended up having to pay customers.

There was one time in my the very early part of my career that I left a walking cooler off when I left a job and it stayed off the the customer did not realize I left it off for like 15 hours, okay or supposedly, they didn't realize It and I ended up having to split the cost of all the product in that walk-in cooler with the customer. I think that cost our company at the time. I was just a service technician. I think it cost us three grand and we split it with them.

So I think they had to throw away $ 6,000 in product. That was it. That was a learning thing right now, there's a lot to that story. You know, really they didn't notice for fifteen hours that I had left it off like.

How is that really? My fault, you know, that's a restaurant, they go in and out of the box, the cooks were in and out of it. So that's why we split the cost because they tried to come at us with that. That was six thousand dollars in product and I said you know, and then we kind of negotiated back and forth and told them no, no, no, no, it doesn't work that way. You guys have some fault here too.

Yes, I left it off, but oh my gosh, you know but anyways you know so I learned from my mistakes and I've certainly made a ton of them. Okay, we own up to our mistakes and we try to be as honest as possible, but there's nothing super special about me other than you know. I feel like I just kind of learned from that stuff. So how can I teach someone my stuff like? How can you get the skills that I have? I try to share as much of that as I can in my videos.

I try to show the information as far as the apprenticeship. You know what you need to do what's best for you and your family. I certainly don't know the the the work environment in Canada, I'm pretty sure it's somewhat of a union strong heavy place. Certainly, we've got some friends in here HVAC, our North Joe, is from Canada and a couple other people are from Canada.

You know they could probably answer your question a little bit better, but Union non-union either way you need to do what's best for your family, but you need to weigh out the benefits. Okay, I live in California. The union is not strong, but I'm not saying it's not a good place to go, but you just have to consider that it depends on what you want to work on what kind of training you have to go through. Traditionally, Union jobs offer some of the best education out there.

Now that's not the case for everywhere, but if you can get educated with the union company and be profitable and make good money doing so, I strongly suggest you do so. Okay, if it works good for you and your family, all right so feel free. If I didn't answer your question enough to you know, email me some more or feel free to ask some of the guys in the chat, if you're in here right now. That happened to live in Canada.

They can kind of talk to you a little bit more about what's the best bet, depending on the area you live in and stuff. Okay, all right, let me see what else I'm missing in this chat right here. Yep, making mistakes is how you learn to be a better service technician, and that is true. You know - and I do say something often times in my videos - that I try to share the mistakes that I've made so that you won't make them at the same time.

I realize that you won't necessarily learn everything just from the mistakes that I've made. You're gon na have to make your own mistakes too, but if you can have a little bit of knowledge, maybe the mistakes won't be as bad. Maybe you can remember. Oh, I remember seeing that in Krista's video this happened.

You know that kind of stuff. I would highly suggest you uh. You know at least just try to think about things. You know when I was in school.

The way that it worked for me was, I was taught by my father. I was taught by you know my senior technician that I worked under by both of them and I went to school at the same time. Each one of them would give me a different way on how to do the same task: okay or how to fix the same thing like a motor starter. I'd get a description from my dad.

I'd get a description from my mentor and then I'd get a description from school and all three of those kind of sat in my brain. Until one day I was in school and they were talking about motor starters, magnetic motor starters or motor safety controls for exhaust fans, and one day I was sitting in school and it was really confusing. We were going over schematics and then it all clicked each one of the three methods that I had been told about how they work. It kind of all made sense in my head and it just like snap and then now they totally make sense to me and it's like oh they're, not that intimidating.

After all, it's really just a set of contacts in a holding circuit and an overload. Okay, no big deal right, but it took three different methods of teaching me. So maybe I could be one of those methods for you guys, maybe you're not going to understand everything that I say in my videos, but maybe you know I could just be that one little bit of information that you're missing or help to you know chair. You know give you something you know, and maybe it'll click in your head too.

If that makes sense to you so all right, let's see what else we got in here. Let me see but boat bahan Bojan. I don't know how you say your name. You said some some text don't learn from their mistakes, they keep making them and other texts fix them.

That's very frustrating when people don't learn from their mistakes or they continue to do the same thing over and over again. Okay, there is no such thing as a super tech, and that is absolutely correct. Familia sanchez says that absolutely correct: there's just service technicians, okay, there's guys that have a lot of knowledge and usually, if they tell you, they've, never made mistakes. They're lying to you, because majority, the people's knowledge comes from mistakes that they've made or lessons that they've learned.

So would I ever consider a tech with his own truck and pay him accordingly, mr. ice yeah? No, we can't do that here, because a liability in California there's too much liability and our insurance companies would eat us alive, for instance. The reason why is I have to have liability insurance on my vehicles right and you know we have very, very very high coverage amounts of liability insurance and if a service technician, you know, says, they're gon na have their own insurance. You know we would have to be named on their insurance.

It would have to go through so many hoops that it wouldn't be beneficial for the service tech. They wouldn't be able to afford the insurance insurance that we have to carry to keep them in the vehicles and then the other thing is is like maintenance and things like that. Let's say that they're not maintaining their vehicle, see the insurance isn't its it just it. Just leads into a legal nightmare: California is a nightmare to do that kind of stuff.

With many many years ago, we had a service technician that did that, but there's no way we could do it now due to liability. Let's see Marcus um. Have I gotten your emails, it's possible Marcus. I think I did.

I think you emailed me earlier, but I don't really remember right now. You not, you know, that's a great point so guys I get hundreds of emails and I try to answer them as much as I can. Sometimes some of the emails are more detailed, so they take a lot of time to answer and it can be kind of difficult. It's not that I'm ignoring you guys.

It's just that. I get an insane amount emails. So I'm trying I try my best, but that's one thing that I have to be able to let go of to keep my sanity as a creator is, I can't be too attached to this. Of course, I don't want to distance myself and I don't want to not be attentive to my followers and viewers and people asking me questions and stuff.

It's just who man sometimes it is difficult, and I have to be honest with everybody this last week like it, you know I didn't want to make a video last night. I I was you know I I edited it and I was getting ready to upload it. Last night, and then I decided to do it this morning, but, like I didn't want to, I was just burnt out plus I had a really good weekend and I just wanted to keep that flow. Going of just chilling out with my family and friends - and you know having a nice chill weekend, but I did I uploaded it and I actually feel good when I do upload, because I do like to read the emails and stuff.

But I just don't necessarily get to answer them all. So what's the difference between evaporators superheating, compressor, superheat, well, evaporator, superheating, compressor superheat are the same thing: you're just measuring it at a different place. Okay! So now, typically, if your evaporator superheat is 10 degrees, then your compressor superheat is definitely going to be a lot higher, as the suction line absorbs more heat on the way to the compressor. Okay, there is usually a number that Copeland recommends.

They want you to have some sort of superheat coming back to the compressor. They don't want you to have zero super heat, because zero superheat you'd be flooding back your compressor with liquid refrigerant, and that would be no good, but there is no difference other than the place that you measure it. So you take the suction saturation temperature of you know the refrigerant, essentially, okay, depending on the blend, it gets a little bit more confusing, but you essentially take the saturation temperature of the refrigerant and you compare it to the suction line: temperature, okay and you're, going to Calculate your superheat, you do the same thing at the evaporator. You do the same thing at the compressor.

It's just that your compressor number is going to be a higher number. The evaporator is going to be a lower number. Essentially, though, you know in a system, we want our superheat as low as possible to get the most efficiency out of our evaporator, but we can't have a certain. You know you need to have so much superheat coming back to the compressor to make sure that we protect the compressor from flood back or you know, we don't want to overload the compressor so oftentimes on the low temp stuff that we run lower.

Superheat they'll. Add you know suction line accumulators and things like that heat exchangers to try to make sure that we don't have to Lois super heat coming back, but again to be that you know they're pretty much the same Chris. Thank you so very much for that super chat. I really really appreciate it.

Okay again, I I'm gon na keep addressing this. I do appreciate those that's awesome, but it is not expected and you guys do not need to do that, but thank you very much. Chris, okay, I see you saw a video that had keg taps and I talked about how the fluid was not my problem with distributors. What point would I cross that line for the customer? Okay, I'm trying to understand your question, so you you saw a video that had keg taps and I talked about how the fluid was not my problem with distributors.

What point would you cross? I don't know if I quite understand your question Chris, because I think I need context so in general, I'm gon na just kind of talk vaguely, and hopefully I answer your question. Okay, you can try to rephrase it if you want to so. I work on glycol systems, okay, where we take a glycol mixture and we cool the beer lines, I'm assuming that's what you're talking about bud and I work on those units. But it's a great area because the beverage distributors they handle the glycol system, repairs.

Okay, so glycol in a system if they have dirty glycol, I don't change the glycol. Okay, I can add it just to get them by, but the beverage company, the beer company, they typically service the glycol system and then they'll call us for the refrigeration repairs. It's just that weird thing I don't. I don't set regulators on glycol systems as far as beer systems and things like that.

That's why the beverage company - because they know what the gas pressures need to be for pushing the beer through the system. They know what to set the nitrogen at or the co2 or, whatever. You know, compressed gas they're using to push the beer through the lines. So they usually handle the the glycol and the glycol lines, and I really just work on the power pack unit or the glycol unit in the attic.

So I'm hoping I answered your question for you and that's pretty typical out here in Southern California - is you're going to have a beverage company that handles you know the beer and the fluid the glycol that's flowing through the lines. They'll change it they'll change the lines. If there's leaks, but if there's a refrigeration repair, they usually push that on to me: they'll actually sell them and install new glycol units or power pack units, but then they just call me to service them. Hopefully that answers for you, but all right.

Let's see what else am I missing in here? What is approach temperature, so I must have gotten four or five emails and comments about approach, and I do have that on my list to talk about right now: okay, so where's, my list right here. I have a okay right here, so approach temperature. I use it quite often because Linux, manufacturing or Linux package units and residential units they use approach temperature as a charging metric. Okay.

They often want you to weigh the factory charge in, but then, if you're verifying charge, they want you to look at the approach temperature on the systems with the TXV. Okay, now approach is nothing new people are like what is this voodoo magic approach has been around forever guys and it's actually used in several mechanical trades across the board. All right, so the if you look at actual dictionary definition of approach is approach. Temperature is literally the difference between two fluid streams.

That's that's the answer. Okay. So, in our case, if I wanted to measure the approach temperature on a Linux packaged unit, what I would be measuring is the difference between the outdoor air coming into the condenser and the liquid line surface temperature. So we're not putting our gauges on the system to measure approach.

We are literally taking a temperature clamp measuring the liquid line temperature coming out of the condenser and we are measuring the outdoor air before it passes through the condenser okay. So I always tell people it's an ass backwards: sub coin method: okay, it's a non-invasive, condenser performance method of measuring it, okay, so approach. The really cool thing about approach is that if you've started up a system and you've commissioned a system - and you can actually use approach on other equipment to, but if you've started up a system and commissioned a system and measured the approach temperature with a clean condenser And with a proper refrigerant charge, you can then take that approach temperature from that point forward and compare the system to that same approach. Temperature.

If you ever go back, it's a non-invasive way of measuring the performance of the condenser okay. So that's what the approach is. So again, liquid line temperature coming out of the condenser okay. You have to be careful, though, if it's a multiple stage system you have to especially on the Lennox units.

I think I said this in my last video that 15-ton Lennox unit that I worked on has three stages: okay, so it has three sections of condenser that you have to be concerned with. If you're gon na measure the outdoor air temperature, you have to measure the outdoor air temperature in front of the condenser section that you're working with so the first stage, second stage and third stage in my unit, we had potentially two to three different places. We could measure the outdoor air temperature and it does matter. Okay, Lennox typically wants you to have a certain approach temperature.

If your approach temperatures way too low, then theoretically, you can be overcharged. If your approach temperatures way too high. Theoretically, you could be undercharged okay, but approach can also be affected by dirty condenser and different things like that. So you have to make sure that you have a good baseline measure, your approach and follow it from there.

One thing I will say is that oftentimes on the Linux equipment they will have on the package units. They will have an approach temperature that they want you to follow. But if you've never measured that approach temperature, you know there may be a crappy installation. You know you may have a consistently dirty condenser.

You need to make sure all your equipment is operating properly before you dive into the approach. Okay, and also Linux, will tell you that approach. Temperature is not good if you have a gross under judge, so Linux actually gives you some baseline pressures that they expect your system to be operating at a certain ambient temperature and then, if, within those ranges, you then set your approach and add charge or remove charge. Based on that approach, so again it's kind of like an ass backwards way of subcooling.

Hopefully I answered that question for you. Let me see what else have I ever done: residential HVAC? No, I mean other than for family members and friends. No, I do not do residential and a regular. It's not really something that I'm too interested in doing.

Of course, I would do it to survive if I had to, but it's not really something that I'm super interested in doing you know I, like the commercial side of things I like dealing with facilities, managers and stuff like that, it's just easier. Let me see eight years ago, you notice that your ACS vents started to fill with water when it rains. What could cause this? You were thinking, humidity problems, dogs, green. It really depends on where you're at so.

Yes, if you have a really high relative humidity and your space, you know you can you can have moisture problems. If you have, you know, roof leaks or anything like that. It can cause moisture problems. It really depends.

Okay. If your system is oversized, it can cause major moisture problems. You know air conditioning really needs to operate within a certain window, especially depending on your environment. There is no one-size-fits-all.

If you have a contractor. That tells you that you have a 2,400 square foot house and that needs a four ton unit there. They don't they're, not giving you correct information, they're, they're, making a guess - and maybe an educated guess but they're making a guess, because every single installation is different in one way or another. Depending on the insulation in your house, your ambient conditions, the humidity levels, who knows? Okay, for all they know, you know you could be have a pot farm in your house, you know and you need to maintain humidity levels.

You know or something I mean, there's so many different variables that can go into this. So every installation is different and we need not take a cookie cutter approach to installing and designing systems. We need to treat each one individually. Now I realize that probably 99 % of the companies out there do not do proper load calculations and different things like that.

Nothing against those companies, because even myself, I have customers that want me to replace their air conditioning equipment on the roof a package unit, and they don't want to pay for a load calculation. They just want me to put back what was there okay, so I make sure I tell them, and I get him look I'll put back. What's there whether or not that's correct, I don't know you know, I give them the information upfront if they want to go with that cookie cutter approach. That's fine, but I need to do my due diligence and make sure that they know that.

So what can cause your water issues in your house? It's hard to say you need a proper analysis of your system. Someone needs to come in and measure the delivered capacity. Measured the the humidity removal, the moisture removal from the they need to measure a lot of different things. Okay, there could be a whole bunch of different stuff going on that can cause a lot of moisture.

Buildup in your house. Moisture is not good by the way too, because that can lead to mold and bacteria and all kinds of different issues, so you want to get that stuff taken care of that can cause a lot of health issues too. Let me see, I see a lot of questions going by. Forgive me if I miss and I'm repost them guys.

Okay, do scroll, compressors have higher compression ratios than reciprocating compressors, whether or not they have an exact higher compression ratio. I do not know the answer to that one, I'm trying to think here right now, um, I wouldn't say that they have higher compression ratios. Well, no, I guess they might, depending on the size or something I I kind of need some context to your question. There.

Christian, let me see, can I use 134a as a replacement for our 12:22 cap tube systems without changing the oil you're not supposed to r134a is meant to be working with polyester oil and typically, while r12 is with mineral oil and r22 in the early stages. Was mineral oil and then towards the end it went with polyester oil. So no, it's not just a swap the refrigerant now you're, probably gon na need to do an oil change now. Will it work maybe for a while? Would I do it? No because it's not worth the liability or the risk for me, let me see what else we got going on in here.

Okay, I got a question on here and let me mark this one off Leonard had asked me Leonard, had sent me a picture. Forgive me if you had asked this in here Leonard. I know a few people were asking me if I got their emails um and I I'm bad with remembering stuff. That's why I have to have a written down on a sheet in front of me.

So Leonard had asked me: he sent me a picture and he said hey what is this valve and why is it being used and the valve that he sent me a picture on was actually a valve that I just talked about last week and it is a Discharge temperature, controlled expansion valve it was a DTC valve. Okay, this right here all it is - is an expansion valve guys. Okay, I've talked about expansion valves many times on my channel. Okay, this is a standard thermostatically-controlled expansion valve that I did a cutaway on.

Okay, you have a thermostatically-controlled set, you have, a sensing bulb, opens and closes the valve. Alright, this one right here, it's pretty much the same thing: the sensing bulbs a little bit different. The sensing bulb is just this. This well is pushed into a spot in the head of the compressor, and all that it does is help to cool off the the head of the compressor.

Basically, this is meant to go on a scroll compressor. This is a Copeland product. It's called a DTC valve. Okay, it's a rendition of a temperature responsive expansion valve that Copeland.

I mean that spoilin has, but this right here was custom designed for Copeland. It's meant to go on a road, a lock connection on the compressor and all that it does is under really high compression ratio situations on low temp compressors. This right here helps to cool the head of the compressor, because that can be a problem. So your question that you had asked me was, you know: is this a sensing bulb? Yes, it is.

This drives the valve open whenever the head of the compressor gets. I think it's above 220 degrees, I think it's 225 or 250, or something like that. But you got to understand: that's the internal temperature of the compressor. That's what opens it it's there to maintain.

You know 200 to 220 or lower discharge temperature, measured on the discharge line. Okay, so hopefully that answers your question for you, Andy or Leonard. Let me see what else I have on my list here. Let me look at the chat, real quick, the 98 Deville have, I ever gone behind another company and it was such a mess that I had to walk away.

No, I don't say I can't say that it was a mess that I had to walk away. I certainly have gone behind other companies and I'm sure other companies that probably I'm not gon na, be vain and say that I'm not my doesn't stink. I'm sure someone's come behind me and talk crap too. So who knows, but I can't think of an instance where I just walked away from a job I I would always give the customer an option.

So you know, if I walk in and it's a nightmare. Well then, heck yeah, I'm gon na bid that so high that they're not gon na use me I've done that. But if I did get the job I was gon na make out like a bandit, because I wasn't gon na go through all the headache of dealing with the nightmare that that previous company had to do or the customer or whatever so have. I ever really walked away my job per se like no I'm not gon na.

Do this. No, I don't think so. I I would just maybe just approach the job and say well, if I'm gon na, do this, I'm gon na make out like a bandit. So here's my quote: you know that kind of thing.

That's how I would approach that situation and there'd be a lot of disclaimers and they're. More than likely all the equipment's going to be replaced - and you know certain situations have to be met by the customer involving electricians and plumbers and different things like that. Let me see what I'm missing in here, oh yeah, the movie quotes already coming in there. I don't know if anybody gets the movie or the song quotes yet, but they'll be coming in soon.

What do I mean when I say different stages, working on a unit, so six are Rhett. I think that's how you say your name so, depending on the type of equipment, so I have they'll still separate the equipment in two stages, meaning that I have three different compressors and the reason why we do this is because the heat load on the building requires. So many BTUs at a certain ambient, but as the indoor temperature of the building drops, we don't necessarily need that equipment to perform as much as if it was really hot in the building. Okay, so that's just say: the building requires 15 tons of air-conditioning.

Ok, 15 tons is a metric. It's a measurement of how many BTUs our system requires. Our equipment is required to remove the heat load of the building. Hopefully, that makes sense.

I think I butchered that a little bit, but so, instead of having a 15-ton compressor that when it turns on it, cools down the building instantaneously, we staged that equipment and we have three different compressors that are five tons, each okay, the theory behind that is that.