I cannot live well that wasn't supposed to happen. It went live before it went, live, go figure that was a little awkward. Let's go ahead and do this right and maybe cue up the intro music like it's supposed to happen, and maybe do that and maybe do that and stupid thing. How about that? So, ah, it's time to chill out and get ready for a mediocre q, a live stream if you're old enough grab yourself your favorite adult beverage and if you're not stick with apple juice, put your feet up and relax.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the chat and now, let's queue up the intro music, so yo. How are you guys doing this evening? Technical difficulties as usual? Something always has to happen. I don't know what it is, but my streaming software for the longest time you couldn't hit, go live for my streaming software. It wouldn't force youtube to go, live, i'm sure it had something to do with youtube and then all of a sudden.

So you would have to hit live on the streaming software and then you would have to hit live on youtube. So good thing i wasn't standing in my underwear or something because i hit live on the streaming software and i never hit live on youtube and it went live but oh well, i guess you live and you learn who cares? I really appreciate you guys making it to the live stream. It's been a good week. Nothing too crazy had a couple good jobs.

Couple good videos, the last couple weeks or the last week, so that was cool work is slowing down a little bit, but i still have a lot of projects going on uh construction jobs. I call them so hopefully we'll be starting, knocking those things out as time comes and, unfortunately, a lot of the construction stuff. I can't really get on film because the construction jobs, what i call construction, is like um, you know retrofit replacements and that kind of stuff where you just replace existing equipment, because, most of the time i've got multiple people there and it's just the logistics of giving Everybody film on film as a nightmare, so i've kind of made a choice not to put my employees on film, and so it just gets to kind of be a pain in the butt to try to film when you're doing these install jobs. But i've been trying to post a lot more on instagram too, so that's where that stuff can come in you know i can like take a little clip of something that i'm doing and actually post it on instagram but anyways.

I really appreciate you guys all making it in here. Do me a favor if you guys have any questions, please put them in the chat in caps, lock, okay, so that way myself or the moderators can see them. If i don't answer your question, keep reposting it until i answer it or myself, or one of the moderators tells you to stop answering it. Okay, i'm going to start this off with a little introduction.

Like i've been doing a lot lately, we got a lot of new people coming into the stream. I know my name is chris, i'm just an hvacr service technician, i'm nothing special, i'm not any better than anybody else. Okay, i just happen to have a platform. I make these youtube videos originally for my own employees as a training aide and i started uh.

I eventually made them public, and here we are now it's been about a year two years now, almost i think i've been doing this and um it's pretty cool, it's very humbling to see the the audience grow. It's very humbling to see the emails and the comments and all that different stuff, it's kind of crazy, so it is cool um. How much have i worked with ddc? I really haven't worked anything with ddc other than going to school and taking a class for building automation and learning about ddc and different stuff like that, but um. No, i haven't worked anything with ddc, so i got a little list of things as usual that i want to talk about and then obviously want to get to the chat too.

So, let's see what we can get into today, um. So i want to start this off by thanking everybody. Okay, you guys are awesome um. I really do appreciate all the support that you guys have given me uh it not not necessarily just monetary support, but just in in watching the videos, uh acorn picture diagnosis.

Thank you very much for that super chat man. I really appreciate it um. Thank you connor. It took me a minute to realize who that was so um.

You know i do appreciate the support. Thank you guys, so very much if you guys are interested in supporting the channel. The easiest way to do so is simply just watch the youtube videos. Okay, leave me a comment: if you feel inclined watch through the commercial uh, that's you know.

Let youtube pay me that that helps me the most. I do appreciate the people that have chosen to do super chats or i also have patreon patrons. I have youtube channel members um, you guys are all awesome and thank you so very much and i am working on a way to go ahead and recognize you guys so um. It's going to take me a while, because it takes me forever to do anything with this stream so, but that will come sooner than later, where i have some sort of recognition for the people that have supported the channel okay.

So thank you very much, um. Also, the last uh i forget to mention this all the time, i'm the worst person when it comes to any business crap but uh. I have a a website, hvacr videos.com, and on that website you can purchase merch. So these shirts, that i'm wearing right now are available.

John. Thank you. So very much for that super chat. That is awesome again guys.

The super chats are not needed. They're much appreciated. You do not have to do them. I will keep doing these streams, no matter what, but thank you so very much.

Okay. I am uh very, very um thankful for all the support that i can get. Okay, all right, so i had two videos this week: okay, uh, the two videos that i had as usual is uh titled, the kitchen ac smells funny. Okay and the kitchen ac has a major leak, so the kitchen ac has a major leak.

That was one that i'd been working on for a long time, uh just setting that project up, because i knew that the compressor was going to be a heavy lift to get it onto the roof and um everything went down pretty good okay. It really wasn't that big of a deal you guys can certainly watch the video all kinds of questions. You know revolving around those two videos, so i'm going to dive into those so um, first and foremost, the first thing i wanted to talk about tonight is protecting yourself. Okay, when it comes to thinking about your body, thinking about your health and all that different stuff.

Okay, in my recent video, i set up a gantry lift to get a 75 pound compressor on the roof. Now 75 pounds is not the worst thing in the world. Okay, i certainly would have struggled very much, but i could have gotten that on the roof. Okay, because it's a 40-foot roof pole um, it would have been a struggle, but i would have gotten it up all right, but i chose not to do that.

Okay - and i mentioned something on social media - that as i get older, i start to really second-guess myself with the stuff that i used to think like. I was just going to be superman and just get it done as you get older and again, i'm not that old, i'm 37 years old, but still as you get older, you really start to think about things. Okay, i'm already having a hard time hearing whether or not it's work related. I don't know, but it would be a strange coincidence if it wasn't.

I guess i don't know if that's the right way to say that, but it would be strange if it wasn't work related, because i've worked around noisy stuff. My entire life and i haven't protected my ears very much at all. Okay, but i'm also starting to have some eyesight problems, not horrendous, but i'm starting to have some issues where i'm noticing, like hey, i used to be able to see that, and i can't um philip. Thank you so very much for that super chat man.

That is awesome. Thank you very much guys. This is. This is really cool, i'm very humbled by it.

So you know when it comes to our bodies, we really need to start thinking about that kind of stuff. Okay, at a younger age, i should have been more concerned with taking care of myself. I know that you know you wake up in the morning and you're sore, you're stiff and all that stuff and obviously nobody's perfect. But if i took care of myself - and i was more physically active when it comes to personal time and stuff like that - i certainly wouldn't be a sore in the morning, all right but better late than never right.

Where i start to think about things and i decide hey, you know what that's a little heavy. I don't want to lift that compressor onto the roof. Okay, um and it's something that i've just personally decided to do now. There's a fine line too.

I wanted to discuss this because i didn't want people to think that i'm advocating for a new technician - that's just getting into the industry to say you know, he's got a 30 pound compressor that he needs a crane for okay come on. We got to be realistic here all right, but you know when you start to get 50 60 pounds or higher. I mean you really need to start thinking about things, but there's also a smart way to lift things. You need to be cautious if you're, in a position where you know something can happen, you can get hurt.

You do need to speak up. Okay now, sometimes your boss may say: hey. You know what man, let's just try to think about a better way to do this. You know or something like that.

Okay, don't be a punk about it, don't refuse jobs, necessarily okay, really think twice before you go up to someone and say i can't do this. All right, i'm not advocating for everybody to be a la la basically and not ever do anything peter smart. Thank you. So very much for that super chat.

I really appreciate it um. You know you don't want to be a la la, but at the same time you want to be concerned about your health, so be careful. Okay, wear your safety glasses, but there's some things in there right. So i get comments all the time i should be wearing gloves when i'm bracing.

Yes, theoretically, you should, when you go to welding class right and they teach you how to weld, they teach you all different types of welding and they teach you brazing too. They tell you, wear brazing, gloves or wear welding gloves, okay, but when you get out in the real world, you start to realize some things and you realize hey, i'm working on these tiny little things and i can't really work with what i'm working on. You know when i have these giant gloves on so i've made a personal decision when i'm brazing. I typically don't wear gloves.

Okay, that's my choice now um. Do. I necessarily think everybody should be that way? No okay, but i've made a choice that i don't wear gloves because it makes it harder and more things we have more potential for a danger or damage to happen when i'm wearing brazing gloves because things slip out of my hands, i can't hold things properly, but Obviously, at the same time, i have you know if you look at my arms after i've been they've, gotten wet and they're hot, like i have burn marks all they look like track marks down my forearms right and they're not track marks. I promise you that it's just burn marks from discharge lines and whatever, okay, so there's a fine line between safety and being able to function when you're at work and different things like that.

Obviously you want to default to safety as much as possible. Okay, but you also just need to know it's a 20 pound compressor. You can lift that up under the roof. Okay, but you know you got to be practical, though too right try to work smarter, not harder.

I know that's like a cliche term, but i really do i'm a lazy person at heart, so i try to be as smart as possible. Yes, i'm going down to my van, so i'm gon na take something that kind of stuff. Okay, um. I've got some interesting stories that i can think of some instances where i lifted things i never should have lifted onto a roof.

Okay, um, i can think of one story where i wish that one of the old guys that i used to work with not the old guys but he's about my age, but there's a technician that we kind of came up in the trade together and we worked Together and uh, we lifted a two and a half three horsepower condensing unit onto the side of the roof. One time by using an extension ladder, we pushed it up the extension ladder and i'm gon na tell you that the worst thing in the world guys um. I was thinking about this. I said this recently on a stream or something somewhere that i think i was underneath it pushing.

No, i wasn't the other guy was underneath it pushing right. He wasn't even holding onto the ladder he was. We were pushing it against the ladder and he was pushing up walking up the ladder. The extension ladder fully extended and i was on the top pulling it with a rope and we could barely get that thing up and there was a point when he looked up at me and he basically said dude, i'm gon na.

Let it go like this is crazy and i remember telling him no, no, no, you know and i reached over and i pulled the condensed unit over the roof. That was one of the stupidest things we've ever done. I i still remember that as one of the scariest moments, because we were more concerned about a condensing unit than we were our safety and that's not cool we've all done some stupid things, i'm sure everybody has silly stories. Okay, i also did one too, where i have this equipment - lift that i lift things up onto the roof and i get fully extended.

I can get equipment 26 feet up, but i was working on a three-story, no two-story shopping, mall, um and uh. It only went halfway, and so i lifted this big giant air handler or makeup air unit halfway and then myself and another technician were leaning over the roof edge right over the edge, no supports nothing holding us on and we were roping. The rest of this thing up that was one of the stupidest things we've ever done. It's guys, it's not worth it.

I remember thinking like i will never do that again after we were done with that job. It was so dangerous, so unsafe you know. Sometimes we get caught up in this stuff where we think like. Oh, we just got to get the job done and you got ta, stop and think about safety and think about yourself like had i fallen off the building.

You know everything would have been ridiculously bad right. My family would have dealt with the fact that i was dead, laying on the floor. It's not worth it. Okay, um, but again we have to be realistic in the stuff that we say no to okay, that 20 pound compressor, that 30 pound compressor.

Okay, you could probably lift that under the roof, okay, but we need to be more concerned with safety and less concerned with getting the job done fast fast fast. You know we got to think about safety when it comes to that kind of stuff, all right um. Let me see what i got in the chat right here, so um, i'm looking through right now alex. Thank you so very much.

You guys these super chats that are coming through. These are awesome. You guys are awesome. Um yeah, i you know, there's so many things that i've done, that i shouldn't have done carrying things up the ladder.

Definitely i've fallen off a ladder too, and i was so lucky that i fell on a cage and didn't land on the ground. That was so dangerous of me all right, i'm going to scroll down here. I've never done the extension ladder on top of the van, never done that before so um. All right, that's funny! You hire as many lazy people as you can get.

They will find the easiest way to do something. That's pretty funny: okay, um, let's see lm sylvia, you said you lifted a six and a half ton carrier, semi alone, with just one snatch block and a rope. That's that's pretty tough man that compressor that i lifted with that pulley system uh. That was a four to one pulley system, so one two three four pulleys and it was roped to where it was reducing the weight and it was a seven and a half ton.

Scroll compressor, so it was about 70, just over 75 pounds, so it wasn't ridiculously heavy, but it was heavy enough that i decided to do a pulley system for it um. Thank you so very much for that super chat. Okay, um, let's see molly, you said how hot does steam boilers get before they crack and break. I have no idea, i mean it really has to do with the structural integrity of the metal and all that stuff.

That's some serious science stuff that i'm not smart enough to talk about. So ernesto is in here hvac our vlogger. He has a youtube channel too, so he had given me a pre-show topic and it's actually a pretty good topic. I think i've covered a little bit of this before and it's basically just about your family right being there for your family and um how hard this industry can be on our families, and that's very true many of you guys know, especially you guys in the supermarket Sector, you guys know how hard this can be on the family.

This is crazy. On the family, the divorce rate is pretty high in hvac and just like any other trade, it's pretty high, especially on-call trades. You know my wife and i we struggle with this stuff. We've talked about this stuff.

We've actually done streams about this stuff. We've done videos, i should say videos about it. If you look on my channel called uh the hvacr life series, i think it's how we live the hvac, our life, it's myself and my wife and we're just going over a few topics. Talking about depression, anxiety, anger, health issues, money different stuff, like that, and one of these days, we'll probably do another episode but um.

You know everything's about communication. I am in no ways a counselor, a therapist or any of that stuff. Don't take anything that i say to heart: okay, always talk to someone because there's many other people much smarter than i, but it really has to do with communication. Okay, um.

You know my wife and i we talk. I let her know like hey. I got ta. Go to work or hey, i'm on call.

We let her know ahead of time. Okay and she knows, and she's known my wife and i pretty much - grew up together. We dated in high school and got married after high school and have been together ever since so she's known hvac, her entire adult life. I mean that's all i've ever done and she's always known that does that excuse the fact that um, you know i'm on call all the time, no, not necessarily, but at least we communicate about it and she knows about it ahead of time.

But you know when you don't have good communication and you don't talk about things in general, it. It leads to all kinds of problems. Okay, um. I would argue that it's not hvac that caused your divorce.

It's a problem within your relationship that caused your divorce and it was maybe you weren't communicating. Maybe you were an or she was a punk or whatever okay, but it's not hvac. That's the problem! Okay! At any given moment, any of us can quit our jobs and go do something different. We have that choice.

Okay, that is our choice and our choice alone. That is nobody else's decision to make. We can do it, we have the power. So if we don't choose to do that, then that really just puts the problem on us and that has nothing to do with our career.

Okay. Now it is easy to say that hvac causes a lot of divorces, but i i argue, that's really not the problem. The problem is: is that there's some sort of a relationship problem? In no way do i have a perfect relationship with my wife. We argue we bicker.

We have problems, okay, we're normal we're human, okay, uh. The one thing we do have, thankfully, is we have good communication and when she's upset she tells me i'm upset this pisses me off. You made me angry. You did this this past weekend.

I know that she got really angry with me because um i was in my office, we were working together, we were shipping out some merchandise and we were packaging orders and i got really pissed off and i haven't done this in a very long time and i Have a printer that i was printing out the labels and i decided it wasn't working right and it was really irritating me and i just took my fist and i hulk smashed the printer without telling her without telling it scared the crap out of her. But i mean it felt and the scary thing was: was it felt so good to smash that printer, with my hand, like it literally, was instant satisfaction by smashing that thing it smelled so freaking good, but then it was that instant regret of damn what happens if I hit something hard and busted my knuckles up like what happens. If i broke a bone, would i be able to go to work? I mean it's those things we don't think about in that moment of passion when we're angry and - and you know i just decide that i'm going to smash this printer, i didn't think about the repercussions. Luckily i wasn't hurt.

Everything was okay, but the scary thing was was how good it felt to smash that thing like it was just like. Oh instant relief. I haven't done that in so long probably need to go talk to the therapist about it, but it did feel good um. I mean so we deal with stuff just like everybody else: okay, we're human all right, um, let's see what else we got going on in this chat right now, uh yeah! You are perfect, that's funny! Um! Let me see what i'm missing in here: metal.

Okay, so on call is a a reprieve from marriage and kids old married guys know this is a blessing that is funny it's an excuse to get out of the house. I got ta go to work, even if you don't got ta, go to work all right um. So when i was doing my recent video and i was changing a reversing valve - i got a bunch of comments actually got quite a few people saying that it would have been much smarter to take a sawzall and cut the reversing valve off with the sawzall or Take a grinder with a cut-off wheel and cut the the the fittings off of the reversing valve. I mean.

I know people do that kind of stuff, but i'm not a fan of that because when you cut it with the sawzall, you cut it with a grinder. All the metal shavings are going to go into the system and that's going to become someone else's problem later. Okay. So no in my situation, i unsweat reversing valves and in my situation i had couplings that i could get to.

It was really easy for me to unsweat it in several sections. Take the whole reversing valve assembly, out of the unit braze on most of the fittings out of the unit, bring it back in and just do three bridge joints, so it wasn't too difficult. Oh excuse me: i'm yawning um, but that's just my choice. Okay, i'm not a fan of cutting things out when it, you know with a sawzall or a grinder, or something like that, but to each their own.

If you've done it good for you, it's just not my style of doing things, okay, um, but you do have to be careful too, because - and i wanted to address this - and i mentioned something in the video. I had another technician there working with me and he was giving me support. He was pulling on the lines while i was unsweating them and i told him be ready. There might be a flame out, okay, having situational awareness when you're working in these jobs.

Understanding you always want to try to think about what could go wrong. So in that situation we were working on that roof. We had a water hose nearby and i dragged the water hose over put a nozzle on it and had it ready just in case there was a fire. Okay, you try to think about the worst things that can happen.

I always i have a saying, and you can call me a narcissist or whatever you want to call me, but my saying is: if it can, it will okay, if it can happen, it will happen so be prepared for it when you're working on a region - and You have 12 screws that you just took out of the evaporator cover. If you put them on the ground, they can get kicked away, they probably will get kicked away so put them somewhere. They won't. Okay.

I always think about the worst. I prepare for the worst and ex and hope for the best. Basically, okay, that's just how i operate so i'm ready. I was ready for a fire.

I was ready for a flame out. I explained to my other technician that was there be ready for a flame out. It's gon na happen. Don't be afraid, don't let it burn you.

You know you. You try to think about that kind of stuff. All right. Let's see what i'm missing in this chat right now um.

I really appreciate everybody. That's in here right now, do i find challenging uh and what was the lowest nte i have seen. Do i find challenging? I don't. Let me see if there's a part one of that question jd.

Well, anyways, i see the what is the lowest nte um i mean the lowest in tv. I've ever seen on an invoice would be zero dollars because they think it's under warranty, but for the most part i have one customer that has a 500 nte uh that one's kind of silly, but they don't hold me to that nte. So i'm not too worried about it for those that don't understand when you're working with um invoicing programs with customers such as kurigo service, channel, um, ecotrak, different ones like that often times the customer. It's a it's an invoicing program that basically dispatches the work order to the service company and you don't deal with anybody.

Nobody calls you. You just get an email, okay, so on the invoicing programs, often times when they dispatch those work orders, they have an nte or a not to exceed value. Okay and that's basically your cap, so one of my customers has an nte of 500 on every invoice. So, basically, theoretically, i'm not supposed to go over 500.

Okay. I have another customer that has an nte of fifteen hundred dollars on every invoice. That one gives me a little bit of wiggle room. Okay, now, just because i have an nte value, doesn't mean that i, the bill, is fifteen hundred dollars every time, i'm fair and i'm honest with my customer and at the same time there's times uh manual.

Thank you so very much for that super chat man. I really really appreciate you, okay, thank you. I'll read your thing here in just a second, but there's times that you know uh most of my customers they're pretty lenient on the ntes, and i know what needs to be done. If i get called for a walk-in cooler - and i have a 500 nte - and they don't have an extra walk-in cooler on site - i know it needs to be fixed, so i'll communicate with the customer and if it's going to be typically over a thousand dollars, even With that 500 nte, if it's typically gon na, be over a thousand dollars, i usually say hey, you need to call your boss.

Get me a verbal approval or something like that. Okay, but for the most part 500 is my lowest nte and 1500. Is my my max nte that i deal with um so uh manuel? Thank you again, so very much for that super chat. That is an awesome, i'm so humbled by that, but uh.

So you said hope all is well you're reaching out from central florida. You were curious if i had any interest in making a video showing how to properly build a txv. You feel like there's a lot of confusion out there on that. Subject: yeah.

I have that actually in a lot of my videos, but maybe i can work on something i'm sure i can work with spoiling on that and do like a txv, maybe like we can do a video where we evaluate a system. We size a txv. We find out what size it needs, what size distributor it needs what size nozzle. Then we select the txv, build it from that point forward.

So i'm sure we can work with spoiling on that. One txv build video and uh. We can get that all set up and that that's pretty cool topic idea manual, if you think about it, bud, send me an email to hvacr videos gmail.com and remind me about that and then i'll try to work on that uh hvacr whiz. Thank you.

So very much man. I really really appreciate that super chat bud. Um, that's cool bud all right uh! Let me see what else we got going on in here. Um yeah nte is not to exceed value all right um.

Let me see bad scam. Pricing contracts. Yeah! That's funny all right, i'm gon na go and get to my list right now, so um, a great question that i had - and this is something that i struggle with and i run into quite often is okay in one of my recent videos, i was i the Kitchen ac smells bad okay again, a lot of people are questioning what was it that actually smelled bad? If you, if you paid attention to the video, the reason why it smelled bad in the kitchen, the customer called me and said my kitchen ac is not working and it smells kind of funny in here. Okay, it was because, in the beginning of the video i said, my other service technician came out to do a preventative maintenance and he found that the belt was shredded on their exhaust fan, so one of their exhaust fans wasn't working.

So that was the funny smell in the restaurant. The ac wasn't working. That was a whole nother issue, but the exhaust fan not working is why they got me out there and then i dove into the kitchen ac and found that you know that was it so um in that video, though um i went head first into cleaning that Evaporative coil because i opened it up and i was like dude. This evaporator is plugged.

Okay. So, as i was diagnosing, i said, hey we've got low pressure codes system's low on refrigerant, the evaporator is plugged. I said i needed to clean the evaporator before i went any further now i took a gamble there. So some of the question that someone asked me was hey: how do you know that the leak was going to be repairable before i went and cleaned that entire evaporator? I didn't know that it was going to be repairable, but the odds were that it was so.

I decided to go ahead and clean the evaporator, because that needed to be done. It was in really bad shape and uh, and i kind of made a executive decision. Essentially, okay in you know perfect world, i probably would have leak, checked the system and found the leak first to make sure that it was actually repairable fix, but all worked out well in the end, i was pretty confident we were going to be able to fix It so, but that was just kind of a decision that i made down the field, and i had to own up to that. Oh i don't know why i'm yawning right now, all right, let's see what else we got in here right now, um.

How do i recommend to my s? Wait: uh! You love big picture ideas, so you're, i i don't know what you're trying to say jacob. I'm not understanding your question there bud. Sorry um! Let me see uh salt. I don't understand what that.

What is the easiest call? I have done um as far as service calls. I mean you know, go out to the site and turn on a breaker, but even that's not the easiest call, because, with the whole big picture mindset, why was the breaker off? What happened here? Was it tripped? Was it off like, i really go through everything so easy calls for me: typically, don't exist for the most part i mean every once in a blue moon. You get something really easy, but um. My goodness guys, these super chats are awesome.

Merritt. Thank you. So very much i really appreciate it. Merritt has a youtube channel too.

He makes videos out here in southern california, if you guys haven't already definitely go subscribe to his youtube channel um. Thank you so very much for the super chat. I believe i i'm hoping i'm saying your name right marat. I hope i'm saying that correct, but i believe i think we've talked before.

Isn't it you and your brother that work together? I think or something like that. I thought it was you work out in like the south orange county area right and i'm in the inland empire. So all right, let's see what else we got going on in here: um thanks, lashka or alaska. Thank you very much man.

That's awesome! All right! Let me see what do we got in here? I need a yawn button. Yeah, that's definitely what i need. If i was if i was professional, and i knew what i was doing i'd like transition to like some fancy thing, so i could yawn real, quick or sneeze or whatever, but i suck at this live streaming thing so um. Let me see what else uh the ol, okay, so um.

I was trying to look for a comment here, but i don't see it so i'm just going to keep on going in here uh. So why is it that these restaurants, right now, oh i'll, answer that one dino i'm going to put that on my list? Don't let me forget, that's a great question, because i saw your question come through with i'm going to answer that in a minute: dino. Okay, so when these restaurants, why are they pinching so much? You know it seems like everybody. I know you guys realize it in my videos every unit i come to needs massive preventative maintenance stuff right.

They just need to be desperately clean, they're filled with grease. All belts are broken. Filters are plugged like. Why aren't these restaurants doing pms, and it's really easy for us to look and watch these videos as an outsider, looking in and say, damn these guys are penny pinchers they're cheap.

They need to spend the money flip it around, though these restaurants have been having the word joe. Thank you so very much for that super chat. Why does joe give me super chats? You don't have to do that joe you're, an awesome friend, thank you. So very much um, so with these restaurants, why are they being so cheap guys like? I was starting to say before covet.

These restaurants have been having the alert, the worst like five to ten years of their existence, all restaurants, casual dining in general. For the most part has been struggling, really bad and then code hit okay, so they were already pinching before, because people don't go out and sit down in restaurants as much even before kovid, because we had all these fast casual fast casual is where you can go Up you walk up and you order, and then you sit down and eat your food. Okay, a casual dining restaurant is where you walk in, and a server comes and serves. You brings you food brings you all that different stuff and everybody's been on the casual dining kicks.

You know with all these restaurants, so the the cat, i'm sorry, the the fast casual kick and the the casual dining has been struggling. So when covet hit everybody's, just like emergency spending, stop you know, don't do anything and then they slowly relax and they're getting better and better, but guys. Restaurants, here in southern california, for the most part still are not open. Okay in orange, county and riverside county.

That's the areas in southern california um that i know of i don't know if san diego, i think san diego might be open too, but they're only open to 25 capacity. Guys restaurants need to be at a hundred percent capacity to make proper profits and to thrive. So, if they're selling at 25 capacity right, yes, their to-go sales have gone up because they're still allowed to do takeout and yes, they built patios outside the restaurant and they still have some people sitting outside. But restaurants in general are struggling.

It's ironic, too, because a lot of these big restaurant chains for the most part, california's southern california's market, supported a lot of the restaurant chains right these big giant national chains, southern california, was one of the biggest markets for all of them. Ironically, the rest of the country right now is supporting southern california in these markets, because southern california is one of the only places that's still almost completely shut down. These restaurants are not open if you're in san bernardino county, they haven't been open since february or april. I mean you know: they're only doing to go and stuff so they're struggling they're trying to do everything they can and it's more of a reactive maintenance plan right now.

They call us it's broken. We go out there, it needs to be clean. We clean it. Okay, so i'm thankful for my customers that they're able to even add them guys these super chats that are coming through adam.

Thank you, so very much ralph dallas fan. Thank you so very much uh, lo lotzka hvac. Thank you. Big chingus diagnosis.

That's awesome! But um. You guys are a joe thank you uh, oh yeah, it's thanksgiving for canada. Didn't you guys know that christopher columbus, like? Oh, you, you guys celebrate columbus day as your thanksgiving. I just put two and two together: yeah our thanksgiving's like in november, or something whatever yeah.

Let's not even get on the fake holiday topic, but anyways going off on a tangent. You guys these super chats are awesome. Thank you, so, very much okay. So, let's keep on going with this one um.

Oh great question that i had gabe had sent me a question and i actually got this a little bit more than often and there's no stupid questions guys. You guys can send me all kinds of questions and i'll try to answer them. But gabe said hey. What is the difference between an accumulator and a receiver and there's a good question? Okay, they look the same, but they don't perform the same function.

Okay, so a receiver is simply a storage tank. That's it okay! It's a storage tank in the simplest of forms. Okay, an accumulator is a tank that is designed to separate liquid refrigerant from vapor refrigerant. An accumulator protects the compressor if there was ever to be liquid, refrigerant you'll see them on low temperature systems a lot.

So if it's, if there's potential for really low superheat and liquid refrigerant, coming back to the compressor and accumulator, is a last ditch effort to protect the compressor from getting flooded with liquid refrigerant and potentially slugging the compressor or washing out the oil, or anything like that. Okay, so a receiver is simply a storage vessel. Now um i'd have to show you guys a visual, but if you break down the insides of a receiver, an accumulator, they look very similar. Okay, but they're actually different in that an accumulator has a dip tube.

Okay and a receiver has a dip tube, but they're on the opposite ends so on a receiver. The dip tube actually is on the outlet. Okay and on an accumulator. The dip tube is on the inlet, okay and on an accumulator.

It drops the refrigerant in okay, and then it draws it from the top of the accumulator to make the liquid if there is any potentially stay at the bottom of the accumulator and it pulls vapor off the top of the accumulator and the receiver does the opposite. Okay, pours liquid vapor mixture in one side of the receiver and then there's a dip tube to make sure that the liquid basically is pulled out of the receiver. Okay, because on a receiver, it's there to store the extra refrigerant. So that way, the expansion valve has a proper liquid seal and it has liquid refrigerant going to the expansion valve.

So hopefully that answers your question for you, and i just saw another super chat, come through um. Let me see if i can get down here, who did i miss and i see it right there? Nada. Thank you so very much for that super chat. That is awesome um.

It says, thank you so much for all the work i put into these videos you're. Coming up in the trade and they're such a huge help for people like you and that's great okay, the whole point of these videos is to share the little bit of knowledge that i have coming up in the trade. I found it difficult to get knowledge now. I got knowledge from my dad and i got knowledge from the guy that worked with us um, but asking other people for help was awkward and most of the time people coveted their information and they didn't want to share it.

Okay, guys, if i can implore every one of you share every bit of knowledge that you have okay in hvac, you're, always going to have a job you're not going to be replaced because you share your knowledge, don't be that person share your knowledge! Okay, you will become a wise person that people look up to okay, even if it's a little bit of knowledge share what you have. Okay, i encourage everybody to do that all right, let's see what else we got in here. Um do i often see all three legs shorted to ground on a carlisle compressor. Is this a factory defect uh? I can't say that i've always seen all three legs shorter to ground, but i mean yeah.

I have seen it before, but uh i mean it depends. Well, if you think about it, yeah, i i it's not a factory default or defect. No, i mean you just have a direct short ground. So all right, let me see what else we got in here: um oil oil separator um an oil separator explanation, that's not too bad.

If you really think about it, all that it does is the discharge line. Coming out of the compressor runs through a storage vessel, okay, that does a very similar thing to an accumulator. Okay. Essentially, the discharge goes through.

The oil separator and you're gon na have a vapor line coming off the top of the oil separator. That tries to make sure that any oil that's trapped in the discharge. Gas gets stuck in the separator tank. Okay and the vapor basically goes out the top of the separator and there's not a dip tube.

It's going to pull from the top of the separator and and try to ensure that any oil stays within that separator and then there's typically depending on the kind of system that you have. You might have a dip tube with a return line. You might have a solenoid valve that returns the oil back to the compressor, if you have a full on oil reservoir system, there's different styles, but essentially an oil separator works similar to an accumulator in a way. Okay, there's a little more stuff going on in there, but that's the easiest way to explain it.

Basically we're trying to keep the oil within the condensing unit section. That's one of the things we struggle with in refrigeration is oil travels with refrigerant, so to a certain extent, you need oil in the refrigerant, but you also don't want to. Let's say you have really low superheat and you wash all the oil out of the compressor. Where does it go? It goes downstairs to the evaporator okay and it gets stuck in the evaporator.

How do you get it out? That's a headache! Okay, if you had an oil separator on that system, theoretically, if you wash the oil out, it would get stuck in the separator, and then you have floats and different things like that. That might shut the compressor down oil pressure, differential valves or pressure, differential controls and all kinds of things. But now i'm going off on a thing that i i'm getting a little uncomfortable talking because i'm not too familiar with the the pressure controls and different things like that, so i'm going to stop talking before i stick my foot in my mouth again all right. Let me see what else we got going on in here manuel.

Thank you so very much for that super chat. So you had the same experience where someone did not want to teach you anything long story short. You went to school, got your universal and you teach every apprentice. You come across, it's only right and that's true.

I believe that we need to share all of our information all of our knowledge, okay, there's so many places for an hvac service technician right now, and i'm not going to run out of a job okay. As long as i don't suck as a service technician, i'm always going to be employed one way or another. So sharing my knowledge is, in my opinion, is not going to stop me from working for the rest of my life or achieving greatness when the within this industry, okay, coveting, my information is not going to help me. That's the way, i believe now, i'm not saying you're bad for not believing that, but that's just my belief share everything that i have so all right.

Um. Let me see what else uh answered that one um in my recent video - and this was a common question that i got to when i did. The compressor gantry lift okay um a lot of people said: dude just get a crane. Why not get a crane every job is different, guys.

Okay, in my situation, i happen to be working on a shopping mall and the building that i was working on was five stories tall, so the size of the crane needed would have come in two pieces. They would have had to assemble the crane. It would have been ridiculous to lift a 75 pound compressor, so i had to think of another way to do it. In my situation, it was easier for me to build a small little gantry, get a pulley system and pull the compressor on the roof.

In hindsight, it sure would have been nice to have a electric winch there, but i didn't have power. Okay, a lot of people have reached out to me after and given me all kinds of great ideas about battery operated, winches and cordless drill, operated, winches and all kinds of things like that. Okay - and those are certainly things that i'll take into consideration. If i ever needed to now in my situation, i decided to build a gantry, and this is really easy.

Okay, so i decided to build a gantry, because i have two jobs coming up where i have to build. Equipment stands for for a walk-in freezer and walk-in cooler, condensing unit, and i plan on building them out of unistrut. So i built my unistud gantry and i'm gon na reuse. All that unistrut guys, i'm gon na build equipment stands out of it when i'm done bam.

Smart business decision right there, don't you think, that's awesome. I got a rental fee for the gantry, because if i would have went ahead and rented a gantry, it would have cost me money. So therefore, i was able to charge the customer a rental fee for the gantry i built it and i'm going to reuse that unistrut and build an equipment stand. So in my situation, i had this all planned in my head ahead of time.

Okay, now there's certain components in that gantry that i'm going to keep the angle brackets and the trolley that i got and the pulley system. So that way, if i ever need to build another gantry, i've got everything i need and i can go ahead and do it okay, so i had a reason as to why i did that i just saw hvac brown. Thank you so very much for that. Super chat man.

I really appreciate it so it says you're new in this trade and you have six more months of school to go. That's awesome, bud! Hopefully, everything's going well remember to pay attention in school and also understand for everybody, that's watching if you're in school. If you're not in school, remember this one thing: when you leave school, you are not going to be a full-fledged technician. You still have a lot of learning to go.

Okay, school gives you the fundamentals so that way, when you go out into the field, you can do an apprenticeship or you can do ride-alongs whatever you work with senior technicians and they can build on the core, essential values that you learned in school. Okay, so in school they learned, they taught you that you need to pull the perfect 500 micron vacuum every single time, but did they tell you that in refrigeration you probably need to aim for a 200 micron vacuum and did they tell you about a decay rate? Okay, did they tell you how to pressure test a system with nitrogen or purge with nitrogen different things like that? Sometimes they do. Sometimes they don't so remember. School is a foundation that you build upon after you finish.

Okay, so, just because you finish school doesn't mean boom, you're, a full-fledged tech. You still got time to learn, but it's great. This industry is a really cool industry in that you can learn as you work and that's one of the great things about it. This industry needs more service technicians now than it's ever needed.

Okay, it's amazing. All the new technology and everything and the interesting thing is: we need young service technicians and what we mean by that is there's more technology in our industry. Now than there's ever been. There's more computers, more circuit boards, vfds all kinds of crazy stuff, okay, to work on a vrf system.

I've never worked on it. It's essential. You absolutely have to have service checker software when you're working with a certain type of vrf system, and you have to know how to use a computer. You have to know how to log into it.

You have to know how to troubleshoot via a computer times are changing the younger generation. You guys are needed in this trade very much so, okay, so get off your butts and get into the industry all right, um, my goodness guys, these super chats are amazing. I just saw another one come through, or i thought i did, but thank you guys so very much. You guys are awesome, i'm very humbled by your support, um.

It is amazing, it's such a trip because i make these videos again it's one of those things. My wife and i many years ago we talked about this in our hvac, our live series, but many years ago we went through the whole. We read dave ramsey's books because we were trying to get out of debt and one of the things that stuck with me when, with dave ramsey's plan was to get out of debt, you need to find side hustles. You need to start making money doing this.

You need to do that in my situation. I didn't even know this was going to become a side hustle guys. I just started doing something i i went in head over heels, buying computers and different things like that before i even made a penny from this. I never even anticipated making money, it was just something that was fun.

I really love sharing the little bit of knowledge that i had and and and it has been so fun and i i thoroughly enjoy it and then to see you guys. Excuse me support me via comments and likes and thumbs up and all that different stuff and um being patrons and being youtube channel members and buying my merch, it's so very humbling. So thank you from the bottom of my heart. It is awesome but regardless, like i said in the very beginning, even if there wasn't support, i would still doing this because i genuinely love doing this.

It's fun it's fun for me, okay, so thank you. So very much. One thing i will ask of you guys is: please there's 486 people watching right now smash the like button. Please we're at 211 likes i'd really like to see that get up to 400..

Let's get somewhat close to the amount of people that are actually viewing this. If you guys are watching on your phone, all you got to do is hit the back button back out of the chat hit. The thumbs up button go right back into the chat. You can even like a video on your tv.

If you don't know how to do that, you got to play with the scroll button and all that crap, but thank you guys so very much all right. We've got some more things i want to cover. If you guys got questions put them in. Oh wow twisted candle company.

Thank you. So very much man yeah definitely send me an email. I definitely try to answer questions. Even if i miss questions in here, you guys send me an email to hvacr videos, gmail.com, okay, adam.

Thank you so very much for that. Super chip um difference between a balance, port txv and a conventional txv. Okay, i will step all over myself. Okay answering that question on this live stream, so that is something that i will answer, and i will cover that in a soon to come, video! Okay! I will not answer that correctly right now, um all right.

Let me see what else we got going on here: uh, definitely, okay, so adam adam see, i thought you were giving me money just to be nice, but no adam is promoting the show that i'm part of no uh hvac overtime show typically 605 pm friday evenings Myself, okay, we go live, the overtime show is: has a tidbit of educational information and a whole lot of okay. The hvac overtime show is four guys sitting down talking about the week, occasionally talking about technical stuff, having fun talking crap to each other drinking hanging out. Okay, friday evening 605 pm hvac overtime, channel adam, make sure you post the link to the hvac overtime channel in the chat, so that way people can join and subscribe to the channel if they want to okay, all right. I am baking in my office right now and i need to turn the air conditioner on.

I have the honeywell smart, whatever fancy thermostat crap and i can usually turn my thermostat on from my office and let's see right now see what the temperature in my office is. It says it's 75 degrees in my house right now. That's not very warm. Usually 75 is what i set it at all right, let's see what else we got going on in here.

Um, i see some chupacha. I see the twisted candle company. Thank you so very much for that super chat, uh laska. Thank you so very much again.

Um! Oh yeah, all right, let me see what else and then i know there was another super chat. Uh miles. You passed your aptitude test and you're waiting to be called back for an interview for your new apprenticeship. Congratulations bud! That is awesome.

I'm super happy for you.