Ah, it's time to chill out and get ready for a mediocre q, a live stream if you're old enough grab yourself your favorite adult beverage and if you're not stick with apple juice, put your feet up and relax. If you have any questions feel free to ask them in the chat and now, let's queue up the intro music yo. I am back in studio cross our fingers that the power stays on and uh no we're not having power problems anymore, but last week let me tell you that was a extremely frustrating thing, so we had gotten to notice that we were going to have a power Outage because we had a high wind warning, so the winds were coming. They were going to shut off the power just to be safe and all that good stuff and um.

The power actually went out before the planned power outage because of a downed tree, and so they got the power back on by like 11 or something like that. And then the planned power outage happened like so. It turned back on for an hour and then it went back off and i was like oh man, so i had a generator already at my shop. So i went and grabbed my generator, but it was only powerful enough to run my two refrigerators.

So i let it run our refrigerators because they'd been down for a couple hours and then i went and picked up another generator because i was gon na run the stream off of my generator, hoping hey thanks so much for becoming a channel member there, michael black. That's awesome bud, so i was hoping that um, the uh, the internet still had um power. You know, via like backup power or something like that at their whatever control station, node or whatever, but no after all, that i got a new generator plugged it in got my whole studio running got my computer running. I was running off of my ups, everything and no, we could not get the internet up because they had no power at the.

I think it's called the node or whatever, so it was just a pain in the butt. A lot of people reached out to me too that uh, because we have a lot of computer people and communications people that watch these videos and they were kind of educating me on the whole, the the backup power at the node and all that stuff. So but it was just extremely stressful. I was really bummed out because i was trying so hard to get the stream going and then it's funny because i went to home depot.

I picked up a new generator, just a little 2200 watt, little portable guy little honda, nice little guy too. It's rather quiet but um picked that up and then i got it home. And then i opened up the box and i realized they didn't give you oil with the generator, which is just extremely frustrating. So it's like for real, so i had to go back.

Get oil come back start it up. It was just like a back and forth, but i tried i tried, i can honestly say conor. Thank you so very much for that. Uh super chat, but that's awesome.

So i can honestly say that i tried my best and then after that and i do have to say whoever wrote the comment. I can't remember who but my wife, absolutely loved the comment in the the the post that i did on youtube or whatever she said. Uh or the post said something along the lines of your wife: just cut the cable or something like that, because she wanted to spend a night with you or something and my wife thought that was hilarious. So i got ta give whoever that was props, so hello to everybody that is in here.

I really really appreciate you guys. All this is awesome. We have a great turnout right now. This is really really cool.

Um. All kinds of people in here this is great. So do me a favor if you guys have questions or things that you want me to talk about, please put them in caps, lock. Okay, we got a lot of my moderators in here right now, um stay on your toes uh.

As far as the people you know, keep it down or the moderators are gon na. Kick your asses out of here. Okay, no, i'm just messing with you guys. We usually have a really good crowd in here, so um, but yeah throw any questions or comments or anything you want me to cover in caps lock.

That way, it's easier for me to see understand if i don't get to everything guys feel free to send me an email, okay, hvacr videos, gmail.com i've been getting swamped with emails and comments and everything, but i'm really trying to get back to them and stuff so Feel free to send me an email. If i don't get to it, let's see what else we got going on yeah, that's pretty much it since i didn't do a stream! Last week we have a bunch of videos to talk about, and then i got a bunch of topics as usual and uh. Well, that was really quick. Looks like someone really got.

Oh okay, i see where we're going there there. So all right, um, wow yeah, been been a crazy week, so the weather's changing here in southern california um we've had cooler evenings, basically, okay, so for the last week our temperatures have been around 65 to 75 degrees. This week, it spiked up again and we're supposed to get into the 90s towards the end of the week and then we're supposed to get another cool down, and this is kind of how our winters start out or our fall. It's usually up and down and up and down, and then um you know, november ish is when it'll drop back down quinn.

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Okay, the support comes in many ways simply by leaving a comment, giving some feedback thumbs up thumbs down whatever that may be, that's awesome. It really does help the channel. Some people have chosen to monetarily support becoming a youtube channel member becoming a patreon patron um doing super chats on youtube. You guys are awesome.

I don't do a good. I keep saying this, but it's just a task that i have not figured out how to handle, but i don't do a good enough job recognizing all you guys. I really really do appreciate it. Thank you so very much for everybody that has done that.

Okay - and you don't have to monetarily support, i'm saying just simply leaving comments and feedback it helps me to get recognized by the algorithm helps the channel to grow lance. Thank you so very much. I really really appreciate that super chat bud um. Let me see so uh, oh cool right on very cool.

Thank you very much man, um, so uh another way, uh. I will go ahead and cover this now um. Another way to support the channel, if you guys are interested, is by buying merch from my website. Hvacreviews.Com, i'm going to give a little shameless plug here: real, quick, okay, sal! Thank you so very much for becoming a channel supporter.

So i have a new shirt design coming out. We got a lot of new stuff coming out on the website. Okay, it's all been ordered. The beanies are gon na, be the first thing that come in stock, they're gon na be in stock in about a week or so.

This is the official beanie right here. There's two styles: there's cuffed and non-cuffed: okay, um, i'm more of a non-cuffed person. That's why i ordered that style. But i got ta be honest with you.

This one actually fits really well too. These are typically a larger beanie. Okay, i have a big head, so i wanted something that would fit my head. So it's typically, i shouldn't say it's like giant, but i mean it fits my big head really.

Well, i like it a lot, so those will be available. I should be receiving these in about a week or so, and then we just got to get pictures and get them thrown up on the website that shouldn't take too long, i'm wearing the new shirt design right now. It's still got the similar logo. This is the women's design, but it's the same logo on the back.

Okay, my favorite part about this shirt is the flag on the shoulder um. That's i've always wanted to do a flag on a shirt, really dig that, and i was actually really surprised too uh. Adam, thank you so very much for that super chat bud. You didn't need to do that um, but uh.

I was really surprised that there's actually 13 stars, i'm sorry, 13, stripes and 50 stars on this thing. I was actually blown away. I didn't expect that to happen, so that was really cool, um connor, no no uk shipping. Yet i haven't figured that one out uh there's going to be new.

I'm sorry, not new hat, so i'm going to have a restock on the original shirts and then also a restock on the hat. So all right, it's insane and sweatshirts - are coming out too zip up hoodies those are going to be coming too. So, okay, we're done with that. Let's get on to the stream like we should stop babbling about that.

Thank you guys, so very much um brendan smith. How did i learn to work on all these types of units like the hoods, the exhaust fans doing hvac school? You didn't learn about that. How hard is troubleshooting and etc? Okay, so hvac school certainly does not teach you everything. Okay, hvac school is going to give you the fundamentals, just a base to build upon.

Okay, there's all different aspects to this industry and you can go in all kinds of different directions. Certainly, there are several things that i have no idea how to work on. Okay, so it's endless what you can you know i mean you can just keep going in all different directions: um with um all the stuff that i work on. Okay, first off, i started working for my father when i was a young kid.

Okay, i grew up working for my dad summers all that stuff. So i learned a lot from him. I had like a base from him. Then out of high school, i went to trade school uh.

Mount san antonio community college in walnut. California, actually never finished mount sac. It's a two-year. You know trade school with a community college or whatever.

I have two classes that i need to go back and it's funny because i recently ran into one of my old professors and he like wanted to smack me in the head. Saying: dude go finish. It helps the college out by finishing your program, so i have to take a welding class and i have to take a technical, math class for air conditioning. Those are the only two things then i could get like a certificate or something like that, but i never finished it.

But school gives you a base. Okay, once you have the electrical fundamentals: okay, once you have the plumbing fundamentals, and once you have the refrigeration fundamentals, you just build upon that when it comes into everything, okay, so the electrical fundamentals once you know how to use a vom meter voltage meter. Okay, once you know how to test current once you know about resistance and all that different stuff, it it just kind of gradually grows into everything i mean once you have a basic electrical knowledge, you can really go in all different directions. Okay, so it just takes time now: i've always worked in restaurants and in restaurants.

We deal with exhaust fans, refrigerators, air conditioners, ice machines and you know walking coolers and stuff. So it's just something i get used to now. If you threw me on a fryer, which i don't work on friars like deep fryers, i wouldn't know what to do. I'm sure, with my electrical fundamentals that i have, i could probably figure it out and i know about combustion, and i know you know i mean i can.

I can figure out that stuff, so i can probably figure it out, but i'm not going to be as fast as someone else that works on them every day. Okay, so it's just something once you have the bass, you can build upon it all right. Let's see what else we got in here, uh have i had any ac unit that downsized breakers go from 30 to 20, amps or 60 to 40 amps? Okay, so, have i had any ac units that downsize breakers? I don't know what you mean by that john. So are you saying, like i, i've installed ac units that needed to put smaller breakers on them? Yes, but you can simply do that by um.

You know you're, not. You typically aren't changing the wire from the the main feed coming up, so you can really just fuse it down instead of putting a smaller breaker on it, unless you don't want to use fuses or something, if that's what you mean, hopefully what's my opinion on co2 Refrigeration, michael, i have no opinion. I've never worked on it. It certainly is very popular um, the efficiency it seems to be there.

I'm not super smart with it, but i understand basic principles, so i mean it doesn't seem like anything too crazy. I mean i shouldn't say too crazy: there's definitely some technical side to it. So uh steem droid howdy from the state of missouri steem fun fact i was actually born in raleigh missouri. I moved to california when i was three and a half years old.

So i still have family in missouri all right. Let's see what else we got going in here when are the heated beanies yeah, no heated beanies coming all right. Let's see what else uh when's the banana hammock coming out. Yeah, that's funny, but all right um see what else uh all right cool, so um.

My recent videos, i'm gon na cover these real quick since the last live stream. So we had hurry the walking coolers too warm that was on 10 22.. The dining room ac is not working. That was an interesting one.

Okay, can the beer walk and be too cold? That was another interesting one and my wife, and i actually, if you guys, haven't caught it, go check it out. My wife and i did another continuation of our hvac our life series. I think it was the fifth video we've done. We slowly do these there's no schedule on them um.

I feel that the hvacr life series is is a pretty cool one, because, even if i get five comments, that say they appreciate the videos they're worth it for me. Okay, the views definitely aren't there. People don't watch those ones which it's okay, they're, not a technical video, but i think it's important for people to realize that we all go through struggles and my struggles are no better or worse than everybody else's. I mean you know everybody goes through stuff.

So that's why we released that series was just to kind of humanize myself and to kind of let everybody know that you know we all go through this stuff. Okay, so this hvac trade is a is a definitely a hard one and um. You know i i find it important to kind of let everybody know that you know this is what we go through. So all right.

Let me see what is the difference between supermarket grocery store, refrigeration and restaurant refrigeration rion, so supermarket refrigeration is going to be much bigger. The concepts are still the same. There's going to be some extra control and efficiency valves installed in the system, but the basic principles of refrigeration are still there. They're the same as with your refrigerator at your house, to the giant industrial refrigerator at the grocery store.

Okay, you just have bigger motors, bigger controls, more efficiency, controls um in the grocery store. Refrigeration. Again, i i do not have have not ever worked on grocery store refrigeration, but i understand the concepts: okay, so in grocery store refrigeration, the um, the grocery stores, are trying to be as energy efficient as possible, they're trying to save as much money as possible because The margins in the grocery stores are not as high as far as their profits, so they really really have to pinch pennies, so they try and try and try to do everything they can, plus. On top of that, they have giant amounts of food that they can't just.

Oh, you know like in a in a restaurant, you know if they lose a refrigerator over the night and they come in in the morning at 70 degrees, and you know it's got. You know one little rolling, cart worth of food, no big deal, they just throw it away, they comp it it. You know, cost them 200 or something like that, but you're talking 20 30. 40.

50 heck. I don't even know probably more than that thousands of dollars you know in a grocery store, refrigeration, lineup, okay, so or in their walk-in cooler, or something like that. So you know there's so much food that they can afford to lose all that stuff. Okay, so they add efficiency, controls and all kinds of different things like that to try to save as much energy and be as most efficient as possible.

So the big differences are just the efficiency controls, the monitoring systems and stuff. Like that, how often do i come across a package unit with excessive shaking that happens rather often? Actually, i was working on one today putting some air cleaners, some of those bipolar, ionizer air, cleaner things on a customer of mine and uh. They had an air conditioner. That was that you know just kind of shaking a little bit too much not enough to where it was damaging anything yet, but it was like hey.

I have to bring this up to the customer and let them know um, you know so that way we can get on it before it becomes a big deal, low, voltage shorts. What's a good method for finding and fixing the issues green. Mr green pm, that's a really interesting one. Low voltage shorts can be kind of tricky, so um when it comes to using a meter if you're going to be toning out, the the the circuit okay testing to ground that kind of stuff uh.

Your best bet is to disconnect the commons okay because often times on low voltage. The common is connected to ground, okay on the 24 volt transformer. So if you're trying to own stuff out that that connection to ground can kind of throw you off. So if you can find the connections to ground, if you're lucky enough, it's right at the transformer, you just pull that off with the circuit de-energized, then you can go along and you can start toning.

The system out, uh checking for continuity to ground um. But you know that only goes so far because there can also be tons of ground connections. Oftentimes on limit switches, they'll be grounded and different things like that, so it can get rather confusing um. So understanding the sequence of operation is one of the biggest things.

Okay, you know, if you're, if you're lucky enough, like me, that gets to work on a lot of the same equipment. Often then, you know you kind of get used to hey, there's a low voltage short on a carrier package unit. It's over the economizer wiring going to the blower assembly, like you know, get in there. Oh yeah there.

It is. You know you get lucky with that, but if you're having to look that stuff out um, i would highly suggest that you get one of those little fuse poppers. I don't even have one, but i i think it'd be a really smart thing. Okay, they have a little um, you replace a fuse with two little clips and it's got a little resettable uh circuit breaker, essentially on it um.

You obviously want to make sure that it's sized correctly for the circuit that you're working on and you can kind of go along and replace the actual you know so then that way thing trips instead of the fuse or something like that um, you know, but just Understanding the sequence of operation, that's the most important thing: okay, because that's going to help you out and then obviously two um there's all different methods. I've shown it many times in videos. Sometimes you know you can't find the short. It's a really tricky one.

So what you do is you disconnect everything the entire you know low voltage circuit and you connect things one at a time. You know that's last resort, because sometimes you just can't find the short. So you connect things one at a time. Okay, boom indoor, blower contactor pulls in blower motor starts.

Okay, we're good! You know, disconnect that and start connecting things one at a time, but again that is the last resort, try to tone out everything and look for the shorts first. Looking for you know just understanding what manufacturers have certain problems like linux package units, they typically don't have electrical shorts when they're running through chases or anything like that. They do a good job of protecting their wiring. So i'm usually not going to pay a whole bunch of attention to where the wires run through metal panels and things like that on linux package units.

So it's really about what you're familiar with and knowing where to go with it. So i kind of answered that a little bit, hopefully that helps a bit all right. Let's see what else we got in here um. Let me see what else we got um all right, that's pretty much it! What makes an air conditioning fan shake when it kicks on more than likely there's something out of balance if the air conditioning fan is shaking okay, i don't know if it's the indoor blower motor, if it's the outdoor fan motor, either way, there's something out of balance.

It could be out of balance simply because it's dirty it could be full of dirt and lint um. It could be all kinds of things like that, so you really need to look into why it's out of balance, because obviously something is stopping um or is - is causing the system to shake like that. So all right, i'm gon na, go and get to my list. So um, oh really good question.

I'm gon na go and answer this j racing had asked me about coil cleaner, and this is a really good question, because i do get this quite often so when i'm cleaning package units when i'm using condenser coil cleaner, do i ever worry about the condenser coil, Cleaner eating holes through the roof, okay, and that's a really good point, because some cleaners twisted candle company. Thank you so very much for that super chat. That is awesome. I really really appreciate it.

So when i'm cleaning condensers yes, i do worry about cleaners sitting on the roof for long periods of time. Okay, now i tend to use the refrigeration technologies cleaners as much as possible. The viper venom packs and all that stuff right and their cleaners are a lot less concentrated. Okay, if you mix them correctly, if you're using the venom packs, if you use their dilution ratios, you really don't have to worry too much about things getting left on the roof.

Okay, brad! Thank you. So very much for that super chat. That is awesome man. I believe it's bowman, i'm hoping bombing bombing or bowman um.

Hopefully i didn't butcher your name there bud, but thank you so very much. That is awesome. Much appreciated, guys um. So with the coil cleaners yeah, you got to be careful, especially with the old acid-based cleaners.

We used to have the what's the pink stuff that we used to use. That was just like acid. That stuff would eat anything away. Yeah! You don't want to let that stuff puddle up on the roof.

So even when i'm using the refrigeration technologies cleaner, i'm still very careful and what i try to do is um uh. When i'm done cleaning, i try to rinse everything down the roof as much as possible, so that way uh that way, we make sure that nothing is sitting in any spots. Okay. Now i get a question so many times too.

Why do we drain our condensate drain lines into the sewer? Okay? Because in california we are very close to the ocean and everything goes to the ocean one way or another? Okay, so um? They want to be able to treat everything right uh. They want to make sure that it goes into the proper drainage areas. You know in some areas most of the time, even the drainage outside the the the water runoff and stuff like that, is going to go to some sort of a treatment plant, but they want everything to go down into the sewer. So that way, they know for sure it's going to the treatment plants.

We have all kinds of different laws and different things like that about certain chemicals, putting chemicals down the drains and different things like that. You can go in some areas too in california, where they actually will require. I don't work in any of these areas, but they'll actually require you to uh to basically get rid of all the runoff from cleaning the air conditioning units. You can't let it go down.

The drain, if you go to some of the cities, it's crazy, what they make you do so, especially the closer you get to the coast, the more controlling they are of that kind of stuff. So all right, let me see what else we got in here. Um already covered that already covered that all right. Let me go into the chat right now and see what we have.

Why do i replace the dryer after i'm working on a refrigeration system damon? It is just good practices whenever you were working on any refrigeration system, that you changed. The liquid line, filter, dryer, okay, the liquid line, filter dryer, does a couple different things: it protects the components in the system from uh carbon flakes and different things like that. Any kind of contaminants, hopefully from burrs from copper lines and different things like that, if you guys watch one of my recent videos, you know what i'm talking about with that um. You know it protects the txv, that's the main thing: okay, it's protecting the expansion valve from anything getting to it.

Now. The other thing that a liquid line, filter dryer does. Is it dries the system out? They typically have some sort of desiccant core in them and they pull moisture out of the system. Okay, because in our situations, the refrigerant that we use in our systems does not mix well with moisture, there's moisture in air.

So we evacuate the system pull all the air out of it. After we've changed the filter dryer, then we charge the system up, but the filter dryer will actually catch anything that we couldn't evacuate out of it, but that doesn't mean that you can just not vacuum a system and count on the filter. Dryer. Okay, it's there to catch things.

As you know, it gets through the system. You still need to pull proper evacuations. Do your best to get it below 500 microns passing proper decay tests. You know lower for refrigeration, that kind of stuff so but yeah they're just there to protect the system.

Uh do i know uh do do. I know how you can fix a stove electric board, no scotty, i'm sorry! I don't i'm not smart enough to work on that. Um. Let's see right on the viper coil cleaner does a good job hamilton mechanical.

The cool thing about the viper coil cleaner is, is you have control of the concentration, so you follow their guidelines and it's not going to be super concentrated, but it does a good job of cleaning the coils. You can choose to go a little bit higher in the concentration. Sometimes i do it. You know in one of my recent videos where i had a plugged up evaporative coil.

I had to spray it on damn near non-diluted to try to break that stuff down, but you have to be careful because it can start to deteriorate things too, so be very cautious all right, especially when you're using the blue, cleaner. Let me see what else balance port txv's versus conventional txvs. I still haven't really researched that to come up with an educated answer to be able to answer that bud. Sorry are the fire still burning over there and does that affect the units at all, so kevin yeah? We still have fires in california uh.

Yesterday, last night we had a fire right close to my house right now. It's unseasonably dry, more so than ever and um any kind of uh. You know someone throwing a cigarette butt out the window sparks from cars, different things like that they ignite fires; okay, so we don't have any giant ones per se. Last week we were mopping up.

Some really big ones. Last night there was a small one near my house, but nothing to be concerned about, but for the most part, they've done a pretty good job of getting a handle on them, and we were very fortunate. I mean we had some bad fires, but we were very fortunate. They didn't get worse cross our fingers.

Everything still goes. Okay, oh my goodness peter. Thank you. So very much wow you guys.

These super chats are amazing. Again, these are not needed, but they are so appreciated. Thank you, guys, peter, that is awesome. Holy moly bud all right um how about stay bright, eight! Okay! I get that a lot people saying that i should use stay bright.

Eight, when i'm changing expansion, valves and different things like that guys, i am just a stubborn mechanic. Um i've never used stay bright. Eight. I fixed a lot of stay bright.

Eight, i shouldn't even say stay bright. Eight i've spit i've fixed a lot of low temp solder joints. I don't know if it was actually stabrit8. I don't know if there is another low temp solder, but um i fixed a lot of them.

Okay, so i prefer to use two different types of solder and that's it. I use 15 sofas, okay for copper to copper connections and i use 56 silver solder. Call me old school, but that's what i use when i braise okay, that's it and then obviously plumbing tin, solder, crap for water lines and stuff, so um uh the 98 deville. Thank you so very much for that super chat man that is awesome, bud, uh.

Why don't supply shops sell viper products? Mr green pm? That is a great question. Okay, so two of the products that i like to use a lot. I love using viper products, okay, shameless plug because they are a sponsor of my videos, but i also like to use solder. Welds solder.

World has no affiliation with me, they're, not a sponsor. I just like using their products. I probably don't give them a lot of press or anything, but i mean if people ask me what kind of solder i use. I typically say solder world.

Both of those guys are small companies that are working their way up: okay, refrigeration technologies. They are in more and more supply houses every day and guess what, when you go to these big giant supply houses? Okay, um you've got the big giant mega corporations that go all across the world. You have all these different ones. It's just like the government.

Okay, it's all about deals that people do okay, just like in the government, you have lobbyists with the supply houses and these manufacturers, you have manufacturers reps and all that they do is consolidate all the products that they rep right. They charge certain prices and then they go out to the supply houses and they try to push those products on their friends, okay, but they get premium money to push those products right. I'm not knocking supply house or you know reps, but i mean it is what it is. That's what they do.

Okay, so um refrigeration technology solder weld they have reps too okay. But it's hard to go up against the big guys, because the big guys, the giant conglomerate corporations, they have buying power, okay and they can really go into these supply houses and say: hey! Guess what? If you buy our product, we'll knock the price all the way down, because to them just to get their name out there right they're, even willing to sell something at cost just to get their name out there. But you have the smaller companies that have great products. You know, and it's hard for them to go up against the big guys.

It's also dangerous for them to go up against the big guys because they can crush the little guys. The big guys, the big guys, can basically turn around and say you know what we're going to make. You go out of business by pricing ourselves so low that you can't compete. You know and it just gets kind of silly what they do there.

So we as influencers on the internet right, i think that term's kind of weird, but i guess i am one of those now i have the ability to go out there and talk and say hey. You know what i really like a product right. I really like to use this product and i get it out to you guys and then you guys get to use it now. I've been lucky enough.

I do things ass backwards. I don't really treat this as a business like i should okay, so i promoted refrigeration technologies products for two years before they even became a sponsor. I promoted field piece products before i ever worked with them same thing with all these different manufacturers. I like talking about what i truly like to work with.

Okay and then i it's like a bonus. If i get them to work with me, but if not i'm still going to be honest with you guys and tell you what i like and tell you what i don't now, i will say that i'm not a person that likes to talk negative about people. So if i don't have something nice to say for the most part, i'm not really going to say anything, that's kind of why i'm not a review person. You know like why don't review tools or anything like that is because i don't mind telling you guys about stuff that i like, but i really don't want to go out there and just start making videos about like this tool.

Sucks like i just not my style. Nothing against people that do it, just not my style. Okay, now i'm not saying i'll, never do, tool, reviews or anything like that. I mean i've even had a youtube tool channel, but i just only have one video on there, but you know and i'm not saying that i'm like like i did.

I put a video up talking about work pants and i did say, like you know what i don't care for this pair. I don't mind doing that right, but i just don't want to become a review person, so i kind of went off on a tangent there. Hopefully i answered your question there, mr green pm. Uh.

Let me see what else um. Let me see what i'm missing have i ever tried to fix leaks on micro channels, i young for mafia or young mafia. I have never had the opportunity to fix any micro channel leaks um. I actually have the solder weld aluminum repair kit and all that stuff in my van ready to go for one day, but i've it's been sitting there for a year and a half and i've.

Yet to have to fix a leak on a micro channel um, but to be honest with you, i mean more than likely a leak on a micro channel is just going to be a temporary repair anyways. So, but no, i have not had an opportunity to try to fix it. So um don't hurt the little guys all right, let's see what else uh. What am i missing in here? Have i ever tried already answered that one all right: um, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, laska, hvac yeah, i'm not negative! Until i see a york unit.

Okay! So that's a good point right um! I i do try to make it fair. When i bash someone right, i shouldn't say bash, but when someone does something stupid, i'm gon na say it, because i have learned that engineers need to hear it. For instance, very good example: okay, captive air captive air exhaust fans, did something on one of their exhaust fans and i like their exhaust fans, but they did something that was really stupid and i made a video on it, sharing my frustration with it, but you want To know what captive air contacted me and said, thank you for sharing that information. We appreciate it and then i ran to some people at captive air and they also shared their opinions.

That agreed with me - and you know i - some manufacturers need to hear this stuff from us, because i do have a voice and when i run into this silly stuff, i need to let them know. Now i'm not going to go on bashing them over and over and over and over again, that's not my style, but i am going to make it known same thing recently with green heck exhaust fans greenheck exhaust fans, i have to give them props one of their Uh managers contacted me, the guy that's in charge of the particular product line that i was bitching about, and they are the first manufacturer to ever contact me in the way that they did and make a public apology on my comment. Section like good for them. Greenheck got props in my book for contacting me and then i pinned their comment on there, because it was such a good comment so that every one of you guys that sees it, gets to go in there and you know see how cool they were.

Okay, green heck is that they're on the top of my list. I wish i could sell more of their fans jd. Thank you very much for becoming a super or a channel supporter bud. That's really awesome! That's really cool uh yeah! I don't get into politics.

If anybody's talking politics, let's turn it off, the only thing i will say is tomorrow is uh election day get out there and vote, i'm not giving you opinions or anything like that. Just get out there and vote. If you choose to do so and make your voice heard either way, okay, but we don't get into politics on this channel other than that. Okay, everybody needs to.

You know, keep that out of here all right. Let me see um yeah, guys, don't make it. You know ridiculous um, i'm just gon na remove comments there, all right cool, tecumseh, compressors inside linux package units. In my area.

I have not seen any tecumseh compressors in new linux package units. I have seen tecumseh compressors. They used to use their reciprocating compressors and older package units all the time and actually, even in some of the really really older package units they had the tecumseh scroll compressors from many many moons ago. The epic failure of that tecumseh has since redesigned their scroll compressor.

I've yet to see one one of the new designed ones. Supposedly they work good, but their previous scroll compressor was an epic failure like in the the 80s and 90s they had a scroll and that didn't turn out too well all right, let me see what else we got going on here. Have i ever worked on smart defrosts that are wired in series with defrost clocks, uh, jason manning? That is in no way uh? No, no. I've never seen that and um i've heard of people leaving defrost clocks in the system when you're doing like an heat craft.

Intelligent or something like that, but you're not supposed to get the defrost clock out of there. If you have smart defrost systems, they typically don't have defrost clocks built into them like standard mechanical defrost clocks, i'm assuming you're talking about like a fully integrated smart evaporator, is what i'm talking about so um all right. All right, i'm gon na get to my list of things here so um sean is a commercial plumber and he wants to get into the hvacr field and he wants to know where to start sean uh you. You have a leg up: okay, because sean already was talking about hydronics and and heating and stuff like that.

So he has a leg up because he probably understands the flow of fluid and different things like that. Right rolls downhill. You know that kind of stuff um, but uh. What you want to do sean is reach out to a local hvac company.

I believe he was in the northwest at pacific northwest, if i remember right so reach out to a local hvac company, and let them know that you're interested in it. Okay, then. What i would suggest you do is look for a local community college or trade school pay attention when you're looking at schools that you don't obligate yourself to a really expensive school that you cannot back out of the cool thing i like about community colleges is, you Can just pay per unit and you don't have to pay for the whole thing in the beginning, especially for guys that are just kind of curious about hvac. Community college is a good way to start, because you can pay for just one class and say hell.

No. This is stupid. I don't want to do this anymore and you're, not out 17 000 or whatever those educations cost nowadays, okay, so um, but reach out to your local uh service company. First and just let them know, hey, i'm interested in becoming an hvacr service tech.

Let them know your your history and i'm sure they'll get you started on that, okay and then obviously get started in a trade school check out. My buddy brian orr's website hvacrschool.com, okay, again brian and i are different people, but brian has an awesome website with lots of great information. Podcasts uh youtube videos, um write-ups, uh different stuff, like that. He's got lots of great educational information for new people getting into the trade, definitely check out brian orr's website.

Okay, again, that's hvacrschool.com um. All right! Let me see what else we got in here. Uh jacob is working for a company. This is a really good question.

I remember this one, so jacob is working for a company and he reached out to me because they are not supporting him, meaning that he's really interested in learning more and doing things right, but he doesn't get support from the office. He oftentimes doesn't know what he's working on. He feels like he's being put out there in the field, and you know he feels like he's. Gon na hurt something or hurt himself or something like that.

So when it comes to that guys, i know that there's companies out there like that, especially right now when we're show we're so short staffed and when we're so short staffed, everybody's just hiring and throwing people out there and just trying them out. I don't believe in that it's a bummer that we have to do that, because i believe in a proper apprenticeship and working your way up and learning by working with someone, okay, so um. What you need to do jacob is, you need to think about yourself and your family, okay, first off, if you're being put in situations working on things that you feel like you're unsafe, i'm gon na tell you right now that you need to stop what you're doing, Because you need to go home at the end of the night. Okay, if you feel like you're working on something, that's unsafe, you need to do what's best for you bud, okay, because guess what? If you get hurt and die, that company is still gon na, be there but you're, not okay, so don't ever, let yourself be put in a situation where you don't feel safe.

Okay, now we got ta preface that with the fact that don't be a too okay because you're afraid to change a capacitor and you feel like you're gon na get shocked to death, then don't get me wrong. You can get shocked, but you know you can't be a about it too. You have to have practical fears, i mean they have to be real, but you need to feel comfortable. Okay, so remember safety, first, no matter what okay now as far as not having support from the office right, i mean you got to think about yourself.

Man i mean i can't make that decision for you, but it sounds like you need to find someone that will teach you properly. But at the same time, you need to understand that if you want to be taught through an apprenticeship and work alongside someone you're not going to be making the big bucks learning right, i mean the way that we need to look at. It is where we're lucky that we get to make money while we're learning right joe. Thank you so very much for that super chat bud.

I really appreciate it man, so you know um. You need to look out for your safety, but then also you need to know when it's time to move on and find a company, that's willing to teach you. You may have to take a couple bucks, an hour, less okay. So that way you can learn properly and then it'll pay off in tenfold a couple years down the line.

You know because then you'll have a knowledge base built upon and you won't be built upon hacky ass crap. So i recently had someone reach out to me and uh. It was an acquaintance of mine and he was asking me for help on an air conditioning system. He had watched one of my videos he's an air conditioning.

Technician has been for a very long time and he was watching one of my videos and uh. He was working on a very similar unit. He ran into a very similar problem and he called me and he goes or messaged me he's, like hey man, i'm running into this problem. This system is not working correctly.

My head pressure's way high my suction pressure's too low, and i could just tell by talking to him on the phone that he didn't know what he was doing. Okay and what he was telling me didn't, make sense either, and i could tell there was i had a feeling i knew where this was gon na lead, so where it led was he didn't pull a vacuum? He didn't weigh in the refrigerant. He was trying to charge by pressures instead of weighing in the charge, and he had no idea how to check super heater sub coiling, okay, guys that is a foundation of crap and he's been working for years. Building upon that foundation of crap okay, you can't be a good air conditioning, refrigeration technician.

If your foundation is built on crap, you have to have a solid foundation. You have to understand basic refrigeration and air conditioning, and you can't be too lazy to implement basic air conditioning and refrigeration best practices, a proper evacuation. You need to strive to be the best technician. You can be right.

That's what i do. I'm not perfect. I make mistakes every day, but when i make a mistake, i have guilt inside of me when i don't pull a perfect vacuum, i feel guilty. I go home like damn that sucks man.

I had to start that system up before the evacuation was perfect, but i'm also practical - and i know um especially being you know, running a business that you know we have to get this system going. The system has leaks in it. I can't fix every leak. The customer needs it running their products going to get thrown away.

There's an acceptable risk, sometimes too, but i still have that guilt. I have a foundation, that's solid and i've built upon a solid foundation. Then i can choose to use, what's been given to me or not to use it, but at least i know what's right and wrong right. So if you don't feel comfortable, it sounds like you need to move on to something: that's bigger and better.

Okay but understand there may be some repercussions as far as paying stuff like that, all right, i'm going to get to the chat and see what i'm missing here. Do i only service, restaurants, uh? No, i do some retail um some and i do some work for a stainless steel shop, but mainly it's restaurant, refrigeration and air conditioning yeah, and i, like i mean honestly, i get people reaching out to me all the time like it's hard for me to accept New customers right now too, because i can't even keep up with what i got going on so all right um do i do any supplementary hvac readings or content consuming mr noodles, i'm assuming you mean. Do i try to better myself in my off time? I do. I i feel guilty for not trying to better myself more um.

I definitely have been taking this last, probably six to eight months. I have not picked up any educational materials and i probably need to um. I can pretty much tell you. I have a feeling that they'll probably do some kind of a grandfathered thing or something like that, but my nate certification is going to expire because i don't have the continuing education hours so um you know i'm.

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if they like do something because of the whole pandemic and all that crap, but uh yeah. I i definitely have been like kind of stuck on a rut and haven't been furthering myself or bettering myself, and i probably i really need to get back into it, but yeah. I typically like to further myself i'm part of some training organizations rscs for one um. Actually, just talking, if anybody's local to here to southern california, we're not going to start meetings up again uh in person meetings, but we are going to start doing online meetings so for our local arrowhead chapter.

We're actually going to do some uh combination meetings for multiple chapters and we're going to uh webcast them, basically, so you'll be able to check them out and even for people that aren't rscs members i'll be definitely putting the information out there. You know promoting it on youtube and stuff like that, so people can get free education, so um. Let me see what else we got going on in here. Uh leave my resume open if needed.

If interested looking for refrigeration work, oh okay, all right! Let me see what else we got in here. How do i prevent burnout? Oh good one, how do you prevent burnout from having to repair units that are past their lifespans had a unit with two bad compressors had to fix economizer to get it by won't replace unit had many recently mike fox man. You know. Sometimes you just have those customers, especially right now, especially in the commercial stuff, see you know, residential right now, residential sales are going through the roof.

People are making, you know the best year of their life. You know i mean it's insane. These businesses are going crazy. The sales and everything on the commercial side, not so much, okay, commercial side, um, you know everybody's skimping, because it's corporations and different things like that: right, uh, residential people, they're just basically uh putting themselves in debt in crazy amounts right and there's something interesting about that.

On the residential side, it's a very interesting thing that you know the sales of equipment and everything are going through the roof right, but i, without even looking at the numbers, i can absolutely guarantee you that those people are not spending money out of their checking accounts. They're, just financing, you know it's interesting how much we are financing and i'd, be uh, really interested to see what the financial numbers are. As far as financing, things has gone to through this whole pandemic, and all this you know this whole year - i'd be really interested to know how much debt by consumers has been um. You know taken on it's insane to think about how much money people are spending by financing things.

That's that's scary, not passing judgment, but that's just a scary scary thing that that's not a good thing. That's like another bubble, that's just filling up! You know i mean that's scary, all right, but as far as how to prevent burnout, i don't know man on the commercial side. You know people don't want to repair or replace stuff, it's very difficult, so sometimes you're just stuck doing it. The only thing i could say is just make sure you know that you're covering your butt, documenting everything for sure letting people know up front.

Like look, you got two bad compressors, i'm i'm giving you a quote to change too bad compressors, like i can't stress enough to you that i need another eight hours to diagnose after we replace these compressors. I need to come back two days later and check the system out and figure out why they failed, and then you better expect another quote for a big repair, because something caused those compressors to fill. They don't just go bad, i mean so i'm going to document everything and let them know up front like hey guys. You know you guys need to understand.

If i'm going to fix this, you know there's going to be more problems, and this is not going to be a band-aid like you know. We got to do this and i would tell them there's no warranty. The only thing i'm warranting is my workmanship. You know if my weld fails.

I warranty that right, but i'm not warranting a compressor that you're not willing to diagnose as to what made it fail. You know heck. No i've even gone to customers when i'm replacing compressors in package units and said, there's no warranty on this. Unless you let me go through and figure out and fix what caused it to fail, i won't even honor manufacturer's warranties i'll just tell them.

No, it's not happening. You know you guys need to fix this stuff that or you just get to put a compressor in and have me change it again in three months. You know so as far as how to prevent burnout, i don't know man, i mean. That's a hard one that really is a hard one.

So all right, um, michael and son, is offering monthly payments for your new equipment in your area, uh young for mafia, michael and son. I've heard about michael and son. I don't know what that is. Is that a financing thing young for mafia or young mafia? Send me an email, hvacr, videos, gmail.com? And let's talk a little bit more about it, i'm kind of curious, uh union or non-union dallas.

That is a great question. I have no opinion either way. What i'm going to tell people is, the union is a great thing and non-union is a great thing here. In southern california, we do not have a strong union in the hvacr trade.

Okay, there is union, but it's not super strong. The most work you're going to get is going to be educational work, you're going to get government work and that's about it: okay, educational and government, some giant hospitals and different things like that. You might get some some work but um in the restaurant refrigeration in the residential there's no place for union here. It just doesn't exist right, but in other places you know union strong, so whatever's best for you and your family is the way that i see it.

I have no nothing bad to say about the union, there's horrible union texts and there's horrible non-union texts. I mean you know, people are people, so it's not the union's fault that someone's a horrible tech. You know. So excuse me all right.

Let me see what else we got in here: um, oh michael and son, is an hvac company. I swear michael and son is like a uh, an auction or something like that out here in california, or maybe it's something else in suns. I don't know what purchase of a hundred dollars or less has most positively impacted my life recently at work or otherwise a purchase of a hundred dollars or less well i'll. Tell you right now, for my family, a purchase of a hundred dollars or less uh has just been doing something outside being active with my family, the you know we recently purchased uh.

You know when the pandemic first started, we purchased uh. You know the beanbag game. Cornhole right, we bought that and played with that in the backyard, and that was really cool because we all had fun being outside playing with that right, um as far as an hvac purchase below a hundred dollars. That has benefited me greatly right off.