So done, 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. How are you guys doing this evening? Um it's a trip here in southern california. It was 90 degrees outside today.

This last weekend i went to a service call on saturday i was wearing a sweater and a beanie. It was like saturday evening and it was like cold and we have such bipolar weather here, it's kind of crazy. So hopefully you guys are doing okay. I know that there's a lot of new um, coveted stuff happening across the country, so stay safe and hang in there because um, you know here in california, we've been dealing with the shutdowns pretty much we haven't opened back up versus another.

You know lots of parts of the country and i'm not getting political or anything here, but a lot of the parts of the country open back up. So you know i could only imagine um opening back up and then closing back down has got to be crazy. See here we've been fighting to get them to open back up in general and it hasn't happened. So hey, you know what just uh bear with it.

Hopefully, uh work stays steady for you guys and you guys can uh can keep on working through it all um, and you know you guys, don't have any issues with um, you know staying busy and that kind of stuff so definitely a crazy time again. Uh. We don't get political in here as far as uh. You know all that crap so leave all that out, but you know just hopefully everybody uh does good and stays busy and can you know keep going keep the income coming in kind of a thing.

You know what i'm saying: um: it's been kind of crazy here, uh up and down as far as the weather, it's been cold, so we kind of slowed down a bit. Then we had a little heat snap today and then it's going to cool down again. So it's kind of a trip there um, let's see uh right on thanks. You know i i do want to address the fact that i really really need to thank all of you guys that are in here watching these streams and all of you that subscribe to my channel and support us.

It is so awesome guys. Thank you. So very much i really do appreciate it. You know, i see so many people asking me for shout outs and acknowledgements and different things like that.

There's so many um, it's it's so hard. I don't do shout outs in general, but it's so hard to get to all of them. It's very humbling to get all your guys's emails and different things like that. It's a trip, so thank you guys so very much for being there.

Do me a favor if you could please smash the like button, get it up. There really does help out the channel as far as recognition from youtube and stuff. So please please and keep an eye out guys, because i saw something happen where something new. I saw a google moderator bot pop up in the chat and delete someone's comment alex.

Thank you so very much for that. Super chat bud definitely not needed, but it's much appreciated. Okay, thank you! Um, but yeah. There was a google moderator bot that popped up in the chat very early on and deleted.

Someone so keep an eye out for that, because i have no control over a google. It's like a google team, moderator bot. That's a trip so watch out for that um. Thank you guys so very much for all of you.

You know, i see all the support coming in people been watching me since last year. That is ice. That is awesome. So, yes, adam this is my nice monday live stream.

Although i'm gon na talk about something today, so um, i've been building up to this uh install that i've been talking about doing for a while. I've talked about it on the overtime show talked about it on here a few times, so we have this 15 ton split system, it's a carrier, heat pump system, we have the evaporator coils leaking or the indoor coil has been leaking and the customer opt to replace The equipment so um we had to get the air air handler custom-made uh took about, i don't know nine weeks or something like that had to be shipped direct from carrier, so we went ahead and scheduled everything um and before i scheduled it. When i quoted this job to be honest with you, i didn't even want this job. But when i quoted this job i went ahead and had um right.

I told them that i wasn't capable of handling the install of the air handler because i don't have a big enough crew and we're not set up for that kind of work. So they expect a construction company to come in and the construction company uh is going to lift up the equipment and get it up there. So um. What i did was.

I did a walk through with the construction company last week. Just had them meet me out. There, which should have been kind of a red flag, because when i called them they were kind of like what you want us to do, a walk-through. Why - and i said just i need someone from the company - someone that's going to be running the job to come out and walk the job with me.

I just want to talk to him about it, because this air handler that we're lifting up there weighs 713 pounds dry. So i'm like this is a big deal and they're lifting at 13 feet in 13 or 14 feet in the air. It's suspended via unistrut and all the ductwork is and it's an expo it's exposed in the ceiling. So i mean there's no ceiling, no drop sealing or anything, but still there's a lot of work that goes into this um.

So we did the job walk. I got him to come out and you know the the guy was kind of like oh wow yeah. That is bigger than i thought you know and um, and then we scheduled everything for first thing this morning, so uh when i did the job walk with them. I went ahead and said: hey, you know what um you guys go ahead and handle scheduling everything, because i really had nothing to do with the rest of the job until they had the unit placed okay and then uh, i never got any emails from them.

So i went ahead and emailed them later in that week and said: hey what's going on, i never heard from you guys, and they said oh yeah everything's scheduled for this upcoming monday morning be ready. Six a.m. We're gon na have the lift, and the only thing i had to do for this job was just had to deliver the air handler. So myself, and a couple of my guys we showed up this morning at 6 00 - am we backed in there dropped off the air handler uh the manager? I forgot to mention too, that the manager they never notified the manager.

So luckily i called her late last week and said: hey did they tell you and she said no and then we got everything figured out. So the manager showed up super early, we got to the job and they dropped off their scissor. Lift the scissor lift was dropped by one of the rental companies and myself, and one of their technicians was looking at the scissor lift and we're like the scissor lift is not big enough. They were going to lift a 15-ton air handler, that's seven feet long and almost six feet wide with a just a standard.

The smallest scissor lift that they make, and this isn't gon na happen. So then, they're uh they're, the rest of their their foreman showed up and everything, and then they realized they made a big mistake. They misjudged the weight, which i told them the weight from the beginning. This is how much this unit is, how big it is.

That's why i did a job walk with them uh, so they misjudged everything they couldn't make it happen and they ended up having to uh leave the job today, but back up a little bit more before i left this morning, i said: hey here's. My number give me a call if you guys run into any problems, because i had told them i planned on being there tomorrow to do my part of the job which was hooking it up. Vacuuming it down changing the dryers and all that stuff uh. I never got a call from them, never once actually the restaurant general manager called me just to say just to to talk to me and basically and say you know what these guys got, the wrong equipment lift they made me show up super early and i was Pissed too, because i had to show up super early for no reason.

You know the reason why i'm telling you guys this you got ta, take ownership of your work. You've got ta, take control, okay. This is one that felt really uncomfortable to me because, usually i'm in control, okay, usually i'm the one pulling the strings and orchestrating everything. But this time i let the construction company run the lift and all that stuff, and i wasn't the one coordinating them.

Okay - and they just can't seem to get their stuff together, oh yeah, and that they didn't show up with enough technicians either to to do the. It was just a mess like what a cluster f. Okay, so take ownership of your jobs, all right that really just pissed me off and it makes me reluctant like. I was scared to leave that air handler there, because that air handler cost me almost five thousand dollars and it's like and i'm leaving that there for these guys to what do they get like, i'm so freaked out thinking that they're gon na you know drop this Thing from 15 feet in the air or something you know, and this is the kind of stuff you know for those guys that ask me you know i get the emails and there's nothing wrong with this, but those guys that ask me hey: what's it like to Be a business owner here, you go, you got ta, think out, everybody else's work and you got ta micromanage and i hate micromanaging.

It seems so dumb, but guess what guys common sense just doesn't seem so common anymore. It really doesn't it's it's sad. You know it's just sad because i feel, like you know, in the future, they're gon na look back and they're gon na be like wow. That was a a dip.

You know in innovation and everything in in this this century. It just it just seems like right now: everybody is just thinking out of their ass, but hey life happens. You got ta move on, so tomorrow's gon na be a better day. Um.

Hopefully i'm you know i'll get into this, but that's just how the days go. Man, it definitely uh it uh. It makes it frustrating sometimes so all right. Well we're going to get into this.

I got as usual a bunch of stuff i want to cover, and then i want to address the chat too. So do me a favor if you guys have questions or things you want to cover in the chat, do your questions or comments in caps lock that way, i noticed them. Okay, now, lately there's been more and more people coming to these streams. So it's a lot more difficult, uh getting into uh.

It's a lot more difficult for me to get to every single question. Okay. So if i miss your question, okay feel free to keep posting it. But if i miss it don't be offended, it's just hard to get to them.

Okay, send me an email and i'll definitely either get it on the list or send you an email back. Okay, so um, i'm gon na get to what i have on this. So question that i have okay and brian's asking the question in the chat right now and i believe he's the one that sent me this in my email too. Where do i see the industry in 10 years? Okay, where do i see the industry going uh? If this isn't the question that you sent me brian, then, but it's funny, because it's kind of the same question that someone that you're asking me so where do i see the industry in 10 years? Where is it going? Okay, refrigerant wise? I see us going to completely hydrocarbon refrigerants, i'm talking for refrigeration and all that stuff.

I just see it that way now. I know there's all kinds of headaches and fear and scares and yes that, but i just see us going to hydrocarbons. Okay. So that's a that's! That's where i see it with that um.

I predict that uh. You know. I've said this many times before. I predict that residential systems are going to go fully hydrocarbon too, and i wouldn't be the least bit surprised if they don't go to some type of a hydronic system.

I've said this before, like a chiller outside that's pumping some kind of fluid inside, so that way, you're keeping the hydrocarbon refrigerants out of the house and then just doing some sort of a chiller system. I i just for some reason think that that's going to be something in the future: a viable way to introduce hydrocarbons into the residential market, hydrocarbons for those of you that don't know, are flammable refrigerants, okay right now, the most common hydrocarbon refrigerants. I don't know if they're the only ones, but the most common ones are uh r290, which is uh, ultra refined, highly pure purified, propane, okay and then uh um r600, which is uh um isobutane, okay, so those are the two most common in refrigeration. At the moment.

I'm sure there's more stuff coming down the pipeline, but um at this moment. Those are the ones that the powers that be deemed to be the most safe as far as the environment, and you know all that stuff that i'm not super smart when it comes to those numbers. But that's just what i see. Okay, as far as industry, training, schooling and that kind of stuff, uh connor, thank you so very much for that super chat.

That is awesome, bud again not needed, but thank you very much. Okay, um, where i see the industry going is um. You know. I hope that trade schools are still around.

I hope that there's physical in-person classes still around, but i'm worried that they're not gon na be okay, because the advent of online education is becoming more and more popular. I'm i'm a fan of people getting their hands on things and doing a proper apprenticeship, but you know the way that things are going uh with the virus and all this different, crazy stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a stronger and stronger push for online education. It's interesting, it's kind of a bummer because you know coming up in the trade.

I got my hands on tools and went to school and did an apprenticeship, and you know that kind of stuff. So it's kind of crazy, but that's just where i see it going. Um, let me see what else we got going on in the chat here. Okay, uh.

Do i do any residential jobs? No, i do not do residential jobs, uh, alexander's refrigeration. He said firing bad customers. How do you? How do you deal about it? You just don't answer the phone or explain. Well, it really depends on the situation, so um i've told the story.

Before of you know, i was working at a bar one time and the bartender was actually. The manager was just being rude just downright rude, and she was trying to belittle me in front of her customers, because she had a horrible ice machine that i basically told her that she needed to replace. But unfortunately, the machine was so dirty that i had to clean it first before i could tell that the nickel plating was completely coming off the evaporator. So by the time i got done cleaning and i gave her all that information.

I need to clean it first before i go through it, but by the time i got done, cleaning it and then realized what happened and then handed her a bill for two hours of my time. She lost her stuff and just started belittling me in front of the the patrons sitting at the bar topping um. It felt really good to handle the bill and tell her to lose my number like that's exactly what i did don't ever call me again. Um.

You know and uh i had to do it and it felt really good. Now, i'm not always a person that wants to get confrontational with customers like that, but sometimes you just got to do what you got to do: okay, but for the most part i'm the type of person. That's uh, just going to go ahead and politely. I've had to let some other customers go and just politely tell them hey.

You know what it's not really going to work out anymore. I can't do your service work anymore. I just can't keep up okay. Typically, i don't want to get into an argument with them.

I don't want to, you know, complain or anything like that. I just want to just get out of there as fast as possible. So for the most part i just told them hey, you know what it's just not going to work anymore. We just can't keep up with the work uh if, if you don't want to go down the path of explaining exactly what's going on, just tell them that you're too busy to keep up with the work.

That's the easiest way to get out of those things so that i find okay um all right. Let's see what else um! What's the let me see what else um we have unlimited natural gas piped inside already. What's the difference, that's a great point, joe great point. Although i will say joe and for the rest of the country, you're welcome, but natural gas is going out the window too, because here in california, in some of our uber uber liberal cities up north san francisco and some of the fancy hoity-toity cities up there already Banning natural gas on new builds for residential construction so be ready, because you know that everything we do here in california, eventually trickles down to you guys so um, which seems like the silliest thing, but again it's just how it works and crazy.

Now, that's not all of california, but in some of the crazy crazy cities they are pushing against natural gas being piped into the homes and they want everybody to go all electric. So we'll see how that goes. Um all right! Let me see: oh guys, these super chats kevin defective. Thank you.

So very much man, um wow. These are awesome joshua. Thank you. What do i think about elon musk wanting to create a new type of ac joshua? I can't really see what elon musk is really gon na.

Do i mean i, i see him um streamlining and possibly coming up with a better solar, hybrid system, but i mean maybe streamlining a magnetic compressor um. You know using flat plate heat exchangers, that kind of stuff just making systems more efficient, but i just can't see elon musk coming up with some revolutionary thing. That's just gon na blow our minds that blow the air conditioning industry out of the water. I just don't see that, but what i do see him doing and i could be wrong.

I probably am wrong, but what i do see him doing is streamlining and making it easier to do some of these things that are out out of reach for normal people. Like magnetic compressors um, like uh, you know better solar power. Okay, because we've had hybrid systems with solar before they weren't very effective. I can see elon doing that um systems that are hybrid, that work off of the batteries that he does and i could see that um, maybe something with like heat sinks and uh some kind of uh heat transfer.

You know something like that: okay, but i just don't see him revolutionizing too much. I know he keeps pimping saying he's doing something, but i think it's just gon na be some technology that we already have that's just unattainable from normal people and he's gon na streamline the manufacturing process and make it easier for the general public to get it. That's what i see with elon musk, so um defective hamster. You heard you can recover gas in a mini split by closing one of the valves and keep the compressor running then close the other valve to move the unit.

Okay, so here's the thing you got to be so careful when you're pumping systems down you have to understand basic principles. Okay, now on a mini, split um, you got to be very careful pumping them down depending on how long the line set is. You need to be able to access the high side of the system. This goes on anything that you're working on okay.

So i'm not saying it's completely impossible to pump a mini split down, but i will say that you need to be careful, because if it has a super long line set, you need to be able to monitor the system. Now i don't do a lot of mini split work, so you know i'm not a pro at it, but i mean the basics principle: you've got a compressor and a condenser outside it is feasible that you should be able to pump some of the refrigerant into that Condenser, but i don't know if it'll take the whole charge. Okay, so be very careful about that um, i don't think they're using micro channel on mini splits. Yet i haven't seen that, but you know be very careful with anything you just you know you just got to understand basic principles and don't just close a valve and walk away because you don't know what's going on in that system.

Okay, so be very cautious about that kind of stuff, um yeah. What's this one, i missed another one up in here, uh kevin. Would i recommend using flammable refrigerants in a package unit? Okay? No, i don't recommend converting anything to a flammable refrigerant. At this point.

No okay, because it's not designed for it the only time i would use a flammable refrigerant in a system if it was completely designed for it there's too much liability. Now what are the odds of it? Exposing, i don't know, that's a ques! That's an argumentable question. I don't think that's the right word but anyways, but for liability reasons, i'm not going to put any flammable refrigerants in anything that wasn't designed for them, because i don't want that liability on my side. So all right, um.

Let me see what else have i ever gotten a service call where the only issue was a disconnect switch being off. That's funny. B2B7 plays games, that's in a really long screen name but um yeah. I actually got one of those this weekend, a video coming soon irritating is all get up.

You know you drive out to the call and then you're like hey it's off. Let me turn it on hey. It works yeah, it happens. Uh.

You know you got to bite your tongue because all the things you want to say to the customer, you know what in the end, i was happy that they called me, because i got to bill out like three and a quarter hours to drive out there and Turn a switch on so hey. You know what thank you very much. I you know. I turn it around.

Yes, i'm angry. Yes, i was bummed out that i had to leave. I was in my pajamas. I was just hanging out lounging doing nothing and i had to go out on a service call and it was frustrating.

But in the end of the day i handed them a bill and said. Thank you very much. You know, and it was cool and it generated more work. I went out there and spent sent another technician out there today to do more work, and then i went out there again today, so sometimes uh.

You know that stuff can generate even more work. So i the way that i look at it is. I just try to be thankful as much as i can for the work that i can get. Okay, especially in these crazy times.

Um. Is there a test kit that you can tell what what kind of refrigerant is in the system jd? Yes, there is, but it's typically not a attainable thing for a normal technician or a normal owner, or anything like that. Okay, they do have gas analyzers very, very expensive into the tens of thousands of dollars and they can analyze what refrigerants are in systems uh with the older refrigerants. It was very easy for us with the newer refrigerants, it's a little bit more difficult, but there is some tests that we can do and some investigating to find out what refrigerant is in the system.

If it's a mixed refrigerant, good luck, you're, never going to figure that out! When i, when i say my mixed, i mean you know a technician mix, two different refrigerants that one's a really difficult one to find out so but yeah there's some temperature pressure tests that you can do on systems depending on what type of system you're working on. There's a few different things you can do, but as far as a gas analyzer be ready to shell out tens of thousands of dollars, probably so all right, let me see what else what's the next for my detect select since i got the detect stratus? Well, that's a great point and i'm going to answer that question right now so um. I released two videos this last week and uh. The last two videos were the walk-in cooler retrofit with the zoom lock max and the leak detectors suck, sometimes okay.

So the leak detectors suck sometimes i'm gon na - tell you guys something. I've probably told this before. Maybe you know this, maybe you don't know this but um. I don't like to read instruction manuals guys.

I have used the detex select leak detector for my gosh. I i want to say 10 years, but i mean it's been a long time that i've been using the detect, select leak, detector and i've. Never once read the instructions for the detect select. I literally just turned it on and started using it and learned how it worked and moved on.

So with that being said, i released a video where i was doing a leak check and then the battery died and i was really frustrated and someone in the comments said dude. It does tell you when the battery is going down, it was doing it the whole time you were using it and i just didn't notice it. That's because i've never read the instructions, i'm just looking for simple, easy turn it on and move on. So interesting is you know i do some testing and i work with field piece instruments right.

I work with them and i do beta testing with them and different things like that. So i'm always trying out new tools and you know helping them out with they. They'll ask there's a group of us beta testers that are. Some of them are much more active than myself, but you know they'll oftentimes, ask us, survey, questions and different things like that, and one of the points that i brought up to them was.

I don't like to read instructions: okay and the thing that i do with all the tools that they send me is, i don't read the instructions i just turn it on and try to figure it out. Okay, because i'm just a person that just doesn't like to read instructions when it comes to tools. Now that sounds stupid. I know installation manuals.

I will read an installation manual for a package unit and stuff like that, especially if it has something i've never done before, but most of the time for tools. I just turn them on and try to figure them out, i'm looking for how intuitive they are, and i report back to the manufacturer and say hey. You know what this is really easy for me to figure this out or that kind of thing. Okay, so with that being said, i've never known on the dtec select that it had something that told you when the battery was going dead, never knew that okay used it for years.

So what am i going to do with my detex select now? Okay, because, in the end of that video, if you watch till the end, i said guess what i got: a new leak detector. I've been looking for a reason to buy the detex stratus or the inficon detect stratus. The new revision of the dtex select, okay and i went ahead and bought it, so i'm gon na keep the detex select and just keep it as my backup leak detector. I have had backup leak detectors in the past.

A lot of people ask me: where was my backup? I don't carry a currently i i didn't up until now carry a backup leak detector in my van i used to weigh in the past, but i haven't had the need because the dtec select has done me. Good for so long um, so my detect select, still works um but uh. I i think i'm gon na go ahead and replace the sensor cell and go ahead and go ahead and order a new battery for it too, because it's about time i've replaced the sensor cell in it maybe once or twice, and the battery once or twice too So i'll do that and then it'll just be a perfectly good backup leak detector that i just keep in my van uh in case something ever happened with the stratus. So that's the plan with that one all right.

Let's see what i'm missing inside here, a lot of stuff's going by, i know guys. I'm not gon na be able to see everything right now, but um. Let me see uh, okay, so um. I had another question on here.

So let's go through this one uh. I wan na go ahead and get the elephant in the room and i want to talk about the zoom lock max okay, so i did a video of a walk-in installation and i just i've been thinking about it for a really long time and i went ahead And decided to go ahead and use the zoom lock max. Okay, so got everything that i needed for it and uh. For that i read the installation instructions and i watched some videos and different things like that.

Now my stance on zoom lock the press fitting tool. Zoom lock max is this: i'm not going to use it every day, okay, but it is a tool to have it. It really was really cool to be able to use it, and i do feel confident that my refrigerant fittings are not going to leak anytime soon or in the new future whatsoever. I think that that is going to be a very, very good connection, but the most important thing before i used it and after i used it that i know to be the truth, there goes the coke nose.

Guys is the prep okay, the biggest thing about the zoom lock max is when you're using it. If you just look at what goes on, you have to deburr the pipe inside and out, and you have to get all the scratches and scrapes out of the pipe. Okay, if there is deep gouges, if you can feel them with your fingernail they're too deep, you need to clean those and buff them out. So they say to take some 180 grit sandpaper sand it down.

Okay circular motions and then buff it out with the brillo pad that they give you or the scotch brite pad whatever you want to use and make sure that it's clean and shiny and a soft surface and there's no nicks. Okay, because you have to think that that o-ring is going to go over the pipe and if there's a crack running, you know through the pipe and the o-rings just covering it, then the refrigerant is going to go under that. You know through the crack under the o-ring and leak out, okay. So yes, there is a lot more prep that goes into that.

But if you are thorough, okay and you are doing your job, then it's really not that different. Okay, there's so much that changes in our industry right, um people, don't like change hell. I don't like change. Okay, it's just inevitable, though that things are gon na change and new technologies are gon na, come out all right.

Um again, i said: i'm not gon na use the zoom lock max every single time, but i will use it again. I feel confident in it. Okay, plus it's backed by spoiling, i mean in spoiling the the reason why i work with spoiling is because i trust them: okay, their um their slogan at the beginning of my videos, quality, integrity and tradition, okay, the quality and integrity. I'm not gon na go deep into this, but that does exist within that company.

The quality and integrity, okay, um. I believe that they are good people there and i believe that they feel confident that this product is going to last okay. So that's all we're going to say about that. I will use it again.

It's a great great tool to have and when it comes to hot work, permits, uh fire, watches and different things like that, certain places, don't let you braise that's a great great resource. Is it dumbing down the industry? No, i don't think so. Okay is it gon na i mean guys. People say that youtube in the beginning.

Oh that's dumbing down the industry. I've got nasty nasty emails from people, okay, old timers, and i will say it's it's basically old timers and they say: stop sharing the information you're sharing you're, ruining the industry. How am i ruining the industry by sharing the little bit of knowledge that i have? Okay, there's so many people out there that don't like change and are afraid of things like, for instance, sharing their knowledge. They feel like they're, going to be replaced.

The funny thing is the person that emailed me saying: stop sharing that information i can tell he was retired so who the hell? Why does he even care in his weird ass logic in his head that he's going to be replaced? Why does he even care he's retired, okay? But what sucks is you have those people that are retired and don't share their knowledge and then they're gone from the industry? Okay, so things are changing. New technologies are coming out, i'm not jumping on every bandwagon. Okay, but it's cool to know that the certain tools are coming out and guess what guys i even have a use in my head right now for uh zoom locks push to connect fitting okay, the little quick they have a quick release. One you guys will see it because i have the perfect use for that and it's coming up.

You guys will see it when i get an opportunity to make a video i'm going to use the zoom lock push to connect and it's going to totally make sense to you guys you'll be like oh okay, yeah. That makes sense, so you know don't be so afraid of things now, of course, i was hesitant when they came out with press tools too okay, but you know what give it some time and read about them and follow the installation, instructions and you're not going to Run into you know the problems that everybody thinks they're going to run into now. Yes, if, if a person that is not trained in air conditioning refrigeration, goes and buys a zoom, lock max tool and buys all the fittings sure they can screw things up. If they don't do it right and they can cause more problems and different things like that.

But if a technician is using it in the right situation and uses it, you know properly and follows the installation instructions it's going to be fine. Okay, so let me see what else we got in here. Um does everyone in here know an old timer? I'm probably an old timer, but i've met them over my time in the career. Do i always have to use dryers on refrigeration condensers? Yes, any time a refrigeration dryer is there to clean the system? Okay, the dryers do different things.

Some of them remove moisture. They have more stuff desiccant inside of them that removes moisture, some of them catch sediment there's just filters. Okay, it looks like a liquid line dryer, but it's literally just a filter. You know different there, it's a strainer, whatever you want to call it.

I've seen suction line filters, suction line, filter dryers, some of them have different chemicals in them to remove waxes and different things like that. So, but they're there to clean the system up. Okay, so anytime, we open a refrigeration system. We want to change the dryer.

Okay, don't be lazy and not change the dryer right all right. Let me see what else we have in here. Uh. Have i ever accidentally braised on a pressurized joint uh.

I've done it purposely. Actually, i've purposely braised on pressurized joints for those guys that are have been in the industry for a while they've, most likely done the same thing so uh have you ever had an access valve fail, a king valve on a compressor fail and you needed to access The system pressures: well, you buy a saddle tap valve. You turn the system off. You clean the pipe really good and you braze on a saddle tap.

You braze it on and then, when you're all done, you pierce it and it's it's like a bullet piercing valve, but it's permanent, so yeah i've braised on uh, pressurized systems before i've braised on flammable refrigerants. Before, okay, you just got to know what you're doing be careful, be cautious and you know just try to think ahead and think of the worst case scenario and plan for it. So all right, uh, let's see what we have in here, did i always want to go into hvac, or did i originally want to go to school for something else, so i grew up working for my father. I, when i was in high school, i took architectural drafting classes all years of high school and i took auto collision, auto body classes, all years of high school freshman through senior for architectural drafting and auto body.

So i entertained the idea of going to um school for drafting and i also entertained the idea of going to school for uh, auto body working on cars. You know fixing cars and stuff right about my junior year. I started being uh poached. I guess you can say or approached by a marine corps, recruiter, um and uh.

I my junior year. Well, i would say probably my sophomore year into my junior year. I think it was actually. I was approached by a marine corps recruiter.

I took the asvab test and i decided i wanted to go into the marine corps um. I ended up not and in a weird way it's one of my biggest regrets was not joining the marine corps um. Ironically, my little brother ended up joining the marine corps and i kind of wonder if that had something to do with it, but anyways. I ended up not joining the marine corps um and in a way i regret it, but in another way i don't because uh i might not be here because that was in uh 1999-2000, so i would have been 18 in 2001 and i more than likely would Have been overseas and uh, you know that was a crazy time, so uh, but it is kind of a regret um that i kind of wish.

I would have done it, but you know, of course i wouldn't i'm happy with my family and stuff. So i didn't want to change anything so yeah, so i thought about becoming an architect and i also thought about working on cars. I decided not to go into the marine corps. I went to work for an auto body shop during high school towards the end and started working on cars and then one day, just looked at my boss was a really nice guy, but i just said you know what i don't want to be him.

So i asked my dad if i can come to work for him full time, and that was in 2002 a year after high school, and i've been here ever since doing this so um to answer the short answer to your question is yes, i did want to Do something else, but i changed my mind so um. Let me see what else does carrier make a winter cover for the ac portion of the unit that heats and cools uh yeah, there's many air conditioning covers, for i don't know if it's carrier, but many companies make air conditioning covers for your outdoor units, but you, If you're gon na, if it's a heat pump um outside you, obviously don't want to put a cover over it, so um be cautious about that. But if it's an air conditioner straight cool only outside yeah, you can get a cover for it. That way, it just doesn't get covered in snow and stuff, like that.

Just remember, if you're going to do that, you got to make sure you uncover it before you turn it on for the first uh cooling call, basically, okay, because there's nothing worse than having to call a service technician to have them come out and take a blanket Off of your air conditioner, so um they need to make a live stream that you can see. Who is on the other side of the video you can do stuff like that? It's just i've done it before, but the problem is, you just never know who's going to pop up on the other side of the screen, so it can be dangerous. Have i ever had a catastrophic pressure loss while working on a system yeah working on a 410a package unit out in the desert when it was no joke, 120 degrees and uh? I was charging this or i was checking refrigerant pressures and they had. I was triaging ac's because they had multiple acs down and i was working on one and i walked over to go.

Do something else and all of a sudden i heard the big boom and then just refrigerant flying everywhere, and my refrigerant hose is just blowing all over and what happened? Was it actually wasn't a system failure? It was my refrigerant hose blew out. It was a weak hose, it was, it was cracked stress, cracks and stuff and then the high heat, the heavy temperatures uh. I imagine we were in excess of 550 560 psi, something like that, and it just blew the hose apart and it was just you know, blasting all over the place. Luckily, i was able to safely go over there and shut off the gauges, and that would have been something really cool to catch on video, though, why do some package units use tuple contactors for three-phase compressors, cyborg sheep? I have answered that question for majority of my career the wrong way uh, i don't know if joe is still in here, but joe shearer is probably laughing right now, because i'm not going to say what i used to say.

Okay, there is a common misconception that i myself used to share all the time as to why they use two-pole contactors for three-phase systems, and it was because i thought that it was being used as a crankcase heater. Some kind of weird trickle charge, but i have been disproven and here's one of the things and i'm actually going to explain this, but joshua called me out on it one time and then i really started thinking about it. So what happens for me is sometimes you hear little factoids from people and you you, you really don't investigate them and they just sit in your brain and then sometimes someone will ask a question and i'll just say: oh yeah, that's because you know it's this or It's that when, in fact that might not be the answer, okay, but it's just something that was told to me kind of like the game of telephone or something like that: okay, so um. The main reason why they use two-pole contactors on a three-phase system is just to save money.

It makes sense. Okay, so one time i a little birdie told me that it was because it was a crankcase heater and they were using some sort of thing and i never stared at a schematic. I never bothered to look any further into it and i just ran with it. Okay - and i even said it on this stream many times and on the videos and different things - and i was wrong okay, so just because you hear me spouting some crap doesn't necessarily mean it's true: okay, i'm not a perfect person.

I make mistakes, just like everybody else, so short answer to save money. Okay, let me see what else we got in here in straight. Thank you, so very much for that super chat. What brand hoses do i recommend i prefer yellow jacket hoses so, but it's very hard to find yellow jacket.

Nowadays, most supply houses sell jb, which, which works good too. I just liked the yellow jacket brand. So what brands am i dealing for? I'm not a dealer for any brands, i'm a commercial refrigeration technician. I do air conditioning and refrigeration, but i don't really have a specific brand that i use just depends on what i'm replacing uh marath.

Thank you so very much for that super chat man. That is awesome you guys with these super chats. Thank you guys. You do not have to do these, but thank you.

It is so awesome, hey. I want to say before i forget too um. I said this on the last one. The beanies are now available on the website.

Hvacrvideos.Com. We have uh cuffed and non-cuffed. Okay, the beanies are 20 bucks. They include shipping within the united states outside of the united states, to canada, there's an extra shipping charge and i'm not really shipping anywhere else outside of the united states besides canada at this moment, but the beanies are available.

They fit my big ass head, so they should fit yours, just fine um. I personally wear the non-cuffed, because the cuffed actually keeps me warmer and we have a mild temperatures here. So in the early mornings i throw a beanie on my head just because i'm bald and the cut the non cuffed works perfect for me, but the the the cuffed one is uh, definitely warmer. So all right, let's see what else um.

What else we got in here uh, con, okay, um. Let me see all right, i'm gon na get to my list of things to talk about here, so um running a line set. I wanted to point this out too, so i made that video using the zoom lock max okay and i had a lot of people commenting and someone had a really good post. They said, i hope you didn't, have too many fittings in the attic and they were being sarcastic saying because they were gon na leak, okay and um.

Oh, thank you very much there and straight. I appreciate that bud. Thank you, um! So uh. Whenever i do refrigeration line sets, i put the least amount of fittings anywhere that is hard to be accessed.

Okay, so i try to do one-piece line sets as much as possible when i'm doing refrigeration and do no braised joints at all in the attic okay. Now i deal with small line set, runs usually 50 foot or less, and usually it's pretty easy for me to go ahead and take a set of benders up into the attic and run the line set down and usually you know, use the the ceiling of the Walk-In and supported and different things like that, so i typically do one-piece line sets and try not to do any brazing and or zoom lock fittings in the attic just to make it easier for the next service technician now something i did on this last video, where I did the zoom lock max and i think i'm going to start doing this from now on was on the condensing unit itself. I took a. I wrote down a bunch of notes: hey here's, the total refrigerant charge, here's the winter charge and then i wrote on there.

There are no fittings in the attic. The only fittings are on the roof and in the evaporator section. So that way, when a service technician goes to work on that, he knows that more than likely he's not going to have to chase a leaking fitting in the attic. Now, if he finds that the system's short on gas and he checks all the fittings and no leaks, then maybe he's going to have to go see if something crossed the line or caused a leak, but for the most part, whether it be brazing or the zoomlock.

Max i try to keep fittings out of the attic whenever possible. Now i realize that's not always practical, but okay, all right, um zack had asked me if he should do full-time school and or part-time school, while working as an apprentice. Okay, zack, it really depends on the company. You're gon na be an apprentice for okay, so he implied that he was going to work for someone.

It depends on their schedule. Okay, some companies uh have an actual apprenticeship program where you go to school. So many days a week, and then you work so many days a week, okay, uh sometimes like for me, my technicians. I prefer them to go to school at night time and then work with me during the day.

Okay, that's the way that i did it when i went to school was i worked a full-time day and then just went to night school two days a week three days a week and took my schooling. Now, if you have the opportunity to get your schooling done before so be it whatever is best for you and your family, when we start talking about schooling, i try to say this all the time. You want to be very, very careful. Remember that when you're going to school or you're deciding whether or not to go to a school, you need to interview that school.

Just like i tell people all the time like you're interviewing for a job. Okay, you need to talk to them. Ask them all kinds of questions and get feedback from them and find out um what you know the schooling is going to be like okay, be very cautious about paying a lot of money up front. Now, if you choose to do a private school that you know, you're going to pay 10 grand 15 grand up front, that's your decision to make.

But what i would say is find out: okay, especially for people that aren't already working in the trade find out. If that money is refundable, okay, because i would think it would really suck if you paid that money up front, and then you decide that you're not going to finish the school and you drop out, are you going to lose that money? You need to ask those questions, i'm more of an advocate for at least before you get head first into it go take a college class at a community college, one or two classes. You know i don't know what the the price per unit is. I imagine it's.

Four or five hundred dollars a unit or maybe 400 - i don't know, i don't even know what it is right now but um you know pay for uh one class, see if it's something you're interested in and then pursue. You know a better school. If you feel that you need to or something like that, okay, so i'm for private schools, that's great schools are great, but just do your due diligence and make sure you interview that school there's a lot of private colleges out there that are pushing people out there And um, you know they're just pushing kids out the door. Okay, uh i'd be really interested.

You know with uh i was approached actually. No. I wasn't. I, a friend of mine, was approached for a private college and what he found was he actually got in trouble for uh reprimanding the students, because you know, basically, the students were going to pass this class because they weren't keeping up the things and the school was Mad at him, because no they don't do that at that private school they got to meet the numbers.

They have quotas of students that they have to get out the door. Okay, so yeah that bothers me. If you can't kick a student out for being a dumbass, then that's not a legit school like they're. You know, no, that that's ridiculous, okay, so i'll rant over on that one.

Okay, um! These super chats guys! Thank you! So very much. Okay! Uh! How do you gain more customers, texas, state, mechanical? Okay, that's a difficult one. I we have lucked out in that a lot of our customers have been referrals. Word of mouth customers.

I do have my company name on the side of my van, but i don't get advertisement from that people. Don't call me from that number. For the most part, my customers refer me to other customers and it kind of builds from there. So, for the guys that want to get into restaurants and stuff, like that, it's a difficult thing, especially if you want to get into chain, restaurants, okay, so i'd highly suggest looking into becoming an authorized warranty company or something like that for some of these refrigeration equipment Manufacturers that might get your foot in the door, but as far as getting in with the corporate office, that's a whole nother thing it's kind of difficult, so i'm probably not the best person to give you advice on how to get into those um but yeah all Right uh, let me see.

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What am i missing down in my list of things? I'll get to the chat here in a few minutes. I just want to get some of these things. Um, so dan had asked me a question about a walk-in freezer and he said: does a walk-in freezer have to have a sub cooler on it? Okay, so the answer is no now i didn't know where else that question was gon na go, but in my response to him, because that was an email, brandon youngbar. Thank you so very much um at my i'll answer this real quick at my house.

I have a really crappy oversized arco air uh, four ton, um gas-fired uh split system at my house. So it's an arco air system, nothing wrong with arco air, it's just it's an oversized system, my ductwork leaks, uh. We have a negative air balance in the house. It's a mess one of these days.

I keep saying this, but i'll do a video just showing how bad my system is. I have a if you guys open up my air handler. I have a two inch filter in there and i have a c-clamp sitting on top holding the filter down, because i don't have a filter rack inside my my furnace. So it's it's a pretty cool little system.

I got going on in there so right underneath the blower motor. I just have a heavy weight holding the filter down so that way the air doesn't suck the filter up and bypass it. So uh yeah, that's one of these days i'll! Do that one! Okay! So does a walk-in freezer have to have a sub-cooler? No, it doesn't okay, but without knowing any context to that question, i emailed him back, and i said no, it does not have to have a sub cooler but be very careful removing a sub cooler from a system that is existing. Okay, and the reason why is is because the expansion valve is going to be sized via the liquid temp, okay, so the liquid line temp a sub cooler, essentially is going to sub cool the refrigerant.

It's going to ensure that you have solid column of liquid and it's going to try to drop the temperature of the liquid refrigerant as much as possible to get the most efficiency out of the unit. Okay. But if your system was designed with a sub cooler in mind, removing the sub cooler could cause issues with the capacity of your system, the delivered capacity and with the expansion valve sizing requirements.