Hey there, everybody I should be coming through loud and clear this time. Hopefully we don't have audio problems like we had on the last stream. Can you all hear me? Okay, give it a second. I know.

There's a little latency there, hey everybody Nathan, Davey how you doing man all right. Let's give it a second make sure you guys can hear me in the chat and then once I get an all-clear, then we'll start anybody in the chat. Can you guys hear me? Okay, all right, hey guys how y'all doing okay, I just wanted to make sure cool. So I apologize on the last stream.

I had some problems with my my audio didn't: have the gain set high enough okay, cool right on so we're going good all right guys! Well, maybe I'm assuming some of you guys aren't at the HR Expo. I seem to be the only person, that's not because it seems like every other person that makes YouTube videos as that ahr right on cool. Okay, guys, I'm glad y'all can hear me. Okay, cool is anybody at ahr right now in the in the chat, I know there's some latency, so I'm just gon na keep talking to let you guys go in here.

So I posted a video today and I want to start out talking about that video. Actually, not even a video. Well, I posted a video this morning, but what I want to talk about is a post that I put on social media today about the the new field piece s, man, manifold, that's being released. Okay, I want to clear some stuff up and let people know and I'll explain a few things.

Okay I'll show it for those of you that haven't seen it yet. I am a beta tester for field peace and there's several other guys that are beta testing. Some of their products - okay and right now we're working on a manifold and we've been given the all-clear to talk about this manifold as of today because they just announced it today at the HR Expo. So they gave us the all-clear and I posted it.

I'll show you guys right now: okay, this is the new s man, manifold. Alright, this is going to be coming out spring of this year. As you can see, it works with the wireless clamps. It works with all the JobLink accessories.

You can connect the wireless scale to it. You can there's pressure tests, there's all kinds of cool features of which will do all kinds of information out. There's a lot of other guys right now talking about it on social media at least a lot of the beta testers are gon na start talking about it in the social groups, I'm gon na. Let those guys talk in the social groups and I'm just going to go ahead and continue posting on my own media without bombard in the social groups cuz I'll.

Let those guys do it. You know the other Facebook groups and different things. So what I wanted to bring up was, I want you guys to understand something, and I realize not. All of my viewers are watching this right now.

I want you guys to understand. This is in no way me starting to become a tool review channel. That's not what this channel is about: okay, I'm not gon na start, pushing snake oils and and additives, and all that good stuff. That's not what this channel is about.

I can promise you guys that I'm not gon na be that Channel. Okay, my channel is going to consistently be what I've been covering okay videos about the stuff that I see out in the field. Okay, now there is gon na be occasions that I might tell you hey. I really dig this tool that I'm using because I honestly dig it okay.

I want to make sure that when you guys hear from me that it's a honest review, okay - and I want to make sure that you guys know that I'm not gon na be out there just pushing anything that anybody sends to me. Okay, I honestly have a hard time with people sending me free tools as it is because I don't know, I'm kind of torn on that one. Okay, because I do get approached by people to send me tools that I can review and show to you guys. But I'm not really about that right now, I'm not saying that I'll never do that, but I don't want to become a channel that just does tool reviews who knows maybe I'll make another channel where I do tool reviews or something like that on.

Maybe I'll do that we'll see I don't know, but I just want you guys to know that in there was a lot of back-and-forth on the Facebook post that I put up today about just this a couple people you know mentioned to me that they didn't want Me to become you know, a sellout or whatever you want to call it okay and that's not the plan. Okay, guys. The only reason why I brought up this manifold is because I'm a beta tester for it. Okay, I've been testing this manifold for over a year.

Now myself and there several other beta testers out there that have been testing it and giving field piece feedback that manifold that I showed you guys has been taken back and then revised and then given back to us with different features on it every single time. Okay, so again, for those of you guys that are just coming in I'm talking about the the new field piece s, man, manifold, that's coming out! Okay, I'll show it one more time, I'm just kind of trying to reiterate to you guys. This is the new s. Man, Wireless field, piece manifold, that's gon na be coming out now.

Another thing too, I'm gon na point out is that it's gon na come with wired clamps. Okay out of this point right now, it does not come with the wireless stuff, so you will have to use your own JobLink probe kit or get a job link probe kit. Okay, I'm sure at some point, they'll come with a package and you know release it that way. Another cool feature that I really like guys is on the back of it right here.

If you guys can see that that's where your wire are, that's where your Wired clamps go now, so they moved it from the front, so it no longer sticks out the front and if you notice, there's a third port right there right here. Okay, there's a middle port, that's for outdoor dry-bulb now, so it has a permanent outdoor dry bulb on this guy. Okay, I'm gon na turn it on, for you guys show you. I can't really show you everything, but you know it's just the typical field piece manifold: it does all kinds of cool stuff and I'll make some videos and stuff about that.

But again, what I want to reiterate is that that's not gon na be the kind of stuff that I'm gon na put on my channel all the time. Okay, it's not gon na, be you know, I'm not gon na become a tool review guy or anything like that. Okay, at least at this point, I might figure something out a way to do that, but I want to make sure that I still give you guys consistent good content, and I don't want to be a quote-unquote sellout. Okay, what you guys consider that now, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with people that are pushing products and different things, because everything everybody has a different reason for doing this: video on YouTube, so there's no offense to anybody that does push products; okay! That's just not what my particular channels about okay, so I promise you guys that I'm not going to turn into just a pushing products channel okay.

So what I want to point out about that again, I'm gon na reiterate, is that you know I've been testing that manifold for over a year now, along with several other testers, and you know what the reason why I bring it up is because I really think It's a great product, okay and that's the kind of stuff that I want to bring to your guys's attention is that the products that I think are great on a regular I get you know, I'd say on a weekly basis. I probably get 200 somewhere along the lines of 200 to 300 questions, whether they be through Facebook, whether they be through emails, maybe even more, sometimes, all of them different and that's kind of why I started these live streams was to answer those questions in here, because It was really difficult for me to answer them in an email format: okay, to spend the time typing out, sometimes the same question every single time, such as: what's the best digital gauges, what's the best this, what's the best that another thing for me to point out To you guys is that this is all opinions. Okay, you know I'm not a fan of testo, but other people are so it that's my opinion, I'm not the golden rule. Okay, don't go just buy these field peace gauges, just because I said that the greatest thing or what you know whatever I say about them: okay, don't do that just because of that? Okay, guys, because I don't want you to be disappointed if you find out that you don't like them or something like that, so I want you guys to do your own research, but I'm gon na share my honest opinion about stuff that I come across.

Okay - and you know what I started to say a little while ago, for those that are coming in right now - is that you know I don't want to be the channel that just pushes products. Okay, I've already turned down some products because they just didn't fit. What you know, I don't want to be able to push something. So you know that particular product or whatever it is okay, so maybe I'll do something.

You know we'll figure that out hey guys to everybody. That's coming in hey, Rick! How you doing man see you all in there see everybody's saying hey, so let me look through here and see if I'm missing anything, I'm gon na try to keep up on the chat this time guys. So I know this probably doesn't make for the best live stream, but I want to try to keep up with it. So I don't miss all your guys's stuff.

Okay, you want to know how much for my yellow snake oil Rick yeah - I don't know I'm actually waiting on, because let me see if I got a no. I haven't gotten response yet on how much those gauges are actually going to be gosh. I don't want to miss misrepresent the price guys so I'll announce it later. I just know that they're coming out spring tentatively tentatively they're coming out spring of this year.

Okay, and they do work completely with the field piece app you can connect. You can see the wireless probes, you can see this manifold, you can. It works bitchin with all the field piece JobLink stuff, so it's really cool and if I haven't met no, I already mentioned, but it works with the scale too and yeah. Another thing that I I got a question and this doesn't just apply to this manifold, but this applies in general.

Is people were criticizing, because this manifold has the third port and it has a vacuum gauge in it? Okay, a lot of people, don't like a vacuum gauge and a manifold, and I agree with that, but I also agree that there's a time and place to have a vacuum gauge in your manifolds, okay and here's how I'm gon na lay it out for you. You know if at all and when you can, you always want a vacuum and have your micron gauge at the furthest point in the system from your mat from your pump. Okay, you know it's not always practical, but it's really not a great idea to have a micron gauge in your manifold, okay, but there's a time and place because sometimes when I am working on a tiny, reach-in cooler, I don't have room to put in all that Fancy stuff, okay: I don't have room to put my big, a peon, hoses or you're true-blue, hoses or different things; okay, because sometimes there's not a lot of room to get those things in those tight places. The same thing goes with a micron gauge: okay, there's an instance and again I know this is really only going to apply to the small stuff that I work on in the restaurants, but there's also an instance where you know a quarter-inch process.

Stub is sticking out of a compressor and it's actually not even quarter inch. It's like that tiny, small capillary tube line and when you hook all those heavy hoses on them, sometimes I'm afraid I'm gon na break that process stub off with all that fancy stuff. That's hanging off of it, okay, so there is instances where it's just not practical, to put a micron gauge on a system. Okay and that's the instance where I, if I was buying this manifold and when I will buy another manifold, it will have a micron gauge in it.

Okay, it's not gon na, be something I'm gon na use all the time, but there's times that I really need that micro engage in my manifold because if I'm working on that reaching cooler - and I don't have room for all that stuff - but I still want to Pull a vacuum into microns yeah may not be the best way to do it, but you just really got to watch your decay test after you do that, okay and - and you know sometimes you just got to do what you got to do. Okay, I'm not gon na be telling you guys that I'm the perfect person that always pulls a vacuum, the right way and all this fancy stuff. Sometimes you got to do what you got to do. Okay, so you know to each their own.

If you don't want to buy a manifold with a micro engage in it, then so be it don't. You know: they're gon na offer this a three port and they're gon na offer this a four port. So if you don't agree with pulling a vacuum with a four port system, then don't buy the four port gauges. Okay, you know it's just like I said to each their own.

I just choose to use them that way. Okay, all right! Let's go down here and see what I'm missing up here: um! Okay, keep going right on Jeff thanks a lot for watching the heat exchanger video appreciate that I'm just kind of going down here and seeing if I'm missing anything guys you guys, if, let's let's try to keep on top of this. If I don't answer your guys's comments, then keep putting them in there. Okay.

That way, I see him that we don't have to scroll all the way up to the top here, really bad, okay, I know you were kidding Rick. I don't know if you were talking to me there, I'm just talking in general. That's that's the first thing I wanted to say it's funny because uh Joel, you asked what time it's in California, what time is it? It is 5:15 p.m. in California right now.

So let me keep going on here, real quick and I'm just reading the comments here, guys. Okay, so it's interesting because my wife, you know I've been making these videos for a while, and she finally just subscribed to my channel and then also subscribed to my Facebook page and she even brought to my attention that she was reading the comments today. And these are the comments that I really don't pay too much attention to, but she was like wow. You need to address that.

You know and she's talking about the people saying that I was selling out because I was pushing manifold. Okay, I'm not. I promise you guys: okay, that's not the situation! Okay. Now I will say you know in the comment that I responded to someone today on and I'm not gon na mention who it was because I'm not trying to single anybody out cuz.

I actually got this comment from a few people more than one okay. There is gon na come a point in time when I will have to work with manufacturers. Okay again, I still want to keep this up a YouTube page, where I provide you guys with good information, at least to the best of my ability, sharing a little bit of knowledge that I have okay, but there's gon na be a time when I have to Work with manufacturers, in fact, I'm in talks with a couple manufacturers right now, but it has to be the right situation and I don't you know like, for instance, I'm in talks with the manufacturer to start having them. Send me some tools that I can try out and it's not I'm not getting compensated for it.

Okay, though, the whole point of me doing, that is to be able to have tools to give away to you guys, okay, because the agreement that I've made with this manufacturer and again nothing's signed in ink yet or anything like that. But what I'm working on is that I want to be able to pick and choose what they're gon na send me. I want to be able to say hey, even though you have a new product, I have no interest in that product and they're. Okay with that they've already told me that, and at the same time I told them that I really really would appreciate that.

If I find something that I really like and I find useful and beneficial that I want an extra one or two to be able to give away and they were like all right - they're all for it, okay, so let's hope this goes through and this particular manufacturer Will work with us and then I'll have some stuff to give away from you too, to you guys I should say: okay. The other thing is is that I told them that I'm not gon na be a channel, that the kind of reviews that I want to do is not a review where I'm gon na do a full video on this tool. That's not what I want and that's not what I'm gon na give to you guys. I I made sure that they understand that my reviews are gon na, be in action stuff.

So look when I'm filming my video, I want to be able to say hey. I really dig this product and that's it: okay, I'm not gon na, send there and spend an hour making a video and what haven't you guys? You know, sit there and watch a video just for something like that. Okay, so I just want you guys to know that I am and talks with manufacturers to work with them, but I am very particular about the things that I want to do with them, and in no way do I want to be owned by anybody in no Way, do I want to quote unquote, sell out, you know, I don't want to push anything down your guys's throats. Essentially, in my opinion, the kind of reviews I'm gon na do is exactly what you've already seen in my video, and some of you have gotten them.

Some of you haven't okay, some of you have said: hey. You know that bag that you're carrying you know or that that drill that you're using or that screwdriver that you're using what's the part number on it. What's that app that you use, you know, those are the kind of things that I want. I want to be able to use stuff in my videos and have you guys, engage and ask me about it, and then I can tell you in the chat or whatever.

Okay, so that's the kind of stuff that I want to do so hopefully you guys are okay with that, because that's how it's gon na be so you know it is what it is all right. Okay, so is you know some like chico, you asked what's a good mid-range field, piece meter to be honest with you. I don't know off the top of my head right now, I'll tell you again, cuz, I don't know all their meters. Okay, right now I use the field piece 660.

I love it. I just broke it and took it to field piece and they warrantied it. No problem. Okay, so I use the 660.

I really can't vouch for too much more because I haven't, I mean I've used their stuff before. I think I've used something like the 640, but again I'm bad with numbers. I just know that I use the 660 right now and it's a badass meter. Okay, that's the kind of stuff that I want to be able to tell you guys.

This is what I use. Okay, I don't want to push every single product. Okay, not a total tech. No worries about that man.

It's all good, no need to set anybody straight. Alright, so I want to get to some questions here in a minute, but I also want to you know, prime time. That's that's a great point. Prime time says you use good old-fashioned gauges.

I have no problem with good old-fashioned gauges, because I really think that everybody needs to learn how to use them. First, you need to learn how to use a compound gauge. You need to understand. You know.

The funny thing is is that I've ran into so many people that use a compound gauge. Then they asked me they'll call me and say: hey, what's the what's the pressure temperature relationship of this gas at this temperature - and I say: don't you have a compound gauge in front of you and they say yeah and I said, use the pressure chart on the Gauges and they go what there's a pressure chart on the gauges, I think there's too many people in our industry that don't even know how to use the tools that they have in front of them. Okay, if you guys don't already know, I'm not gon na fault you for it, but on the compound gauges, there's typically a pressure temperature chart built right on the gauge. Now it's not for every refrigerant, but usually it'll, be for the most popular brands.

So usually you'll see a compound gauge with 410 a on it or r22, maybe 404 134 or you can go back to the old school ones. You would see the art 12250 to you know. I know it's getting harder and harder to put those pressure. Temperature charts on there because there's so many refrigerants, but that's where the digital comes into play or you have apps that you guys can use okay.

I have no relationship with them, but I like the Danfoss. I don't know what the name of their app is, but it's a pressure temperature app and it's bitchin. It's it's a great little app okay. So I think it's very important that we understand how to use these tools and how to use you know the old-school stuff before we dig into the fancy digital stuff.

Okay, now I do think that the digital is a lot more accurate these days and it can show you things that the analog can't or the compound gauges can't. But I do agree that there's good things about the compound gauges still like, for instance, when you're setting up a low-pressure control when you're trying to check the calibration of a low-pressure control. There's not one digital gauge out there right now. That has what do they call it not latency, but that reacts fast enough to show you how to tat or to show you the pressures on a system real time when you're testing a low-pressure control, okay, it just doesn't exist.

So that's a point where a compound gauge still comes in handy okay, but there's other things about digital that I feel are Bennett. You know much more beneficial than a compound gauge. All right same thing goes when you're checking - and this is old-school, but when you're checking a suction valve, unlike a Copeland compressor like a pump down, you know a low side pump down test. You know you want to see that thing pull into a negative 15.

You want to see where it shuts off a lot of times if, if it's got really really good valves, the digital gauges won't show you fast enough. You know the pressure readings same thing when you're checking the low pressure control. Okay, so I think it's important that we still use you know compound or analog gauges. You know and know how to use them too, and I think it's really important that we understand how to check and test for superheat and subcooling.

Okay, that's a very, very important thing now, at the same time, I'm right at that age, where I came up in a time when we didn't have digital, but then now we have digital, okay, there's a lot of people and there's even people in this chat. Right now that came up 30 years ago. Okay, I'm coming on - I think, 16 years this year. Okay, so I'm not a no I'm not! I haven't! I don't have as much experience as those guys that have been in the trade for thirty plus years, okay, but it's just interesting because I come up in that time.

When I I can remember how and how I didn't have digital and then I can remember you know, obviously now when we have digital. So it's interesting for me because I can see both sides. Okay, but again, I agree that we need to understand this. The proper procedures and and how to do things properly, and we can't let our tools do all the work for us.

Okay, one of the biggest things that I one of the biggest problems that I have with digital tools is yeah. Hvac Prentice says that it's the Danfoss refrigerant slider app, that's correct. That's the name of the the pressure temperature app that Danfoss has okay see how good of a promotion person I am. I can't even remember what the name of that app is okay, but now I lost my train of thought, but so I'm gon na go back into talking about the gauges and different things, because again, I've totally lost my train of thought on what I was talking About there, but you know like I was talking - I can remember a time when, when we didn't have that fancy stuff okay and is my - is my stream not coming through Brian, because I'm showing great resolution on my side.

I have something monitoring my stream right now and it's saying that everything's coming through great, are you guys seeing a problem with my stream? Is it coming through really blurry, because I should have really really good internet coming through cool, so I think it might be possibly on urine Brian, because I know I'm I'm uploading it like 15 15 up right now, so I should have good good, okay, good. All right just wanted to make sure. Okay, so okay storm tracker! 3. You asked what kind of math you should study if you decided to go into HVAC well, you're gon na use algebra you're gon na use.

I mean it's not just like one math in general, but you're gon na use at least all the way up to algebra, depending on if you're gon na get into duck calculations and different stuff like that, you might get into trigonometry or geometry, but um, okay, good. But nothing too crazy, so you don't need to go crazy now! Okay, so, okay, so Ulysses is, is addressing someone saying lazy, I'm assuming with with digital gauges, and I really don't know the context of what you wrote they're losing Ulysses, but I can kind of sum it up. By reading I'm not gon na go all the way back up into there and I'm gon na say that. Okay, I see that Tom trees, you said technology is making people lazy, okay, so Tom, I wouldn't necessarily say lazy, but I will agree with you in a sense that our tools have the ability to let a technician that doesn't know what he's doing jump into a System and come up with some numbers: okay, not necessarily knowing what those numbers mean.

And yes, I do see point on that side. But I also see what Ulysses is saying and Ulysses is the saying that they're more accurate and that - and I find that to be true - I find that the digital is much more accurate and you can see things that you can't. That is more difficult to see. With analog or compound gauges, okay, in my opinion, okay.

So but, like I said, I already pointed out, there's some there's one flaw in digital gauges and that's the again. I can't think of the right word: it's not latency, but like that's. What I'm trying to describe is how you know how fast they react to pressure a lot of times. You know you can't see them when you got a system, that's pumping down.

You can't necessarily see where that low-pressure exactly cut out at like you would see on a compound gauge okay, but that is as technology advances. These things are getting more advanced and they're they're advancing with them. Okay, so I think that's something that's going to come soon. Now I do remember what I was talking about a few minutes ago when I lost my train of thought is that there is a lot of apps out there, and these apps are great, but at the same time I worry that people don't understand exactly how the Systems work.

Okay, so I think for someone my age, it's good, because we came from a time like I said that we didn't have the digital stuff, so we had to learn the original way. So I think it's important that people still understand how to use and how to calculate superheat and subcooling how to calculate compression ratio, how to figure those things out: okay without having to use an app okay. But at the same time you know I like, on the flip side, I can see the benefits of having digital gauges. That can tell me exactly you know if I, if I pull up measure quick, you know and input a few numbers.

It tells me so much information. It makes it so easy. It's at my fingertips. Okay, tells me compression ratios, dew points everything and it's like wow, it's all there.

It's so much easier now, so it for someone that understands how this stuff works. It definitely makes it easier for us out in the trade to be able to do our job more efficiently and more effectively. Okay, I can give the customer a great valuable resource, and I could say this is what I did. This is the solution that I came up to.

This is how I came up to it and I even have the readings to prove it to you, not that they care about that, but I can okay there's something. I've only had a few customers that really want to see the numbers most of them don't want to do much with it, but it's all about what we can give to them. In my opinion, okay and I'm not knocking anybody that doesn't like digital, if you don't like them, so be it, you know to each their own. Just like I said earlier, okay, so the other thing I wanted to point out is when it comes to digital and the same thing went with I'm just going to use analog.

Okay, I know a compound gage isn't technically an analog, but we're just gon na use. Analog because it's an easy term, it's it's easy to separate analog from digital, okay, even with analog. I think that people didn't understand how to properly calibrate things. Okay and the same thing goes for digital with digital gauges.

In my opinion, the weakest point of a digital gauge is the temperature sensors. Okay, a lot of times they use k-type thermal couples, nothing wrong with them, but you just have to understand how a k-type thermocouple works, how its susceptible to dirt and grime buildup. On the connection and one of the most important things is on a k-type thermocouple for a lot of people, they still don't understand this. Let's say I'm using actually here I'll point these out right now.

I don't have a k-type thermocouple plugged into these right now, but let's say I have a wired clamp on my clamp right here. Okay, let's say this is wired and it's plugged in to the liquid line port on the back of the gauge okay. If this was a a wired clamp with a k-type thermocouple first off, you need to calibrate these the first time you use them. Okay, you need to calibrate this k-type clamp in ice water to confirm that it's reading 32 degrees.

Okay, then, you need to make sure that it's plugged into that exact same port every single time, because once you calibrate the gauge to that clamp. Okay again, if these were wired, once you calibrate the gauges to that clamp, it's now calibrated for that port that one port right there, okay, so in the same thing, goes for you know a fluke meter with a temperature clamp. The same thing goes, for you know anything, that's using any kind of temperature sensor is. We need to make sure that they're accurate before we rely on the numbers.

So if I plug in that that k-type thermocouple and clamp it onto the suction line of the liquid line and it's reading 10 degrees off, then obviously those numbers that my fancy app and all that different stuff is gon na do are skewed. And it's not going to be accurate. It's gon na be giving me inaccurate, sub cooling or superheat reading. It's gon na give me inaccurate box temperatures or coil temperatures or all kinds of stuff.

Okay. So the biggest thing I find with all of our test instruments is, we have to know how to properly calibrate them to check calibration and we have to know when we need to send them in or when we need to field calibrate them. Okay, that's a very, very important thing and I feel like there's not enough people out there doing it. I can't tell you how many people I've talked to and they have never calibrated their their clamps on their their field.

Piece gauges, okay and they put them on. So many different suction lines and just think over the years, how many superheats they set or how many Charles they said when they weren't you know accurate, and that creates a problem: okay, okay, so that's kind of where I want to go with that and there's something Else that I wanted to think about too. Yes, so the other thing I wanted - or I want to talk about - and this is just an observation - and I wish I had a picture - I will post a video or maybe just like a post on my social medias, but so I was doing and I we Were doing an install for some refrigeration equipment on the roof the other day? Okay - and this is a restaurant - that we had previously changed an RTO unit on the roof. We'd actually changed three of them after this particular restaurant chain, they buy their own equipment.

Okay, they have us, install it for them and then, when we're done, they have a test and balance company come out, they pay them a bunch of money and the test and balance company verifies that the units you know outdoor air dampers are set correctly and that It's you know putting out the right CFM's of air and all that good stuff. Okay, this is a Linux package unit and I've seen this on train package units to where they've used, you know certified test and balance companies where they, where they drill a hole in the supply in the return. Well, at least, they think they're drilling it in the supply in the return and in all actuality, they only drill the hole to check pressure drop across the evaporator coil. You know on a 18 ton Linux package unit, there's a blower motor blowing down into a supply area, so they Ted they drilled the holes.

I know you kind of need a visual, but they drilled the holes on the two front panels that you open up. Well, that's only on you know one side or that's basically a hole for static pressure on each side of the evaporator coil, and it's not necessarily getting the true total external static across that unit. What the reason why I'm bringing this up is I've seen this a lot. I've seen this on train units too.

They don't understand that they think they're just drilling it into the supply and the return, and it's not necessarily the supply in the return. And what baffles me on that? I guess I'm just just making a point. What baffles me is is that that job was inspected and they had hers. Raiders, come in and test that building err, balance and it passed err balance, but they never drilled the static pressure holes in the right spot.

So how did that building ever pass air balance? Is that not pretty bizarre, that kind of blows my mind that we can see some of that stuff? You know, and we think that our trade has so many weaknesses when it comes to the way that we're doing things, and I think that we needed more proper training. I don't think that's the right way to say that, but we need to invest in ourselves. We need to do research and we need to make sure that we're doing things the correct way and don't just follow the status quo, just because everybody says this is the way you're supposed to do it. I suggest that you guys open up menu manufacturers.

You know literature and look at it and find that information and find out. Oh yeah, you know think about things before you just do them. I can't imagine how many different places that that particular air balance technician has been to and tested air balance, and he thinks he's been doing it right the entire time and he's not that just blows my mind, okay, but I see that on. I see that on you know, I see that with a lot of different stuff in our industry.

Okay, I see walking equipment where the expansion valve you know the compressor. We go to replace a compressor and we find out, you know, there's compression or years old and the the sensing bolt for the expansion valve has never been strapped to the suction line. I mean, I see that stuff so much. We need to take some more pride in our work.

We need to take some time and not just be an installer, not nothing wrong with an installer, but I mean in the term of just doing what you're told and installing a piece of equipment, the exact way you're told and not thinking about it. We need to question we need to you know if someone tells us how to do something in a polite way, we need to say. Can you explain to me why I need to do it that way and get a logical explanation from them. So then that way you can understand, and you can logically think about it yourself, I'm not condoning anybody to go to their boss and say you know and question them to the point that the boss goes crazy or whatever or your supervisor or you know the person.

That's teaching you, but I encourage you guys to ask questions: ask how did you come up with that number? How do you know that my super heat needs to be set at 8 degrees for that walk-in, freezer evaporator cool? Because the paperwork that I just read says six degrees, you know don't be a jerk about it, but ask questions because maybe the person that's training, you doesn't know exactly why he set that number. Maybe someone else told him. Maybe the manufacturer has done something different and is recommending a different setting because of something. So you know, I encourage you guys to ask questions in a polite way and figure out why you know when you call technical support for a reach-in cooler, and they say this is what you're supposed to do.

Politely ask why? What is it that you guys are trying to achieve? You know how is this gon na work? If that you know ask them logical questions, so you don't got to be a punk about it. Cuz, you have to understand those tech support, guys are dealing with a million people every single day and their phone call starts out with my units not working. What do I do? You know and those guys I understand. Sometimes they can be jerks on the phone, but you also got to think about what they have to deal with day in and day out, every single phone call that they get.

Is my units not working? What can I do? You know, instead of hey, I've got a unit, that's not working! It's doing this. These are the pressures. This is what I've checked. I have a feeling this is going on.

How do you feel about that? That's the way I approach a tech support guy is I get as much information as I can same thing goes for talking to your supervisor, your service manager. Don't call them until you have all the information in front of you that you know they're gon na ask you for I've, told this story before I'll say it again. When I was young girl coming up in the trade, I remember calling a hoshizaki Technical Support. I called back to Peachtree City Georgia.

I got a guy with a nice deep accent. This was got 12 years ago, something like that and we were working on a flaker ice machine and he had asked me what the super heat was on the expansion valve and I remembered asking him right when he asked me that I said what's super heat and I'm not kidding with you all that I heard on the other end was the phone clicked. He hung up on me and I realized after he hung up on me yeah. It was a rude thing for him to do, but at the same time I realized that I didn't call him prepared, and I was embarrassed because I knew that I was gon na have to call back the next day and there was a chance that I was Going to talk to the same guy so that night I studied, and I figured out exactly how to measure superheat.

I promised myself that I would never call another technical support guy and be blindsided by that, or something like that. You know now. A lot can be said about me being able to work on that piece of equipment if I didn't understand super heat and all kinds of different things like that. Okay, but you know that's a whole nother story, but it's just important to be prepared when you call people to talk to them.

So, okay, guys I'm gon na kind of go into the the chat here and see what you guys have to say: okay, hey everybody that just came in. We kind of covered a lot of things. So I'm gon na kind of read some of this stuff and see what I can catch up on. Okay, guys, I'm not gon na go too far up into the chat.

So if you've got something else, let me know we, you know, write it down in the chat again, if you guys have already asked questions. Okay, just I'm gon na start from the bottom reading up here, quick and see what I'm missing inside this chat right now and I'm open for any other questions you guys have so go and put them in okay, okay, so Brent Murray, just typed in right! Here. Let me read yours right now: Brent, you have condensation on Vince and the lobby due to door being held open. All the time, had two companies come out and quote a new HVAC and have your customers close the okay.

So are you asking me a question? Are you having humidity issues? Is that what you're implying Brent Brent, that you're, having condensation on the vents and the lobby due to the doors being held open all the time? And I'm assuming you've got some humidity issues and the warm moist air is going up and hitting the the supply events and condensating is that what you're implying is going on there? Oh you're wondering if there's a solution, yeah, there's all kinds of different things. There's all kinds of different solutions you can do, it all depends on starting with measuring the relative humidity inside the building. You know also changing the are you bringing in fresh outside air into that building. There's a lot of different variables in that one.

So if you want to send me an email Brent, maybe we can talk a little bit more about HVAC our videos at gmail.com, but I'm gon na say that your issue is gon na, be moisture related. Somehow you know - and we could talk about it, a little bit more okay, yeah. It makes sense that there's humidity so there's a few things you can do so alright, gon na keep going down. You know total tech.

I did too. I made a lot of mistakes. A lot of mistakes, but I also came up in a different time because again I've explained to you guys before I started when I was very young working with my father. Even before I came full-time in 2002.

You know I was doing work on equipment. You know from junior high on, and you know I was - I can remember, being taught to work on an r22 system - r22 air conditioner. This is exactly how I was taught and I'm not faulting, my dad for it. It's just.

It was a different time in place. Okay, to set the charge on a carrier r22 packaged unit that had a fixed orifice metering device. I was told to block off the condenser drive the head pressure up to 275 and add refrigerant until my suction pressure came up to 65 psi. That's that's exactly how I was taught to charge an hour.

22 air conditioning system was to 75-65. Now I can look back on that and say: oh my gosh. I can totally understand why that is completely wrong and it didn't take me long of doing it going. This just doesn't seem right, okay, but I was taught by an old-school tech who had old-school ways and again that was my dad.

I'm not faulting him for it, but he just came up in at a different time when no, he wasn't doing things correctly, but the equipment was so forgiving that that got him by okay. Again not I mean it is what it is and there's all kinds of things like that with old-school text, there's things that they can still teach you too, you can still talk to an old-school tech and they can teach you some interesting things again. If you politely ask why? Okay now, I'm not saying you know everything is correct, but you know yes, sorry if I don't under miss miss pronounce your name, you you right you're. Your name is pew family.

You said you think the problem is most techs fixate. On pressure rather than temperature, they are looking for a certain pressure. Yes, that is true. You know one, especially once you get into refrigeration work.

You have to learn, and I mean it also applies to air conditioning work but for some reason, it's easier to work on refrigeration work. If you think about temperatures versus pressures. Think about your saturation temperatures, you know: what's my evaporator temperature, I'm not so much concerned with my pressures when when I asked what's my evaporator temperature - and that tells me a lot now, your evaporator temperature corresponds directly to a pressure. But if you can start thinking about, you know like he said if you can start thinking about temperatures when you're doing refrigeration and air conditioning versus pressures, it'll help you to understand things a little bit more.

That is the truth and that's a great point that you made again sorry if I'm butchering your name but PU family, sorry, so Robbie G, you asked if we are or if I am I'm assuming you're asking me if I am familiar with SEFs s, certifications and Classes, yes, I am familiar with sefa, okay chefs as a certification class. It's a little bit more than a certification. It's a very, very difficult training class that you can take to be a comma, essentially, a food service, technician, okay, to work on hot side and cold side. They teach you electrical, they teach you all different kinds of things.

Okay, sefa is a great training resource. It is my only problem with sefa is the price? Okay? Now I'm not saying that it should be dirt cheap! I'm just saying it's! It's a little bit steep to become safe, so certified, but I realized that SEFs uh companies or companies that pay in to SEFs a -- also get a deeply discounted rate on sending their technicians to training. So I get it it's kind of like a you know, kind of like a union thing in a sense, you become part of the Union, your technicians get provided these resources. So it's it's a great point and I think it's a very, very good quality training resource.

If you can get, especially if you can get it through a company that you work at okay, yeah Rick, exactly beer, ken colt, you know at the same time I can remember being taught you know, add refrigerant till it starts sweating. Coming back to the suction line. Again, beer can cold, okay, things were totally different and I quickly realized that they were wrong, but I also once what was interesting was being taught the wrong ways. There were so many things about the wrong way.

That was right, but the technicians that were teaching it to us just didn't understand what was right about it. So the whole point of adding refrigerant till it started sweating back to the compressor. Well, essentially, if you understand and I'm talking about an air conditioning system, that is not the way to charge an air conditioning system - okay, but I'm telling you that if you understand you know what they're essentially doing is is adding refrigerant just until they start to get You know cold enough suction line. Coming back, I have to be careful about saying that there's truth in that I mean we obviously want to set it for the proper.

You know superheat coming back, but I'm just gon na stop before I go down and open Pandora's box, I'm just gon na talk about something different, because I can realize that one going in the wrong way, but some of you guys might understand where I'm going on That so, okay, you guys Northwest Ohio, HVAC and videos. That's Rick he's got a great YouTube channel too. I would suggest checking it out if you guys watch any of my videos he's regularly one of the the people or channels that I recommend, on the end of my videos, there's a couple different channels that I kind of scroll through and rotate through of different people. Now you'll you'll notice that some of the channels that I recommend are really old school text.

Okay, that may not follow every single proper procedure correctly, but then some of them are text that follow it to the umpteenth degree, because I find value in all of them. Okay, you guys, as people watching these videos, have to know how to interpolate the information that they give you and how, to you know, know when it's right or wrong. Okay, and you can usually do that. Okay, another thing: if you want to follow a youtuber, is pay attention to the comments there is trolls out there so understand, even on some of the best YouTube channels out there, there's guys that are so much better than me, there's even trolls on those channels too, And trolls or people that just go into the comments just to be punks.

Okay. But if you pay attention to the comments, if you typically have more likes than dislikes and if you have typically more good comments, you know that's that's kind of a good indication, but then again youtubers can also delete comments. So that's another thing too so know. Typically, I don't delete for the most part, I'd leave them on there.

Okay and yeah NorCal gave it NorCal. Dave is good and again, let's, let's point something out: ok, norcal dave is a total different technician from me: okay and a total different technician from Rick and a total different technician from Brian or okay, a Kay Greaves, all those different guys we're all different, and we All have different things. You know. I wish that I could have NorCal Dave sense of humor because I feel like he has a good time when he goes to work every single day and at the same time I enjoy going to work too.

But I don't think I have as much fun as he does. Okay, you know so everybody's different. So you know you guys know that. Okay, something else that I want to address and again keep asking questions if you guys have, if you guys have them, but something else that I want to address, as I'm talking it kind of came up, I told you guys that I don't delete comments on my Youtube channel: okay, there's one comment that I will delete every single time.

Well, for the most part, I delete as many as I can, but some of them slipped through the cracks and it's when people try to guess the locations of where I'm working or when people swear up and down that I'm working at a certain location. Guys, if you can, please keep my locations out of my comments. Okay, I'm trying to protect my customers. I can guarantee you I'm not doing anything wrong as far as ripping my customers off.

It's not that I'm trying to hide anything. It's that I need to protect. My customers, locations, okay, I don't need someone saying you that ice machine is dirty okay and then calling the health department or something like that because they swear up and down. They know where I'm working.

I don't need that kind of stuff. Okay, what people freak out about these ice machines like, for instance, I posted a video with the dirty ice machine people freaked out: okay, they're, like oh, my god, that is the dirtiest thing in the world: it's dirty, but dude. If you think that ice machines dirty, you should see some of the other ones. Okay, that ice machine is pretty clean.

I would still eat ice from it. I mean you know the stuff that you see in those ice machines is naturally occurring in the water. So I mean or it's in the air, it's the air mixing with the water. I mean you're, breathing the same stuff, that's forming in that ice machine.

So even though it looks it's like dude you're breathing that anyway, so don't trip okay. But again, please stop posting. What you think the locations of my restaurants are. I will acknowledge that some people have guessed the locations correctly, but I do not acknowledge them.

I try to delete them and at the same time I try to delete for the most part, even when people guess them wrong: okay, but occasionally there's so many comments that come through that I can't get them all, but I'm just trying to keep my customers locations. Private okay, please guys tone it down on that, because I want to be able to keep making these videos and if one of my customers ever gets compromised, then we're gon na have to stop these videos because you know we we don't. My business is much more important than these videos, so I have to protect my business and a half to protect my customers. Okay, again, I want to reiterate it's not because I feel like I'm doing something wrong, because I know that I'm treating my customers with the utmost respect, I'm giving them honest, genuine opinions and genuine service, but I still have to protect them as far as their locations Go okay same thing goes with my company name.

If you guys search hard enough, you can find it, but I try to keep that out of my videos too. I know there's a few videos out there that have slipped and it's in there, but I for the most part, try not to put my company name in there, because I just don't need to draw any more attention unnecessary attention to my company. Okay, if someone is interesting and applying with me or really wants to talk more about it, send me an email and if I feel like you're genuine, then maybe we can talk some more okay, any emails you guys ever have you send them to HVAC our videos At gmail.com, okay and I'll try to answer them as much as possible, but again right now I am getting two hundred, if not two hundred and fifty I don't know crazy comments and emails and between all my social media. I'm getting so many comments and I try to get to them all, but it's just kind of like bombarding me because I feel like sometimes I spend more time staring at my phone that I do.

You know conversing with my family.