Hey everybody how's, it going hope you guys are all doing well. Tonight got a couple things. I want to cover a couple questions that people sent in and once we cover that, then I'll start hitting some of your guys's questions. I have a couple things that I our ideas that I want to go with this stream tonight.

So I really appreciate you guys all coming in here and let's get started a couple, quick questions I had during the the just before someone had sent me an email asking me. I think they might have posted it in YouTube or something saying about the spin swage tool and the spin Flair tool, don't know, but your guys's opinions are on those. I have used the spin swage tool several times and I really really like it. In fact, I've used the spin swage and the the rector seal has one too.

I don't know what it's called it's just you know it fits in your drill, whatever the rector seal, one you can use in an impact but uh the hang on just one. Second, let me adjust this down a little bit here, see how that sounds a little bit right there, okay, the rector seal, one you can put in your impact, but I find that the rector seal one doesn't work as well in the when you use it in An impact because on the quarter-inch and the 3/8, I noticed that it works fine and an impact, but when you put it in anything bigger the the jolting from the impact actually messes up the swage and it causes a problem with it so hate everybody. That's coming in I'm just talking about a couple tools that someone had some questions about now. The the initial question that the person had asked me about was the spin Flair and personally I haven't used that, and I probably won't I'm not a fan of it, because I know how to spin swage works and with the amount of heat and the amount of Pressure you have to put on the copper line.

I really don't like the idea of using that with a flair one, because you can easily make the Flair crooked a lot of times even on quarter and 3/8, when I'm using the the the swage tool. It's not always a straight fitting either, so you know just just personal preference, but what I definitely would say is if you're buying the rector seal, one solely because you can just use it in an impact. Personally, I don't like it that much and one thing that I noticed too about the the rector seal. One is that I tend to get more shavings from the metal of the rector seal, one in the pipe more so than I do with the spin swage tool.

So you know I don't know, I don't know if it's something that I'm doing wrong. The other thing that's very important about the spin swage. Is you got to be cautious about the drill that you're using too so excuse me, you have to use a when you get up to the 7/8 inch with the spin swage, even the rector seal swage, your drill has to kick butt, so my bigger drill, I Have a cordless one, it's a de Waal and I think I think it might just hit 2,000 rpms and it's almost not enough to do a 7/8 inch swage with it. So I don't know if, if someone makes a bigger drill that does more than 2,000 rpms, that's cordless, I don't know, but something to think about with those so guys I will try to get to everybody's questions.

Obviously, I've got a moderator in here Justin he's here to help me to try to get to some of your guys's questions, because I find that I miss a lot of them. But if I could get you guys to help me by if you have any real questions that you really want me to answer, put them in caps: ok, because that'll really really help Justin and myself to be able to weed them out and get to the questions. Ok, so appreciate you that if you guys do that, ok, so what I'm gon na do is I'm gon na I'm going to talk about a few more things and then I'll get to some of the questions too. So I did have a question just before this started.

Forgive me, I don't have your name, but you had asked it about painting gas lines. Okay, so here in my area, it just depends on the municipality that you're working in or the city or whatever each city has their own different rules. Honestly, I don't do a lot of new installations, so I'm not completely well-versed in the code as far as new installation goes. I do a lot of retrofit work and I guess the codes would apply then, but I don't know we tend to not do too much of them.

So you know I understand he was asking why we don't paint our gas lines we do sometimes. Would I find, though, when the gas lines are painted, if they're not done right, the first time the paint just flakes off and it just seems kind of useless, I mean if they did it right, I imagine they would sand the pipe down. Take the that protective coating they put on the black iron off and then paint them. Then it would probably last forever, but unfortunately, all that they do is they take the black iron and they paint it and then a year from then all that paint just flakes off the the pipe and the same thing with the galvanized, because they, you know they Usually have that oil coating on them and they don't they don't tend to take that off before they paint them.

So you know I, I don't see the purpose unless someone's going to really do it and none of the customers want to pay for that. So usually they'll just do them just a pass code for new installation, and then you know the paint just flakes off you know by the coast. We might have some more problems, but here inland, where I'm at. We really don't have a lot of moisture in the air.

We don't have a lot of humidity, so we tend to not run into too many problems with them. Rusting out. I mean you know, of course, when you use black iron, it's always going to have that rust that builds up, but I've never had them like rust through or anything like that. So I imagine when you get into the coastal areas, they tend to run into that problem, a lot more so um.

Let's see, I'm gon na go and address some of these questions. You guys have in here real quick, okay and DJ sub air. The fan that you hear, unfortunately, that's the fan of my CPU. Oh wait! No you're talking about the fan, the flicker you're right.

I forgot about that. Dude hold on just like I'll turn that off thanks, but I appreciate it. I thought you were complaining about my CPU fan. I don't know if you can hear that too, but yeah you're right that flicker.

I forgot about that thing. I tried to bring in like a fan to put on the floor, but it may it was too loud. So I'm gon na sweat in here because of you guys so yeah all right, LD J, said what's good pricing per hour. That really depends on the area you're in so in my area, the for refrigeration service company that does like light commercial, the going rates are anywhere from 95 an hour to 105 an hour depending in that range, is what the hourly rates are, but it all depends On what you're working on and what areas you can go into, the bigger cities and it'll go up.

So that's kind of a hard question for me to answer. Yeah we're not supposed to use galvanized bill Burnett, but a lot of people do a lot of people. Will use the galvanized stuff? You know, I I'm not a if I have to get into a big job like that I'll leave that to a plumber to come in there and handle that properly we're allowed to do the gas piping. We're allowed to do the work.

Basically up to our units, but you know I'll leave that big stuff. If it's going to involve city inspectors and stuff like that to the to the plumber, so that way they can make sure everything's up to code with that so gotcha, okay, cool, all right um. Let me see what else we got up in here guys someone had asked: what's the best digital gauges with that being said, Michael Trowbridge, you said that okay, I'm not gon na, tell you what the best digital gauges are, because that's you know very much to to Each their own, essentially okay, cuz everybody's gon na, like something I'm a spoilin fanboy. So I like to spoil and stuff or I'm sorry, the field piece fanboy I like to feel peace manifold to field these job link probes, you know, but I'm not gon na knock.

The test - Oh stuff, you know so it's kind of what you guys want. You know what you guys like, but it's since you brought that up. I will say that I'm pretty sure I heard today that field piece made it official that there s, man, 380 and 480 was released. I believe - and I believe you can go ahead and order them from your distributors, whoever you guys want to get them from.

I believe, as of today was the communication I saw come down the pipe, so those of you that were interested in the SMAN, 380 and 480 that I'd been showing in my videos and stuff. You guys should be clear to order those now so okay, bill, Burnett, yeah, you so you're, not a fan of the spin swage either bill, because I, like the spin swage four quarter, inch 3/8 and 1/2 inch. I do I've always wanted to buy the the hydraulic one, but I've just mmm. I don't know the 405 500 bucks that it was.

It was just kind of hard when the spins wage was like a hundred, so you know, but but definitely when I get up to the seven eights using the spin sway just pretty difficult. So, okay, I'm just kind of reading through some of these guys. Sorry about the dead air here, okay, okay, Andrew Hicks - was i answering phones for field piece the other day, and did you talk to you? No, I don't work for field piece, Andrew Andrew, I'm just a technician that does beta testing for field piece. I don't! I don't work for field piece at all, so no that wasn't me answering phones, I don't know if they have a guy named Chris there, but no I've gone to their factory to their offices because it's in it's in local to me it's about 45 minutes.

My house, it's in Orange California, but no, I do not work for them, so that was not me. You talk to so okay, so I want to go ahead and address a couple. Other things someone had asked about. / someone had asked me a question in my youtube stream about.

Is it possible to oversize a liquid line, solenoid valve and yes, it is, and I thought it was really cool that that came through, because I've been talking about solenoid valves, you know kind of, as my my videos have been going on, you know and recently a Lot lately and I've been kind of glazing over how to properly sized them, but spoilin actually came out with a new podcast today, where they talk about sizing solenoid valves properly. If you haven't already, you can subscribe to spoil ins podcast. I believe it's on anchor and I can post a link in here real, quick and I'll pop it up for you guys, cuz. Sometimes I'm prepared, let's go see and I will post it in the chat right now for those of you whoops.

That's not right. Hang on just one seconds and let me go ahead and copy this link. That's not working too good. If you just go to anchor FM comm, you can look up, spoilin, hey there we go.

This should come through now so yeah. For whatever reason, the link does not want to post, but AVM am i hiring I'm not really hiring right now, I'm always looking for good technicians, but at the moment I'm full. So you know I was trying to post this link here hold on just a second. Let's see if this works for some reason it's not working huh yeah, whatever it's not letting me post links right now.

I don't know why go figure but yeah go to anchor anchor FM and look up sport'ln just in their search and you'll see it, but yeah actually actually had a podcast on sizing, solenoid valves today. So for that question, but yes, it is possible to side to oversize a solenoid valve and undersized it and, depending on the type of solenoid valve, that it is, if you oversize it, it might not close and or open properly when it's called for, because of the Way, the valves design. So in the same thing, if you undersized it, then you could essentially make a metering device out of it and restrict the flow so hold on you're sick. What I've done in my my videos, I've showed you guys and and talked about it too.

It's not unheard of okay, so that the biggest common misconception on size in a silhouette valve is that you go to the supply house, and you see I have a 3/8 inch liquid line. So I need a 3/8 inch solenoid valve. Well, that's not actually the right way to sizess Illinois valve okay, you need to size this solenoid valve via the BTUs that the system that will be flowing through it, okay and the the line size doesn't necessarily always match up. So it's not completely unheard of, depending on the amount of BTUs, that's going through a system to have a half inch connection on your cylinder valve with a 3/8 inch liquid line coming to it.

Okay, so that's you just you have to size them via the BTUs. That's running through it and you also have to pay attention to the pressure drop too so, but if you listen to the spoilin thing, they tell you a technical bulletin to follow and they're much smarter than I and they'll tell you how to do that properly. So, okay, okay, so I see the question someone asked how and why did I get into HVAC, so I got into HVAC working for my father and I've talked about it a bunch before but yeah. I worked for my father as a little kid and then through junior high school and then into high school.

I decided I didn't want to work with him anymore and I didn't want to do this. Probably my junior year of high school, I went to work for a body shop working on cars. I did that for about two years and then after high school I changed my mind and decided. I didn't want to work on cars again and then went to work for my dad, so I officially came to work here officially in 2002, but you know I grew up doing this, so I grew up around it ever since I was probably fourth and fifth grade Things were different back then, because I could ride with my dad at work.

You know I can't take my kids to work now because of the new laws and all the liabilities and everything, but back then yeah. I was working with them everyday people still to this day. They can remember seeing me as a little kid sitting on my dad's bucket holding his flashlight. I can still remember getting yelled at because I would get distracted while I was holding the flashlight and back then it was like a Maglite for those of you guys that are older.

You remember those. We had the big heavy mag lights, that held like three or four D cell batteries, and I remember I used to get distracted and as I would get distracted and look so what the flashlight would move to and then my dad would be working in a dark Box and he'd be pissed off. I could still remember him goddammit. What are you doing shine the light here? It's funny, because I totally understand that now so, okay, there you go.

Thank you total tech. For some reason I yeah so I for whatever reason I couldn't post a link in here. For some reason I don't know, I think the nightbot isn't I don't know? No, it's not nightbot. It's not taking my thing out for some reason.

It just wouldn't post in here so okay, so reefer tech mark can a system with multiple evaporators be evacuated. Cecily pulled down on the king valve only using a half inch on a 7 CFM pump. If you have all the restrictions taken out of the system. So let's say it's gon na take a lot longer, but if you have all the solenoid valves opened up with like solenoid magnets excuse me, it doesn't help that I'm drinking like carbonated water.

It makes me burp every two seconds, but yeah you got to make sure that all the cylinders are opened so puts Illinois magnets on everything and then yeah. It's it's possible to evacuate from just one side, but it'll take longer you're gon na go much faster. If you hook up two half-inch hoses in vacuum from each side but yeah you'll get there eventually for sure and the Maglites bill Burnett, they were here yeah caught Maglites. They were local, they were made in Ontario, California.

I don't even know if they're still there. I don't even know if Maglite still exists, I'm sure it's been bought out, but they're. They used to be made here locally in Ontario California right around the corner from me. Okay, so I want to cover something else, and what I want to talk about is some common apps that I use I've gotten this question before so I kind of wanted to cover it.

So I want to cover some common apps that I use that really help me out in the field. Okay, I'm gon na show you a couple different things: I'm gon na do a screen share right now and I'm gon na cast my phone to the screen. So you guys can see it. So let me try to figure this out again, I'm not the super most intelligent person when it comes to doing this stuff.

Okay, bear with the white bars on the side, because it's not the greatest, but let me go ahead and capture cast this over. So let's go to display capture turn off video capture. Okay and I'm gon na go ahead and go over and you guys are just gon na hear my audio there we go so this is my screen, and these are some of the basic apps that I have in my phone. That really really helped me out in the field.

First off, obviously we uh we got my podcasts right here. Okay, of course, here's all the common podcasts that I listen to. If you guys don't already know here's a lot of them, you guys can see them right here, okay and then there's a few more on the other side, absolutely pan over there. Okay, so these are some great ones: here's the spoilin one! Obviously, you see shoptalk in there hvac school, there's a bunch of different ways or different ones out there.

Okay, so those are great great podcast. I'm gon na go ahead and get away from that real quick and then what we're gon na do all right. So we're gon na go to let's go into here: let's go into work, okay, so what we're gon na do! These are the most common ones. I just have like a tab, as you can see, I'm as freaky about my phone everything's, all organized and everything.

So these are the most common apps that I use. Obviously you have the HVAC shop Talk, Radio one, that's just for audio of you know the old streams that Zack and Ralph used to do, and he has new ones on there too. So refrigerant slider app is a really really big one that one's very helpful guys with being able to have a PT chart in your phone. What I'm starting to realize is that you know I used to keep a pocketbook in my pocket and we used to you know, write our notes down in it, but we really don't use those anymore.

What I'm finding is my phone is just so much easier to use, so I have an app too on my home screen that I use for taking notes that works really good. Okay, so we've got measure quick on here. If you guys have have been living under a rock, then you need to download the measure quick app. It works really well, it works with several different wireless components.

You can use it. Let's turn this off right now, let's see if it'll, let me just do it there. You know this is by Jim Bergman and he's got all kinds of cool stuff coming out on it. Forgive me guys, I'm not looking at the chat right now.

So if you guys are putting anything in there, I'm not really paying attention to it at the moment, because I'm just looking at the screen share so um yeah measure, quick, okay, I'm not gon na go through the entire app, but it's a great little app there. Okay, so we'll go ahead and get out of there on the blue vac app that works really great with the blue vac micron gauge really really cool okay, so here's the important ones Copland mobile, guys, Copland mobile, is a great great app. So all you have to do is input a few things about a compressor, so I'm going to put in a CR 18 KQ, that's just what comes off up top of my head. This is a Copeland compressor.

You find what usage you're using it for so I'm using it, let's just say: r22 high temp, and this basically eliminates the supply house from having to find information for you. Okay, so you need service parts for that compressor. You click on service parts. What do you want? You want the crankcase cedar.

There's the Copeland part number okay, it doesn't have a sight glass on that one, but you want the service valve for it. If it's, if there's one available to come up, okay, you want the there's all kinds of information, just click on each one of these little tabs. You want to discharge lines to that one's not on there. You just click on each one and it'll.

Tell you if those parts you know exist for that system, the mounting plates contactors electrical parts, you want the starting components. Here's the part numbers the factory Copeland part numbers okay. So what this does is this helps you from having to lean on the supply houses, to find you all those parts you can just call them and say hey. I need this okay, they also have.

Let's go right here to diagnostics, and what you can do is this all it doesn't solve. This doesn't tell you, you know a hundred percent, that's what's going on, but you can input your pressures in here. If you don't already know suction pressure discharge pressure, current draw and it'll basically tell you, hey, there's a problem here: okay gives you a percentage right down here and it says: oh, that's, normal or hey shut it down right now. There's something prompt something wrong here: okay, so that's a great great app that I think you guys, if you don't already have it.

That's the Copeland, mobile app okay, so we're gon na go ahead and log out of that. One, let's see if I can get out of this go and close. That out took me a second to get through that. Let's go in here to work I'll go to the other ones: real, quick parts, town they're, a parts distributor.

Even if you guys don't use parts town for parts, I would highly suggest that you use them just for the fact you can log in you can create a user name and you don't have to really have an open account with them and they have so many Manuals in there - okay, so I don't know what's gon na pop up here. Forgive me, I don't know what's gon na pop up on these apps, so if I'm not showing anything really bad. So if you uh, if you click on okay, so I don't have any saved manuals in here right now, but basically, if you browse by manufacturer and let's just say we're working on - let's find a true, true reach in again. Forgive me guys if you're just coming in here, I'm not really paying attention to the chat at the moment, just because I'm showing you guys this stuff, so just give it a second we'll let it pop up seems like it's taken a little.

Oh there you go. Okay, so you just you, click on any true model number and it's gon na give you basically the options to find the parts, installation and operation manuals that kind of stuff - okay guys. So I'm gon na go ahead and close that one out real, quick and let's go ahead and scroll on over gon na keep on going here real quick to come see. This is another really really good one.

I okay yeah, see, I don't have to login for this one. So, the a long time ago, we used to have these books that we kept in our truck and it was the electrical service guidebook and that was actually how the supply houses found all their parts. For Tecumseh compressors, okay! Well now it's all electronic! So you click on the ESP guidebook. You input a model number here's just a common little compressor, AEA: 4440 ax a that's like super common compressor that we used to use a long time ago.

If you hit go, let's go ahead and scroll out of that hang on a sec. There we go and then, if you hit search, should come up here and it's gon na make a liar out of me, because I probably need to update it or something like that. But you know it'll basically come up with everything that to comes. He comes up with okay guys and we can keep going forever.

Okay, there's a prodigy Linux, prodigy app! This is a really cool one too. If you're working on the light commercial packaged units, let's see what are we working on today? Are we working on a? We need to look up an alarm parameter on prodigy 1 or prodigy 2. Let's say it's prodigy 2 with the blackboard. You just look up the alarm code and it tells you what it is.

Okay, so let's go back to the beginning and you can essentially go into it'll, navigate and show you how to use the app to you know and that's using the prodigy blackboard. We can change this to the whiteboard, so you can do all kinds of cool stuff with that guys. So that's another one. Let me go ahead and log out of that and we'll go back into here.

Real, quick and I'll show you a couple more. I manifold! This is another really really good. One carrier: commercial literature: let's see if it's letting me know okay, so if you input a model number of any carrier num unit, so I don't have any model numbers off the top my head, but just input the first three digits of the model number and hit Search and then it'll search from within all these different things, you want wiring diagrams. You want accessory kits application data checklist, install manuals if it's a really really old package unit, they're in here too.

If you look right here, it says non current, just click on that and shown on current units and then it'll show you know antiquated install manuals from 30 years ago, great great app there. Okay, here's the little notes thing that I use Samsung notes and then you can attach pictures and different things to so. I think that's a great little app, but all you guys need to do is just go into the app stores you know and just search HVAC. Okay Bay web to log in on the thermostats, this is the login on my home.

Thermostat you've got an uglies book that you can get from like the electrical supply house right. I think this might have cost a dollar or two or something like that, and I don't even know how to navigate this thing right now, but you can go through and it'll it'll tell you about electrical codes and different things. So it just follows the National Electrical Code, so all right, I'm gon na, go and turn this screencast off and let me go ahead and turn this back on real, quick, okay! So we're back on that. So those are just a few cool things that I I think are really good and they really help you guys out.

Train train has an app to Train 360. I think, is what it's called and then there's a Linux has their part supply house app. They have a lot of cool ones too. So really really good stuff really suggest.

You guys check those things out. Okay, yeah see eBay, Lee Bowman. I see that I don't have carrier Enterprise here in California so, but I have heard a lot of good things about their app, so yeah definitely good and you can scan barcodes and different things. Yeah I've heard of some of that stuff.

Okay, okay, let's see see if any questions pop up into here, so I see that I see Justin post reefer, I wouldn't use any coil cleaner around Micro. What are we looking at? Let me get to the top of that question and see reefer tech. Anyone recommend a good micro channel coil, cleaner, heavy dirt buildup Mike al, not cutting. It is Viper, safe, okay, so that is a tread.

Do it at your own risk? Okay, but yes, if I was to recommend any cleaner out there for a micro channel, I would suggest that you use Viper. They have an aerosol coil cleaner, that is micro, channel, safe but-but-but-but-but. You need to lean on the manufacturer of the equipment that your you're cleaning. Nothing on okay, even though it says safe on the Viper, can does not mean that the manufacturer has approved it.

Have I used it on the heat craft hyper core micro channel coils? Yes, I have, and it has worked fine. It does not have any aluminum attacking things inside of it, but you need to use it at your own risk. Okay, be very, very cautious because you don't want to avoid any warranties. You don't want to cause any problems, whatever coil cleaners you use, I highly highly suggest you make sure you rinse the heck out of it when it's coming off: okay, okay! So what refrigeration books do you recommend coming from the comfort cooling side? I have the perfect book that will solve your guyses problems.

Okay, let me grab it right now. I keep it in my office, it's called commercial refrigeration for air-conditioning technicians, it's by mr. dick, worse or teacher wars. If you guys have taken any of his classes.

What this book does is it breaks down? It assumes that you know air conditioning okay, so it kind of glazes over some of the the basic stuff. Okay, it's I mean if you're, if you're a smart dude, you can still learn how to do it. Just from reading that book, but but if you already know air conditioning even residential, that book will bump you into refrigeration for sure, okay, the biggest difference between air conditioning and refrigeration is the temperatures and the controls. Okay, that's pretty much it if you're, if you're a commercial air conditioning technician, then you already know about building automation systems, possibly okay, and you know contactor coils three-phase high voltage that kind of stuff.

So you know it's not going to be that hard. Coming from the commercial side, if you're coming from the residential side, there's there's a little learning curve because you, you typically don't deal with three-phase very much, but this book commercial refrigeration for air conditioning technicians by dick Wars. You can get it from Amazon. You know, wherever else it's it's published by a company called sin gage, so you can look up on them too.

That's a definitely definitely the best book out there. So, what's my preferred make of rtu units Lennox, the Lennox prodigy series, the higher class Lennox units? If I had my choice, it would be the Lennox LGA units, so those were basically the packaged units from eight years ago in before okay, they were great a super. Well, quality built the gnu/linux units are great too, but I liked the older ones with the. What are they with it? Had the digital circuit board, with the switches on it, I'm trying to think of the name of it, but I can't think of it at the moment but yeah.

So it's the l series packaged units were my favorite, but then now they have the the l series packaged units, but they just have the prodigy control on them. They're still my favorites still the best out there. So, in my opinion, okay, but again some guys like York, some guys like Kerry or some guys like Trane, I'm not a train guy. I prefer not to use a train unit if I can, but I would say that the reason why I don't like train is because their controls confuse me okay, so it's just the fact that I'm stubborn and haven't taken it upon myself to learn their controls.

That's probably why I don't like train okay, so it's my own doing, I'm not knocking them, because I know they have a high quality product every unit out there. The quality has gone down on pretty much everybody out there, but in my opinion, for the light commercial stuff that I work on, I usually don't work on anything 35 tonnes or big earth. I work on 35 tonnes and smaller, essentially, okay, and then you know the smallest packaging is I work on a little four tonnes, so most common packaging is I'm working on right now, like 15 to 18 tonnes, and the Linux ones are just my favorite, especially when You get the higher quality ones that have the hinge doors with the handles. It's just they're so easy to work on it's so user friendly yeah.

They all break Andrew. Just like Andrew yeah. I would really really appreciate it. If you guys would go give the stream a thumbs up, it really does help me out.

So let me go up into here and see. Okay. Next thing I want to cover is I had some other questions and this may not apply to all you guys, but I had a few people message me mainly on the Instagram for whatever reason but anyways I had a few people. Messaged me just asking me about my office and and what I use and how I use it.

So I just did a really quick. I just took my old camera and put it up behind me. If you guys look closely over, there you'll see the wire running up the wall. I just there's nothing fancy, but I just put my camera up there so that you guys can see from the back side and I'll show you, the stream setup that I do right now.

Let me go ahead and pop this over again. Sorry guys I'm really slow when it comes to this there we go and I'll transition over. So nothing fancy. I do not run a fancy setup.

I just have three cheap monitors that I got from Best Buy other than that. It's really just a normal office, guys right on the other side of here over there's just a window going outside and that's pretty much it nothing really technical or fancy about this. So I'm gon na go ahead and turn this off, and you know capture and string that back so there we go. Okay, let me see what else we got.

Yeah train customer service is very difficult to get a hold of. Yes, it is very, very much Pablo. I just honestly don't work on the Rheem stuff man, so I really don't have an opinion about the rain stuff. Robbie gee, you said hoshi tech handbooks.

Are you asking me where to get them where to get the hoshi tech handbooks you get them from hoshizaki ice. Calm and you can download them and or you can buy them from your Hoshizaki distributor. So let me see I'm just reading through these questions here: okay, so mo Ashraf, you said you're working on starting your own business here in SoCal. Do you need a business license in every city in SoCal or just your home city MO any city that you're working and you need to have a business license? California is a pain in the butt.

Okay, you're gon na need to pay individual city taxes for all the materials you need to make sure, and we just had like a big change up where all the different cities change their sales tax rates and it made it ridiculous, also, California, state contractors you have To have your contractor's license displayed on your truck and your business name displayed on your truck. It's really a pain in the butt. So but yes, you do have to have an individual city license in every city that you're going to be working in. So you know, I really don't to give too much more advice, but there's there's things you can do about that, but I don't want to give too much more on a live stream because I don't want to incriminate myself so no Demetri, no refrigerant cooling, my CPU And my PC now I don't have that fancy of a set up, dude, cheap, cheap little computer they're, just a little dill, okay, good ice machine books.

I can't honestly recommend any ice machine books because I don't know of any okay. What I would suggest is is just to download each manufacturer's ice machine book so go to scotsman. Ice machines go to eye somatic ice machines, go to full at ice machines, hoshizaki ice machines. If I haven't said it already, Manitowoc ice machines.

Those are the big players. Then there's a bunch of other smaller ones too, and just purchase their tech service books, usually anywhere from 10 to 20 bucks. Each and you know you can also go to their websites and just download them and just read up on them. That's the best place.

You're gon na learn about the ice machines and how to work on them, because you know: there's not really one book and there's so many different strategies between each ice machine. So it would be really hard for someone to write a book about ice machines and how they work. It would be very, very difficult, I'm not the best person at working on ice machines, but I'm very familiar, I should say with Hoshizaki ice machines and Manitowoc ice machines. So those those are my strongest I'm full.

It's probably my third and then I somatic and scotsman are both on the tail end. I really don't work on too many, I cymatics or Scotsman's, and I'm super not when I walk into those I'm not a happy person, usually because they get frustrating but um yeah. Full it and I'm sorry, uh mana, talking Hoshizaki, like the number ones in on what I like to work on, not saying that they're, the best ice machines out there they're just what I like to work on so Robbie gee, I wouldn't be the. I wouldn't even know how to address a cold draft machine because I've never worked on a cold draft machine.

So I'm sorry dude. I really don't know so. I he okay, so Adam HVAC. I see that you're talking about the 902 F see.

I have the 902, but not the F C, if I remember right for the fluke, but I did just order just because it was just released. I just ordered the new measure, quick measure, quick, the redfish clamp meter. I did order that because I'm intrigued to try it out the one that Jim Bergman designed and it's his meter and stuff, so I just ordered that so that I'll be coming soon so we'll see. But for my everyday carry for my meter, I have the field piece SC 660, and I keep that in my bag.

It's there fully loaded, clamp meter, and that thing does me really well. I've heard some other people that don't like it. You know I really haven't had too any problems with it, but I have heard some people that said they really really didn't like it. So be very cautious.

Don't just go buy a meter just because I said so. Do your research and you know, ask other people what they use to, but yeah the the SC 660 is my everyday. Carry for sure all right, let's see what else we got going on here, yeah Gabriel Brown. You said you can download all their books for all the ice machines you can down them: paul, dieter, you're, working on a Charlson reach and freezer right.

Now. What should you be? Looking for? The evap coil keeps freezing up. You replace the evap sensor, but the box temp is not matching. What's showing well, there's two sensors on there Paul you've got a coil sensor and a cabinet sensor.

Okay. What what I would highly suggest you do, if you don't already, have it download the Traulsen master service manual, just google it'll come up under Google. Ok - and that gives you all the unlock codes, but essentially a one gets you into the settings 0, a1 and then once you get into there you're going to want to go to the e l, which is your evaporator coil reading. And then CB is your cabinet temperature sensor reading.

So the box regulates the temperature off of the cabinet reading the CB? Ok, so that's your box temp setting and then the e L is essentially your defrost termination or your coil setting. Ok, so whether it be a cooler or a freezer, it's going to use a L to terminate defrost and it's going to use kcb to regulate box temp, okay, so a very common 90 % of the time. A problem with the Charlson is a cabinet and coil sensors. Whenever I change the sensors, I change them both together.

At the same time, they're, cheap and Traulsen doesn't even fight you. If you're doing a warranty, repair and you've got a bad coil sensor. They're, not gon. Na fight you, if you change a cabinet sensor to because they know they failed just as bad ok, so those are the red and green or the blue and green sensors.

So I would look into that cabinet sensor. Go into that CD setting and see what it says compared to what your thermometer says. I would bet you anything that you've got a bad cabinet sensor and it's causing the box to not read correctly and it's causing it to run all the time. I would look into that first and then, after that you can look into refrigerant charge and all that stuff, most of the charleston's at least the newer ones, they're sealed system, so the other 10 % of the time.

The problems with the charleston's are refrigerant leaks and they're, usually in the hot gas condensate heaters on the Traulsen, and these are just like the charleston stand-up units. So hopefully that helps you out paul. If you have any more questions. Paul just send me an e-mail of hvac.

Our videos at gmail.com and charleston tech supports pretty good too, so you can lean on them. If you can get ahold of charleston tech support, ask for Bobby Bobby's, been there forever and he's a good tech really nice guy. So um, let's see what else I got. Oh so you're thinking about getting a new tool.

Pouch the TP 44b. I use Vito yeah I like Vito's. I carry the tech pack, the big one. I've been thinking about getting the smaller tech, the smaller backpack that they just came out with just just because I want to see how big it is, I'd kind of like to see it in a supply house.

First, then I have an in an emcee bag. I think I think it I did a review on it a long time ago. I have a Vito MC, I think, is what it is yeah and I keep like all my field piece, wireless stuff in the NC bag, and I keep it that's just kind of like my troubleshooting bag. You just throw it on your shoulder and run up to the roof.

If you're just gon na work on something quick, I have some basic hand tools in it and then, if I'm gon na be doing a full repair, then I get the big backpack and that does it for me. So yeah the zippers Brian, okay, so the zippers on the vetos, here's the thing: it's really easy to overload a Vito bag and it's really easy to pay to not pay attention when you're trying to zip it up. I even do it sometimes too. If you just pull on the zipper, you know you can you can break the zipper just by trying to overfill it okay.

So if you don't overfill the bag, you know I typically have never seen a zipper break. Now. I've never broke a zipper. I've broke the little in the tab that you pull.

I've broken that off before so I mean what it is. It's like a nervous, twitch or something i nose always itches. When I get in these streams and know, I am NOT a cokehead okay, everybody keep saying that, but yeah the zippers. I think it's just you know people over filling the bags and that's what's bro.

I honestly don't think that you're gon na break the zippers and but maybe I'm wrong, okay, but I've never broken a zipper on the veto. So vetoes are my favorite though, and you guys can use hey Joel how you doing, but zach has got an offer code. Zach, I don't know if you're still in here or just and if you know it, I think it's shop Talk. I think you can use that on true tech tools and you can get like an 8 % discount, but a bunch of other people have offer coats too.

But if you use Zach's you'll get an 8 % discount and you can get the veto bag and get a couple bucks off and then true tech. I think they have like free shipping. Don't quote me: I think it might be over a hundred dollar purchase right now you might get free shipping too, so um yeah bill man veto bag dude. I love the veto bags.

Now the veto bags are heavy, but I'm not a fan of the Klein bags, because um I've had some of my guys have the Klein bags and they're a pain in the butt yeah there you go. Zach put it in so you shop, talk is the offer code and you can get them from true tech tools. You get an 80 % discount and again I think that they have a thing if you use, if you have $ 100 over 100, all our purchase, I think you get free shipping, because that the meter that I just ordered was free shipping, because I'm pretty sure It was over a hundred bucks so and yes, who makes the red fish meter, the red fish is its own company, and Jim Bergman owns the company. He bought the company or he owns most of it or something like he's an I don't know anyways but um, who makes them.

I'm sure I don't know it's probably some Chinese company or something like that. They're distributed by sup, Co. Okay, but Sopko is not making them so they're, the Jim just he just said this on Zach's podcast, actually, just the other day he just uses sub-code to distribute. The meters is all he does so yeah I'll pull up the redfish right now, but again don't order.

The redfish meter, just because I told you to you, got to do your research right now, so let me pull it up right now, I'm gon na pull it up right now! Okay, let me get this up on here and I'll go ahead and share my screen. Well, that missed a second, and if I get smart at this, I can turn that one off turn that one off and then transition that over there we go so here's the red fish eye: DVM 5:50: it's the wireless Bluetooth power, clamp meters, so I just ordered That I had a couple coop a couple: gift, certificates and stuff, but if you use the shoptalk, you'll get 8 % off and I am pretty darn sure yeah free shipping right here at the top free shipping are, in all USA orders over 98 dollars. So that's a good deal good deal, so let me go ahead and put that back on and transition that back over so cool. So that's the red fish.

I just bought it just to try it out, because I can't see it being a bad meter. I think it's gon na be a great meter, so it's one of those things I haven't heard a lot of reviews about it, but it just came out so ldj. What is the best electric meter? To my knowledge? You know dude. That's that's a hard one.

To answer, because you know fluke in my opinion, probably has the most high-quality heavy-duty meter, but fluke typically makes their meters for electricians. So they have made a few HVAC models that have capacitance and different things in them for best bang, for your buck and most options in the meter. I really really like the field. Peace meters they're a little bit cheaper, and but they have all the features that you need.

You know if I was doing heavy duty, electrical work, power, analysis and different stuff. Like that, I would. I would imagine that I would go with like a fluke meter because highest-quality but they're, probably the most expensive meters out there. Okay, they do have lower-cost ones, but I mean they're heavy heavy duty built with high quality, stuff, okay, but then there's other companies out there too.

Okay, there's, if you want, like you, know, field piece. If you want field piece prices with fluke, esque quality, then I would go with the amp probe, because they're owned by Luke and they're essentially made by the same people. They just have. You know just the quality just a little bit less, but there's still a heavy still a great meter.

So look at the amp probes too, and I believe you can look at some amp probe stuff on Zach's channel on HVAC shoptalk. He does a lot of amp probe, reviews and promotions and stuff, so I'm sure he can help you out with a little bit more on what they offer, but you could just look up ant probe and it'll. Tell you so see what else yeah. So that's the best.

I mean again, that's that ldj! That's a really hard thing to answer. What's the best electric meter, because it all depends on you know what you like: okay, so yeah and Troy, so the 902 FC can't do millivolts yeah. I really like the field piece: SC 660. It it does everything that I need to do what I really really like about the field piece.

The SC 660 is the ability to do phase rotation, so you can look at a three-phase system and you can put it into phase rotation mode and you can check if the a the B and the C phase is correctly installed. So it'll tell you it's installed. 3, 2 1, which means backwards or it'll tell you it's installed: 1. 2.

3. So then, you know before you turn on a scroll compressor, that you have the right phase rotation and you could do that for blower assemblies too so I'll pop over right. Now, let's go ahead and there we go transition over. This is the meter that I keep in.

My back is the SC 660. So this one does pretty much. Everything and it'll also connect with some of the field piece Wireless stuff, but it has the phase rotation feature, which i think is amazing. I really really like the phase rotation feature.

So, okay, let's go and turn that back on and transition over. Ok. So there we go and then we pull up my chat again, so I can see what's going on in here, so reefer tech, mark commercial and residential. Do you see any stepper valves in your systems? Are you asking the commercial and residential guys yeah? They do they see them, especially in the mini splits right now, because the stepper valves using the electronic expansion valves and a lot of the mini splits and high-efficiency residential units, they'll use the electronic expansion valve.

So a lot of times, they'll use a step or valve Bolivian marching powder yeah. No, I don't know what you're talking about come on yeah guys. Justin was just saying it really does help. If you guys can remember the questions, if you guys can put them in caps lock, because what Justin's trying to do is Justin's trying to help me by making sure that I see the questions so and it's cool.

If you guys talk in between the chat to each other, but if you can remember to put the questions to me and capslock, it really does help for us to have to not to try to figure out who you're talking to so okay, so Robbie G, you Bring up a really good point about the amp probe, you said it uses the j-type thermocouple and you can use it to see what the probes of units are reading. When you bring up the thermocouples, I'm not familiar with the J type, I would have to see it a picture of it. I can probably just pull it up real quick. You know.

Obviously, most meters use the K type thermal couples. So let me pull it up. Real quick, let's see if I know what this is. Oh, it looks just like the k-type thermocouple.

What's the difference, I don't understand. I really don't see the difference. J-Type thermocouple, what's the difference between the k-type thermocouple? Isn't? Isn't there a K? Type too? I don't think. There's much of a difference.

It looks identical Andrew Hicks. What is a stepper valve and electronic expansion valve? I'm assuming that's what he meant when he said stepper valve but yeah, so the electronic expansion valves and I'll get to the r32 question here in just a second. The electronic expansion valves there's two different types to my understanding: there's the pulse width, modulation, Val and then there's a stepper valve and essentially the stepper valve is just like I'm just gon na dumb it down, because this is how I understand it. It's like a corkscrew right and it has a bunch of different steps on it in it turns so.

It turns one direction out out out out and opens up and then turns and closes down. So it's just steps that I thought thought thought thought thought and then the pulse width, modulation. I have no idea how that thing works. I don't know I'm not that smart so so have I worked with r32.

No, I have not worked with our 32. I've worked with our 290, which is essentially propane. R32 is just another refrigerant um. No, I have not worked with it yet.

I know that a lot of people are switching to the hydrocarbon, so, okay Familia I've never used the H Tim never used it. I've always used the D Tech select, but everybody's always talking about the H 10. I just wish they made them smaller. What I really wish and I'm very leery to buy it now when it finally does get released, is the info gan Stratus leak? Detector? That's supposed to work like the h 10 and it's supposed to have a ppm readout on it and all this fancy stuff, but they've been teasing that thing for so long.

It makes me wonder if it's ever going to come and it makes me wonder what problems they're having with it too, because it's supposed to be out at least a year ago. I believe so, but that was supposed to be like a game changer when that one came when they said it was going to come out. So, okay, I see Zach, you said different homes. Are you talking about with the with the J type versus K type thermocouples? I don't know I'd be very interested to know what the difference is.

So there you go reefer tech, so there's a modulation position that opens and closes to throttle the refrigerant on the low side is that on the pulse width, modulation valve reefer tech mark claps central, would I recommend the p51 digital gauges. I can't say yes or no. I know Zack Zack, you have those, don't you or you've done a review on them, and then I know that Gil kV with HVAC uncensored podcast talks about him a lot, a lot of people like them. I I don't have anything bad to say about him.