Ah, it's time to chill out and get ready for a mediocre q, a live stream if you're old enough grab yourself your favorite adult beverage and if you're not stick with apple juice, put your feet up and relax. If you have any questions feel free to ask them in the chat and now let's queue up the intro music, so so yo, hopefully you guys are doing well this evening. It is hot as crap out here in california right now, uh we've got like a little heat wave coming through with some monsoonal moisture, uh thunder clouds. It's not we're not getting thunder showers in my area and some of the surrounding deserts around me.

We've been getting thunder showers. I think i posted something on social media. Last week where i was driving from one of the desert areas. I was working and there was a thunder shower and it pulled over and watched it, but with that monsoonal moisture comes humidity and we've been it's pretty humid for us now we don't really know what humidity is here in california, so those of you in the midwest And the east coast are going to laugh when i tell you the humidity right now and i'll tell you, i'm gon na pull up my thermostat, so it says that uh 35 humidity outside and uh.

It's just swampy, it's nasty, so 35 percent humidity, and actually today's a cooler day, it's 96 degrees outside last week we were like 110, it was nuts, but this week uh started off a little rough for me, uh, just because i went away this weekend. It was my anniversary, so my wife and my kids, we went to one of the little mountain resorts, local to us, lake arrowhead for those locals and uh spent the weekend up there and i felt out of touch because i hadn't been away. You know i basically shut my phone off for two or three days: um connor. Thank you very much for that super chat.

That's really awesome, but um. I really appreciate that so uh yeah, i it's been a while, since i've actually taken any time off. In my time off is i took friday off and i didn't answer my phone saturday and sunday. So that's taking time off for me, but i felt completely out of touch so i came back to work today and uh.

I was just kind of like i didn't know what to do. I was lost because there were service calls that happened stuff that i couldn't keep track of hey randy. Thank you. So very much for that super chat.

Man, you guys, are awesome with these super chats. Thank you very much: okay um, but yeah i just i was so out of sorts today. I just didn't know what to do. I was just kind of like trying to catch up and i did two service calls today.

One of them was ice. Machine repair that took most of my day, but i'm still trying to catch up. It's really weird when you're so attached to work and you take a day off it, just messes your head up, at least that's how i work i'm. I know i'm weird and stuff.

So, but hey thanks for showing up guys. I really appreciate y'all in here. Do me a favor, give the the stream a thumbs up uh, if you're on mobile, just x out of the chat hit the thumbs up button if you're on a computer, it's easy! If you're on a tv i get it, it's a little bit more difficult to do it. I can do it on my roku on my tv, but it's just kind of a pain.

So i get it it's all good. As usual, i got a list of things. I want to talk about and then also i want to address the chat. You guys got questions and different things make sure you post them in caps, lock and i'll try to get to them.

Okay, um. I am definitely behind on comments uh. So over the weekend. Obviously, i've just had a hard time keeping up with all the comments so um.

I don't have a lot of questions from the comments today, just because i didn't get an opportunity to really go through them. I also got off work a little bit late later than i'd like to essentially, but i still got a bunch of emails and things that i want to cover so um yeah sean. You did sean actually ran into me in lake arrowhead village. That's right! So we were walking through his family and my family and we crossed paths and sean stopped me and said hey, so that was really cool.

It's neat to see people you know uh out and and and people like come up and recognize me. It's it's a little weird because i'm not used to that, but it is cool to see people and to actually see someone besides just a screen name. You know that's chatting in a live chat or something like that. So it's really neat.

It's really cool. So if you guys ever do see me out in the wild make sure you stop me and say hey, especially if i'm in a supply house because often times it's okay, you can stop me. I have like a one-track mind, and so sometimes i like go into the supply house with like something on my mind and i just go straight to the counter and start getting what i need um, i don't mind: if people stop me and say hey, i got No problem with that again, you just got ta, stop me and say: hey dude. What's up you know, and sometimes i just don't pay attention to my surroundings when i'm walking in and things so um, but i also do have written on my forehead.

So i know a lot of people think like hey. I don't want to bother him or something but go ahead. It's all good! That's just my my personality um, so uh jessica. Thank you very much for wearing that.

I really appreciate that for those of you that um have already supported the channel, you do not have to do this. I'm gon na address this right now, jessica had said something: okay, um. I really really appreciate those of you that have purchased uh, hats and shirts from me. It's it's so humbling to to have you guys do that? That's been really cool um, so you know just thank you guys so very much.

I also want to start this off right now. I don't know which ones of you did this okay, but i have to say thank you so very much. Okay, i'm sure there was a few of you that did it because i'm sure it wasn't just one person that got me nominated okay, um, but i was uh. What i don't know how you say this um, i made the top 40 under 40 list for the hvacr news and basically it's the top 40 under 40 years old uh hvac service techs.

You know changing things in the industry and stuff like that. They do this list every single year. I've actually known about it for a while, but they just released it today. So i want to say thank you so very much that they just announced the winners or the whatever.

I don't know what you call those people but anyways, it's for the hvacr news magazine um, but again thank you to those of you that nominated me again. I don't know who you are, but i really really appreciate it. It was really kind of cool um. It was a little awkward having to write like a bio for an editor.

It was. It was a little weird, but again i thank you. I'm honored to be nominated for that. That was really cool and it was cool that i actually made the the list or whatever.

So thank you guys so very much. Okay, um! Let me see what we got going on in the chat glass. Half full. Thank you very much for that.

Super chat, bud. Um, i drank way too much this weekend so for today it is carbonated water from costco, lemon flavor, so uh yeah, um bloody mary's all weekend and uh. It was a nice time. So the really cool thing where we went uh sean michael.

Thank you so very much for that super chat man. That is awesome, but you don't have to do that. But thank you very much um. So where we went, we were staying at lake, arrowhead resort and uh.

It's a bit pricey, you know, but it was really cool because, like everything was there, we could walk to the village. They had restaurants in there, so it was really nice not having to drive anywhere once we got there. Excuse me something in my throat, but it was a nice little getaway with the family, so it was really cool and it was. It was needed much needed.

So all right, let's see what else we got going on in here um. Let me see uh joshua keaton. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for that super chat.

Um he's asking if i am union and if not have i considered doing so, and if not, maybe why your union yourself, but you love okay, so yeah here's the thing i am not union. I live in southern california. Southern california is not a union strong state. There is a union presence, but it is not strong.

Okay um, i run my own business uh and i have a hard enough time. Finding employees, it's not really something that i would consider going union with my company, but in general i have no problems with unions. Okay, it's just um. It wouldn't be economical in the restaurant refrigeration side of the business that i deal with to be a union company, because basically our prices would be so high that we would price ourselves out of the market um.

But again, i have absolutely no problem with unions uh. I i do think that they serve a purpose in certain places um. I i also understand that you know certain particular unions, not saying hvac, but you know some of them can be problematic. But again i understand the concept and uh more power to you.

If you are union, i will say that, especially in the past - and i know they still really do a good job today, uh the training coming from the unions were awesome, okay and is awesome. I actually have a buddy that went union recently, um my buddy rudy and a lot i think about two years ago. He went in union and he loves it every time. I ask him, he says it's absolutely great for him and good for him.

You know that that is awesome. He loves uh the company that he works for, but um, i absolutely support unions. I i'm not partial either way. It's just not something.

That's strong in my area and dealing with restaurants. I would not be able to stay competitive with that, but uh yeah again, nothing against them. So thank you very much for that super chat coming through all right and uh. Let's see what else we got going on in here: um yeah, uh sean.

It would be really interesting to see more ammonia uh on youtube uh. My buddy, you uh ulysses palacios. I believe that's how he pronounces his name. Uh does work on some ammonia stuff and every once in a while he'll put some clips on instagram or facebook, or something like that.

He doesn't really put him on youtube very much anymore um. He did have a channel. He still has a channel, but um there's not really anybody else. Besides ulysses, i think that i've ever seen any ammonia footage whatsoever.

So you know we're always looking for more uh. We need more people in the industry to try to help and share their knowledge for sure, because this trade needs help all together all the way around. We need more. So definitely anybody that gets an opportunity and can do so.

Their company is cool with it. I highly suggest that they consider doing stuff on youtube because it will definitely um uh help the trade for sure. So all right, i'm gon na put this over here. Let me rearrange my screens here, real quick, so i can accurately see my list of things to talk about.

I kind of again i'm a little bit messed up in the head right now, because i'm not quite there, we go that's much better, so everything is back where it's supposed to be um. Let me see any advice on applying for my or for your first hvacr job, so you know uh for the young people in the trade that want to get into hvac. I think it's great um applying for your first job. You need to understand something, especially if you're coming out of trade school, just because the trade school, because i'm not saying everyone, does this, but a lot of trade schools out there feed all kinds of information down your throat saying that you're worth this much money and All this different stuff and you're gon na be making this much in twenty thirty dollars an hour and da da da.

It's not how it works when you get out there, okay, just because you went to a trade school and you you have some book. Knowledge doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to hit the ground running and be making 35 an hour. You know starting off so um. Be humble, that's the best thing i can tell you remember something that when you're applying for a service company you're interviewing them just as much as they are interviewing you, okay now don't be rude about it, don't be a jerk, but at the same time you need To ask questions that will help.

You feel more comfortable with the company too, if it's possible, this is getting harder and harder these days. If it's possible, i highly suggest that you ask them to let you do a ride along with one or two of their service technicians, or maybe even the owner, okay and kind of get a feel for the kind of work that they do and how they operate. You know kind of pay attention to how they handle dispatching. How does the office staff interact with the technicians that kind of stuff? Okay, because again remember you are interviewing them just as much as they are interviewing you, okay, uh.

You know you're about to make a big decision now me personally, i'm not a person that jumped ship well, i've never jumped, but i mean i'm not a fan of people jumping ship left and right for 50 cents, here, 50 cents there that kind of stuff. I think that people should give things more time, but also that people should um be more thorough about the companies that they go to work for okay. I have no sympathy for a technician that tells me you know what i've worked for a company for 15 years and they've treated me like crap all 15 years, it's time to leave. Well, that's not the company's fault! That's your fault! For being there! For 15 years.

Okay, you need to know when to leave, but also you want to be careful about, leaving just for a 25 cent raise okay, you want to when you're working for a service company - and i feel like i might be contradicting myself here - but when you're working for A service company. You also want to address issues when they happen. Okay, even if they seem petty, you want to bring them up to your supervisor and say: hey. You know what i really didn't like the way that we interacted on this and just make it known.

Just remember it's a difficult thing for me as a business owner too, to have to deal with in personnel files and writing people up and different things like that, but on the flip side, as a service technician, you also need to note things and issues that you Have with your service company, often okay, just like a company, is going to do a simple write-up. If there's a mistake that was made by you - and you know, there was an issue they're going to do a write-up, it doesn't mean you're going to get fired. It just goes in your personnel file. At the same time, you as a service technician need to hold the company accountable too.

When things happen, like hey, you know what that wasn't, really cool the way that that happened, or you know i wasn't on call, but i had to fill in like you know, i'm not saying that um. You know you need to be a jerk about it, but just remember that as a service technician, you know you or as an apprentice or someone that wants to go into hvacr, you need to interview the company just as much as they're interviewing you. I don't know how many times i can say that, but apparently i must have said it about four or five times now, so hopefully that makes sense to you bud uh. If i didn't answer your question completely, send me an email, hvacr, videos, gmail.com and i'll.

Try to get to it a little bit more okay, let me see what else we got in here uh. Would i let my guys record and post videos on youtube if they wanted to? No, i actually would not uh that's a really simple easy answer, so i actually wrote that in our employee handbook that no my service technicians are not allowed to record and post videos on social media and or youtube um, it's a fine line. What i post in my videos and uh recently uh this is, it was actually kind of a scary thing. Terry.

Thank you very much for that super chat man. I really really appreciate that. So very recently i had one of my restaurant chains contact me and it was the facilities director and he said, hey bud. So we had a video come across our desk at one of our restaurants and it was you and they wanted to know what the deal was, and i about crap my pants, because you can only well you there's certain businesses that would never approve you to post Videos on youtube: let's just say that: okay, because they're giant corporations and lawyers are involved and there's nobody.

That's ever going to give you permission because it's a liability, nightmare. Okay, so uh said person contacted me, said: hey, you know what we saw that you had a video and i was starting to get scared, and i said yes that was me and yes, i do make videos, i make them as a training aide for my employees And i share them with the public and then his next response was we really like them, and we really appreciate the fact that you don't show the restaurant names in your videos. Nor do you show you talk crap about the restaurants. So would i let my employees film? No because it takes a lot of work.

I know exactly how much work it takes to keep the restaurants anonymous to go through the comments and delete any restaurant names right or wrong. When people are trying to guess it takes a lot of work and it's a liability nightmare um and no unfortunately, i would not let my employees film, i that is a rule that we have uh. It seems strange, but that's just how it is so um. Let me see what else we got in here.

What am i missing? Um all right, uh, okay, so when it comes to thermostats and regions, most thermostats are dial from one to nine. What exactly do the numbers mean? The numbers don't really mean anything. If you don't understand the difference or the differential, or i wouldn't even say the differential um, you know, each thermostat is gon na well yeah the differential would be correct. Yeah each thermostat is gon na have um a different range.

That's the word, i'm looking for. So one to nine doesn't mean anything for me. What you need to do is uh, let's just say, you're using a ronco uh, i think gosh, an old ronco a30-2c that was a air sensing cold control. If i remember right, wow, it's been a long time.

So on that one it was a one to nine reading and what you would need to do is you would need to look at the range on the box. It would say range from 26 degrees to you know, 44 degrees. So then, what you would do is you would take that 26 to 44 and you would divide it by the amount of numbers on the dial, and that would tell you the the the difference between each number. So again, it really depends on each manufacturer and the range that they have now.

Some manufacturers have an actual thermostat that has uh temperature numbers on it and that definitely helps more. When you get into those old mechanical thermostats um, you know the cold controls. They were a little bit more difficult to set because you had to figure out what the range was, and you know you kind of got used to where to set them. So all right um, let me go ahead and get to my list of things to talk about right here, uh bill burnett.

What's my new favorite tool, i've really really been liking. The the fleur one pro thermal imager i've been using that a little bit more um. Finding new uses for it, so i have been liking that a lot um. Let me see what else we got: okay, so uh.

The last two videos that i had this last week. Um was on 8 20. I had water leaking from the bar ac and that was basically a cleaning, video okay. I got a lot of feedback from that video, negative feedback and uh.

I do want to address that. Okay, so uh that video i had a service call on a water leak from a bar ac and when i went out there was actually recorded all the way back in june. Okay, and when i went out there uh, i already kind of had an idea. I think i said in the very beginning of the video we were just coming out of the first lockdown and i knew everything was going to be dirty.

So, yes, of course everything was dirty. We had multiple ac's, i didn't show the entire building cleaning, but we ended up going through a lot of those acs. But on the video i showed the one bar ec trying to figure out which bar ec it was and then i found a water leak and then i went ahead and cleaned the coils and i was using refrigeration technologies, cleaners and i got so much feedback. Negative feedback saying you know i sold out and all this different stuff and how come i'm you know it sounded like an infomercial.

It sounded like a commercial all this different stuff. You know what go pound sand. Really i mean seriously, you don't have to watch. If you have problems with my videos - okay, it's as simple as that, those of you that support my channel.

I know there's several of you that still like the stuff - i don't do that crap all the time, but there was a few people that were really harping on the whole negative side of that, and you know what it's cool. Just don't watch anymore. If you have a problem with my videos, it's that simple, okay um. I have said this from the very beginning that i beat to the tune of my own drum.

I don't answer to anybody on my videos. Nobody makes me do anything. Okay, i promote people's products. All the time uh, i do have two partners that i work with right now.

I've been very public about those two partners. Obviously spoiling has been a partner for well over a year now, and refrigeration technologies is another partner. The arrangement that i have with refrigeration technology is they don't ask me to do anything. They just say hey.

You know what we want to be partnered with you promote us when you can okay, so i chose to make those they didn't make me do that stuff. I use their products and have promoted their products well before i started working with them. It's as simple as that. Okay, i promote other people's products.

All the time like, i bet you, a million people, think that i'm sponsored or have a partnership with field piece. I don't okay, i've done some projects with fieldpiece, but i don't have a partnership, but i promote their products all the time because i believe in them i like their products. Okay, i like to tell you guys the things that i like and if i find something useful, i like to use it and show it in a video and it's as simple as that, and i don't mean to offend. If i offend so, you know some people, then so be it okay, but it is what it is uh terry.

Thank you very much for that super chat man. That is awesome. You said you made your very first bubble factory today yeah. It's really easy to make a bubble factory when you're using some of the cleaners.

You know you got to make sure on the micro channels that you want to really blow those things or tap them out, because the water really gets trapped in there and it just makes a bubble. Fest i've shown it a few times in the videos. I've never had it end in a problem, but i've always been worried about it short, not a motor or something like that. So, let's see what else exactly jeremy.

Thank you very much man. I really appreciate it. Um yeah, gavin news. You know what stephen i i you are absolutely correct.

That gavin newsom does make me do some certain things. You are absolutely right. That is a whole nother topic. I need to go on someone's other thing, so um yeah and that's the thing that i really do like about the the viper products is um.

I like uh the fact that they're safe okay and they don't burn your hands off right. I literally had a service technician many years ago, that was cleaning condenser coils and he took some of the blue cleaner, not from refrigeration technologies. I'm not going to throw the people under the bus because it is what it is, but he uh he got some of that cleaner on his boot and his boot had a hole in it and it got in his sock now. Granted this wasn't the other company's problem, but the dude went on working the entire day without changing his sock with coil cleaner in his boot.

He ended up wearing a hole in his foot and had an infection, and it got into this big old giant thing. It was like a nightmare okay. The thing i like about refrigeration technologies is their stuff is safe, okay, um, so you know you still got to use it responsibly, but it's safe stuff, all right, all right, um. The next video that i had was an emergency walk-in freezer call that was on 823 walk-in freezer with a bad condenser fan motor.

So in that video uh scott. Thank you very much for that super chat man. I really appreciate it and uh. Thank you, scott for promoting my merch.

I really appreciate it. So, yes, hats are back in stock guys. I probably still have about 50 in stock right now, so uh scoop them up, while you can, because they go pretty fast, so really appreciate that oh and guys um, i think i said this on the last one. I am going back and forth with a guy that does my my merch, my hats and all that stuff and we are working on beanies for the winter time, so we're starting the process right now, it's going to be a lengthy process.

I think i said this last time because i just uh he he did some artwork for me and i just approved the artwork and then he's going to get me samples made of the different artwork designs like there's three designs that i potentially will go with of Different styles of beanies, so if everything goes good i'll have samples in a couple weeks and then hopefully it'll be another couple weeks after that, when they got to order them and make them and all that fancy stuff. So um, but you know i don't i don't just order any crap. I, like you, know like with these hats. When i did these hats, i literally wore this hat for a year before i even released them, because i wanted to make sure it worked out really good.

Now the beanies i'm not going to wear for a year, but i am going to order them. Make sure that they're good check out the quality before i release them or anything like that, so keep you know that that'll be a month or two from now, but we'll have those soon. Okay, all right! Let's see what else uh - oh yeah, yeah yeah, definitely ryan i'll, get to that right now. So let me hit this last thing.

Ryan. Don't let me forget that question. Okay, so um on the emergency walk-in freezer call that i had uh. I walked up onto the roof and walk-in freezer was down.

I was already a little agitated because it was an end of the day. Service call okay, but once i got there, you know it kind of set my agitation off even more, because we had dirty condensers bad condenser fan motor bad condenser fan motor on the walk-in cooler. Three exhaust fans not working. It was just like ugh.

You know one of those, i think it was even a friday. I think it might have been, but it was just one of those. No, it wasn't a friday. I think it was a wednesday or something, but it was just one of those days where it was hot.

You were tired and then this happened. You know guys, i'm human, all right. I got some some feedback in there too, and i got ta. Let you guys know, i'm not some person that just doesn't feel emotions doesn't feel anything okay.

I get frustrated after a long day and it's really hot and i'm exhausted, and i just want to go home and you get that emergency service call. I get pissed off. I'm real okay, it happens. I'm not going to hide that and say that i'm this perfect person that never gets angry.

I get angry okay, but i don't direct that anger towards the customer. I try as hard as i can to make sure that they don't see. My frustration but yeah i'll call a friend or reach out to some buddies or call my wife or something and just be like uh. You know seriously.

This is a call, but the end of the day. I am thankful that the customer is calling me okay. So, yes, i do get frustrated, but they could call someone else. It's really easy for them to call someone else.

It's simple: they just pick up the phone and call some other company, and then i don't get that work anymore. Okay, so i have to know when to bite the bullet swallow my pride and just go out there and do the service call in that situation. That's what i did okay now i i did what i could to get them going, even though i was frustrated even though i was hot. I walked up there and i had a bad condenser fan, motor blade and bracket that i didn't have.

Okay, i i certainly could have opened a supply house, but i was like why why open the supply house, when i could literally just hose off that condenser for the night, put a mister on it and get them through the night? Save the supply house a headache. You know save myself some time get home a little bit sooner. Okay. So that's what i did all right.

I got the system operational then went back and did a full repair on it. Cleaning cleaned the walk-in cooler next to it got the exhaust fans repaired and the customer was happy and thankful that we did all of that. Okay, so there is that fine line of you know. Yes, i get angry at times, but then also knowing when you know, hey, don't show the customer this anger, you know what it is.

What it is you know, you're, never in in and i've i've gone down this path before, but you're never going to convince the customer. You know that they're wrong you're, not i mean what what what good would come from showing the customer anger. What good is going to come from that i mean, even if it's like blatant ridiculous stuff, like what good is gon na come from that none, okay, yeah! You know when you cool down it'd, be, i think, it'd be a good idea. If you really really find the need to have to discuss something with the customer, when things cool down a week later go have a conversation with them and say: hey, you know that was really kind of a bummer.

You know. I think this could have been a little bit better. It could have saved you a lot of money. If we would, you know you would have done maintenances or whatever okay in these times, though, right now ain't no chain, restaurants, doing maintenances on a regular basis.

Okay, we have some that are still doing some, but it's not as thorough as it used to be. Okay, everybody's pinching, pennies right now um. So it is what it is and the way that i look at it is. I just got to be thankful for the little bit that i do get so um all right, uh ryan had asked me about oh shoot.

I lost your comment right now, ryan. Where did it go? Okay, um ryan. Ryan's comment was asking about fixing a leak on a discharge line, so he says: can i chat about fixing a cracks discharge line and a potential running the compressor with low oil um? I don't know if you're asking ryan about a video, because i have some videos where i've done that before and i also have a video. Actually, i didn't even release it, but i went i posted it on instagram, where i have a cracked discharge line going into a reversing valve, coming directly out of a seven and a half ton, scroll, compressor um.

So, as far as your question, you said running a compressor with low oil, so running a compressor for an extended period of time with low oil is a major major problem: okay and more than likely you're going to have damage inside of it. Now my my thing with crack discharge lines is discharge lines. For the most part, they don't crack for no reason. Okay, in my experience, majority of the time a cracked discharge line is causing by is caused by a problem within the compressor okay um.

Now, if it's, if it's a uh, an oil leak, you know if you've got a lot of oil around it. In my experience, depending on the compressor, you know you, if it's a scroll, that you doesn't have a sight glass or anything like that. You know you. You kind of really need to warn the customer and talk to them like hey, there's, a really good chance, there's going to be compressor damage, and you know i can repair this leak and we can get you running.

But for how long? I don't know you know, i would strongly suggest that they consider replacing the compressor, but also depending on the cost of the compressor. That may not be something they want to do. Okay, but again going back to my thing when discharge lines crack, they usually don't crack for no reason. So in my situation that i just posted on instagram the other day was, i have a reversing valve that is about 24 inches away from the compressor uh.

The discharge line comes up from the compressor 90s into the reversing valve and it's cracked on the body of the reversing valve. So it's not at the joint it's not at the 90, it's literally the body of the reversing valve where it goes into the valve and i'm sitting here thinking why the heck would it crack right there, so i'm very hesitant, but in that situation, that is a Seven and a half ton scroll compressor all right. It's a three phase: seven and a half ton scroll compressor. It's a carrier unit.

It's going to be really expensive. So what i'm going to do in my situation is, is i'm going to give the customer the option? I'm going to say, look there's a i'd, say a 90 chance, there's going to be compressor damage, but there's no way of knowing until we fix this leak. Now, in my situation, the compressor is completely out of gas. That's how big the leak is.

I put in, like i grabbed my refrigerant cylinder uh, to put a chaser in it before i put nitrogen in it. I put about two pounds of refrigerant into this 15 ton system and it was just pissing out of the reversing valve like i was like. Okay, there's not even any points, so i can't even run it. So in my situation, i'm gon na give some serious disclaimers.

Okay, but if you have a system, that's been running on low oil for a very long time, there's a very good chance that there's compressor damage, um and or where did that oil go? Is it? Is it all at that crack right there or is it stuck in the condenser? I mean, oh man, what a headache oil oil loss is always a nightmare when it comes to that stuff. So um have i ever warmed my lunch on my dashboard kenji. Yes, i have, i actually have um, i have a video on it. I have a hot logic, mini hot logic: mini is this little portable device that you plug into a cigarette lighter or you plug into a 120 volt outlet? If you have an inverter in your van and it actually warms up your lunch, i've actually cooked chicken in my hot logic mini.

So basically, because i had an inverter that runs the entire time so and it draws real low current. So i plugged that thing in. I put raw chicken in there with like spinach and stuff like that and actually cooked it. While i was working so by the time it came to lunch, it's like a slow cook.

You know it's kind of like a crock pot, but it's tiny, but it's called a hot logic mini but other than that. Yes, i mean - i know you're joking about that. But, yes, i have warmed my lunch on my my dash before you know. If you've got a burrito or something like that, set it out in the sun um we actually uh on.

On another note, we until we learned that this was bad. My poor daughter, my oldest daughter, that's 14. uh when she was a baby. We used to uh because she was a formula she she didn't drink: breast milk, so um when she was she couldn't.

It was a long story, but she was on a special kind of formula and uh. We used to have to give her bottles right, and so we would take those water bottles and we would set them on the dash and then let them get hot on the dash through the glass and through the plastic and all that stuff. And then it would be warm enough to make a bottle for her. But then we realized, like oh yeah.

That's got like bpa and all that crap in it, and it's actually not good to put hot water bottles and against bad chemicals and crap from the sun. And all that stuff, so my poor daughter, it's gon na, be my fault but anyways going off on a tangent there um. So i'm gon na get to my questions here. So mr mechanical had asked me about 448a and he's asking if i have been using it.

Often, and also how about r32, so i think mr mechanical said he was on the east coast somewhere and he said that they're really starting to see a lot of 448a. So here in southern california, for those of you that don't know we actually beat to the tune of our own drum here right, we have all kinds of crazy political views that our government has here and we actually banned 404, a as a new installation and or Basically, we banned it on major system retrofits and new installations for walk-in coolers walk-in freezers a year. I almost think a year and a half ago, so we have been for having to find alternative sources. So my choice in refrigerants for medium temp and low temp has been r448a, so i've been using it for about a year and a half now not really had any issues.

I will say that 448a runs higher discharge line temperatures, so that is something you have to worry about a little bit but other than that. That's pretty much it no real issues. It is a high glide refrigerant, but i haven't had a single issue. Really that i'd say is the refrigerant's fault everything's, fine, it's just another refrigerant.

I understand the pressure temperature chart and it's as simple as that as far as r32. No, i have not come across r32. I know that if you're using like daikon systems on their mini, splits and stuff, like that, i believe they use r32. I don't i've used r290 a lot in the refrigeration side.

We use that uh. At least one of my service techs is working on an r290 system two to three times a week, so we work on that stuff all the time, um, i'm not afraid of r32 um. You know it is what it is: uh, scott hvac tech. Thank you very much for becoming a channel supporter.

That is awesome, but i really really appreciate it. Okay, um. Let me see what else we got in here. Do i work on a negative 80 degree? Freezer.

No. I've never worked on something that cold so uh. Let's see what else we got going on in here: uh, hey everybody in the chat. It was adam's birthday over the weekend, so make sure you wish him a happy birthday.

So a team adam right there happy birthday, bud, happy belated birthday, um all right. Let's see what else we got dale asks about pm uh. Let me see i sometimes have some comments on my my list of stuff to talk about here so um. Oh, this is a great question that dale had emailed me on.

Okay, so dale had emailed me saying: hey, you know what he was kind of curious about preventative maintenances. So in his situation what's happening is his company. Um has the way he wrote. His email is they're not getting mad at him, but he can tell that they're getting frustrated at how much time he spends on his preventative maintenances, okay.

So, according to his email, they give him a checklist of things that they want him to go through and basically he's saying that, in order for him to get through that list properly, it's been taking him a lot more time than they want him to take and He's kind of curious about how i would deal with that, what i feel about that and that's a great question. Okay, so when it comes to me right, i have uh a preventative maintenance checklist that i go through okay, but i realize that to fully go through that preventative maintenance checklist, the customer typically doesn't want to pay for it. Each particular maintenance program that i set up the customer has different expectations. They basically come to me and say: hey, you know what we want you to do all this work and i look at it and i say, okay to do all this work correctly is going to take me eight hours.

You know eight hours a month to do at every store and they're like no. We don't want to pay that we only want to pay five hours a month, okay or five hours, every quarter or whatever. So you know we have a list of things and we go to them and we say: okay, we're not gon na be able to do this this this and we go off that checklist and then we work our way down and we say: okay, we're gon na Give you six hours of labor or five hours of labor every quarter and we're gon na do our best to get through that list. Okay, but sometimes if things are really dirty, we're not gon na get there.

We are completely open with our customer um. Now some some companies out there they want you to be more of a sales service technician. I don't know if that's his case or not um in that situation. What i would suggest is for you to go to your boss and just say: look there's no way.

I can get through this list. Okay, so you tell me - and this is what you need to ask them - you tell me to your boss. What do you want me to do? Do you want me to stop doing this? Is there a better, maybe maybe um? Maybe you don't know how to do something properly. Maybe your boss can help you so in this situation.

I think communication is the best thing just communicate with your boss and say: look. How am i supposed to get through this list, because the only way that i know how to do this is to take this much time and you know get your boss to say: okay. Well, you know what we actually don't want you to go through this list. Okay, we want you to do this or do that adam.

Thank you very much for that super chat. There's also uh. I don't know how to pronounce your name. D-W-S-Y-N-E e.

Thank you very much for that super chat man. I really appreciate this um. Thank you. Yup! All the money i spent on my carbonated water yep, that's a lot adam.

Thank you very much for that super chat bud. You know you don't need to do that stuff or is that your way of paying me for the overtime show em? I see what you're doing there you're paying me, because you don't want to pay the other guys. So this is your secret way, adam of paying me for the overtime show, because i'm your favorite on the overtime show right and you don't want to pay joe and you don't want to pay bill. So you just give me super chats got it adam.

I see where you're going with that one bud you're the man me and you, we think alike, okay, just keep it coming all right, um all right! Oh man, that's funny! Okay, uh! Hopefully i answered your question on that one bud um! I don't think that you're being a bad technician for wanting to be thorough but uh. I definitely think you need to communicate with your boss a little bit better and get what his expectations are, because some customers they don't want to pay for that much stuff. Okay, some do um it's hard on a residential side, because uh preventative maintenance agreements on the residential side. When you go in there for 39.99, that's not a pm you're, not there to do all that.

Crap, okay for a 39 99 pm, all you're there to do is sell them, something i mean for the most part on the residential side. So um, let me see uh what i'm missing in here. Oh jessica, clive is the overtime favorite dang it man dang it dang it dang it wow, jessica wow. I see how it is all right um.

This was a great question and we're gon na start getting into this a lot more in a little while guys as as the season approaches. Okay, but uh brett had asked me about setting the winter charge. Okay, so the winter charge is or the flooded charge is what we use on a refrigeration system that has a head pressure, control valve, there's a couple different types of head pressure, control valves and essentially it's a low ambient control. The original purpose of a head pressure, control valve or a low ambient control is to maintain a pressure differential across the expansion valve okay, because the expansion valve doesn't feed correctly if it doesn't have enough pressure pushing the refrigerant through the valve at a certain rate.

Okay, so when it gets really cold outside your head, pressure drops significantly your condensing temp drops significantly. Therefore, you don't have that big amount of pressure pushing the refrigerant through that valve anymore, at the rate that it needs to so the valve can operate properly. This was really really important on older expansion valves now that we have more uh efficient expansion valves, it's not as critical okay, especially now that we have electronic expansion valves that it's totally not as critical anymore, but we still have a need for head pressure control. Okay, so with that being said, when you have a head pressure control valve, you have to have a certain amount of refrigerant in the system the flooded charge, because what happens is when that head pressure, control valve bypasses what it actually does is it backs the refrigerant Up into the condenser, this is really hard to picture, but it floods.

The condenser with refrigerant, leaves a very small passage of space for the vapor to still run through okay, and it drives the system, condensing temperature and head pressure up now. In order to properly do that, you have to have the winter charge or the flooded charge the extra refrigerant just sitting in the system, waiting that refrigerant sits in the system all year long. So in the summertime, when that head pressure control valve is not operating. It's just sitting in that receiver just sitting there waiting okay, but then all of a sudden when the temperatures drop boom and the head pressure control valve floods, all that refrigerant is inside there.

So, what's the proper way to set the refrigerant charge on a head pressure, control, valve system or or flooded charge? Okay, the best way is to lean on the manufacturer of the equipment and ask them what the proper amount of refrigerant is now there's a problem in that right. The next best way is to use sporeline's 90-30-1 service bulletin. Just google sworlin, 90-30-1 and you'll get the sporlin recommended method of charging a system with a head pressure control valve, but the sporeline method only works for a tube and fin condenser. It will not work for a micro channel, condenser.

Okay. The third way is an old school method, and that is to fill the system up with the maximum amount of refrigerant, assuming what you're doing actually is you're, assuming that the system was properly designed from day one. If the system was properly designed from day one, then the receiver and the condenser are big enough to handle that extra flooded charge. Okay with that being said, if you put the maximum amount of refrigerant, that system can safely hold, which is about 80 of the condenser when it's pumped down, then you know that you can't have any more refrigerant in the system and you're, making an assumption that that Is enough to make the system work? Okay, so leaning on the manufacturer to tell you that the flooded charge is an extra six pounds calculating on a tube and fin condenser with the spoiling 90-30-1 okay, i have some videos just look up head pressure, control valve or headmaster or winter charge on my channel And you'll see videos on how to calculate the sporeline 90-30-1 method, the easiest way and the most effective way, in my opinion, when you're out in the field, is to put the maximum amount of refrigerant in the system.

Okay, yes, you are theoretically selling the customer. A little bit of extra refrigerant, but the alternative is sometimes it can be difficult to use the spoiler 90-30-1 method on a tube and fin condenser when it already has refrigerant and it's just low a little bit. Okay, there's some weird times when it can be hard to calculate that there's other times when you can calculate it: okay, but on a micro channel condenser you have no way of knowing how much refrigerant is in the system. So what i suggest you do is pump the system down you're going to have to heat the refrig, the the receiver up when it's pumped down with the heat producing device that doesn't exceed the soft plug temperature of the receiver.

When you heat it up, what you're going to do, is you just do a couple passes with that heat producing device? Then you run your the back. Your fingers up and down the receiver and you'll feel the spot where it gets really hot. All of a sudden that would be your liquid level in the receiver when it's pumped down okay. Now i personally use a thermal imaging camera to do that.

So what i'll do is i'll still use a heat producing device, i'll heat up the receiver when it's pumped down and then i'll take my thermal imaging camera and and look at it. Basically, i have lots of videos doing this and then you can see the level of the liquid. Basically, the point at which the liquid stops and the vapor exists is where you're going to feel the heat, because you're feeling the the liquid is taking a long time to heat up. Basically, okay and the vapor is going to heat up instantly.

So that's the point that which you're going to feel really really hot and that'll tell your liquid level in the system. Now another really easy way to do. This, okay, is, if you ever completely take all the refrigerant out of the system. You weigh in what the manufacturer says to put in there then do that same test of heating up the receiver when it's pumped down when you put in the factory, recommended flooded charge and then take that receiver pump it down and then take that heat producing device And mark the liquid level with the factory recommended amount, then you know that the flooded charge is only at two thirds of the receiver and you don't have to add that extra refrigerant.

Okay. So hopefully that answers your question. I have a couple videos about it, we'll be talking a lot more about it as we start to get into refrigerant leak problems in the winter time, and we see that issue a lot more and but it'll be happening more sooner than most people. Think because we're already pushing towards the end of august right now, so we'll start getting our first head, um low charge or uh.

You know uh head pressure, control valve issues, probably the first or second week in october, is when we start getting those cool evenings and we start to see the the refrigerant leaks um all right. So hopefully i answered your question for you. I'm gon na get back to the chat and see what i'm missing in here uh joe. Thank you very much for that super chat that i saw come through a little while ago.

Okay does anyone know what's a good, reliable, refrigerant leak, detector? Well, israel! I have always used the dtec select. It's been my leak detector of choice for many years now, probably 10 years, if not more, i've used a couple different ones. I've had to replace it a couple times, but it's done me really well. I've heard mixed results on the inficon, detex stratus or inficon stratus.

I've heard good and bad things about it, so i have no experience on the uh that one yet, but i've always had really good luck on the detex select leak. Detector been my choice, my one for a long time, so, mr ice uh, that's an interesting one. You have a 480 volt three-phase system with a step down transformer to 208, three-phase and you're having a lot of overamp problems. Thoughts.

Now, that's interesting! I i don't know. Mr ice, that's a really interesting one, but um. Let me see what else we got going on in here. Um.

Let me see, can i bypass the head pressure control valve if it is indoors and in a basement uh dan? I mean there, you know if you aren't going to have low ambient conditions, then you know and you're 100 sure then sure you can take a head pressure control valve out of the system. I mean, but make sure that you know what you're doing before you do. So, okay, because you know maybe it was engineered for a certain reason but um, let's see what else we got in here uh. Let me see what else uh great brett uh, if you, if you can't find the videos on my channel brett, send me an email, and i got plenty of videos on head pressure, control valves and setting the winter charge and different stuff like that: okay, um, no Uh ryan wk.

I have not worked with a p66 controller. I've heard about them. That's the fan, speed controller! Is it not? I think it is i've never used them before so um. Let me see what else we got uh.

I already answered that one um.