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 i don't know what is going on with my streaming software, it's just being a pain in the butt. The first time was me.

I was joking around, but the second time it just randomly switched over. If you guys don't know, i could get all technical, but i use obs with stream labs and i have like two screens right here and one of them is ready to load. When i hit the transition button and for some reason it just switched on its own, but whatever, if any of that sounded like foreign language to you, guys trust me it's foreign language to me too, because i really have no idea what i'm doing here. I have a bunch of buttons and mixing boards and knobs and stuff and honestly i don't know how most of it worked.

Um all that i did to start doing. The streaming was watched a lot of youtube videos on how to set up streams and then i just kind of winged it and it worked kind of you know. But here we are. I haven't really changed much in a long time.

It's kind of all been here and like when it does get messed up, it's a nightmare but anyways. I hope you guys are doing great um. It's monday. I know mondays suck.

They really do um. I look forward to doing the live stream. That's cool but, like mondays, are hard for me because the stress, like i'm a very stressed out person, always right and i like to be early and stuff so um. If i'm in my office by three o'clock p.m.

My time to start getting ready for the live stream, i'm a happy camper, but i didn't get into the office until like four today and it just it throws me off, like it just ruins everything, even though we're here and i have a list of things to Talk about it, just i'm such a creature of comfort, a creature of habit that i like everything to be the way it's supposed to be, and i really do look forward to the slowdown as we're coming out of the summer. I know we still got here in southern california. We still got another month of 90 plus degree weather and then a couple like half a month of 80 plus degree weather and then we'll hit our winter for about four weeks which we'll get to in the 60s. And then we have to put on our beanies.

Hey shameful plug hvacrvideos.com, you can get a beanie um, we put on our beanies and our ugg boots and everything because we don't know what cold is here in southern california. We lose our minds when it gets to the 60s, so anyways. Now that i'm done rambling, i hope you guys are doing well, i am healthy, i am safe, my family is safe, and that is all that i can ask for i've been so thankful. I have to say this last year and a half has made me reflect on how thankful i should be - and i am i'm very thankful for health happiness and we've got food on the table.

You know that's that's more than i can ask for. I'm super thankful for that. So um i try to stay humble when it comes to everything you know, i try to teach that to my kids and and make sure that they understand. You know that it could be a lot worse.

It really could. So you know it's the little things. I think that we were kind of having a pre-chat in the chat before this thing started. Um, if you guys don't already know you're watching a live stream on youtube right and there is a actual chat going on um.

If you're watching on a tv, it's kind of hard to see the chat, but you actually can see it. If you didn't know that you got to play with the settings, but if you're on your phone you're on a computer or anything like that, you can definitely do it jose rivera. Thank you so very much for that super chat. You are amazing, but um you guys blow my mind with your guys's support.

Okay, um i've said it a bunch of times. The easiest way to support this channel is simply just watch the videos from start to finish without skipping through anything. That's as simple as it is: okay, uh youtube runs ads on the video. You know all that good stuff and they pay me for that.

Okay, there's other ways you guys could support it too. If you want, you can go to my website, hvacrvideos.com merchandise, available on there. There's some other really cool ways to do it too. You can support the channel via patreon via youtube, channel memberships, but, like i said, the easiest way is just simply watch the videos, but super chats like jose rivera.

Just did that's really awesome. Thank you. Another cool way is trutektools.com. I use them for a lot of my tool purchases.

I actually have an offer code set up with them. Uh big picture. One word as of today, you'll get an eight percent discount on your order. If you use that anyways, we are past that point.

Let's move on with this okay, i have a list of things i want to talk about as usual, and i want to get to your guys's questions too. So do me a favor if you guys have questions that you want me to talk about or things you want me to address, put them in caps lock in the chat. Okay, that's all capital letters. So that way it gets my attention.

If i don't see your question, you can repeat it until myself, or one of the moderators tells you to stop. If i miss your question, feel free to send me an email to hvacr videos, gmail.com, okay, cool, let's get on with this um yeah. Do me a favor smash the like button, guys it really helps out the stream. Definitely does let me see what i'm missing anything in here.

Okay, i'm gon na look through the chat, real quick, see what i'm missing. Um yep, all right cool, looks like we're good to go and that one okay um so um brad had sent me an email or i can't remember if he sent me an email or if it was a comment whatever, but anyways brad works in the trade. Okay, i'm not gon na. He said he works for someone specific for something specific, i'm tripping over my words right now.

We're not gon na go into that, but brad was curious if it's possible for him to start his own business and be successful, but while working all by himself and what he means by that is, he doesn't have someone to do all the office work and all The crazy paperwork, and all that stuff and brad it is totally possible these days with technology and everything. Now, depending on how crazy you want to get there's multiple different softwares out there, it's as simple as using something like quickbooks online. You can do your invoicing all that good stuff. You can have.

You know much more advanced software past that point, but again, remember guys. Brad is saying that he wants to do it by himself and run a smaller operation and he wants to know how it can work. It is possible, there's so many different ways to do it. Communication programs, you know gmail all that good stuff.

Now i use the software for my business. I run a very small refrigeration and air conditioning company couple employees. We have been using the same software for many years. It's called intuit field service management, it's powered by kurigo, so it's basically the same thing as kurigo and we've used that for years and it does more than we use because we don't do dispatching or anything like that.

We feel dispatch phone call comes into my phone. I call a guy - and i say, hey, go - take care of this call. We generate a work order, but with the advancement of technology these days, it's so possible for someone to run a business all by themselves. It's very, very uh streamlined these days.

Okay from small businesses to large businesses - it's it's! You know it can be done all right. It's not that big of a deal. The real question is: how busy do you want to be okay? Now i get a lot of questions uh, not what brad was asking me, but i get a lot of questions about starting your own business people email me all the time. Okay, i am not an expert in running a business.

I probably do a horrible job at running my business, but it works for us. Okay, we're not trying to reinvent the wheel, we're not trying to grow leaps and bounds or anything like that. We just stay in our lane and do our thing? Okay, that's that's the way that we run our business. So in no way is it right for me to give advice on how to grow businesses or anything like that.

Okay, but i will say i will give a little bit of advice. I get emailed from people in trade school all the time and i cannot preach this enough. Okay, you most people. Okay, most people are not going to be successful, starting a business straight out of trade school now i know that there's some exceptions, okay, but for the most part you're only going to be hurting yourself and everyone around you by starting a business too soon.

Okay, now, of course, i want everybody to be successful and grow leaps and bounds, and all that good stuff. Okay, but you need to learn the trade you need to work and you need to be an expert in the trade. In my opinion, before you start jumping into the business side of things, okay, so learn how to be a great technician, learn how to fix the things that you know how to fix, or you want to know how to fix and then learn the business side. And then jump over there, okay and the best advice i can give anybody that wants to start a business is, don't be the cheapest person out there.

Okay, just because you're busy as heck does not mean you are running a successful business. If you under price yourself and you're, the cheapest guy out there you're only hurting yourself and all your competitors, because you're taking the business from your competitors and you're underpriced on your side, so you're gon na be burning yourself out working. So much and you're gon na be making pennies all right. So trust me, you need to learn how to properly price your stuff, there's all kinds of different organizations out there that can teach you how to figure out what your pricing should be and stuff like that.

But just you know trust me straight out of trade school most people are not going to succeed, starting a business, and i know there's a lot of people that have done it. Okay and a very small percentage of them have succeeded, but a large majority of them. I would be willing to bet, have failed and failed miserably. Okay, now, um again, i am not business advice, but i will give one other little piece of advice be very, very cautious about leveraging your life to start a business.

Okay. What i mean by that is: don't go head over heels in debt to try to start a business. Just be careful about that. I know that there's people that have done that and continue to do that successfully.

But man is that a scary thing to think that any given day, if someone came up and tried to collect, you didn't have the money. Yeah man, that's scary, okay, so i'm gon na stop talking about business stuff because it is not in my lane and i'm gon na stay in my lane and talk about service stuff. Okay, so um robert - and this is a great great thing - i got the coke nose going on right now. Already.

Okay, so robert had asked me a question or he made a comment and he was saying something about how he wished. I you know, ran a service school or something like that. That's not really my thing to do, but i do want to comment on that. Okay um.

He also praised me for fixing everything when i go out to a service call. So there's two things i want to comment about. First off: let's talk about fixing everything. Okay, i show some videos where i do the whole big picture, diagnosis and i go to town fixing stuff right and i just i really get to the root cause of everything.

I got ta be honest and i think i portray that in my videos, but i got ta be honest. Just because you give a big picture quote, doesn't necessarily mean the customer is gon na approve a big picture repair, and that is okay. Okay, as long as you document, everything and the customer chooses the cheaper repair than so be it as long as you have it documented that you strongly recommended that he go through and do all this stuff right. So i don't always get to do the big picture.

Repairs: okay, i give big picture, quotes all the time and there's a lot of times where the customer doesn't want to they say: hey, you know what times are tight. What do we got to do to get it working and that's all we want to worry about? Okay, cool, you know: here's what we got to do change the compressor, but we don't know why the compressor failed. We need to do further diagnosis, but maybe they don't want that? Okay, so i just document everything in my invoicing and make sure that the customer fully understands and know who you're supposed to communicate with too that's a really important thing. Maureen0311Ful.

Thank you so very much for that super sticker. I think that's what that is, or super chat or whatever again appreciate it. That's awesome, bud, okay, so the customers don't always approve the giant repairs, and that is okay. So just remember that all right remember that i make two videos a week: okay, but of those two videos, i'm doing three to four service calls a day that don't necessarily get videoed.

Okay, so you're not seeing every single repair. I am not the perfect mechanic. Okay, i make mistakes, i don't do the prettiest installs they're functional, but they don't look the best right, but that's okay, because sometimes the customer doesn't want perfection. They just want uh, you know consistency and they want it to work properly.

Okay. Now, of course, i wish that i could be instagram perfect, like some of these people out there there's some companies that oh, my gosh, their installs are amazing and i see them on instagram all the time, but nobody can be instagram perfect, all the time. Okay, so, and just understand that - and i try to be as honest and upfront with everybody as possible - i can hack it up with the best of them. Okay, i really can.

Sometimes you got to do what you got to do all right and you got to get the equipment operational, um chase. Thank you. So very much for that super chat. Man, yeah nose, looks a little itchy for sure definitely gets there.

Okay, the mustache definitely kills me. Sometimes, with the the coke knows for sure um, let's see what i'm missing in the chat right now have i used the ke2 uh ke2 therm low, temp plus defrost. If so, what do i think of it? Jason johnson? No, i have thought about using it. A few times, but i have not used the ke2 therm low, temp, plus defrost controller, if you guys don't know what that is, ke2 therm products makes temperature controllers, uh energy monitoring equipment, communication, equipment for refrigeration and air conditioning equipment; okay, mostly for refrigeration, but they're uh.

I believe their first product that came out was the ke2 therm, it's ke2 and then therm evap efficiency controller. That's a big giant controller, some of the oems use it frank. Thank you very much for that super chat man. It is amazing.

Your guys's support is awesome. Thank you. Thank you, dan young. Thank you bud for the coke notes for sure man all right um.

So no, i have not used the low temp plus defrost controller. It is something that i'm interested in using, but i am gon na tell you that i'm not the biggest fan of smart controllers. Okay, i have been using the ke2 therm temp plus defrost controller, occasionally, and i will use it, but there is times where the i actually just took one out of a walk-in box that i didn't install on. I don't know a year and a half two years ago, because we kept having icing up issues, and this is one of the downsides to using a smart temperature controller.

Okay, because on the electronic temperature controllers that have built-in defrost uh, pan johnson has one. I think it's like an a419 something or other blah blah blah uh scott. Thank you so very much for that. Super chat, uh, that's rookie, refrigeration, i'm sorry, uh, hvac, rookie, not ricky refrigeration.

That's ruben h feeds there's too many rookies, okay um, but thank you scott. That is awesome, but i really really appreciate it um with the keto therm stuff. The downside to some of that is because the defrost strategy is built into the controller you have no way of knowing, if it actually defrosted now, when you get to the smart evaporator efficiency controllers, you can actually look at it through the computer, but that's a whole Nother thing, but when it comes to the evaporator um or the temp plus defrost controllers, i use them. I do and i stock them on my truck, but there's times that i yank them out and go with just a standard electronic temperature controller.

My my go-to electronic temperature controller - if it's not going to be the ke2 therm evap efficiency controller, is the uh ronco, etc. 140, 1000. so 14100. That is a nema 4x temperature controller.

I really like those controls. I've used them for years um. I really like that. One because the mounting tabs on the outside, you can just mount it to the wall similar to the key to thermi vap efficiency controller, one two: okay, now something to think about with the ketothermy thermivap efficiency.

I'm sorry with the temp plus defrost controller from ke2 therm is it takes a little while to get used to it, but, let's just say you set the ke2 temp plus defrost controller for um a 37 degree temperature set point with a three degree differential okay. So what it's gon na do is it's going to uh come down to uh? Oh wait! You know what i'm already confused on that one. Let me think here i just had a brain fart on what i was trying to explain. So we're not gon na we're.

Gon na go and change the subject, because i think i might mix that one up and screw it all up, but just keep in mind that there's a time and place for those smart, uh temperature controllers and there's a time and place for a standard, defrost clock Too, if you have consistent icing up issues, a standard defrost clock like a grassland does really well in refrigeration, because, let's just say, i have a walk-in cooler where the customer is in and out of it all day long. If i use a smart uh temperature controller that has built-in defrost, you tell it hey, i want six defrosts a day for 20 minutes. Well, every defrost is going to be 20 minutes and, as far as i know, you can't make another defrost, 30 or 40 minutes and then have other 20 minute defrost. That's where a grassland defrost clock is really beneficial, because i could do 15 minute defrost every couple hours during the day and then in the middle of the night, from like one to two in the morning when nobody's in the building, i could defrost the walk-in for An hour and a half you know, doors are shut, it'll, make sure that there's no ice build up.

So that's something that i really like about using a stand-alone defrost clock. I get that question all the time from people. Why don't you get rid of those stupid? Mechanical defrost clocks, where i get people from other countries, the united states is so behind every other country. We use electronic temperature controllers for everything we do too, but there's a time and place when you have a restaurant, where they're jamming in and out of that thing and they're icing it up weekly.

Sometimes you need a long ass defrost in the middle of the night to get that box defrosted, okay, just my two cents, all right who cares if i use whatever control here or there doesn't make me any more of a. I don't know it's just it's just kind of funny how sometimes people pass judgment. It's like man, you don't even know, what's going on over here, all right, so whatever all right um am i allergic to the spit blocker. I don't know what that is, but um.

I saw a bunch of super chats and super stickers chase. Thank you very much caesar. Thank you very much. You guys are amazing.

You guys are. I just thank you. Have i ever come across an r290 air conditioner, no, not kai. As far as i know.

Actually, no some of the the window shaker units might be isobutane um, but uh. No. I have not worked on any r290 uh air conditioners, no um. It would be a good gas once they do let it so all right.

Let's see what else we got. Um yeah no worries jason, but i do i love the ke2 therm products. Okay and the smart evaporator efficiency controller is amazing. One thing about the evap uh: what do you want to call it? The temp plus electric defrost controller, whatever it's called um? Is you? Don't have all the the great fancy stuff when you connect a computer to it that you would, with the evap efficiency controller with the evap efficiency controller, you can really launch a space shuttle with that thing.

One of these days, i have an evap efficiency controller on the refrigerator in my garage. I have a video on my channel where i took an r290 refrigerator that the customer wanted me to throw away, and i disproved the myth that you can just drop 134 in it. It would work perfect. I made a video on that right.

I took that refrigerator and it sits in my garage, i put r290 back in it, but i went a little crazy because i had an evap efficiency controller, which is a giant temperature controller for a walk-in cooler. I put it on that thing. It has a pressure transducer, it does not have an eev, but maybe one day i'll put an eev on it, but anyways it has a regular standard. Txv i put r290 back in it.

I have that evap efficiency controller and i can actually pull it up because i have a uh it connected to my wireless network in my house so like i could pull it up and look at it on my computer and we could see like the defrost trends And and and that is really cool, being able to pull it up on a computer, so one of these days, maybe i'll, set that up to where i can show it on a live stream or something but anyways all right, uh ralph thanks for coming in bud. I really appreciate you um. Have i got a favorite piece of equipment or tool uh mark? I was thinking about this the other day for those of you guys that do refrigeration answer me in the chat. I'm really curious.

What is probably one of your most common tools that you use out of your van when you do refrigeration, especially like the restaurant refrigeration guys lately, i've been thinking about this, and i feel, like my water hoses - are one of my most commonly used tools. Out of my van, it feels like i'm defrosting, evaporator coils, at least three to four times a week, all right um. I was just doing one on saturday: adding emergency, walk and freezer call iced up evaporator, so you know getting out the hoses defrosting it hot water. All that good stuff, i feel, like my hoses, are one of my number one tools um, but i really do like as far as other tools that i really like, i have the the veto rolling backpack.

That has been a great tool. I am gon na. Do some more tool review videos on the hvacr tools youtube channel that i have created? I just haven't had time to really spend posting videos on that, but i've been using that veto rolling, backpack and there's a lot of good things, but there's a few bad things that i don't like about it too. So i will be posting a review video, but that is a favorite tool of mine.

Is that rolling backpack? It's really nice but, like i said, there's some downsides to it too um, but uh yeah, the i love my tool: bag um, my field piece, sc 480 meter is one of my favorites, but i have to say the water hoses and then i use a spray Wand when i'm defrosting evaporators it's from lowe's, it's made by orbit and it has like adjustable settings on it. That comes in really handy when you're defrosting evaporators, because sometimes you flip it on the mist setting and you can get in places where normally water would splash everywhere and you can effectively defrost stuff with just the misting setting. It's actually a really neat feature on it. I've shown it a million times but go to any lowe's or home improvement supply house and look for a wand with an adjustable head on it, and you guys, if you guys doing your refrigeration work, you will really really appreciate that all right, i'm going to get To my questions that i want to talk about um, let's see uh, oh, but robert had said that he wished.

I ran a school and i wanted to comment about that too, and that that's very um nice of you to say that robert. I do have to say something, though, and i'm gon na stand on my soapbox right now now there's a lot of bad teachers in trade, schools, okay, but there's a lot of um there's a lot of good teachers too in trade schools. But one thing i have to say is for the good teachers right as many teachers as i know, and i talk to on a regular basis. The one common thread amongst almost all of the teachers that are teaching air conditioning and refrigeration is that teachers are not paid enough.

When it comes to hvac trade school now, um the bad teachers, they could go pound sand. I could care less about them: okay, but the good teachers, the guys that really really know their stuff and really are passionate about teaching. There's not enough money in those schools to pay them properly. And it's sad to say that most of the kids that they are training will be making more money than those teachers within six months to a year of getting out of trade school.

And that's a scary thought to think about that. Think about how discouraging that is. For the trade schools, i have a little bit of a a thing that i want to bring up too, because i was approached at the beginning of covid about helping out with an hvac program and there's a lot of hypocrisy in the schools too. And this was a private or i mean a public school which i'm always pushing the public schools.

There's good private schools too, but i'm always pushing the public schools for a couple reasons. But there was a school that reached out to me at the beginning of the covet thing because they were having to do this online stuff and they just wanted to know. If i could help - and i was like yeah - we could totally work this out where we can do some stuff with like a live stream or something like that and i could just assist. I wasn't going to be a teacher.

I was just going to help um. They couldn't hire me because i don't have an associate's degree. Okay or i don't have a bachelor's degree or something - and i was like wait a minute. So i'm not the greatest technician in the world, but you seriously can't hire me because i don't have a degree.

An associate's degree that focuses on math and science and all that crap that you don't need for air conditioning and refrigeration. As long as you have, i mean you need some math skills and stuff, but i mean just the hypocrisy of it all. You know they can't hire a teacher, but they can hire a teacher that has no experience. That has a degree that can just teach out of a book all day long.

Okay, so some of these trade schools, man they have it asked backwards and it's kind of silly. They need to reform this crap and, as a student going to trade school, you should not be making more money than the teacher within six months to a year. That's kind of baloney: now, okay, i'm going to step off the soapbox now and get back to talking about what i'm supposed to be talking about. Okay, i'm gon na cover these choir mark these questions off of my list that i already covered.

Um jeremy asked a really good question. He sent me an email and he sent me a picture of an air handler and uh. He was really kind of curious because he's been working in the commercial side and he has to work on boxcar units, big giant units, and he was just kind of curious what my thoughts were when he has to climb into a giant package unit to clean the Evaporator now we're not talking a 15-ton package unit, we're talking hundreds of tons, big giant boxcar package units they're as big as a diesel truck trailer, okay, they're huge. They sit on top of the roof.

Some people may call them penthouses. Well, penthouse is technically a rack room, but you guys get what i'm saying okay, so he was kind of curious. What were my thoughts of him having to climb into a package unit to clean the evaporator, coils and stuff like that? So my first thought is as a business owner. Sometimes you got to do what you got to do, because i have climbed into so many different package units, smaller ones, to clean them.

You know laying in air handlers and different things like that. Sometimes it's easier i'll climb into an ice machine bin when there's no ice in it to lift up the ice machine. Do different stuff like that right. But then i have to step back and remember.

I have to see the other side as a business owner and then i start thinking about the liability confined space requirements and different things like that. So as a technician, you guys have to know your limits. Okay, you have to know what's safe and you have to know when to raise your hand and say: hey boss. This doesn't seem quite right.

I don't feel comfortable doing this. You have to know your limits and you have to know when to raise your hand and say hey: we need to figure something else out here, because i don't feel safe in this matter. Now. I'm not necessarily saying that jeremy in your situation, that's a dangerous thing, but that is something you need to consider.

Okay. Is that a confined space? If you go into that unit and the door slams shut, is there any way that the door can be locked from the outside to where you couldn't get out? Those are things you have to think about. Okay, in my younger days, and even sometimes still nowadays, i can be accused of doing some silly things to get the job done, but in the end the most important thing is not about getting the equipment fixed. The most important thing is not about making the customer happy.

The most important thing is not about making your boss happy. The most important thing about your day is going home at the end of the day, to your family being alive being safe. Okay, this is not worth it for a paycheck right, so whatever you got to do to feel comfortable about your job, whatever you got to do to protect yourself, that needs to be your number one priority now. Also, on the flip side, i'm a business owner over here.

Okay, i want to protect my guys. In fact, we were just having a conversation today about lifting an exhaust fan on the roof and i didn't quite feel comfortable pulling it up the side of the building, because someone would have had to stand on the side. I was like, ah i'd. Rather, you guys use a lift, but then one of my technicians said i have a better way of doing it.

We don't have to use the lift. We can do this this and this and it worked okay, we had a discussion about it. It's important sometimes as a business owner too, i can get caught up in the craziness of things and just assume that it's no big deal you can take care of it right, yeah, yeah! I got it, but we have to remember the most important thing about all of us is we need to be able to go home at the end of the day, so keep that in mind? Okay, so jeremy, in your situation, honestly the picture that you sent me that didn't look too bad, but i don't know the details about that job. I wouldn't mind climbing into that package unit jeremy, but at the same time, are you comfortable doing it? Okay, you need to raise your hand and say: hey: no, i'm not talk to your boss about it.

Maybe he can talk you into it. Okay, this is safe. This is no big deal. The unit's turned off and locked out who knows.

Okay always want to be safe. You never want to climb into an air handler next to a moving belt or something like that, but i mean you know. Sometimes you got to do what you got to do. Okay, so just remember that your safety is the number one priority as technicians for real okay, guys, let's see what else we got uh.

Let me see what i'm missing in the chat. What do we have here? Um uh? Do i got do we know how to change the condenser fan motor rotation if it's a three wire motor savon um? If it's a three wire motor depending on whether or not it's three phase, okay um, it may not be interchangeable unless it's a universal motor that has wires that can be changed now. If it's a three-phase motor, you can interchange any two want any two leads assuming that again, when i answer questions, i'm assuming that you understand basic electrical knowledge, if it's a three-phase ecm motor or something like that or vfd, or something like that, you got to be Careful, okay, be cautious, use, common, proper, proper practices; okay, but if it's a standard, three-phase motor, yes, you can interchange any two leads: okay, uh. If it's a single phase motor there should be some motor taps that you can reverse on it.

Something like that. Okay, so keep that in mind um, let me see what else we got going on in the chat the day your obituary is posted. The company has been looking for your replacement already, and that is a great point, albert okay and as a business owner. That is a great point too, because my business needs to succeed past the point of my employees right so god forbid something horrible happens.

I still have to feed my family and i have to keep on trucking now. Of course, i would mourn the loss of an employee. That would be a horrible thing, but i'm just saying the business has to keep going, so he has a great point the day your obituary is posted, we're already looking for a replacement okay and it's not that you're any you weren't worth it to us, but it's Just that the point we're trying to make is protect yourself, look out for yourself. Okay, remember, of course, as a business owner, i'm trying to look out for my guys as much as possible, but i'm not the one out in the field with them at every single moment.

I'm doing my own thing out in the field, so i have to rely on them being honest and open and telling me hey. I don't feel comfortable doing this. Sometimes i don't know the things they're walking up on and they have to vocalize that to me. Okay, so i don't know what's going on as a business owner, unless my guys tell me hey, this is dangerous, i don't feel comfortable doing it and then we'll have a conversation and we'll figure out.

Why what's going on, send me pictures? Oh wow yeah. That is dangerous, good call. Okay, so remember protect yourself for sure um jason. You have rgus with three-phase condenser fan motors yeah.

There you go. If you have three-phase condenser fan motors sure um, you can probably reverse the rotation on those, but be careful if they have vfds there's some special ways. You need to do it for sure, okay, um. Let me see what else we got going on in the chat.

Uh all right, i'm gon na go ahead and get to my list of things to talk about, so i covered that one um all right, uh, something that i mix up all the time. I get enough comments about it that every once in a while, i have to address it and for those of you other technicians, you guys already know what i mean, but for those of you that aren't technicians, i realize okay and it's okay. I have a lot of people that are not service technicians, that watch these videos and it's good. Okay, that's a good thing, but uh brazing, soldering and welding guys.

Those are common phrases that we as technicians always mix up. I can't tell you how many times i go out and say: hey go weld in that compressor. It's very rare that you actually welded in a compressor, you're, technically brazing in a compressor. Okay, hey! Go weld that drain line together majority of the time if you're working on a drain line, you're soldering the drain line together.

Okay, there's differences in the way that you're bonding the metals together. Are you using a filler metal? Are you actually melting, the metal? Are you using solders, that's bonding one to the other okay, but realize i trip over my words all the time. I'm not perfect! I'm going to screw things up, i'm not going to lie to you and say i'm not going to call it welding anymore. Okay, because i call it welding all the time, it is what it is um, sorry all right, all right, let's get on to this um covered that one.

When i'm talking to these restaurants. Recently, i released a video this last week about a walk-in freezer. First off, some of you guys need to pay attention to the video. Before you comment, i can't tell you how many comments i got on that video recently that i just released this last yesterday saying: oh, my gosh is california locked down again, i i'm just like.

Did you not watch the video like? I did a teaser clip and then i did an explanation because i knew i was gon na get a crap ton of comments and in the explanation i said this video was shot a year ago. It was archived footage, come on guys, pay attention to the video all right, i'm talking to you it made me laugh. I was like seriously i. I can't tell you how many comments i got.

Oh, my gosh. Does california lock down again good gosh, guys anyways, all right um when it comes to these restaurants, okay and i'm coaching the restaurants and i'm trying to teach them about better habits? Okay, does it get frustrating? Someone asked me that, yes, it does get frustrating because over and over and over again i'm coaching the restaurants on the same things. You cannot push a giant cart, full of really hot food that you just got done cooking into your walking cooler. Your walking cooler was not designed for that.

Okay, there is walking coolers that are designed for that. But yours is not so do not push a giant cart, full of red hot food that you just pulled out of the fryer in the grill, because you want to cool it or whatever do not push that into the walk-in cooler, because it's just gon na cause Problems now, if your equipment's sized for that, if you have a blast, chiller sure that's what it's for okay, but coaching, these customers do, i get sick of it. Yes, i do get sick of it, but i don't tell the customers that okay, because guess what? If i piss off the customers and start yelling at them, because they're not listening to me when i say to shut the door really quickly, i'm going to run out of customers. Okay, there's something about restaurants.

When you deal with restaurants, like i do you're going to learn that you're going to be telling them the same thing over and over again like hey, when you get your delivery friday and monday, you can't leave the walk-in freezer door open for four hours, while you're Counting all your food and loading it into the walk-in, you have to turn the equipment off. I have to tell restaurants that all the time and i used to get frustrated, but i got over it because guess what it just keeps happening over and over and over and over again - and it's just part of the game. Okay, if you're playing the game and you're working in restaurants, that's something you need to get used to they're, never going to stop leaving doors, open, they're, never going to stop overloading boxes. It's just not going to happen.

Of course, i still coach them on it and i let them know hey the reason why this happened is because you guys overloaded this box, but then i usually say, but i realize your walking cooler is too small and you really don't have much of a choice. But just so that you know, i can't come back and do this again for free next week, because if you continue to overload the box, i'm going to keep charging you and it's a polite way of of covering my ass kind of a thing. Okay, so of course i continue to coach these customers, but if you're working in restaurants there's something you have to realize, you're not going to change their habits. Okay, they're hiring minimum wage cooks to do the job.

There's one to two managers. They can't be watching the cooks. 24. 7..

The cooks are bored, they don't want to be there, they're beating the crap out of the equipment so to get frustrated because you constantly have to keep doing something over and over and over again. You either need to change your job or you need to go see a therapist like i did and learn how to just let it go okay. It is what it is. It's part of the game right, so i coach the restaurants.

Yes, i teach them hey heck. I had a question too, someone said hey why the heck - because i mentioned in a video that i cleaned out a reaching cooler with a water hose because i was deicing and it was really nasty in there. Why would you clean that? I would have made the cooks, do it? Okay, because i was there and i would have had to have come back. They weren't going to clean it for me right then, and there, and if they were going to clean it, they weren't going to do it.

The way that i wanted to do it so i'm there i'm getting paid. I need to finish my job and in order to finish my job, i'm going to clean out the box, so i can either wait for them to do it and them not. Do it right or i can just do it myself, so i just politely, go tell the manager hey. If you don't mind, i'm gon na go ahead and take all the food out of this i'd.

Suggest you put it in the walk-in cooler and i'm gon na. Go ahead and clean this box out for you, because i need it clean, so i can work on it. Okay, then i'll get my water hose and i make a big ass mess in the kitchen squeegee it all up. So i can lay on the floor.

Get in there and now i have a clean box, a clean floor and i can get in and do my thing. Okay, so it's another one of those things when i'm working in restaurants. I just learn to deal with the craziness and it is what it is. I don't mind it and i've.

I've come to terms with it, because if they don't call me they're gon na call someone else, and you realize what that means. If they don't call me, then i'm no longer invoicing them for that. My business no longer stays afloat. Okay, so if it, if i hate it that much then it's time to change industries, but i don't it is what it is.

I've grown up doing this, and here it is, you know, i'm just going to do my best and treat the customer like their family. All right, um, let me see what else we got going on in here. Okay, i'm gon na get to the chat and see if i missed anything, um yeah. The coke nose is on point right now for sure, okay, um, let me see what else we got water between.

I don't know what that is. Uh have. I ever had to call in the public health authorities because food preparation has been unsafe, graham no, that is not my place to call in the health department um. If i ever came into a situation where it was that dire, then i would bring it up to the corporate office, because i work for giant corporate chains typically, and i would tell them hey, there's some seriously unsanitary situation going on here.

They need to get it fixed. I don't feel comfortable working on this equipment, but never would i call the health department, no um, that's not my place and the moment that i start calling the health department. If the customer found out, i would never ever work for that customer again and probably never ever work for any of their friends or any restaurants in that area. Okay, so i stay in my lane.

I'm there to fix equipment. I am not a health inspector. If i see something that i don't like today, i was working on a reach and cooler and it had a bunch of dead food and nastiness growing and fuzzy stuff in there, and i just politely, went and grabbed the manager, and i said, hey just want you To see this, this is really gross. I know you guys are busy just take a picture of it.

He goes yeah we're gon na work on it. Man - and i said if you, if you don't mind, i'm gon na go ahead and clean this, because i need it clean, so i can work on it. He said all right, cool appreciate it. I made a big ass mess in the kitchen, but it was clean.

I had to lay in the box change a temperature controller and call it a day. Okay, so no i stay in my lane. I do not call the health department. That is not my position and i'm just there to fix equipment and report to the on-site management.

What i find, let's see, what else we got here. What can i do about aluminum to copper connection? That is the leaking heavy metal, guitarist um? Well, here's my thought and i'm sure maybe someone can be corrected, i'm not an expert on connecting aluminum to copper. I do know that there's a company out there called solder weld. I have some aluminum to copper, brazing rods.

I believe they call it alcop they're alcott brazing rods, uh, you can use it, but the question is: does solder welds alcop bond, with whatever the previous company used to bond the aluminum to copper connections? Okay, i would probably try to stay with the exact same type of solder, because sometimes mixing solders can be kind of problematic. It is possible to repair something like that. If you know what kind of solder they used previously, if you don't, your best bet, would be to eliminate that connection and do a new connection point use that al cop rod or whatever you're going to use to properly connect the two points. In my situation, i've worked on some like glass, tinder refrigerators and other brand refrigerators that had like aluminum evaporators that were leaking, and i just ordered a new evaporator.

Just give me a new evaporator, a new txv, we'll put them back together, and i said next time: can you send a copper evaporator and they said yep we got rid of the aluminum ones, we'll send you a copper one boom done no more problems with that. Okay, so there is stuff out there look up the company called solder, weld uh, i believe they're distributed by uh supco and they have a couple other supply houses that sell their products. I believe they're in some of the john stone supplies too so check them out. They do have some products and i know that alcopop stuff i've never used it, but i've heard that it bonds, the aluminum and copper for sure so um.

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How can i differentiate between a muffler filter or a strainer? Well, a muffler will typically be on the discharge line if you have a filter dryer on the discharge line, someone's screwed up, okay, so mufflers are typically bigger in size, especially on the old semi hermetic systems. They had big ass mufflers on there as far as a filter or a strainer or filter dryer or a or just a suction line filter. Those will typically be on the suction line. Side, um and they'll be labeled as far as the the gnome liquidure on it.

Okay, so spoiling does make a suction line filter and they do make a suction line. Filter drier. I will say that majority of the time you can't go, buy the suction line filter at your normal supply houses. Those are typically supplied with oem equipment.

Manitowoc uses suction line filters on the roof to protect the compressor on some of their ice machines. Majority of the people are probably going to cut out the suction line, filter and put in a suction line. Filter dryer, if need be, but it's really just about understanding where it is in the system and what it's doing, calling the manufacturer and asking them a lot of times, there's labeling on the equipment that kind of stuff. Okay! If i didn't answer your question feel free to send me some pictures if you're curious about what something is to hvacr videos, gmail.com and maybe we can communicate some more and i can identify via pictures uh through email, okay, um, uh logan.

Thank you so very much for that super or that super chat man. That is amazing. So you need a rookie electrical engineer on the team you're on the market. Oh yeah! No! I'm not looking for an electrician right now, but uh storm, wow ethan! You guys holy moly storm um.

That is an amazing super chat. That is awesome. Thank you. So very much.

What's the most remote i've ever worked, you just got back from shamia island. Please, google, it! It was ridiculous. The most remote i've ever worked. I've never really gone too far.

Actually, i'm trying to think here right now, um, no i'd say no more than 100 200 miles from my location is the most remote i've ever worked. I've never done. I know friends and acquaintances that have you know traveled to hawaii and different things like that to supergia i had a um, my uncle used to own a refrigeration and air conditioning company, and he got this really sweet gig, where he used to work for this big Giant restaurant chain and they had to have a restaurant uh, a bunch of construction done at one of their restaurants on one of the main islands in hawaii. I think the big island - and they just wanted him to go out and supervise the job and hire the contractors, and so he literally had to fly out to hawaii to spend a week there just to supervise like, and he didn't even do anything.

He said like he didn't even have work, clothes didn't even take tools with him. He just flew out. There met the contractors, told him what he wanted done. Just watch them make sure they did their job.

He said they did a great job and he had a week paid vacation in hawaii just to go supervise a job that sounds kind of fun. I also envy some of the guys that get to work on some of these fancy high-end yachts. They may not envy because i'm sure it can be a pain in the butt too, but apparently they have to fly to some crazy places to work on some of these chillers and stuff in the yachts. These fancy things.

So that's kind of interesting too, but no i've never gone anywhere storm. I will definitely look that up. I'm going to write that down right now. So s h, e m y, a island, that's really interesting bud.

I'm intrigued um ethan arbuckle! Thank you. So very much for that super chat bud. That is amazing. Has a manager ever asked me to stop recording no ethan okay.

So let me explain this. I get this question all the time. Do my restaurants know that i am recording yes and no. Okay, first and foremost, i'm gon na tell you that there's not a national chain out there that will ever give you full corporate approval to film on their locations.

Okay, i work very hard to not disclose the locations that i'm working in. In fact, i've said it a million times that those are one of the only comments i delete from my channels when people try to guess restaurant names right or wrong, as i immediately delete them. Okay, so on the flip side, i do have corporate approval from quite a few of my restaurants, but not full corporate approval. Okay, they appreciate what i'm doing.

They appreciate the videos and a lot of my restaurants have been getting feedback. They're, like hey, someone's working in one of your restaurants and they're training, technicians and they're, doing a great job that kind of stuff and the restaurants really the big giant corporate offices. They approve, they appreciate it, but on the same side, they can't give you full corporate approval, because there's too much liability involved, i have to work my butt off to make sure that i don't disclose restaurant names locations guys. I have people all the time that will guess a restaurant location correctly and send me an email just from seeing landmarks in the area they're like just because you're in these two places.

I know exactly what restaurant you're on it's this one and it's like, oh yeah, so please leave that out of the comments and stuff like that guys. Okay, if you want to send me an email sure, send me an email but um. So yes, and no the restaurants, do approve of me filming. Have i ever had a manager tell me to stop filming? No, because i'm very discreet about what i do.

Okay, um. Let me see what else we got in here. What am i missing with vfds? Do you shut them off before turning off the disconnect for maintenance, kevin, corona? Okay? That is a great question. So when you are working on a vfd, let's, let's preface this okay, you have a typical vfd.

As a variable frequency drive, it's there to modulate the frequency. Okay or the hertz delivered at which the electricity is delivered, okay, they can slow down and speed up three-phase equipment or even non-three-phase, well yeah, three-phase equipment by slowing down and adjusting the frequency, okay or speeding it up. Now, with that being said, um do i turn off the vfd before i turn off the equipment. It depends on the way that it's installed.

Okay, so uh. I have several exhaust fans out there that have a breaker panel that runs three-phase power to a vfd.