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 yo. I hope you guys are doing well. Hopefully, you guys are getting to enjoy a nice uh holiday weekend, uh for those of you that are watching the united states.

This is a holiday weekend for us it's a labor day actually today. So it's the day that we kind of celebrate and honor the working guys basically or working people. I guess i should say announce uh, but anyways um. So for me i was actually on call this weekend and one of my technicians wanted some extra money.

So he wanted to cover the call which was unexpected and really cool. Actually, it was actually my anniversary on friday, so it was really nice jill, my wife jill and i got to go out to dinner um, which wasn't what we were planning on doing. So it was just kind of a nice turn of events and then other than that, like it really just was a nice weekend. We went over to some friends house on uh.

Was it sunday and yeah sunday? We were hanging out at some friends house and just spent some time with our kids. It was just a really nice relaxing weekend. All together, i'm super thankful. Today, my wife and i got up.

We've been meaning to do this for a while now and we went on an awesome bike ride, i'm a little bit sore from it. It was about 15 miles in each direction, so 30 miles round trip and it was really nice. I really wanted to go further because it's a really long bike path that we have near us called the pacific electric trail. I believe pacific electric bike path or something like that, but um it's on an old train line that is no longer in existence, so they turned it into like a hiking and biking path and uh.

We like i, said i've never been to the end of it. So i really wanted to to keep going, but as the temperature started climbing when we started the bike ride, it was about 75 degrees and when we finished it it was 95 and it was supposed to get hotter. So i was just kind of like yeah. I think we should call it and it's funny because i didn't feel bad, except for sitting on a bike.

Seat hurts, but i didn't feel too bad um for long periods of time i should say but uh now, though oh man, my lower back's, killing me but, like you know, i feel good as far as like my legs and everything, but it was just a super Nice time uh some cool uh. You know quality time to spend with my wife just going on a bike ride. Just talking, you know, relaxing, and i guess i shouldn't say relaxing, but it's important - that we try to do that stuff. When we can, you know i'm not perfect, i'm in by no means am i the best husband um, the best dad or anything like that.

But i try you know and when i get the opportunity, though i like to try to you, know, do the fun stuff, like my wife, and i we like things like that, we, like riding our bikes, going out on paddle boards doing that stuff. My kids aren't huge fans of that. You know they will do it, but you know they're, not they. They didn't want to come this morning.

Basically you know so, but it's all good. You know, but it's nice to be able to spend some time. I think that in this trade we can, we can get caught up in the idea and it was really interesting um, because there was a facebook post. Someone was asking a question about getting people into the trade and getting younger people into the trade and - and it was a really cool discussion between a lot of guys, going back and forth.

Just talking about the issues that we're having and it's um. It's so easy to get caught up, especially if you've been in the trade for a long time, it's so easy to get caught up in the mentality that we used to have in the trade where you know, if you were a technician, you basically in your mind, You knew that you put work first in your family second and for the longest time our trade operated that way and it still kind of does, and it really needs to get away from that - and i have a you know: that's like a small part of some Of the things that are driving people away from this trade - and i think that in general we need to work on that stuff. Now, as a business owner right, i'm a contractor, i have employees. I can't just tomorrow change the way we do everything you know, but it starts with a want, like i have in my head, like hey, i want to do this, you know and then we start slowly working it into the mix and start trying to change things And i think that's a a small step in the right direction in this industry is encouraging people to put family first and work second, now, at the same time, there's a dilemma there and that's.

What we got to figure out is: how do you still operate? A business when your employees are sometimes going to call in sick or say no, they can't make it to an emergency call. So there's some things we got to figure out, but i really think that is a huge thing. We need to work on in this trade and you know i try as much as i can to spend time with the family um, but it gets hard. I mean this has probably been one of the worst summers.

I've had in probably the last 10 years. It's been nuts just we're so busy and it's just complex silly problems. All kind of you know, moving from covet, covid really like put a wrench in everything and caused a lot of dirty equipment, and you know you guys all see it in the videos. It's just crazy, so um, i see super chats coming in uh pennsylvania, ac productions.

Thank you so very much for that super chat. That is much appreciated. I really really am thankful for that. So remember guys, if you guys have questions or things you want me to cover just put them in caps lock in the chat.

It'll help me to see them keep posting them. If i don't answer them, don't be offended. If i don't answer your question, okay, if i miss your question or something send me, an email to hvacrvideos, gmail.com, okay and uh yeah we're gon na go ahead and get on with it. Um i've got some questions on my list of stuff to talk about, and then i want to get to the chat um.

Let me see what i'm missing in here, hello to everybody. That's in here! Thank you. It's it's so humbling to see people from other countries in here too. It's such a trip, guys the the emails i get from you guys.

All that i it's it's really neat. So thank you to everybody that watches. Thank you very much um. You know - and i've said this, and i said it last time too.

I believe, but you know i. I never really had a plan to turn this into what it's turned into. It just started as making videos for my employees and then it kind of evolved into something else, and here we are now a couple years later and uh, it's just very humbling. So thank you very much all right um.

So i wanted to kind of talk about something else too that i've i've addressed on facebook. Recently too, you know - and i talked about this last week we have a new federal compliance coming in that we have to comply with that's whatever, but um federal rules. I should say that we have to comply with with as far as equipment sizing and how the equipment is manufactured. Okay, they call it awef awef and that's.

I have to look at it because it's such a silly acronym annual walk-in efficiency factors, okay, think about it. Like a seer rating kind of how they have on residential, it's kind of like that, it's the infancy of that so right now, all that they're really doing is setting a few criteria that the manufacturers have to follow and they're giving you an awef score for the Unit, but as far as i can tell at the moment that i've done my research, which is a couple months ago, there really was no criteria for what score you had to meet necessarily, but as far as the manufacturers, but you just had to follow these certain Criteria and try to reduce the energy operating costs, basically of your equipment. Okay, so they're trying to reduce the amount of electrical consumption unnecessarily. You know versus what the equipment's actually performing at when they do that.

So now, this is a federal thing. This is going to go across the united states. The equipment is going to be sized differently because they have to meet certain criteria. Most manufacturers are going to start by floating the head pressure down so they're going to lower the operating head pressure of the system.

Now you ask well: how can they do that, when the operating pressures of the system are going to fluctuate based off of temperature? Okay and that's a good point? Well, we have low ambient controls in the system head pressure, control valves, essentially, okay, that maintain head pressure when it gets really cold. Okay and then you have uh condensers that are going to try to reject the or you know, reject the heat from the refrigerant right and what they're going to start doing is actually oversizing those condensers they're going to become bigger and bigger. Okay, they're going to drop the operating head pressure during normal operations, they're going to have they started, adding extra sub cooling circuits, so the liquid line will come out. The liquid drain comes out the bottom of the condenser, and normally it would go into the receiver.

Well, then, what they do is they'll run it through a filter, dryer or something like that. Then they go back and uh sub cool it again. It's kind of a trip how they do that. Actually, i think anyways, but you guys get the point so they're just really trying to make the units more and more efficient.

So the reason why i'm bringing this up they're, also oversizing the evaporators and doing different stuff with those too um, is when it comes to using those new condensing units right, you run into a problem because your system, let's just say you, go out to a failed Compressor and you talk the customer into a condensing unit replacement, so you're just going to change the condensing unit, but still use the same evaporator same line set. Maybe change the refrigerant over okay because that's a lot of the new requirements going across the country too, where you have to get rid of certain refrigerants. But when you just swap out a condensing unit that new condensing unit, if it's awef compliant right, it's going to float the head pressure down and that can affect the operation of your existing expansion valve okay, if they're bringing that head pressure lower um the expansion valve May not be sized correctly anymore, so you need to be very cautious about that and understand that you know if you just try to go a new uh, throw a new condensing unit on an existing system in a cold climate. This system might not work properly because they're bringing the head pressure down so low and your system is not necessarily designed to have the head pressure that low.

When you guys want to do this, i actually have sporlin's tech document here that i talked about last week. It's a bulletin 500-10-a-w-e-f, and it goes through the new selection criteria that you want to do when you're sizing expansion valves for awef compliant equipment. So that's going to be really important for you, guys that are on the midwest and the east coast come this winter. If you're swapping condensed units without changing or making sure that everything is sized appropriately downstairs, these new condenser units may not perform properly when it gets really cold outside.

So that's just something to think about. We have a lot of new things coming out. You guys need to do your research. A great place is actually to go to sporlan's website.

I'm sorry, uh, well, sportline's website's a great place too spoiling.com um and it's gon na be a redirect to parker spoiling their parent company um. Let me post a link in here right now, and this is a link for sportline's youtube channel. They actually have some great videos actually on this awef uh compliance and how to use this chart right here. Okay, so you guys definitely want to check that out and go subscribe to sporland's channel tell them.

I sent you so all right. Let me see what else we got in here: um, i'm gon na cross that one off the list. I wanted to cover that cool. We're done with that, so i want to look at the chat and see what i'm missing hello to everybody.

Thanks you guys for coming in here and being in here. It's really awesome, um! What's up jason johnson, how you doing bud um, yeah, uh, scott's, saying the the liquid line runs into a heat exchanger to wait. What are you talking about scott i'm confused bud? Are you talking about when i was explaining the the extra sub cooling circuit? I think i misspoke, when i said, but what it actually does is it comes out of the condenser goes into the receiver. Comes out of the receiver then goes back into the condenser just to get extra sub cooling and then it goes downstairs to the expansion valve um.

I don't know if that's what you're talking about scott, i kind of didn't really get context on that thing. Uh pennsylvania, ac productions dude these super chats man. Thank you, you're you're, amazing. You did this last week too and good.

You don't have to do that, but thank you very much bud. I really appreciate it. Um, let's see kip stevens is asking about my thoughts on blue one. I have nothing really to say about blue on uh, good or bad.

I haven't used their refrigerant. They have a really cool app. If you guys haven't used it, you should definitely check it out, but i got nothing bad to say or good to say necessarily about blue on, because i've never used their refrigerants so or refrigerant. At the moment, i guess i should say um.

Let me see looking through the chat, seeing what we're missing here. I already answered that one. How much do i think the rejected heat from a condenser affects global warming? Laska's asking that one um? I don't know man, i'm not smart enough. You know i.

I really am not smart enough to understand any of that stuff, so don't know bud uh the 98 deville. Thank you very much for that super chat. You guys good gosh. Thank you very much everybody! It's! It's very, very uh humbling, so um any apprenticeship programs.

Right now matthew perez. If you're asking about me, no i'm currently hiring or training an apprentice right now, um but uh. No, i don't have anything going on right now, maybe in the future. Okay, so um looking to see what i'm missing in here, uh caden, do.

I watch steve lav occasionally i do watch his videos. Yes, i watched his his uh his video today. Apparently he blew a so um. Let's see what else you should try blue ons, tdx 20 replacement yeah, i just haven't - had a use to try it yet.

As far as refrigerants go um, i'm not uh, i'm not really into doing alternative refrigerants on my refrigeration equipment, uh, i'm currently right now i mean when i'm forced to, of course, i'm going to, but i'm gon na as long as the customer is okay with it. I'm going to use the the original refrigerant as long as possible. So if i have our, i still have a lot of r22 equipment. I still sell r22 weekly um.

I give my customers options, but usually the hoops that you have to jump through to convert most refrigerants over are pretty big and uh. It's usually, you know just easier just to leave what's in there and what it was designed with so um. But that's just my the way that i'm operating things in no way am i saying that's how everybody else should do it? Okay, this is an agreement between myself and my customers and i'm not judging anybody for converting refrigerants or not or whatever. So, let's see what else we got going on here, how did i get into hvac seth? Joel is asking well uh.

I actually started working with my father when i was very young. Uh shoot junior high age started working with him, and then i went into high school. I stopped working with him had a few other jobs and then out of high school actually came full time to work for my dad. So i grew up learning this from my father and then continued my education going to trade schools and different things, and then i'm just trying to better myself every single day.

That's all i can do and just try to share the little bit of knowledge that i have so so um as far as a new tech when it comes to new technicians, because i had a question come in and basically the the the question is: how long Should a new tech uh work at a company before he's fil? Well, i'm gon na add some things to this question because i'm gon na add a few other good topics to cover so so, first off when a new technician goes to a company. How long before he should be in a service van? That's one question: okay, um! How long uh, before that new tech can be comfortable at what he's doing okay um, if he should ever be comfortable and that's a good point, i want to make too okay. So how long before a service tech gets into his own van? That's really subjective, depending on the technician and uh you know it's, it really depends on how well they take to everything and what kind of drive they have. But i i will say that six months is my my absolute uh minimum as far as a technician, so a technician's at a minimum gon na ride with me for six months.

Uh now, if he's an advanced technician, will make some exceptions, but an apprentice is gon na ride. For me, a minimum of six months before i even start getting him out on his own okay, my apprenticeship process is very slow. I try to drag it out over about a year um, but the technician is not necessarily going to ride with me for an entire year, they're slowly going to be let out a little bit more at a time like, for instance, my technician, that's working with me Right now, i'm about to put him into the on-call rotation. Now he's not going to go out and do the service calls by himself.

There might be one or two that i can walk him through, but um i'm gon na slowly start doing that and then basically give him a head start, maybe 45 minutes or so and then show up behind him and we're gon na work through the calls together. But i'm not saying that's how everybody has to do it. That's just how i roll with it. Okay.

So how long before an uh a new technician should feel comfortable at his job. Okay, so he's been put into a service vehicle how long before he doesn't have to ask for help anymore well. First off the important thing to understand is: is that we all ask for help. Okay, i ask for help i reach out to my friends.

I call technical support, so there's no shame in asking for help, in fact, you're doing the customer, a service, um and and you're helping them by asking for help, because if you're asking for help or you're confused, then that means you need someone to help you, okay. So just keep that in mind that we um we're always going to be asking for help okay, but as far as feeling feeling comfortable that is going to take a long time. It took me many many years before i was confident and i'm going to tell you something too. Most technicians are going to go through a phase, so they're going to start working they're going to start getting good.

If they're trained well they're going to get good at what they do, they're going to get to a point in their career where they think their stuff doesn't stink. Okay, i am fixing every service call, i'm not getting call backs whatever you know all this stuff's happening. Okay, depending on the type of company he works for the type of company where i worked for, i wasn't si sent to the calls that i couldn't do. Okay, my boss would always send me to the calls, or my dad would always send me to the calls that he was confident that i could handle.

Therefore, i got really good at those calls and he slowly started increasing the calls and the complexity of them. But with that being said, i got on that pedestal and i thought my stuff didn't stink and then my dad started putting me out there into more difficult calls right and then i'd get really complex calls and i quickly realized that i got knocked all the way Back down to the beginning, i lost my confidence again. It takes time, okay and and you're gon na get to that point and you're gon na start getting more difficult calls and you're gon na work. Your way up, um in in a perfect world, if you're working for the type of company that i did - okay, that's how we did things so it's gon na take time just understand.

Remember that you know your basics. Remember, remember your fundamentals and work from there. Okay, there's no shame in asking for help, but when you do call to ask some other technician for help or for technical support, remember something you need to impress them. Okay, you need to show to them that you know what you're doing and you're not just wasting their time, calling them asking how to fix things.

Okay, so when you call them give them all the information before they even ask you, for it say: hey look! Here's! What i ran into all the things that you could possibly think they're gon na ask you: okay, because when you're collecting all that information before you call them typically you're writing down a lot of key critical things that you might even when you write it out on Paper you're, like oh, i know what's wrong. Sometimes that happens. Okay, so understand the new guys that come in it's gon na take time, but don't be afraid to ask questions. Okay and uh you'll get there you'll get to that point, but it's gon na.

It's honestly gon na take a couple years before you're, truly comfortable and confident in what you're doing okay. So just hang in there all right. Let me see i already answered that one, i'm gon na cross that one off the list um. Let's talk about employees right now, okay, i kind of covered it a little bit and we talked about the fact that our industry needs help and that we're we're struggling to find people.

Okay, we've talked about it a few times in different videos. I've alluded to things. Okay, it's not just our our hvac industry, it's everywhere, i'm dealing with it in the restaurants, i'm seeing it like, i'm literally guys, walking into restaurants. Tell me in the chat.

If this is happening to you too i'll go to a restaurant, uh i'll show up at 12 o'clock in the afternoon. Thinking i'm gon na be right in the middle of their lunch rush and when i get to the restaurant i have to ring the buzzer, because all the doors are locked in the restaurant and you go on your side and you find out. Oh yeah, we're not opening today, because i don't have enough cooks and all the cooks are calling off or two cooks got coveted or where you know. Whatever it's happening everywhere, we have a massive shortage of employees all around the place.

Okay, it's it's! It's really a struggle with everything that we're working on and i feel for these restaurants, okay, um. I want to address the fact, too that i saw a lot of comments about my recent video where there was a dirty restaurant, whatever okay, um and someone asked me a question: why am i defending greedy corporations that only care about profits and okay? It was a very, very political question, understand that i'm defending these restaurants, because these restaurants, first off they support my family, okay and i'm grateful to be able to work for them, but at the same time, um i realize that those restaurants and those companies they are There to make money - okay, but i'm here to make money too um, that's how i feed my family and that's how i support my employees. Okay, so i don't get political in the way that we talk about things on this channel. Really i don't get involved in in the drama, but understand, there's always two sides to things and yes, companies are going to try to make money.

I get it okay, but at the same time you have to understand those companies are doing everything they can to stay afloat. Okay, so remember that these places are struggling right now, okay, they will likely make it through it. Yes, okay and yes, there's a lot of places that didn't make it through it much smaller, restaurants and everything. But you know i tend to lean on the side of the restaurants for the most part, because i'm in the business to keep working for them - and i want them to be successful and profitable - okay, so anyways, hopefully going off on a tangent there on that one Um, let's get into the chat and see if i'm missing anything in here.

Let me see. Does that mean you should ask for more money, seth joel, if you're worth the money, you know, but don't don't be a greedy guy, because you got to remember the businesses need to stay profitable too, but everybody should be getting paid their worth. I mean for sure. So everybody deserves to make the money that they're worth uh.

I firmly believe in that okay. So what is that worth? What's that number? That's a question for you. You know you got to figure that out, but i would remember something i wouldn't suggest being greedy to companies and i know you probably weren't. You were probably being sarcastic with your comment, but remember this guys i wouldn't suggest being greedy and unappreciative and um.

You know jerks to the companies just because taking advantage of the situation kind of stuff and don't get me wrong. Of course, every employee deserves to make the money they need to make okay, but don't take advantage of the situation, because it's not going to look well. Uh, you know majority of the people out there they're they're they're, going through crazy times trying to find employees. So, yes, they're going to do a lot to try to retain employees for sure, but um just don't take advantage of the situation.

It doesn't help anybody really. Okay, it might help you in the short term, but it's not going to help you in the long run. Um. Let's see what else uh do i work on any r12 systems.

Yeah, i still have uh. I just got rid of an r12 walk-in cooler about a year ago. Uh it was, i did a zoom lock, video on it actually um and i believe how that equipment was still operating. Uh zoomlock max uh, the first zoom lock max install i did.

That was an r12 equipment that i pulled out um and it finally just died so uh but yeah. I still have some r12 reach and coolers out there. I still have some. I think i might still have an r12 walk-in.

I think uh ryan. Thank you. So very much for that super chat man. I really appreciate that and that that's that's crazy, that you're, not even in hvac man.

It's it's very interesting to see the amount of feedback i get in the youtube comments of people telling me that they are not in hvac, but yet they watch these videos. It's very interesting, and i can't tell you how many in this this is a. I never anticipated that this would happen, so i'm so grateful and thankful for this one, but i can tell you of at least four people that have emailed me. That said, they started watching my videos three years ago or something you know whatever.

It was and uh that got them interested in the trade that they never thought they would have been in and now they're working in the trade one guy emailed me today saying he does supermarket refrigeration like that is so amazing again, never expected that to happen. When i started posting these videos, so that is an awesome feeling for sure to know that you know three. Four people have joined the trade because they watch my videos. I mean that's, that's that's awesome.

So all right, let's see what else we got going on in the chat, any advice on dealing with difficult co-workers. Oh, that's an interesting one because yeah you know it can be hard when you work with someone that you do not get along with many. Many years ago i had to work with someone that i didn't get along with and i let it go on for way too long and we should have just parted ways much sooner and maybe um. We could have salvaged some things, but you know i let something go way too far.

Let an employee stay way too long and it got really nasty and it was just like wow. You know went to a place that didn't have to um, but with dealing with those people, you need to be honest, uh you need to if you're an employee that has to work with someone, you need to report that to management um. You know it may seem. Whiny so with that being said, you know: don't report stupid things that you know remember when there's a problem.

You always look at yourself. First, that's the way. I do it always look at yourself. First reflect on you.

Is it something that i'm doing? Okay, then? No? Whatever, then you know it's not something, you can change right. So once you get past that point, then you need to report it to management and you need to let them know, because if you let problems with other employees go on for too long. That might be a red flag in the very beginning and management. Might you know, get rid of that person before they become toxic to the company or hazardous to the company? So you know little there's little indications, majority of the time with people before they go bad and if people tend to recognize those little weird things happening, then maybe we could eliminate problems before they become catastrophic.

You know all right, let's see um but but yeah. So basically report the problems to management. That's as much as as fast as you can. I just wanted to make sure i covered that uh midwest tech.

Thank you so much for that super chat. I really appreciate it. You said probably your favorite hvac channel. You feel, like you learned so much.

Oh, thank you. It is awesome bud. Thank you very much. That is much appreciated.

So in my restaurant in my recent video there there's a real big nasty comment section about how nasty the restaurants are. Okay and they're. They think the restaurants that i'm working in are absolutely disgusting. First off i'm starting to wonder if i'm numb to it right, because in my head, i'm telling you guys that the stuff that i show in my videos is nothing compared to the stuff that i have stopped working for, because i've seen some crazy things out there And you would be surprised with what some of these really bad restaurants, which i'm telling you guys.

I don't work in any of the really bad restaurants, okay, but you would be surprised with what these restaurants can get away with when it comes to the health department. Okay, because we have health inspections, it's a government agency here in the united states. They go through our restaurants on a regular basis, um they they typically. I will say, though, they're typically not random visits.

Okay, they only do random visits. If there's been health violations reported, then they'll do random visits to follow up on situations, but for the most part, our health department, every restaurant knows when they're gon na come okay and uh. While i want my restaurants to be, you know not have to have deal with hassles if the health department just came in unexpectedly whenever they wanted on a that, would actually put these restaurants on their toes and they would be on top of more stuff. Okay, so in my recent video i showed the regions that were really dirty, i'm going to tell you guys that i still stand behind the restaurant on that one there's really no way for them to clean those units out.

If you ever see how some of these refrigerators come apart and how complex they are, it is absolutely ridiculous. So i think my restaurant's doing something incorrect by buying this equipment, but um yeah. It blows my mind because most of the stuff is so nearly impossible for the restaurants to clean. It's just a struggle and as far as you know, why don't they teach the cooks properly? How to do that stuff? Because there's too much liability in having your cooks deal with that kind of stuff, um they've tried it in all my restaurants, where the cooks are responsible for cleaning at night, and what do they do? One of the most common repairs we have on units that should be under warranty right.

They should be under full manufacturer's warranty, but the most common failure to those units is water damage because the cooks are washing the floors incorrectly. Should they be hiring professional companies sure, but there's not enough professional companies out there to clean every single restaurant majority of the professional companies out there. They just hire minimum wage workers to come in and they'll do it at night time and we still see the high failure rate on these units. It's sad, okay, of course, you know you pay people more.

Maybe they'll do better and stuff, but you know these. Restaurants are doing everything they can. Okay, and i shouldn't say everything there. These restaurants are trying very hard.

Okay, there's, certainly things they could do to improve it, okay, but i will still stand behind them. Okay, i've seen some nasty stuff and if you know it's trust me, i'm not working in the nastiest of the nasty so um i saw a couple. Super chats come through hvac rookie scott. Thank you so much.

I really really appreciate it. Man, um and android man uh again, thanks for that super chat. Man uh your commercial laundry tech and you watch my videos because i troubleshoot with logic: that's really cool bud um! It's very interesting too, because i never really thought about the way that i do things and honestly for the longest time. I i still want to argue that a lot of people can think.

Logically, okay, i know some people, don't they i feel like they don't choose to think logically, but um, it's hard for me to think that the way that i troubleshoot things is special, i it just seems - and - and maybe i'm ignorant to this - but it just seems Like everybody, you know can troubleshoot the way that i troubleshoot, or maybe everybody has the ability to, but they don't choose to use those tools. I don't know that's an interesting, that's an interesting question. You know i i, but i don't see anything special, so anyways. It's very nice that you said that, though, so thank you, um.

Let me see what else we got in here: pennsylvania, ac productions. This is awesome. No man, you see you're super chat bud. That is amazing.

You said that you're super chatting, because i you are my biggest fan, no it that that is it's cool, but thank you very much man. No, you can yeah trust me. You can super chat away. No, but that is very humbling.

Bud i mean uh, you don't necessarily have to do that, though. Okay, thank you. I really appreciate it. Man all right.

Let's see what else um, let's see uh carlos nin, you said you've been watching for over a year and you start on friday classes to get your florida hvacb license right on bud. Congratulations! This trade is awesome, bud, so um could my hum. Could my company handle large walk-ins, like costco john deere fan? No, i am not capable of working on parallel rack systems, which is what majority of costco and sam's club and all the supermarkets and big department stores that now added grocery stores. They typically run off of parallel rack systems.

Um. I have the slightest idea on how to work. Well, i actually have an idea on how to work on that stuff. I think i could probably break a few things and figure it out, but uh.

No, i am not qualified to work on large commercial refrigeration equipment just light commercial refrigeration is all i do um, let's see uh. Thank you very much joel. He said he loves my passion for hvacr. That's awesome, man, everybody! This is awesome.

Okay, so um. I already answered that question. I'm gon na look at my list right now. Let me okay, let me hit um.

Let me answer this one. I already answered that one, that's cool uh! Someone had asked me a question when you're working in these restaurants, if it would be a smart idea for myself to carry a steam, cleaner, uh to be able to steam clean the ice off of evaporators, the the dirt and grease off of condensers and stuff. It's a cool idea, honestly. I think it would be another gadget in my truck.

I have a lot of gadgets that i don't necessarily use on a regular basis and i'm running out of real estate in my truck and places to store them so um. But i would be interested in getting my hands on a steam, cleaner, thingy or whatever, because i've heard a lot of people, praise them and say they're awesome. I am worried about water intrusion when you're using that kind of stuff on these microprocessor temperature controllers, and things like that. So you'd want to be careful around that stuff um, but uh yeah.

I've never used them, though so um, let's see uh, let's see disc yeah and one of the things i also have on my list of things to talk about right here, too, is the fact that a lot of these companies do not these manufacturers that make this Refrigeration equipment that we're working on - i i feel like they do not have technicians in mind and the customer's best interest in mind, but to be fair to the manufacturers when the customers demand lower price consistently, and we, the consumer, do that everywhere. We gripe - and we gripe because have you guys noticed something. You know the company amazon came out many years ago right they were selling uh uh. What is it books? They were yeah, they were just selling books or something like that, and then they worked their way into selling everything right and remember.

When amazon prime first came out, though they actually had the lowest prices everywhere, their prices were the lowest of the lowest right. They basically put mom and pop businesses out of business, and you know big box. Retail is kind of struggling because of it too. But if you, if you go and you look, what you'll notice is that amazon's prices have gone up significantly higher and oftentimes.

You can actually find things cheaper outside of amazon now, okay, so it's the game that they're playing and when these manufacturers, when i'm getting back to the point, i was trying to make the manufacturers when they design this equipment. It's it's the cheapest crap in the world. Okay and there's no thought in mind for technicians that have to work on it, and that puts us in a bind because then, when we have to work on it, we look like an idiot because we told them this thing's a bad design or whatever. That is okay, but we're doing that.

We're driving those prices down because we're demanding less you know cheaper, cheaper, cheaper, all the time and these manufacturers. So i in a way i'm defending the manufacturer, but then i'm chastising them right, i'm defending them, because you know they're making what the consumer wants. They want cheaper we're going to give it to them cheaper, okay, so they don't build with quality. At the same time, you know that's better for these manufacturers but yeah anyways tangent as usual.

Okay um, i kind of feel like as weird as it sounds. I wish that as hvac technicians there'd be a way, it's not logical that this could ever really work, but i wish there's a way where technicians and companies can come together and stand strong and enforce some of these things like we don't want to have to deal With this stuff anymore, but that that's a whole nother issue right there um. Let me see what i got going on in the chat right now. Let's see see uh ernesto tito vlogs is talking to bill, but he brought up ahr in vegas.

If you guys don't already know, we have a giant industry convention for hvacr, so all the manufacturers of all that equipment heck. Even the manufacturers that sell to the manufacturers you'll have guys there that are making screws and bolts and then you'll have giant companies. Manufacturers making air conditioning refrigeration equipment, it's crazy and they set up this giant showroom and it travels all around the country. So this year the ahr expo is going to be in las vegas nevada for us southern california, guys for most of us, that's only three four hour drive, so it's gon na be a big event for the west coast for sure, and we're gon na have a Lot of people coming from the east coast and the midwest too um, if you guys don't know about it, it's something you definitely want to check out is the ahr expo, so it'll be the hr, 2022 expo and uh.

I do plan on being there i'm going to do everything i can to make it out there for sure. So it's going to be an awesome and i'll be spending time at the sporland booth too um, let's see what else we got in here. What am i missing, um question: why not install open door alarms on walking doors like modern home, fridges, okay, so that is one of the most common questions i got with my video, where i had a frustrating walk-in freezer call, i think, was the title of it. So why don't i install alarms? Why don't i install switches that turn off the refrigeration equipment when the doors open different things like that, and it really comes down to the customer, not wanting that stuff? Okay, now, as things get worse and worse, when these corporations are realizing that they're having employee problems, i kind of think they might start wanting to go that direction to having us, install remote monitoring, kind of stuff and door alarms.

And you know door switches and different things, but at the moment right now the customers are not. In that frame of mind. There is stuff out there that you can do when customers will consistently leave doors, open, um, you know, but uh. It's just really what the customer doesn't or does want.

Okay - and i found restaurants where they've approved me to go, install door, alarms and things and i'll go back there like a month later and the cooks just take duct tape and put it over the door. Alarms and managers don't seem to notice, so it's like. Well then, why did they have me? Put that door alarm in they're just going to cover it with duct tape? You know all right, so i had a question come in and this is a long question. But i want to read this because there's some interesting points that he's making in here and i'm going to cover it.

Okay, so um this person emailed me and they said they work in a hotel that has water source heat pumps in every room and some have suction line dryers. They all have reversing valves uh, and he says he has the most unusual data that he's ever seen in that whenever the the refrigerant leaves the suction line, filter, dryer and or the uh the the reversing valve. He says that he's constantly seeing pressure drops okay to the point that he can feel the pressure drop coming out of the lines and he's kind of curious about that. Okay, so in your situation, you - those pressure - drops, are not good in a system.

Okay, there's really only two places in the system that you're gon na see a pressure drop and it's supposed to be there. Okay and truly, that is in the compressor, and that is in the expansion valve. Okay, those are the real two places where you're going to see a pressure drop, okay or a pressure rise, really a significant one like that um other ones, you're going to see a noticeable rise, maybe in the condenser or the evaporator, but nothing like what you'd see An expansion valve and a compressor or condensing unit. So if you have a huge pressure, drop coming out of a filter, dryer and it's truly a filter, dryer typically about three psi is - is the range 4 psi? Is the range that i'm looking for? You always want to lean on the the component manufacturers literature to find out what they recommend for the pressure drops.

But if i see anything more than a 3 psi pressure drop on a filter, dryer, suction or liquid, that dryer is restricted and it needs to be replaced. But a point that i want to make in this situation. Um same thing goes with the reversing valve: there shouldn't be a pressure drop across the reversing valve. I question whether or not you're truly reading a pressure drop or, if you're incorrect on your information, but if you do truly have a pressure drop across a reversing valve that reversing valve's not working right and it's going to be a big problem.

Okay, so you want to address these issues if you're seeing pressure drop, then that's going to affect your operation and essentially pressure drop across a dryer is going to lead to a failed compressor is what it's going to lead to? Okay, if it runs long enough, so you want to eliminate that problem before it becomes catastrophic for sure, okay, so um, so before in in more context in your question was you were asking about what your superheat should be and how you can measure that super? You need to fix those pressure, drop issues first and then address anything else after that, but the pressure drop is not right, so maybe a dryer is too small. Maybe it's size wrong. Who knows? Maybe the reversing valve's not correct. I will say that you said you work in a hotel and i am going to say that a lot of times my experience, no judgment to anybody hotels tend to hire people that don't have as much experience and or property management companies, and things like that will Have less experienced technicians doing things so, therefore, and i'm not saying you're less experienced or anything, but i'm saying therefore technicians before you might have done things incorrectly that can lead to these problems.

So when we're addressing things in this industry, we need to remember that. Maybe someone else worked on it before us and maybe they didn't do their job right. So when we're changing components - and things like that, you don't want to just assume that what's in there is right, okay, you got to use your senses and kind of just look at things and go that doesn't look like a factory dryer, but this thing's supposed to Be brand new and i'm the third company on it and nobody could figure out what's wrong with it and everybody's changed parts. You know i mean it leads to those things, so always investigate your equipment to make sure the first person before you actually did their job right and didn't create a bigger problem for you to try to figure out uh.

Let's see what else um, what do we got in here? What am i missing? Uh standard style. Thank you for becoming a channel member. Thank you very much. So um shameless, you know.

Whatever you want to say, uh youtube, channel memberships is like patreon and if you don't know what patreon is i have one of those too patreon is a service where you basically say hey. I want to support this creator and you agree to an amount of money that you support on a regular basis. Okay, so youtube channel memberships, which is what standard style just did um. He essentially became a member, and just you know whatever amount he decided.

He contributes that on a monthly level to help support the channel um all right, um have i seen a terminal blowout happen in front of me. No he's talking about a terminal blowing out from the compressor terminals in front of my face. No i've seen videos on social media, but i've currently not seen that um chris young, oh dude, chris young. You know what i've been waiting for.

You this whole time bro. Thank you! So very much it you i your arrival. You are absolutely correct in your comment. I'm just messing with you bro all right, um my thoughts on more females entering the trade um rita loy.

Thank you very much for becoming a channel supporter. That is awesome uh. I definitely think females in the trade are a good thing, but i do have one one worry about it: okay, being that the hvac trade has been dominated by men for so very long, uh, there's a lot of of tradition and different stuff that happens in the Trade and i want and need females to come help in this trade, but i worry that um, you know it it's going to be hard and there's going to be. You know bad stuff that happens as far as harassment and things like that.

So while i fully want females and need females to come into the trade because we need the help, i just fear for them: uh for harassment and things like that: okay, um - and maybe that's just the father in me, because i'm a father of two daughters and I'm very like man, i don't want them to be in the situation where they're not potentially subjected to something that they don't need to be around. You know, but there's nothing wrong with having females. I think they can pull their weight. I think they can do everything that that i can do in this trade for sure.

Okay, of course, you might have uh. You know a female lady that can't lift as much weight as me, but you might also have another dude that can't lift as much weight as me. So i mean you know it's all things that we're gon na have to work with and uh. I think more females coming into the trade is an answer to our problem for sure we need and we need younger blood coming into the trade but yeah.

We need it for sure and think about it too. If you think about females in the trade think about how many restaurants you go to, if you do restaurant work or or businesses or retail environments that you go to where females are running the restaurants or the stores or whatever their managers, you know or the person That the technician is going to interact with as a female, so i'm not saying that should always be female to female interaction, but i'm saying that that's definitely going to help the trade and make some people feel more comfortable too. If that makes sense, i don't know all right um i did have a question or a viewer that was watching or commented on a youtube video right and they had a really interesting comment. I'm not going to say what their name was or anything, because i don't want to give them that attention.

But the comment that they left was a negative comment and it said they were referring to a video that i had worked on. Uh, where i worked on a walk-in freezer was a late night, walk-in freezer call a couple weeks ago and i went out there and i finished the call, and it was a bad transformer. Okay and uh. When i was working on the system.

I said you know what the system seems like it's operating properly: it dropped in temperature. It's got a clear sight glass, so i decided not to put my service gauges on that system. Okay. Now this person is commenting on that video and that decision that i made and he's saying he hopes that i don't think i'm a tech if i don't use gauges he's, and he says it sounds like i'm guessing, because i didn't put service gauges on that system.

So his question was kind of written a little in bad grammar or whatever anyways, but anyways he's criticizing me for not putting my gauges on a system um. No, you know given the opportunity or given the the you, don't want to have to put service gauges on everything every single system out there. Okay, you should not immediately gauge up until you've checked a few other things. If i don't have to access a system, that's less potential contamination for that system.

Every time one of us technicians accesses the system, we either vent refrigerant into the atmosphere because of a de minimis loss right or we add contaminants to the system of some sort, because we didn't purge our gauges and we didn't follow these proper procedures. Okay. So if we can minimize the amount of de minimis refrigerant being released into the atmosphere, that's a good thing. Okay, if we can minimize the amount of times we potentially contaminate a customer system just because we wanted to see a number um we're going to create problems right and if we can reduce that stuff.

That's a better thing! Now it's a fine line, though, because i didn't put my gauges on that system. I took a chance because had i put gauges yes, i would have confirmed everything else was working properly, but i used my senses and i said hey this thing dropped significantly. I'm not seeing any funny funny frost patterns, the expansion valve refrigerant feed looked pretty good. The sight glass was clear.

I used my senses and i thought of the system operation, and i said you know what this thing doesn't necessarily need me to put my service gauges on it, and i didn't, and it has now been three weeks or something like that or something i don't know. It's been a couple weeks since that service call: okay, um, i'm not saying that. That means that everything's fine, but there's times that we take that kind of educated guesses. I guess you know um is what i was, what i'm trying to say so yeah, but i'm gon na try not to put my gauges on as many systems out there as possible.

That's just how i'm gon na continue to do my career uh. What did we see here? Have i worked on screw compressors? No, i've never worked on those before so um. Do my daughters want to go into the trade? No. I've asked them several times if they were interested in coming to work with me even coming to work with me for the day.

They want absolutely nothing to do with it, but i will say that one of my daughters is a very uh science-minded person and whenever i can explain in in you know small detail the science behind this industry. She is intrigued. Um, you know she stepped outside one day. When i was, i grabbed a my torch.

I was doing some work out my yard and i turned on my torch and i started brazing on a condenser that i had in my backyard and my daughter was really interested. She's she was really interested in the process of the metal, melting and and the science behind that um, but i just don't think that she'll be in the trade. I'm not going to push my daughters in any direction that they don't want to go into.