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 hello to the world. How are you guys doing this evening? The world there's like 50 people here - 100 people here - i don't know if it's quite the world, but i hope that you guys are doing well um, i'm doing pretty good over here. It's definitely wishful thinking that summer's winding down.

I was kind of saying in the chat right now that it's it's still ridiculously warm out here in southern california. I was in our local mountains and it was over 100 degrees this weekend. Well, not my local mountains. I was in the mountains of san diego um.

It was over 100 degrees this week and it's nuts usually in the mountains. It's cooler, but i guess not over there in my house. Let's see today is about 95 degrees and it'll probably be in the 90s ish high 80s mid to upper 90s until the end of october. November-Ish is when it typically starts to cool down, but sometimes we can have warm summer or warm winters.

You know it can be 90 degrees at christmas time. Sometimes it just depends the way this year's been going. I wouldn't be surprised if it's not really warm, because it's just been stupid hot the entire time. I've got like super wishful thinking.

I'm drinking hot tea over here wishing that it was uh cold. You know just kind of i turned the thermostat way down in my house, so it's chilly everywhere else, of course, of all things um, i i keep saying i'm gon na do this, but my air conditioning system on my house sucks. Okay, i'm in like the hottest room and that's my office uh, so i have to turn it to 72 and i'd say it's probably like 76 in my office and i got a fan running and stuff and my wife and everybody freezes they're all upset with me. But hey, it is what it is one of these days i'll get around to changing my system out and fixing it and stuff and then i'll probably move once i change it.

You know that's how it works right, um, hopefully everybody's doing good. We are uh about to have um uh. I don't know where i was going with that, but anyways uh works going good, we're we're staying pretty steady. I was able to take the weekend off, so it was really nice to be able to get away for the weekend um, my kids.

We went and did apple picking, which is something we always do at the end of the summer, our local. We have two places local to us where you can go pick apples with the family and stuff. It's kind of a rare thing here in california: there's only a few areas where the apples can grow very well, usually up in the mountains, but it was nice nice to get away and relax with the family and just have a nice relaxing weekend uh. I need more of those um.

It's definitely been a hectic summer to say the least, so, as usual, uh welcome to the stream guys, everybody that's in the chat, if you guys are new here, my name is chris. I'm assuming you would know my name if you're watching this stream, but if you don't it's okay, my name is chris and i'm an hvacr service technician here in southern california. I make these videos on youtube and do these live streams just to kind of share the little bit of knowledge that i have so um. If you guys have questions or things that you want me to cover in the chat.

Do me a favor and put your questions or your comments in caps lock. It helps myself to see them a little bit better and i do see a lot of questions uh wendell. I will get to that question. I have it on my list of stuff to talk about tonight, we'll get to it and uh, but i kind of wanted to start this off by addressing a few things um.

I do this youtube stuff as just kind of a side hoppy. It really just started as something fun just sharing videos with my employees. I made it public and it was just something fun. It's quickly escalated into something i never expected it to.

Turning into i've got consistent schedules. I release two videos a week. One live stream a week. You know actually two live streams.

If you count the overtime live stream on friday nights, but um - i probably don't. I know i don't treat this this platform, this social media thing that i have um like other people, would okay. I've always been a very interesting person that kind of does things my way. Okay, so i want to make it clear that, while i'm not judging anybody else's channels, not judging the way that other people do theirs um, i just like to do things my way.

Okay, i'm not into um, you know, uh grabbing people's attention for no silly reason and stuff, and the reason why i'm bringing this up is because you know it very nice and i appreciate everybody's feedback. I get a lot of emails of people telling me how i can improve you know if i change this, i can get more views and do this and do that and and while of course i love getting more views on my videos and stuff like that um I just i don't like to have to think too hard about youtube. I enjoy it, but i don't want it to ever become something that is miserable for me. Okay, uh, there's been times when it's creeped up and i've had to kind of change.

My mentality, in the way that i do things because it was starting to get out of hand um, but i i still enjoy it and i'm going to continue to do these videos, but you know i can't go too crazy. I have all kinds of ideas about other channels and things i want to start and of course i have the tools channel and stuff like that, and i don't get to pay as much attention to those as things start to slow down i'll, be able to focus On some more things, but my business, my air conditioning and refrigeration business comes first. The videos come second um. Actually i should say my family comes first, my service company comes second and then the videos come third uh.

So you know with that being said, i just. I kind of beat to the tune of my own drum when it comes to these videos and stuff, and i'm not judging any other channels or any other creators for the ways that they do things so be it some people, the cool thing about youtube. Is you have the freedom to express yourself? However, you want to right, so i put these videos out there and i enjoy it and i have fun with it and you know, while i'm sure you know, i could pay people to edit my videos and i could pay people to do thumbnails and titles and Different things like that, it's just not really my style per se. You know i just like to put stuff out there and you know my my style of videos certainly isn't the most polished um, but it just is what it is.

It's easy for me. I just edit cut paste click, you know and upload and and call it a day, and you know sometimes we have videos when i'm done and i look at it. It's like wow, this turned out really well and then sometimes i'll make a video and it's like. Oh yeah, that didn't turn out so good, but it is what it is.

You know i really try not to try too hard, if that makes sense. Okay, so for those that have been emailing me and commenting about that stuff, that's why that's why i kind of do it this way and while i appreciate all the feedback, i love feedback from you guys. I try to read all the comments and i do have to admit right now that the comments have gotten to a level that i can't even keep up with them anymore, and i look and go through my phone nightly uh. I just can't keep up with all the comments, so i apologize all i'm sorry.

I apologize if i don't get to every single one and don't respond to every single one. I've been trying, but it's a struggle when you're super busy at work. So i'm gon na mark that one off my list, because i wanted to cover that and then i also want to talk about there's something else that i wanted to talk about here. Um up there we go right now, so, speaking of being so crazy as i am at work and stuff, i've been commenting in my videos that you know i can't keep up with the workload i'm super busy um.

It's calming down a little bit because the the hype, the big time slam of the super busy summer is kind of tapering off i mean we're still busy. We still have a lot of work that we haven't. I mean i still have installs. I have equipment sitting in my shop from three four months ago that i just can't get to yet because the service calls just keep coming now with that being said, part of the reason is that i'm understaffed, okay and i get a lot of comments.

Um and emails of people saying you know uh you need to raise your prices like raise my prices and i'll thin out the customers hire more employees. Okay, i run my business kind of how i did the youtube channel. I do it my way. Okay, not necessarily the same way that everybody else does it.

I have done this in the past, where i hire employees out of desperation and i'm never going to do that again. Okay, i would rather struggle and be miserable than hire employees out of desperation because it just leads to a toxic work: environment. Okay, i prefer to hire the perfect employee and or train apprentices to become the perfect employee, so i'm currently working on training, an apprentice right now he's doing really good, but it's going to take some time with that being said, um, you know it makes me extra Busy i have to do a lot of work. It is what it is.

You know, and i'm not going to raise my rates to try to scare away customers. I have a core group of customers that i really like working for and i want to make them happy. We have a great partnership and i want to continue that partnership. Okay, so um, i don't want to gouge any of my customers.

I don't want to raise the rates just because it's summertime, i mean my rates, are my rates and i get to what i can get to over the years. I've gotten better at saying. No, you know when, for instance, customers call me and say it's an emergency. They're reaching coolers down and they need me to come out at six o'clock on a friday night.

No, that's not going to happen. You know i can't get to that kind of stuff. So i'll politely tell them. You know what that's not a priority and um.

I i will offer them. You know saturday, service i'll come out saturday, but it's still going to be overtime. You know, is that something you really want, or even sometimes i'll just tell them. No, i don't have time to come out on saturday.

We'll see you guys, monday or tuesday, you know when it's not an emergency, but for me and my business. The way that i prioritize, my customers, walk-in freezers, walk-in coolers, entire air conditioning systems and ice machines, ice machines, kind of are emergencies; okay, that stuff is kind of emergencies, and it just depends. If i have a restaurant that has ten air conditioners - and you know they have a five ton down, then i'm probably going to tell them just to wait. You know or i'll get to it when i can, but walk-in freezers and walk-in coolers definitely take priority and that's just the way that we run things: okay, um.

Let's look at the chat here and see what i got going on in here um. What do i use for putting my videos together for youtube mark um? Well, i film my videos with my phone. Nothing too crazy. Okay, uh i've gone through a couple, different phones.

Currently i think this is a galaxy s21 plus. I think that's what it is. It's not the ultra, because that was way too big, so it's an s21 plus um. I have the s20 the s20s microphone sucked by the way, so i'd never use that really for filming and my favorite.

Actually, this one is a good contender, the s21 plus, but the um. The s10 was the phone that i filmed on for a good two years, probably, and then before that it was galaxy, notes and stuff. So i've always filmed on my phone every once in a while i'll set up a gopro as far as editing the videos. The software that i use is called adobe premiere elements.

It is not adobe premiere pro okay, that is the one that you can make. Legit movies, with too complicated for me um. I don't want to put that much effort into learning it. I can edit on it.

It just takes me forever and i always have to watch tutorials and stuff adobe premiere elements is a stripped down version. That's what i use it's super easy runs on my computer and it's a great program. So that's what i use to edit them. So, let's see what else we got going on in the chat: uh hello to everybody right uh, miguel's from san dimas, um right on bud how you doing man, let's see um yeah? Definitely let me see what else i'm looking in the chat to see what i'm missing here.

Yeah, if you guys haven't already, please smash the like button. It definitely helps out the stream okay um. No, i don't read dan hollihan's book. If i was to secretly read a book and uh, you know before i go to bed, it's going to be commercial refrigeration for air conditioning technicians by dick wars.

That would be the book that i would read before i go to bed um and i got to say thank you. I know dick doesn't watch my streams, but i got ta give him props because uh he gave me kind of a shout out in his new book. His i think, it's volume, four, maybe volume three or something like that: commercial refrigeration for air conditioning technicians like in the forward um. He mentioned my name, which was really nice of him.

Uh he's him and i have communicated back and forth and i was lucky enough to meet mr dickwars about two years ago at the kalos training symposium out in florida, so that was really neat really nice guy, someone that i look up to for sure. So, let's see what else uh no trail master, i'm not an iphone kind of a person. Uh jason johnson has the s21 ultra yeah that one was just a little bit too big for me. So um.

Let me get to my list of things to talk. Talk about um and there was something else. Oh another thing i definitely want to address. Let me find it on my list right now, um.

So with that being said, i was kind of talking about earlier about how busy i am. It is what it is. I'm a busy kind of a person, i'm a very stressed out person in general. I kind of create my own stress when it comes to things it's just.

It is what it is. That's how i operate it's. I know it's not healthy, but it's just. How is all i've always been um? You know i have seen a few comments come through about why i'm so upset with customers when it comes to some of these emergency service calls, and some people in the comments have made some very valid points, saying that if i'm charging my customers, i don't have The right or you know i haven't, there's no point in being upset about it because i'm getting paid for it that kind of stuff um.

I i agree a little bit with those statements, but also at the same time, i am human and i have to say that the the comments that i see in the chat and emails and on youtube comments telling me that um you know i i need to Not be upset with my customers and just be happy that i have work. I'm very thankful that i have work and and the fact that those people have said that in the comments kind of surprises me because they apparently don't watch my videos enough to see, especially in the closing words too. If you guys don't already, you definitely need to watch the closing words of my videos, because, while i may vent frustrations and stuff, i usually address it in the closing words: okay, um and i think it's important that we don't suppress our frustrations right. So you know if i'm angry, because i got a service call like i need to get that out now.

Am i gon na get it out on the customer? Am i gon na yell at the customer? No, of course not. Okay. I may have a discussion with the customer about hey. I keep having like in the situation in my recent video, the walk-in freezer.

I went out there like three times and i mean it's always been a frustration because the customer was leaving the door open and it was starting to get ridiculous because they call me out at like 9 30 10 o'clock at night. I have to stop what i'm doing get out of bed go over there to defrost the walk-in freezer, because they're leaving the door open, i'm justifiably frustrated when that happens. Okay, but i will tell the customer hey. You know what this is getting a bit ridiculous.

We need to figure this out. You guys got to do something because i can't keep coming out here. That's the discussion that i had with the customer um, but at the same time, like it's okay for me, i the way that i see it, it's okay! For me to be frustrated, i mean you know: uh suppressing our emotions and anger and frustration is what causes problems and, if you've watched any of my videos, the hvacr life series, my wife and i also just recorded another one. So once i get editing on that, that'll be coming out, hopefully in the next couple weeks.

But when it comes to my, i have anger issues and when it comes to them what i've realized. The solution to majority of my anger is to talk about it and let it out uh instead of bottling it up. You know if i just hold it in, because i'm angry and just keep it in and keep it in. Eventually, i'm going to blow up and majority of the time i'm never going to blow up on a customer.

It's going to be on someone close to me and that's not right, so i have to get that stuff out um. Unfortunately, you guys are kind of like my therapy, because i will say stuff in the videos. You know this is frustrating. It is what it is, but at the same time i'm also trying to show the real stuff that's happening.

Okay, i get frustrated, i get confused. I make mistakes, i'm human guys, it's so important for us to be honest about that kind of stuff. In my opinion, okay, of course, i'm not a therapist or anything like that, but it's so important to be honest and to be truthful and uh. I, for me it helps to talk.

You know talk to my friends, talk to my wife and express that stuff. Holding that stuff in is definitely a no-go okay. So let me see what else we got going on in the chat. What am i missing here um? What do we have all right? Nothing there um, i'm seeing my own stuff.

So how did the oh, okay, so neil c vids? How did replacing the equipment stop them from leaving the door open? Well, neil in that video, what actually happened was the reason why they were leaving the door open. It wasn't that they were leaving it open. It was that they were in and out consistently because their stand-up reach and freezer in the cooks line was broken and the customer chose to order a new one on their own okay. So they all there.

They ordered their own equipment and because of the equipment, shortages and all that kind of stuff, it took them about a month and a half to get a new freezer, whereas normally it would take them like a week or two. So in that month and a half they were using their walk-in freezer as a reach-in cooler. So whenever they needed french fries for the walk-in freezer or for the fryers, you know to cook for a customer boom, they were into the walk-in freezer grabbing french fries. They had nowhere to put the frozen food normally they would take it from the walk-in freezer, put it into the region, freezer and then grab from there, but the reach and freezer was down.

So how did replacing the equipment solve their problem? Replacing the equipment? There's two parts to that: okay: number, one! If you watch the equipment replacement, video, okay, i had mentioned something in there when i was talking about the load calculation. What i actually found was that the existing equipment was undersized for the load. Okay, so that's strike number one, the second part: they got a freezer right. They got a new freezer to replace that so they weren't in and out of the walk-in freezer anymore, so replacing the equipment i put in properly sized equipment that was adequate and capable of bringing the box down to temperature within about a half an hour to 45 Minutes from you know not nothing being in there.

Basically, so replacing the equipment didn't necessarily solve their problem, the habits of them being in and out of the box needed to be solved, and that was because they were waiting for their reach and freezer. The customer that i work for is very proactive and they don't like they. They actually will i'll i'll, give them an invoice and say hey. We had to make these repairs on this walk-in freezer and i'll get an email from the customer.

It'll be fixed and they'll say how old is the box? Oh the equipment's, about 15 years old yeah. Let's just go ahead and get it replaced like they are on top of it about replacing their equipment so um they were the ones that you know in talking with them. They're like yeah. Let's get it replaced because they like to have newer equipment at their stores and they find that to be a valuable thing for them, so you know they basically chose to go and replace that equipment um.

Let me see what else we got in here. Let me mark that one off my list, because i had that on my list to talk about um. So with that being said, there we go and let me go and get to the chat um. What else do we got going on in here? Uh? Let's see brandon, you said you do aerospace in the air force.

You basically work on generators acs for jets. You have your universal epa cert and you also do electrical work with generators right on brandon. That's really cool man! Um. Let me see what else we got.

How do i feel about the zoom, lock tool and fittings? You haven't seen a video of me using it besides one um seth, i have two videos using the zoom lock max presta press fittings from sportlin and uh. I think that those press tools um whatever brand you're dealing with they all have a time and a place in my situation. They don't make a lot of sense using them on a regular basis in the work that i do a lot of the work that i do with smaller equipment. You know, of course, when i make walk-in replacements and stuff like that.

Sometimes it would be beneficial, but on reaching coolers and ice machines and things like that they're, not very practical, because you can't get them into very tight spots and things like that. But i definitely see a use for them. Okay, but i will never stop brazing 100 and i will never. You know, go to using press fittings 100 and you know i whenever there's a time in place for them, then i'll use them but they're a great tool to have in your arsenal to be ready.

Whenever you have equipment to repair, you know, let's say you're working on a government building that has a hot work process. You have to get a hot work permit. You have to shut down things. I've had to do it before working in like uh local government buildings and it's a nightmare.

Having to you know, i'm like i need to braise a dryer and they're like yeah. You got to come in on sunday between these hours. We need to shut down and it's like really just a change of dryer. You know it's silly and then they want you to fill out all kinds of paperwork and have a fire watch and all this stuff in that situation, zoom lock max, would be awesome right.

If i had it way back, then it'd be amazing, and if you guys didn't already know you can get special dryers for the zoom lock max they already, they don't have a swaged fitting on them. They just have a straight piece of copper coming out of them and they have extended ends, so you can just put a zoom lock max coupling on it. Boom dryers change, so i definitely think that the press tools are amazing and they all have a place for use right, but i'm not going to use them every single time. I know some people that use the press tools all the time and it benefits their business.

You know so again if it works, for you then go for it, but i have had good luck and good experience with the zoom lock max tool. I've got a system out there that i think is going on two years. I think just about two years and i haven't really had any issues. The the key to using the zoom lock max is the prep okay, it's not just to slap it on there and crimp it.

You have to sand the pipe you have to inspect the pipe. Is there any deep gouges in that, then you need to sand it with a nut, so i'll usually sand it with like 180 grit, sandpaper and then i'll take an abrasive, uh, scotch brite pad and polish it out. And then you got to deburr the inside deburr. The outside put the fitting on mark it press it.

I mean, there's a lot of work that goes into it. It's not as easy as people think it is uh brandon. Thank you so very much for that super chat. I really really appreciate it.

Um. Let's see you said, if i remember your last statement, is that something you'd look for in a new apprentice, you're looking to become an hvac technician for an hvac company, um brandon, i forgive me, make sure you post it in caps lock. So i see it again, but i don't remember the last thing that you said as far as you're looking for in an apprentice um, i will definitely uh try to answer it so make sure you uh. You say it again, because i don't remember what it is.

Um, but i mean i can i can just talk about that because i don't know exactly what it is that you said. But what am i looking for in an apprentice? I can give you that criteria right now, so i'm currently training an apprentice right now and uh. What i'm looking for when i was going to hire him is i'm looking for someone that's interested in getting in the trade, i'm not going to beg him to come. Work for me, okay, i want him to want to come work for me.

Okay, the person that i actually hired actually turned out to be a good fit long story short. I actually knew people it's it's a small world, let's just say that: okay, so um, but when i'm looking through an apprentice, i'm looking for someone, that's eager to learn someone that is teachable someone that um isn't afraid to get dirty, someone that isn't afraid to work Hard, okay, uh and that'll show up to work on time every single day, okay or when they're expected to uh. With that, i can build an apprentice from that, or i can attempt to build an apprentice from that. As long as you have those qualities, and then you can work your way up: okay, all right so uh, i'm gon na look to my list of things to talk about.

Domic dominic is from new zealand and he had sent me an email and he is uh. Gon na be replacing the heat pump in his house and he was just kind of curious about which refrigerant he should look into and uh obviously he's gon na. Have someone do it for him, but he was curious about uh. He notices that there's systems in new zealand that contain r410a and r32 and he was curious about my opinions between the two okay, so r32 is a new uh.

Let's see it's a um a2l refrigerant, it is a mildly, flammable, refrigerant, okay and uh. What's interesting is there's a lot of people that are afraid of r32, but what you don't realize is we've all been working with r32 for many many years, r32 is one of the main components of r410a okay, but it's mixed with so many other refrigerants in fortinet. That it's not as flammable as if you use r32 by itself. Okay, so now r32 is becoming a popular refrigerant they're, using in a lot of equipment, it's being brought into the united states just right now.

I think i saw a recent post where dyke and just had someone on my facebook feed install the first um r32 mini split or something like that in the states uh. So it's coming, it's gon na, be here the important thing i so so to answer your question dominic is, i would probably go with r32 okay, because 410 is being phased out. I don't know how new zealand works, but i imagine just like the rest of the world. You guys are probably ahead of the united states as far as your environmentally friendly changes and stuff, because we seem to lag behind everybody else, but with the phase out of 410a.

I would definitely go to r32. Just understand that with r32 there's some extra precautions we need to take. We need to have specialized equipment to work with it. Now it's not as crazy as working with hydrocarbon refrigerants like r290 and isobutane, but um.

You definitely need to be careful working with these a2l refrigerants. There is special recovery machines and vacuum pumps that need to be certified to work with a2ls. Okay, again, that's a mildly, flammable refrigerant, the same precautions as if you were working with hydrocarbons, which again are r290 and isobutane being unauthorized propane and then uh isobutane. I can't remember the ashrae number for isobutane right now for some reason, but r600.

That's what it is. Um, but with r290 and r600 they are extremely flammable and they're unodorized. So you have to make sure that you purge with nitrogen before you braise, and things like that. That is also the same for these a2l refrigerants.

Like r32. You definitely want to purge and sweep the system with nitrogen before you uh, take your torches and open it up. For instance, if you guys watched my recent video and let's go ahead and address this too, let me mark this one off where's, my um. I had disgust.

I already have that on there discuss i'm looking through my list. Ah there we go right there. So in my recent video working on the ice machine uh, i had had my apprentice put on the nitrogen. While i was on the other side of the machine - and i forgot to tell him to take the low side hose off - so we put the nitrogen on, he put it on the braze feature, which is just going to push it through at a very, very fl Small flow rate - and i was going to braise everything in so i went to go unsweat the dryer and poof it blew out now i did have it on a brazing montage, so you guys didn't see it in real time.

You guys kind of saw it at 50 or it was sped up 50 percent, but it was a little bit scary when that popped, because i heard a noise it didn't. It didn't really warn me too much, but i was on sweat in the dryer and it just went woof. You know a little flame came out, and that was because uh we did not take the low side hose off. So we put the nitrogen in and we were feeding it in on the high side of the service gauges right and we were supposed to take the low side hose off.

So that way that nitrogen had a place to vent into the atmosphere, because you just want to purge it through the system, you don't want to pressurize the system with it. So in that situation, if that was a hydrocarbon refrigerant in that situation, there would have been a fireball coming out of that unit. Okay, with that being said, too, i did have a few questions from people. Why did i try to sweat that dryer out? Why didn't? I cut it out, it's just a bad habit of mine.

Okay, i i rarely ever cut dryers out because, most of the time when you cut them out you're working in such tight spaces that it becomes a problem. So there's a lot of people out there telling me they'll, email me and comment about you know sweating a dryer out, i'm going to release all the moisture back in the system. While i agree there's some possibilities of that. I don't think it's as critical as people think it is, but i could be wrong on that.

Okay, i've just always done that for the most part, you know when i can i'll try to cut a dryer out, but it's not first instinct for me. So i usually sweat it out. It is what it is. I'm not perfect.

Um, let's see what else we got in here. I already answered that one um. Let me see what did i miss i'm looking through this. What do i think about household refrigerators swapping to r600? It's really not that big of a deal the household refrigerator is going to the hydrocarbon refrigerants.

The one thing i will say that kind of sucks about household refrigerators going to it is it's not very easy for a single technician to get a household refrigerator outside in a perfect world in a house. I would kind of like to remove that from the house to work on it. I realize it's not the biggest deal in the world, but it's just a lot nicer to be able to be in the customer's garage working on their refrigerator than sitting on their kitchen floor with a towel. Draped out - and you know, windows open because you're brazing in a hydrocarbon, refrigerant, that's kind of a bummer.

In that sense, and i realize you can run hoses outside and stuff, but there's still the potential of a little bit of a flame out working in a house. That's kind of a bummer, but it is what it is. You know, there's not really anything we can do much about it. Um, let's see what else we got in here.

Would i ever consider working for a lab facilities? Maintenance, um. I have done some lab work in a hospital setting in the past uh. The biggest problem with my company doing lab work is that we would work on very, very sensitive equipment, uh oftentimes that have hundreds of thousands of dollars in vaccines and different things like that. In them, if not into the millions when it comes to chemotherapy medicines and stuff, like that, i think i worked on one time - one time that had over a million dollars in chemotherapy meds in it and uh.

You know it's a little nerve wracking, so it became a problem working on the medical grade, refrigeration because i felt that i was the only person qualified at the time, so i'd have to always be the technician that went out there, which basically made it at the Time i had several technicians working for me, but it just made it frustrating, because i was the one that always had to go and work on that equipment. So i don't think i would do that again. I don't know if that's what you were asking or were you asking if i would become a facilities like an in-house facilities guy, i don't know what you mean by that, but uh give me some context. If i don't see your response, send me an email to hvacr videos at gmail.com.

We can talk a little bit more. Let me see what else we got going on in here uh. What did i miss? Uh smash the thumbs up button guys. It definitely helps out the stream okay.

No, i don't mean liberals laska um, all right, so we answered dominic's question. Um seth had emailed me a question. He has a really good question. Uh seth is about to get out of the military.

Thank you for your service. Seth and seth wants to know what certifications and training would stand out the best for him as he wants to get into hvac. Now he already does some hvac work in the military okay, so he had told me that he has certain certifications already so seth in your situation, honestly with the certifications that you already have, because you already do some type of hvac work in the military. Now things will be a little bit different because, typically from my understanding, majority of the people in the military doing hvac and refrigeration work they're consistently working on the same type of equipment all the time.

So it's not a variety of equipment. So there definitely will be a little bit of a learning curve, but the concepts are still the same. So with with what you already have for your certification seth, i think you're, probably pretty good um. I would definitely try to take advantage of the gi bill if you can um, for you know any more education, if possible.

Now for those of you that are in the military and you want to get into hvac. Of course, your best bet is to take advantage of the gi bill right and have the gi bill help you with your education um. You can go to trade schools and different things like that. That's definitely a good thing in a perfect world.

If a service technician can go to trade school full-time, if they're going to do that, right, go to trade, school full-time then get into the trade that would be the best. The second best is to take night college classes and work during the day then go to night school. But it's going to take a little bit longer. But seth you shouldn't, have a problem getting a job with your certifications already and then just understand, though, that there's going to be a learning curve and you're going to have to work your way up.

But i think that your your existing certifications are perfect. But you should be good to go. If i didn't answer your question feel free to send me an email, the 98 deville. Thank you so very much for that super chat bud.

So your question is green. Heck versus captain bear for hoods, which one is better than the other. Well. 98.

Deville. Are you talking about the actual exhaust hood or the exhaust fan um? I would have to say that i think i would lean more towards green heck for both. As far as the actual exhaust hood and the exhaust fan um, i do a lot of captive air work too, but i think i would lean more towards the greenheck side. I've worked on a lot of their equipment.

I've worked on a lot of the captive air equipment and i think my favorite of the two would probably be green heck. Both of them frustrate me at different times. I've got videos being upset at both of the companies so, but i think i would lean a little towards the green heck for sure flex. Ortiz.

You said you currently work for facilities, maintenance, hvac in-house. At this point now, would i ever consider not running my own company uh yeah, i've thought about it. I mean when the stress level is at 100 and uh everything's going crazy and you can't keep up with the work there's times that i've thought about going to work for someone else. Um i've had long discussions with my wife about it and she's talked me off the ledge and basically told me that in her opinion, i'm going to bring my stress with me wherever i go, whether or not i'm owning my own company or working for someone else.

So i've thought about it, but in all reality i don't think it would be practical for me to go work for someone else. I again, i think i'm just destined to run my own company kind of. If that makes sense all right. Let's see what else we got going on in here: um seth uh! For those! Oh sorry, seth, i yeah you.

You have plenty of certifications. So i see your comment right there. Epa 608: universal, that's fine, and then you have the automotive one you're not really going to need that doing, but uh preventative maintenance, certification, nate ready to work. I mean those are all pretty good.

I think you're going to have no problem getting picked up by a company. I definitely think that you're going to want to go to school, though still but just understand something seth that just because you go to school doesn't mean you're gon na be a service technician right. When you leave the school, i mean you're, you're. Definitely gon na.

Have your foot in the door but going to trade school or anything like that is just gon na, be a foot in the door you're still going to have to learn and work, your way up an apprentice and do all that good stuff. But i think you understand that stuff. So all right, let's see what else we got going on in here um. What am i missing for an old honeywell thermostat? What does 11n mean after the screen goes blank when turned on cool uh, justin, sorry bud.

I have no idea what that means. Maybe someone in the chat might um but yeah. I don't right now, um, let's see and let's see what else we got in here so um someone had brought a point to me about working on the ice machines and they were reminding me to obviously not touch the clean ice when i'm working in it and Yeah i i agree that there's times that i'll reach in and grab a piece of ice or something like that, i typically don't throw it back into the bin i'll, throw it on the ground like i'll grab a piece, try not to touch anything else. It's always best practices whenever you're working around ice machines to be as sanitary as possible, making sure that you're not ever exposing the ice, that's going to be consumed by customers with anything.

You know, that's bad for it right. You obviously want to sanitize all the surfaces after you're done working on it as you're working your way out of the machine. You sanitize everything you put it back together, you close it up, so i'm not perfect. I've made mistakes and i'm sure i've showed it in videos a few times so um, let's see what else in there.

So when i i want to get back a little bit more to talk about the frustrations that i've shown in my recent videos. Um. Remember that i feel that it's healthy that i i express those frustrations. Okay, while some of you may see it as complaining, it is what it is.

You know, and i don't mean to offend anybody again. I kind of beat to the tune of my own drum and and treat my channel the way that i want to treat it. So if i offend you guys or upset you guys by expressing frustration in the video, i'm sorry and don't take this the wrong way. But you're free to move on to anywhere else.

Okay, one thing that i've said from the beginning is that i'm going to treat this, how i want to treat it this is you know this is my thing right and i'm not here to meet anybody's expectations. I'm not here to to do anything but to make these videos and share the little bit of knowledge that i have and i'm just gon na. Do it my way. Okay, so i appreciate the feedback and i appreciate and again i'm still, okay with feedback.

If you guys see something i i'm always love reading the stuff, just don't be offended if i don't necessarily implement the ideas or things that you guys have okay, so i hope i don't offend anybody with that stuff, but it is what it is um. Let's see, i just saw another super chat, uh vlad. Thank you so very much for that super chat bud. You guys are amazing, with the support that you guys give you guys always humble me, every single time um have i considered cloning myself mark yeah.

I have considered cloning myself um and i would love to do it, but if you watch the arnold schwarzenegger movie, isn't it is it? What is the arnold schwarzenegger movie where he clones himself? Oh, no, that is that? No, that's! Not arnold schwarzenegger! That's a um michael keaton movie. Isn't it multiplicity? I think it is multiplicity or whatever um he cloned himself and then he found himself uh yeah yeah it there. There was a. There was a bad incident with his wife when he cloned himself.

So i'm not gon na do that, because that would make me angry. You know what i mean. You know where i'm going. You know what i mean burn all right.

What's that from you guys know what that's from you know what i mean burn all right, i'm gon na date, myself right there um brandon, paglias uh. Sorry, if i butchered your name, thank you so very much for that super chat, but that is amazing. Uh. Let's see it says, thanks for the help you nailed all of my questions shout out to all your fellow military guys looking to get out and into this trade with you right on brandon, you guys um.

This is a great trade. I i would imagine guys i was never in the military, i'm envious um. I i'll tell you guys this, so i think i've said this before, but when i was in high school i remember deciding that i was going to join the marine corps um. I took the asvab test.

I started talking to a recruiter. I think i went to a couple things at my local recruiting office and i hadn't told my parents one day and it's kind of funny, because the recruiter took it upon himself to go ahead and show up at my house and talk with my dad without telling Me he was going to do that and then i remember my dad got a nice little surprise. My dad wasn't upset. He was just surprised that some dude opened, you know he opened the door one day and some guy's, like hi, i'm so-and-so and your son's gon na join the marines, and my dad was like what you know like confused, but anyways um, it's kind of interesting how It works i in a weird way.

I would never want to change my family or anything like that right. I want my family, my kids to all still be the same but um i i have like a little emptiness inside of me, remembering and and kind of regretting not joining the military uh, not joining the marine corps. Uh. My brother ended up joining the marine corps.

Um, i'm very proud of him. Uh he's still in the marine corps um, but it's always been something that i was a little envious of. At the same time, i've had discussions with my wife about this and uh. It was probably for the best and um.

You know not to make light of any of the horrible things that happened, but when i would have joined the military when i would have joined the marine corps would have been right around 2000 um. So just before 9 11 - and we all know how that would have worked out um and while i uh feel horrible for all the lives lost during that time period um. I can't help but think in a weird way, as is as horrible as this sounds that i dodged a bullet, but i still have an emptiness and if that makes sense, i still kind of feel like i'm missing out on something because i didn't join the military. But anyways, it is what it is.

Life happens. You move on things change and, of course i never would have wanted to change anything about my family situation in the way that it is right now and obviously i think some of that stuff would have changed. But with that being said, i think the military um is a great thing and i think stepping out of the military hvac is a great place. Any kind of a trade, i think, is a great place because of the structure i mean.

Of course, we don't have the structure that the military has, but the structure that we have typically in the trades, i think it's a great place for a person coming out of the military and you get to uh. You know, focus and deal with the kind of stuff that we deal with the methodical troubleshooting following proper procedures doing that stuff. I think this is a great fit for someone from the military, if that makes sense. So all right now that i'm rambling as usual um did someone post in here uh, ernest p, that's right, uh know what i mean burn.

That is right exactly. Let me see what else we got in here. What can cause the oshazaki water pump to intermittently short cycle during the freeze cycle? Well, heavy metal, guitarist um, the the new hoshizaki pumps um. I'm trying to think here there's something about the if it's a newer machine, uh first off, if you're, assuming for some reason, i think that the new hoshizaki machine cycle, the pumps once or twice during the new freeze cycle.

I think they do there's something about the hoshizaki pumps. Oh no, they don't cycle they cycle it during the harvest cycle. Now, that's right! I think they cycle it during the harvest cycle um. I have to think about it.

I'm remembering something from the back of my mind right now, but assuming that your pump has the right voltage right so obviously put a meter on it check the voltage while it's operating and when you say short cycle, i'm assuming you mean turn off then turn back On make sure the capacitor is working properly and it's not low and then also one of the biggest failure points on a hoshizaki water pump. Is the cube guide pieces, the little white pieces from the cube guide they break off? They get sucked into the pump they're. Usually stuck in there and they'll cause the pump to seize up, but as far as short cycling, i'm assuming you mean just turning on and off. You might want to make sure you're checking voltage to verify.

And if i didn't answer your question enough feel free to send me an email but hvacr videos, gmail.com um, let's see multiplicity with michael keaton. That's right! Um, let's see what else we got in here uh! You have neutral okay. So let me see why don't i wire? Oh okay, so window yeah, um all right! So in my recent video i made a comment about some of the new awef uh things that they do in new refrigeration equipment for walk-in coolers. In order to save energy on walk-in, coolers and walk-in freezers, they typically have two-speed evaporator fan motors.

So that way, when one speed uh, when the when the evaporator is calling for cooling, the fans will operate at full speed. Now, let's just talk about the walk-in coolers right now: okay, so in these two-speed motors, the walk-in coolers, the fans will run on full speed when they have a call for cooling. So when the thermostat is calling they'll run on full speed, but when uh the unit uh is not calling for cooling, they will typically run on low speed. Okay and so the question is: why don't i wire them so in this window that asks this one? Why don't i wire them in a way that they would be tricked into running in full speed when they are in defrost window? I certainly can, and i actually have done that before.

I don't think i have it shown in a video, but i have done that, but the problem that you get when you, when you rewire systems - and you trick them to doing things that you know they're not necessarily meant to do - is that other people coming behind. You are going to be confused when they try to troubleshoot that system, because electrically something doesn't make sense. So while it is certainly possible, there's a couple different methods, you could do it to trick the system. You could also run a relay from the roof, depending on where the defrost clock is so that way.

If it goes into defrost, you know it just depends so um uh in let's see one of my videos. I don't have it shown, but the system has a smart controller right, so it has a ke2 therm, temp plus defrost controller. So the temperature controller is the defrost clock in that situation. There was no way to wire it to trick the system because the temperature controller shut off.

Basically, it turned the system off when it went into defrost, so there's really no way to trick it. If i had a standalone defrost clock in that situation, you could definitely you know wire it in a way. So that way it would run so it is possible, but you just got to be careful um. You know you don't want to confuse anybody else and i just saw a super chat come through peter smart.

Thank you. So very much for that super chat bud. You are amazing. Okay, let's see um.

The movie i was talking about was called the sixth day uh. The arnold schwarzenegger one was the sixth day, but multiplicity was the michael keaton one that i think multiplicity was the first one and then i think the sixth day was after that. If i remember right, i think i don't know it's been a long time so um. Let's see what else, how many propane based refrigerants are there and what are they besides, r290 uh joe t? So that's a good question.

I don't know exactly how many propane refrigerants, but a lot of the r22 replacement refrigerants or retrofit refrigerants. They do contain a hydrocarbon component, whether it be r290 or r600, and they typically use that hydrocarbon component to try to help with oil return because r22. Naturally, the oil moves with the refrigerant, but when you put in some of these other refrigerants, it has a hard time moving um uh, polyester or polyester oil and uh they'll add the hydrocarbon component to try to help move that along um. Let's see what else i think i just butchered that a little bit, but i think it makes sense to you guys, uh, let's see what else we got going on in here.

What am i missing? Um, i would have been installing mini splits in other countries on sketchy ladders in sandals, at that alaska. I'd have been in sandals carrying mini splits. Up on my shoulder climbing the ladder you know getting all the way up to the top one handing putting a mini split up onto there, uh yeah. Some of those videos are nuts.

When you see those dudes wearing their uh, their their their gowns. That looks like they just graduated high school and it's really dirty and then they're just walking up a ladder and flip-flops, or they got like two ladders, strapped together, like going up and yeah those things are crazy man. Those guys are nuts um.