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and now let's ceue up the intro music. Oh oh, welcome to the Hvacr videos Live Stream: How are you guys doing today? Hopefully you are doing well. So for the new people here: I'm Chris um I'm just an Hvacr service technician here in Southern California and uh, short cliffnotes version of it all: I Started making videos for my employees and then couple years later here we are. So there just a cool little thing that I did.

These live streams are just a way to consolidate questions if you guys have things that you want to cover in the live stream. I'd highly encourage you to put them in the chat. Your best bet is to chat through YouTube doesn't benefit me either way. whatever platform you're on, but YouTube is a little bit easier for me to see the comments and there's a bigger community in there.

But if you do have a question or a comment, please put your questions or comments in caps lock so all capital letters it betters your odds. Basically okay of me actually seeing the question. If I miss anything, feel free to shoot me an email. Hvideos Gmail.com Okay, not trying to be a jerk, it's just hard sometimes with a lot of people commenting in there and it can get difficult and easy to miss comments.

So I really do appreciate you guys. Uh, it's been a let's see. Did I do a live stream last week I don't know if I did a live stream last week I don't think I did. Um, it was a whirlwind week last week I Still, it's just been crazy.

So I let's see last. Yeah no I didn't do a live stream because I was in Georgia So last week uh I had a concert Saturday night. uh went to see Zack Brown Band which was awesome. It's like the second or third time I've seen them.

Great great show if you've never beened. Zack Brown Band is an awesome band for sure! So I had a good time with my dad, his wife, my wife. We went out and then that was Saturday night. We got home at like 1:00 am Sunday morning at 6:50 a.m.

I had to fly out of my local airport and I flew to Georgia and I was in Georgia from Monday Tuesday Wednesday flew home Wednesday night so I went Went to Georgia to visit with a partner of mine, Heatcraft. Refrigeration So we work together occasionally. We worked together last year and then we're working on some projects again. This year it was really cool.

So Heatcraft flew me out and uh went and toured their Factory did a bunch of interviews, recorded a bunch of footage so stuff should be coming out in the next couple weeks. Uh, I have yet to get that footage? See? That's the cool thing. They actually have people there filming the footage for me, Then they do some rough edits for me and then they ship me the footage and then I kind of make do with what they have. So uh, as that footage gets to me, we'll definitely be editing it down and posting it and sharing some cool stuff.

But I have to say uh, you know, going through Heat Craft's Factory looking at what they're trying to do in the future? Uh, it's really, really awesome what they got going on. so it was definitely a good time. And thank you Heatcraft for the opportunity. So let's see what we got going on in the chat right now.

Um, lots of great regulars in here that's really awesome. Uh, Jason says questions and C Crocs with socks and pants are not allow Yes everybody I am wearing pants. Okay, so um, lots of great stuff to talk about. So in the midst of all of that, I got the initial you know, major part of my home system installed right? So over the last couple months, I've been replacing the air conditioner.

Actually, over the last eight months we've been working on a project changing the air conditioner of my house. A lot of it was design phases and my brain works a little differently. a lot of people so I really like to think things through when given the opportunity before. I Actually, um, act on it.

So my buddy Adam who's in the chat right now helped me with the design um, the load calculation and then about a week ago La Not this last weekend, but the previous weekend I did the install on my system started it up. uh I'm still not done Okay, so definitely got a lot of work left to do. uh I've yet to even commission my system I just turned it on, did a rough and tough airflow measurement, made sure we're actually moving air and it's cooling. We made it through probably one of the last 100 100 degree you know, days or whatever.

we had a whole good week of it after. I did the install, the system kept up no problem. um, and we were definitely above design temps and now we're in our weird little transition phase where um, it's really not heating or cooling at the moment because it's so moderately or the temperatur so moderate outside, it's just real chill. so um, as time goes on I'm definitely going to do some commissioning.

So as far as the project goes, so I did the initial install. The next phase is to, uh, finish up some duct work Renovations and stuff that I need to do. we need to put uh, jumper, ducks and all the rooms. Um, lots of stuff going on with that and then we got to do a little bit more air sealing.

we have to balance Air Balance the system for as far as airf flow goes, then we've got to fully commission the system and hopefully we'll be good after that. Oh Brian thank you very much for that! Super Chat and also George Robless. thank you very much for that! Super Chat both of you guys that is awesome! Definitely not needed but is much appreciated. Thank you very much.

Okay, so um, why didn't I decide to Zone my house? Uh, there's really no need I it's it's a four-bedroom house. We really don't have that much of a heating and cooling demand. Um, it's a small house. It's only a what 1,600 foot 18800 foot I can't remember what it is, but it's not that big of a house so really don't need to Zone it.

Uh, if we have proper air flow going through the house I mean my thoughts are there's really no need to add the complication of zoning. Uh, once you Zone a system, then you have the problem of you know, uh, you know you start closing off dampers in different rooms because the temperatures are satisfied. Well, then your air flow gets all wonky and I realize that you can integrate zoning systems with modulating systems, but still, it just seems like a little more complicated than it needs to be. Okay, Um, because again, we've got at least when we're done, the air flow is going to be moving throughout all the room.

So again, I Really don't see the need for zoning, but who knows. Okay, something to understand in no way. Do I you know think that this system that I installed in my house is perfect? No, there's a lot of flaws in it. Okay, I'm probably my own worst critic when it comes to the flaws and the things that I did incorrectly.

Okay, um, but there's lots of room for improvement. Um, you know it's a work in progress. I Know I'm going to be working on the system for a long time, so uh, let's see what else we got going on in the chat right now would be for Bill's herpes cream but I already used that. thank you very much Brian that's awesome.

Uh, so Brian is referencing uh I do a live show with my friends. a very not safe for work show on the HVAC Overtime YouTube channel on Friday evenings. uh Pat thank you very much for that. Super Chat My good friend that is Pat from Commercial Kitchen Chronicles That is really awesome Bud.

You did not need to do that, but it is much appreciated. Uh, let's see Dale Mar says that he likes the way that I mounted the surge protector box box with the couplings and the chase nipples. Yeah, um I Definitely used. Uh, my mind goes a bunch of different ways.

So the surge protector? uh yeah, I needed a coupling to go in between and I did Chase nipples on both sides and then I did an extra coupling on the other side just to balance it out. and then I put a bracket on the back of the surge protector and screwed it down to the air handler. um, trying to utilize everything I can just to make it look as nice as possible. So so let's get through this.

Um so I already talked about a little bit about the house project, but with the house project, you know the whole point was to save energy. Okay, I had a massively oversized system in my house previously it was in there when we moved into the house nine years ago. or whatever it was, it was a 4ton system now. I did do some improvements on my house, but as best as I can understand and and you know kind of figure out the original house design from when it was built in the 80s had a 3 ton system on the house.

Okay, but we did. Uh. before I moved moved into the house, there was a bunch of energy upgrades. all the windows were replaced.

um then uh, actually it was just all the windows, all the windows had been replaced and there was a giant patio cover across the whole back of the house. So those two things right there reduced the infiltration on the house significantly. okay, uh, as far as the thermal gains from the Sun just coming rising up and just beaming the back of the house. So those significantly helped with the house load.

And then I went around and did some air sealing and helping the house out even more. and we got the uh, the actual load calculation number down to two tons of required um, cooling basically, and heating pretty much it's It's like a two-ton load for both, but I will say that we were a little bit aggressive on the sizing. Uh, to the point that I did not install any heat strips in my system. but I sized the electrical run for my air handler as if I was going to add heat strips in the future.

Potentially, but I'm trying to run it without. But the other thing is, you know people were asking me like, hey, you know the days are getting hotter, the summers are getting hotter, we're having more and I I think I read a recent report that you know, um, we're having more, uh, above design temperature days every summer than we are the previous summer if that makes sense. Okay, so what am I going to do for my house if it's getting hotter and hotter outside? and I only you know sized my system to a 98 degree design temperature as far as ambient temperatures in the summer? Well, the biggest thing is is that there's still a bunch of energy upgrades to my house that I want to do. Okay, so I'm going to bring my house down to the cooling capacity of my system over the next couple years as I make more and more energy improvements.

One of the big ones that I want to do is eventually when I replace the flooring in my house which is actually going to come sooner than later I want to completely seal the bottom plate of the house basically where the walls meet the foundation cuz we're a slab on on grade Foundation Okay, so once I do that. that's going to reduce the air infiltration through the bottom of the floor of my house which is pretty significant. that's I I estimate that that's a pretty large load on my house and then on top of that eventually I want to completely redo the insulation in my attic which is also going to bring uh, you know the the, the, the what do you want to say the um, the cooling capacity needed basically down for the house. In fact I anticipate that a two-ton system when we are done with all of those things which is going to take a time is going to slightly be a little bit oversized.

Okay, so we'll see, we'll see how it goes, but I'm not too afraid. Okay um, one of the other really really common questions when it comes to the system for my house. Why in the heck did I choose carrier? Why not? Okay, carrier didn't pay me I I paid top dollar for that equipment. Okay I did not get any discounts.

Trust me. Okay, it was ridiculously expensive. What? I paid for that equipment. but I purposely I thought about it like hey, should I reach out to carriers Should I reach out to these people? But inevitably I decided not to because I wanted full freedom to be able to do and say whatever the heck I want Okay, the next thing I know, uh, more than likely that I'm going to be replacing this system again I'm probably not going to get 20 years out of this system.

not because it won't last that long, but simply because I know I'm going to want to try something different. you know in the coming years. Okay, uh, the way that we designed the system is I did my best to do the duct design, the piping design, and all of that. So that way it makes it even easier to change out the equipment itself if I choose to do so.

I'm the kind of person that just likes to have newer, fancier equipment when it does come out so as something else comes out that has some things that my system doesn't and I feel like you know it's time, then I'll consider changing the equipment again. It's a fun project for me. Okay, so I know I'm kind of weird in the way that I do things, but that's just how it goes all right. So let's see what else we got going on in the chat.

What am I missing? H will I be doing energy uh saving analysis? Uh yeah I mean to an extent? Okay, uh I do have some Grand plans I was actually just talking to Adam about eventually in the future having uh, a a website or something set up where you guys can all see the realtime numbers from my system at any given time. That is something that in the future I would like to work on. uh, where you can see my energy assumption where you can see you know the the system information. It'll be interesting if we can actually make all that work, temperatures and different things.

But as far as energy analysis, Yes! So right now I have energy consumption data that's been trending for over a year now. Okay, so in August of last year I installed energy monitors on my entire electrical system for my house and I have an entire year of energy data to compare this year that we're in right now. uh, you know, to last year Basically, Basically so we can already do that and I can already see. You know, like when I even the week that I started my system up I can already see a huge difference in energy consumption to the point that my system is going to be paid off quite quick based off of the Energy savings just from this new variable capacity system that I have.

Okay, but it also has to do with my previous system being massively oversized too. So um, let's see what else we got going on here. I am definitely a weirdo. 100% 100% I know it I'm there's nothing crazy about it.

Okay I know this, that's totally in there. Uh, let's see what else we got going on. I'm looking through my questions that I have right here. Um, so I do have to say that it was really cool I kind of started talking about it in the beginning of the stream that I flew out to Georgia last week.

uh earlier this? yeah? last week uh Monday Tuesday Wednesday I was in Georgia and that was really cool. traveled all over uh Atlanta uh Down to Tiffon Georgia then back. uh went to Bues for the first time. That was an interesting experience.

but I mean you know? honestly I think I Bues was big. It's a big giant gas station if you guys don't know about it. Um, and it's cool. but I don't know if it was like that cool.

It just looked like an oversized gas station to me with a bunch of Trinkets and different stuff inside of it. Um, but I mean it was cool I got like a sandwich from there and stuff. It was neat. Uh I don't know I mean I guess I get the appeal.

People traveling through, you know they're strategically placed. I Do think it's very interesting that diesel trucks are not allowed in a Bucky gas station. that? That is a really interesting one. So basically it's the idea of a truck stop just for passenger cars.

Interesting concept, but so did that and uh, that was fun. But I have to say business travel I don't do business travel very much. okay and I am a home body unless my family's with me and it was kind of a bummer like I Had a good time and lots of great video footage and lots of great experiences. Met lots of awesome people at Heatcraft Refrigeration like that was cool but I missed my family I definitely missed my family.

um I Was glad to get home. uh, hang out with my dogs, hang out with my daughters, my wife. Uh, it's been a good homecoming, but I don't know that I could do business travel on that scale on a regular basis I know there's some people my buddy Brett does business travel like that all the time from Advanced Refrigeration podcast I don't know how you do it Brett so don't know how you do it all right? Uh yeah, Bues is the Walmart of gas station. see that's funny with the cleanest bathrooms ever I Can't say that I went in the bathrooms at Bues.

Uh so let's see. let me see what else we got going on in the chat right now. All right. Cool.

Um, have I ever worked on a Linux Merit can't say that I have worked on a Linux Merit I I don't know for sure. So uh, let's see. Well I had a video about a week ago or maybe two weeks ago about me condemning a TXV on an evaporator coil that was completely rotted out. So instead of just changing the TXV I talked the customer into replacing the evaporator coils because there was two of them in the system.

it was completely rotted out and when I pulled the coil out I realized that the coil that I thought had a bad TXV was completely logged with oil in the video I kind of gave an explanation as to why I thought it was logged with oil because we had previously lost a compressor but the question was made if I was suspect of the oil which I had no idea there was oil in that coil. but the question being asked is if I did suspect oil in that coil. Um, you know, how would I have tried to get it out? Okay, being that that evapor coil was on the bottom of the system meaning that the pan chillers were up top, the evaporators that I was working on were towards the bottom. It would have been really difficult to actually get that oil out of the system.

I'm sure maybe we could have gotten some of it out, but when you get oil logged in a system, it's dang near impossible to completely get it out without drilling holes in the coil. and then that just leads to a whole bunch of other problems. The next thing. Oil Logged Coils: Honestly, in my opinion, diagnosing an oil logged coil is one of the more difficult things to do.

and usually the Co. oils that I have made educated guesses that were oil logged have always been like a I couldn't figure out what the heck was going on and I've tried everything I could so it must be oil logged. Okay, correct me, maybe you guys know a better way but I honestly don't know a proper way to diagnose an oil logged coil, especially on like a reach and cooler that's really difficult to get to I Kind of question whether or not if you had two operating evaporator coils in a walk-in cooler and one was giving you problems, one wasn't Maybe looking at them with a thermal imaging camera? If you can get a good view of them and have one that's working and one that's not, then maybe you'd be able to see something funky going on inside that coil. Improper heat transfer kind of a thing.

But oil logged coils in my opinion are super difficult to diagnose and in my opinion it's usually like just uh, it's nothing else so it's got to be oil locked. You know, like you just can't figure anything else out. That's my personal opinion on the matter. Um, do I think that the bad power head possibly on the TXV possibly caused the oil log? I don't in that situation I Don't think and and and I do agree that maybe a power head that's starting to fail can cause oil not to go back to a compressor.

But in this situation, uh, with the way that that system was designed I don't think that that oil came from the reach and cooler section compressor I Think that oil definitely came from the compressor that used to be on the roof for the cold rail of which I explained in the video. why is long story? So um, when I'm working on these reaching coolers, often times people notice that they're very, very dirty inside and the question came up: Does the Health Department open up these drawers and look inside? No. 100% No. Health Department Barely ever looks any further than standing on their legs unless they're a really, really short person.

Most of the time they just kind of bend over, barely take a thermometer, stick it in a half inch in a piece of food, and say no that occasionally someone will look with a flashlight, but it's very rare. Uh, I Can tell you pretty much on on any given day that if a health inspector saw the top of a unit cooler that has drawers, okay, what happens is when you slam those drawers. if they have liquid in them in the top food pans, that liquid splashes on the top of the box and it just gets stuck. So if a health inspector ever opened up a drawer, pulled it out, turned their head and looked up into the top of the box.

They'd probably freak out at every single restaurant out there. I don't care how fancy it is. Okay, next thing is Health Inspectors never look in ice machines. They'll open up the bin doors and kind of look around inside the bin, but very rarely have I ever seen a health inspector open up a cover for an ice machine and look inside there because if they did, there'd be a lot more restaurants getting shut down 100% So uh, let's see what else we got going on in here.

Uh, let's see the ones uh Brian Sanders has ran across is from improper traps on line sets. I would 100% agree? Yep, um and I have seen like oil issues like I've se you know. Interesting one. I've seen uh, parallel compressors getting logged with oil because one compressor was isolated and uh, the way that the suction line came back it would dump into the the.

it would just basically drain all the system oil into one compressor. I've seen that happen. That's an interesting one. Uh, when you see that let's see Uh 2024 Ahr Expo Yes, yes I plan to be at the Ahr Expo in Chicago my buddy Adam Muffet will be there too.

um I will be a good majority of the time at the Parker Sporin Booth I will be at some point in time at the refrigeration Technologies booth and at the Heatcraft refrigeration booth. and I'm sure there'll be some other places that I'll be spending time at. Too 100% we'll be there. Um, let's or at least that's the plan.

So uh, let me see what else we got going and I almost got covered in oil. also. yeah, that is 100% true. uh.

oil logged your super heat will hunt site glasses low or empty? Yeah. I would agree. Superheat will hunt. depend I mean that Co has to be really, really long though.

But yeah, yeah it will. And interesting things too. Just some trends that I tend to notice is when you have oil logged coils similar to what Jason saying that the superheat will hunt, you'll see weird fluctuations and pressures. You'll see really improper evaporator TDS on the evaporator coil.

um, but super heat kind of doing weird things and bad TDS on the coils. Also kind of leads you towards a powerhead issue with the expansion valve, so you know it's always kind of a difficult thing to figure out for sure, especially on the reaching coolers CU on the reach and coolers, it's almost impossible to check evaporator superheat on a coil like that because you'd have to get inside and clamp onto the suction line. Or you know? I Guess you can try to clamp after the coil, but that's really difficult. So the reach and coolers is really hard to diagnose on a walk-in It's a little bit easier because you have a little bit more room to actually get in there and take temperature measurements and pressure measurements and different things like that.

Um, let's see what else we got going on in the chat. Uh, velocity is a big factor for oil return. 100% velocity is is a huge Factor when it comes to oil return for sure. Um, and you can start to run into issues when you have, we tend to have some issues.

Some very unique issues out here in Southern California Because we have a very mild climate. Okay So um, our equipment. Well, we have a very mild winter climate, but we have extreme heat in the summer. So often times our equipment tends to be oversized, right? And what I mean by oversized is you typic on refrigeration will Design to pretty much the highest ambient temperatures because you need that equipment to be running when it's really hot outside, right? So if you have 120 degree ambients, you know you might be designing to at least 100 degree 105 degree ambient temperatures as far as your heat load for the equipment, right? So when you do that, but then you have a really mild winter, what happens is your equipment continues to run.

Will thank you again for being a supporter of The Channel for so very long. I Really do appreciate that, my good friend. Um, but when you have equipment that is sized for 105 110 degree ambient and then during the winter you have 70 degree ambients and you have, What begins to happen is that equipment becomes massively oversized in the winter time, right? So let's say you have a, you know, let's say a five horsepower system, right? But then in the winter time it turns into a seven and a half horsepower system because the compressor is just massively oversized because there's no heat load, right? and it's designed to run. So as we get into more variable capacity equipment, it's going to be a little bit easier and we're going to have some better conditions than that.

But when you do that, when you have equipment that's that massively oversized. in the winter, you start to run into refrigerant velocity issues because that refrigerant is not flowing through that evaporator fast enough and it and it starts to create problems. So it's definitely interesting. Um, when you run into these weird mild climate winter areas.

uh, let's see what else we got going on in here. Uh, all right. so um. Economizer Frustrations I Had a video where I was doing a carrier package unit and I was extremely frustrated.

Okay, and I think that some of the chat kind of missed the point in what I was trying to say I was frustrated with how difficult it was to set up the new Seaman controller on that carrier package unit that I was doing the install on. Okay, not completely. Seaman fault Partially their fault. Okay, carrier.

Uh, basically my local distributor chose to use a certain manufacturer that makes economizers okay. They Chang their manufacturers. They used to use a manufacturer that, uh, installed a Jade economizer right? It had a Honeywell Jade controller in it and used to have a choice between a Jade or whatever other brand. I Ask them for a Jade system now and they no longer through my local Sigers, which is my carrier distributor.

They no longer offer any economizer with a jade controller on it. Okay, I would have to go purchase it aftermarket through someone else. So the new system system that they're selling has a seaman controller on it and that Seaman controller. First off, they didn't send the proper instructions so I had to install the economizer without the instructions I figured it out.

But then when it came time to program the controller, it was really, really difficult. So I scanned a little thing. it said I needed a Wi-Fi dongle so I ordered that I came back out I put that on and then I was being honest in the video. It was not very intuitive setting it up.

Uh, to the point that it wanted me to do the math and plot things on a chart to be able to figure out what the you know desired enthalpy difference was. and it was just really silly and seemed counterintuitive. Though you know one of the things that they came out Title 24 in Southern California You know whether you not, whether you like government intervention or not. Title 24 was an energy code and part of that energy code said that economizers needed to be super easy and simple and they needed to work.

Okay, so they redesigned a lot of systems. Honeywell came out with the Jade controller, Bimo came out with the zip controller and um, they were much easier to set up the economizers and they were very intuitive. You, it just basically asked you some simple questions. You were able to click, click click and boom.

You had a working economizer that was easy to troubleshoot. Okay, you didn't have to do stupid math in your head to figure things out. I Realize our job involves some sort of math, right? That's fine. But I shouldn't have to bring a chart out and plot things on a chart to figure things out.

in this day and age, there's no need for that now. I Realize you have smartphone, apps and different things I get it. But you understand when I make things in videos and sometimes when I'm saying things. I'm also talking to the manufacturers because some of them do watch my content.

Okay, funny story. I'll try to remember to tell this story, but some of those manufacturers do watch my content and I'm talking to them too. So when I'm expressing frustrations in my videos partially it's because I don't want to have to do any extra work. But another part of it is is I'm talking to the manufacturer and that setup on that Seaman Economizer is just plain stupid.

It really is. And and and it's just dumb that they do that. It's so dumb. it needs to be easier for normal service technicians normal dummies like myself to be able to understand how to set those things up.

That's my opinion. Okay, um, have I worked on Subzero I've worked on their equipment once or twice, but not very much. So um, let's see. Jason Johnson says bimo zip all the way.

Cool. It's all good. I never worked on the Bumo Zip system so um, let me see uh, reading through the chat. Okay, there you go.

Cool. Um, hey there my buddy Steve uh HVAC Residential Steve Damansky I believe yeah, how you doing Steve Um, it's mindboggling why they haven't integrated the economizer control into the main board. Well, they have with some manufacturers like in the fancier Linux units. They definitely have it built into the the previous Prodigy controller and the new one.

I Can't remember what the new controller is called they yeah, they have economizer functionality built into that. um in some of the higher-end carrier equipment. they probably have it in that too. but in the lower end stuff that I'm installing most of the time they just don't So it is what it is.

Um, let me see. Uh, Okay, so I already talked about that. Um, let me see what else we got going on here. So someone mentioned that I Okay, again, let me preface this.

my system install was not perfect I know there was a lot of problems with it I know I did my best but it's not perfect. Okay, so I just had to say that before I read this comment. So someone mentioned that I did too good of a job on the install and they were being sarcastic for my house saying that now there's going to be nothing to fix. Um, there certainly is a lot of holes in my install.

There's things I could have done better I could have done better with the line set securing it. Um, there's there's a couple shortcomings with that, but it all worked out right. But the whole point in putting the effort into my system install is because and I mentioned this earlier in the Stream I 100% know that eventually I'm going to change my equipment probably before its life Cycle's over because I'm want to try out another brand, right? I put in a high-end Carrier Infinity system. So maybe someday I'm going to put in a high-end train or a high-end Linux or a high-end ream or whatever just because I want to try their equipment I like trying new things I like new technology.

With the way that I did my system and designing it, it's going to be super easy to change equipment Brands within reason I should be able to change over to another brand equipment because the the the, the basic install system or the basic install is already there. So I purposely did that so that way it' be easier to change equipment over. Okay, um, why did I choose carrier? Kind of talked about this earlier in the video earlier in the Stream there's really nothing carrier was, uh, equipment that I could easily get because I do sell carrier commercial equipment on a regular basis. Okay, so it was easy for me to petition my you know salesman for the commercial side.

Hey, sell me an Infinity system, you know I'm not an Infinity dealer and that actually kind of might be leading into some problems that I'm going to have here shortly. Uh, because I'm not an infinity dealer I Do think that that's partially why I cannot log into the Carrier Service Technician app. They did give me access to it and I can see my new system on the Carrier Service Technician app. but when I click on it, it says equipment not registered something or other I don't know I got to call Tech Support to find out but I suspect that it's because I'm not a Carrier dealer.

Okay, so we'll see, but you know as far as choosing carrier it was easy I didn't have to jump through a bunch of Hoops Um so I just ordered it and figured I'd try it I already see some holes right? One of the things that I and I'll talk about this in future videos. but one of the things that I see with my carry equipment and I was a little bit dis disappointed is that I do not have full airf flow control. Okay I as far as I can understand and maybe some other guys out there that have Carrier Infinity equipment can correct me if I'm wrong. but as far as I can figure out right now, I only have three air speeds that I can set for my equipment and I've yet to be able to go in.

Maybe if I get into the carrier Commercial Service Technician app I can tweak some things a little bit more but at the the point that I'm at right now I can only set three airf flow things and I really have no like total control over my system. so I'm a little disappointed in that already. Number two: I'm a little disappointed that they didn't put an Eev on the indoor coil. they put a normal TXV which I thought's kind of silly like I have an Eev outside who knows, you know so we'll see.

We'll see as things go on. Let's see what else we got going on in the chat. Um, read the manual Adam says exactly so. um.

system cost I would have to put a pan on top of the platform, then another pan on the bottom of the return with the wet switch Yeah Adam Adam did encourage me and I do plan Okay, so that's another thing too. I'm going to be putting uh, um, overflow switches in the drain line I'm definitely going to be integrating um, uh, some other things to help with condensation issues and stuff in the future. Yes, that is part of the plan that'll come in future videos. Uh, putting pans down in the return cabinet.

That is something that I am considering still doing down below the equipment because this particular equipment that was in my house before that I just repl placed had water leak issues in the past. So um, technically kind of have a double trap in my house I Don't know if I've ever explain this in the video because my condensate drain goes into the foundation under the foundation, then comes out of the foundation and has a slight trap underneath. So technically I'm double trapping my system slightly. So those are things too that I might run into issues in the future.

I slightly consider doing a um, uh, what do you want? a condensate pump instead of running to the drain line that goes under the slab like I did I may have to do that in the future, so who knows. Um, see what else we got going on in the chat? Uh, Jason says that he used to know residential equipment without reading the manual. Nowadays you got to read the manual. Put a chiller in front of me.

He can do a lot by memory 100% Um, regarding the service technician app. Etc this is why we need Open Standards Yeah, I I do agree Open Standards it should be. You know I 100% Think that I shouldn't necessarily have to be a dealer now I Also think that I probably if I push hard enough I can get whatever I want. Uh, because you know this is only going to reflect I guess? Well, I mean it should reflect good on Carrier right? If I get access to the app and I can really dig into it so we'll see, We'll see as time goes on.

I'm sure if I talk about this enough on my videos and different things, someone will catch wind of what I'm doing. So um, carrier commercial equals proprietary pay. Get me access to the system. Yeah, kind of.

as long as you have it vented between the traps, it'll be fine. Yeah, true. All right. Um, so I already answered that one I already answered the Y carrier question.

Uh, why not? Basically right? Uh I do have energy monitors all on my system I mentioned a few minutes ago. uh since August of last year I've had energy monitors checking out the energy consumption on my house and mind you, some of that information and that data is mindboggling when I told Adam my buddy Adam like how much energy my system consumed on a daily basis. It's insane. So uh, basically every year for the last I don't know how many years my electric bill from June to September has been over $800 a month.

So that's how much my electric bill was. Over the last couple years it just been ridiculous. And it was climbing as Energy prices went up. uh, you know, so it was just Bonkers and hopefully I'm going to completely get rid of those stupid high energy bills like I was so Jeffrey Thank you very much man! So Jeffrey says he loves the beanies.

so if you guys aren't familiar I do have beanies and other merchandise available on my website Hvacr Videos.com Uh, we have cuffed and non-cuffed beanies. We have hats, couple different styles of hats, t-shirts sweaters we have. the sweaters are zip up hoodies. um really really nice warm stuff.

so check it out if you haven't already. Uh Steve is asking if I got the Bluetooth model? Yes I have a 25 VNA 4 system so it is the Bluetooth model it it I can pull up the carrier service technician app of which I had to ask for access to I can log in I can see the equipment and when I click connect it errors out and gives me a problem I suspect that it's because I'm not an official Carrier dealer but I need to call tech support and find out there could also be a problem with the board the little Bluetooth board. but yes I do have a Bluetooth model so I can connect to my system via Bluetooth So um let me see I did get the what is it a 20, 25 VNA 4 so it's the 24 Sear 410A system uh 210 so um let me see what else uh working on Okay, cool right on. um I already talked about that so that's cool.

Oh that I So I was saying that I do have energy monitors on my house. My next step is eventually I'd like some sort of a point where you all can access and see data that you want to see. um it'd be really neat to be able to have that data for people to see see what the the demand what my system's running at during Peak loads and different things but also I want have temperature monitoring all throughout my house so I'd like to have sensors in every room and then I'd like to have sensors all throughout my attic and outside to see the different outdoor conditions and be able to relate that information. In hindsight, I regret not having that temperature monitoring data when I installed the energy monitors a year ago because it would have been really cool to be able to see my energy consumption with actual measured temperatures versus trying to look up historical internet data for temperatures in my area that time of year.

Um, realistically, right now, that's the only thing I could do is just look up temperature data. I May Well, no yeah I had no measurements I did have an Ecob thermostat on my system previous to this new install, but obviously because I put a fully communicating system in I now have a proprietary carrier control so I no longer have the Ecco thermostat of which will I will be sending that to you by the way too I told Will speed that I would send him my Ecoe. So um, let me me see: Mason Goose says that he knows with the lenux equipment the S30 you could adjust the specific CFM down to one CFM if he remembers correctly. Yeah, so it'd be awesome if I could.

So um, and Adam keeps saying that I didn't read the manual I mean I kind of read the manual I didn't like sit on the toilet for two hours reading the manual but I kind of glance through the manual and I don't see anything yet. but who knows I'm not very good at reading manuals I really am not. So um, let me see what else we got going on in here. Reading through here.

Okay, cool. Does anyone know if remote temperature sensors are polarity sensitive? That's a good question Brian I guess it depends on the type of sensor. That's a very good question though. Um D Mar is asking if I like the fact that my evaporator or my my what do you my aoil I guess is the easiest way to call it in my air handler is aluminum.

Do I like that? I mean I'm sure I would appreciate if it was a copper coil, but you know I mean it is what it is. We'll see. you know, as long as I keep keep the Voc's down in my house I would imagine that the aluminum coil should last. Well uh, that's another thing too is I'm going to be putting my air quality monitor back in my system.

uh in the future and some other things too is we still have to tackle fresh air I need to bring fresh air into my house and I have some interesting ideas if I can actually make them work for bringing fresh air into my house with air quality monitors and different things monitoring the outside air so that'll be cool too. so stay tuned on that. Um, okay, uh. do I plan on adding a humidifier to my system as far as a humidifier goes as of this point, not necessarily.

Yes. I don't think I'm going to need a humidifier because as I tighten up my envelope um, you'd be surprised. Uh and I was actually that was Bill spone that told me that one from True Tech tools because IID mentioned maybe needing a humidifier because I used to have a lot of dry conditions in my house. but as I tightened up the envelope on my house and sealed a lot of the air leaks.

What we're finding is the humidity levels are becoming more consistent right? Even before I changed my system to this new system, the humidity levels were getting better in my house and it was becoming less dry in my house because we didn't have that dry infiltration from outside coming into the house. Okay, so every time you take a shower, even though we have a bath fan, there's a little bit of humidity that kind of, you know, just makes it out of the bathroom right? Every time you cook something on the stove, run the sink, there's a little bit of moisture that evaporates and just kind of goes into the house and that adds to the relative humidity inside the house. And with a tighter envelope we're we're able to maintain and sustain that humidity a little bit better. So I don't think I'm going to need to add a humidifier to my house.

Um, what else we got going on in here? Uh, reading through the chat right now. Okay, cool. um why did I install a sight glass on my system? So I put a SE all sporin sight glass on my system and I put it at the air handler inside. First off, why did I install it? Why not? I was having fun.

Basically, it was just kind of like what do I want to do to my house? Let's go crazy. let's put ball valves on each side of the dryer. so I can ball valve the dryer off. That's the commercial service tech in me.

Okay, let's Mount the line set on Unistrut I certainly didn't have to do that I certainly could have just thrown a 50 foot line set and ran it from one side of my house to the other without strapping anything down and and it would have worked. Okay, but I had fun I strapped it all in Unistrut made it all nice and tight. Pipe insulation on the Li on the vapor line and the liquid line. Why not, right? It's just fun.

retain some of the heat, keep going, stop some of the heat from absorbing into the liquid line in the summer. Why not? Okay, everything can help get the most Energy Efficiency out of my system. Next, why did I Um, put an actual sight glass in my system? Well, first off, uh, like I said, why not? But next, it acts as a moisture indicator. but we don't really need the moisture indicator so much as um or I shouldn't say it acts as a a liquid indicator so you can see if you actually have liquid right? But as far as the moisture indicator, it's always good to know, right? You can tell if there's a a moisture problem in the system, right? Uh, it's just good to have that there.

So why not? Now why did I install it inside? Well, I actually originally planned on installing a sight glass inside and outside and to be honest with you, when I was doing the install, I forgot to do the sight glass outside I was going to put one outside at the condenser too. so I still have it and probably in the future I'm going to go ahead and pump the system down and go ahead and press on that sight glass outside too that way I have one out of the condenser. So um, let's see what else we got going on in the chat right now. Uh, let's see why did I go all fancy with the inverter equipment versus just traditional Again, why not? I Mean it was kind of fun, You know once I started going down the path of I wanted to redesign the system on my house, then I started thinking oh, I could make this a business expense, right? It's a videos project So boom became a business expense and then it was like, well, why not, let's go all fancy and go fully in.

Verner So I did you know I I I my mind works kind of strange and I just had fun with it. See, you know I don't have a life outside of videos and work really? I mean I really don't I spend time with my family and I shoot videos and I edit videos and I go to work. So this is what I have fun doing little projects around my house doing this kind of stuff. So um, and yes, I do plan on putting a float switch in and doing some more work with the drain for sure.

So let's see what brand of compressor is in my new system. Uh honestly I haven't even looked at it. it's a rotary compressor I know that in the the two-ton system so if I had to guess it's let's see carrier what brand rotary compressors does carrier use I don't even know I'd have to think yeah I'd have to look into there I haven't even open the condensed unit up to stare at that I will tell you that I'm very disappointed and I'll talk about it in some future videos. with the install of the equipment itself like the piping orientation and some of the component uh, manufacturers that they used in different things, it's it's not very high quality components, lots of uh sanua, whatever Valves and different things which I'm not a huge fan of.

uh I Do appreciate the fact that they put a spoiling TXV in the indoor coil, so that's nice. Um, they had shipped me some weird sonua filter dryer yeah, that went in the trash and I put a nice spoiling catchall uh B flow dryer inside. not going to mess with that junk. so uh, see what else we got going on in the chat.

Am I going to put an Erv in? So um, I'm kind of going back and forth as far as the fresh air for my house. I'm still kind of working through that and trying to decide how I want to introduce fresh air into the house. so whether or not I'm going to go with an Erv Um, we really don't have a lot of humidity here, so you know I don't know if the return on investment on an Erv is really going to be there if if I just put a really, really nice filtration system and just bring fresh air in I think we'll probably be just as sufficient as using an Erv but it just depends. It depends on, you know, we do have really dry air.

so I guess that's where an Erv might benefit me a little bit more. Uh, so we might be able to retain some of the humidity in the house. Uh, you know? who knows. I'm still haven't figured that part out yet.

So um, let's see. Steve is saying that he puts sight glasses on their suction lines at the Endor coil for your training unit at the shop. Amazing to see when the system starts 100% So yep, uh, Brett is saying that the sonua is a spoiling ripoff. Um, yeah, we could talk for days on a lot of that different stuff.

So a lot of that different stuff. Surprisingly, a lot of the well. I'm not going to go into crazy detail, but yeah, surprisingly, there's a lot of spoiling influence on a lot of parts from a lot of Manufacturers. But anyways, um, what else we got? Where's the antenna for my energy monitor system? Didn't see it any where.

Uh, it's actually in the breaker panel. Uh, it's sitting in the breaker panel. Um, I it says to mounted outside but I just threw it in the breaker panel and it gets perfect service all throughout my house. So I really don't need the you know, the antenna sticking out or anything like that.

Um Mario says draining water off the condenser. I'm assuming maybe you're talking about why I didn't put pump UPS or something like that on my condenser outside. Um I think that might be what you're talking about for the you know. Uh, but really don't have those issues.

and I have a drain right next to my condenser in the concrete so we don't really get below zero here. So I'm not worried about freezing I didn't think I needed pump UPS or stands plastic stands for my condens or anything. Don't know if that's what you're asking Mario or not. but um Whole House Fan with automatic damper on a filtered inline duct.

yeah I Kind of thought about going super simple like that. Um, we'll see I again I Don't want to spoil all the beans but I do have some Grand ideas uh, whether or not I can Implement them and really pull them off I don't know, but we'll see. Uh, definitely involving some commercial controls and different things. So let's see if I actually get to this.

um, shielded? Wire Yeah I ran shielded wire uh on my condenser from inside to outside for sure. Uh, actually ran a extra redundant wire in the thermostat conduit I ran everything in conduit from inside to outside. uh and then just ran a redundant wire inside there just in case we ever run into a problem Again, the service tech in me from the commercial side is popping out as I ran everything. So but yeah, the shielded wire for sure ran that.

Uh, let's see, um, surge protector voltage monitors inside and outside. So I have a separate one for the air handler, separate one for the condenser. Uh, set the I Actually we had a wind event. We have something called the Santa Ana winds and uh, whenever we have the Santaa winds, it's a crazy wind event where you'll get to like 70 80 mile an hour gust and then it slows down to 30 and then the wind changes Direction It blows in all different directions all day long.

And when we have those events uh, the power company, they emailed me to say hey, there's a potential we're going to shut off your power and these high wind events. They're worried about fires and different things. So initially, right when I got that email, I instantly went out because I hadn't set up my surge protector voltage monitors yet. right? So I went out there and I set them up and I started thinking about it and I actually set them to to shut the equipment off.

Um, plus or minus 5% is actually what I did so instead of doing 10% which is the industry standard, I did plus or minus 5% and I reduced the amount of events that can happen too. Um I technically still have it on auto reset so if it has an event, it's going to automatically turn back on. but I might go in and change it to manual reset just to be safe. So if you don't know what I'm talking about when we have power outages and brown outs and different things like that in the high heat of the summer.

Oftentimes weird things can happen right? Uh, if you have a power station problem or something like that that they can send incorrect voltage to your house and it can cause surges and spikes and different things. So that's why I set the surge protector to actually, um, shut off a little early just to be safe and again I may change it to a manual reset. We'll have to see. So um, let me see because Brett he wants the coil to last long.

So what? wait? I'm reading through here. Um, how come I didn't install an antibiotic condenser because I'm not that fancy my friend. Not that fancy. Um, let's see.

Uh Adam is saying that he thinks I should add a filter monitor. You know Adam slow your roll because you might be spilling some of the beans here. my friend, you might be spilling some of the beans. So that is, uh, on my radar.

Something that I was thinking about and I would like to implement something of that sort possibly in the future. Um, why don't I just get taller I don't know what you mean by that. but okay. I guess I'm kind of short.

uh, did I ground both ends of the shielded wire? No, because if you ground both ends of a shielded wire, you defeat the purpose of a shielded wire. you actually only want to ground one end of a shielded wire to allow it to actually be shielded. Um, trick question My there, my friend there. So uh, let's see.

Jason Johnson says he added a pressure switch across his filter and tied it into his control circuit. Good idea there. Jason Good idea my friend. Um, let me see.

Jason Johnson says never ground both ends just like you're never supposed to cross the beams. Don't ever cross the beams or the streams. Okay, because that can be a problem unless you're playing swords. then that's a whole different thing.

So all right, um cool. let's see what else we got going on in the chat right now. What am I missing? um oh I do have to say so cool story. I kind of told this on the overtime show and I thought it was kind of fun.

So I went to Heatcraft Refrigerations Factory and one of the things that they did um was they took me on a tour and I got to see a couple different things and then I got to go through bra training right? So they have a supervisor that's in charge to make sure that people are brazing properly. Because they recognized in the past they had some issues with braze joints and different things, right? So they've implemented a lot of best practices to try to help that and they really are trying to improve things. So I went through bra training and I didn't pass their standards and I thought that was awesome I really did. It was actually kind of fun and it was cool to see like you know that they really are trying their best.

They're not perfect, but they're trying their best. So um uh, let's see what else we got going on in here. Reading through the chat right now what am I missing? but you can cross the Crocs Yes, exactly. So um, but so I I failed the bra training so that was kind of funny.

Um, let's see what else. There was another story I was going to tell too. Oh so it was kind of funny because uh, when I had gotten to the factory they were introducing to me the person that was going to do the plant tour and I he didn't know who I was So I was telling him yeah, you, this is what I do I make content and different stuff and he goes oh he goes Yeah, We came across some content a few years ago where someone was being really critical of our equipment. Again, this is the Heatcraft guy that was talking to me.

Okay, so he came across some footage. Someone at their company came across some footage on YouTube where someone was being critical of their equipment and they actually took that footage and he was telling me about it and he's like yeah, we found this on YouTube it was this person and then he said a phrase in that video and the phrase that he said kind of. wait a minute, that was my video. So it was a complete complete coincidence.

They had no idea. Like the person that found that video, they hadn't put the dots together. they hadn't talked to marketing that I had a video where I was being critical of something that they did like four or five years ago and they actually use it as training materials to help in the company. So it was just kind of funny because for the longest time I didn't know how to take it when he says yeah, We came across that video and then I'm sitting here thinking oh crap, where's this going, Are they mad about it? Like what's happening here And then it turned turns out that they actually used that critical, uh, that video where I was being critical of them and they actually used that to change the culture and change some of the things they did.

So that was a cool fun story. So um, let's see what else we got going on in here. Uh, you ground both ends on mic cables? Yeah, okay, cool. Um, reading through the chat bra techniques are way overrated.

Just get it hot and lots of solder and you'll be good to go. That's the way I roll. So um, reading through right now. Well, I really do appreciate you guys and it is time to go ahead and end this because I'm going to go have dinner.

We are having grilled cheese and tomato soup for dinner tonight and that sounds really good. We got kind of fall weather so it's getting a little bit cool outside. Perfect weather for grilled cheese and tomato soup. So again, thank you very much for being here! I Really do appreciate you guys I am going to queue up the outro music and uh, we will definitely catch you on the HVAC overtime show Friday Evening 6:05 p.m.

Pacific time if we do the show for some reason I Might have heard that we might not be doing the show but plan on being there I Plan on being there okay again. I Really appreciate you guys I'm going to queue up the outro music and we will definitely catch you guys on the next one. e.