HVAC GUY Live Stream Talking about the Gree Flexx

Oh, the Milwaukee fan giveaway, we gave that away to a technician in Texas. I do have some other stuff that I would like to give away. I need to figure out a good way to make all of that public and where people can see who wins and announce a winner. I had a bad experience doing it on YouTube where scammers started putting comments. You know, the YouTube scammers don't stop. If they see you're going to give something away, they're going to start posting something in the comments saying, hey, you've won. One of the things I wanted to talk about was from Cheyenne, Wyoming. Is that supposed to be Brian McBride or is it Brian? You know, that's where I was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on Warren Air Force Base. I got lots of stories from there. A video about superheat and subcool. Sure, I can. um i guess that's one of the things to take for granted that i know how to do and use and look at the temperatures and so long superheat and sub cooling i kind of have in my head superheat and sub cooling should be but still i look at the charts from time to time well hello sean it's probably three hours five o'clock six o'clock in london i do use a concentric flaring tool um i think it's made by yellow jacket the one that i showed in the video the other day that um I don't have any of the motorized ones or battery-operated ones. Yes, it's not necessarily rain out day, but that rain that you have in Oklahoma right now is going to start hitting us tomorrow afternoon. I've actually got a compressor to do, and I could have done it today, but I'm scheduling it for Friday because we're going to have rain come in Wednesday afternoon and all day Thursday. All the way from the Middle East. Well, thanks for joining the stream. yeah on the um flare joints on the mini split style system i put in my house you have to use Nylog first one i didn't use Nylog and i had multiple multiple problems until i just went back to basics went and got my Nylog after i had broken the joysy was good to see everybody on the stream it's not necessarily a rain day but the weather is such that everybody has their doors open the windows are down it's not cold and it's not hot so yeah this is a kind of an off day i was and i do have some other things to give away i have um a couple of nice things to give away i'm just trying to figure out the best way to do it so that nobody gets scammed or the the youtube scammers contact them i don't want any of that to happen and that's what was happening the last time yes the Gree flex is an inverter driven system it is you wire the thermostat wires up just like a conventional ream or rude you got a blue for reversing valve so it takes a conventional thermostat it helps with humidity but there's no way to control the humidity on it um but it is an inverter it has all the electronics to run the inverter ramp up judging from superheat sub cooling um indoor and outdoor temperature excuse me the outdoor temperature it doesn't know what the indoor temperature there are no sensors on the indoor air handler so it does it all outside they didn't have the special flaring tool needed well yeah you got to have a flaring tool to um hook these things up um the basic programmable thermostat that i use is the Honeywell T4. You can set it up for straight cool or heat pump, straight cool and single stage heat. And you can set it up for programmable. You can set it up where it doesn't need a common and uses batteries, which is something you can't really do with the T6. So I use a lot of the T4. Minneapolis, 35 degrees, four inches of snow in Arizona. I thought y'all lived in a desert. A non-programmable thermostat? I don't carry a non-programmable thermostat because code is now you need to have a programmable thermostat. I just use the T4 and if they don't want it programmable, I don't make it programmable. I've stuck with Honeywell for a long time. I know there's some other options out there, but I've been with them forever. No, the Griflex is not like a mini split where both lines need to be insulated. The Griflex is like a traditional system. It does have an electronic expansion valve outside, but they only use it to add sub-cooling. The metering device is in the air handler, and it's a TXV, so it's a regular liquid line. You don't need to insulate it. It is a lot like a conventional system with a really high-tech condenser on it. Yeah, Jacksonville's not far away. Oh my god, it well i'm glad the tornado didn't hit you yeah well where are you at Seong HVAC our rain is starting for us tomorrow myrtle beach myrtle beach to me means bike week spring break i grew up in south carolina hey eddie what's up a frequent commenter on my videos well sherman i'm doing fine how are you the um the grief flex to me was just a really good option it is not communicating it's just a very simple setup a 20 sear system and in fact you can use that condenser on any air handler as long as it has a TXV on the coil Canada now i bet it's really cold up there um they do have that particular the flex is just a single channel but they do have like up to four tons where they have multiple heads for like the mini splits i don't know if you could do that with multiple air handlers that i'm not real sure well thank you eddie um i actually had a little trouble starting out this live stream my um it didn't want to connect and i had to start over on my 18 volt vacuum the only milwaukee 18 volt batteries i have are the six amp hour and the five amp hour and i just i actually rotate my batteries so that i know which one is the oldest one that's been charged and i just use the oldest one no you can put the dryers inside um yes the dryers can rust and eventually cause a leak but you can put them inside if you have a split system well thank you anonymous one yes i am a solo shop i do everything from answering the phone to bill collecting the tech work scheduling i do it all but i don't regret any of it and the scheduling has some real benefits if i stay up late one night if i don't have anything pending first thing in the morning i might sleep in till nine o'clock well thank you guys uh in fact uh this year i'm at 31,200 subs right now i started the year off like seven and a half thousand so that tells you what we've done this year and i'm really appreciative for all of it yes you can change the compressor on a gree flex yes you can change the compressor on a gree flex it's not a simple job but um not not too out of the ordinary but yes you can change those i know when you look at the reflex in that video you're thinking all that stuff's kind of crammed into one spot but at least it's all where you can take the panels off and it's right there you can put your hands on it um there's some of these mini split style systems you can't do that well thank you jerry well uh changing out a two-ton condenser that's a condenser sometimes it's a little heavier but it's an easier job than doing a compressor in my opinion yes that's a big jump in subs in one year I don't work on a lot of train. There is no train supplier here, nor American Standard. The Trane dealers have to have the Trane product shipped to them. And anytime you need a part, you got to wait a couple of days. So other companies like myself just prefer not to even try to sell them. Yes, my company is doing good this year. We actually had a really good year. The crawl spaces and attics. Yeah. In fact, I'm getting to the age and the point in my career where sometimes if the crawl space is just too low and it's nasty, I just don't go. I tell them, hey, I can't get down there. And sometimes that really is the case. I will turn down a job if I have to, if it's just really too low. And y'all see me get into some low crawl spaces, but they do get worse. No, I try not to swear. I may get an occasional OMG. Oh, I'm loving this grease so far you can't even tell it's running you set your thermostat on a temperature and it does not move it doesn't go up or down it just maintains the temperature it doesn't go up one degree or down one degree um if it weren't for the blower you would not know the thing is running thank you Billy 24.5 serious when it's negative 40 centigrade yeah the um the Gree, I think it's like below zero at some point it can still deliver 95 degree air i would have to reread the specs on it yes my Gree is a heat pump the favorite brand i like to work on i think i think some of the ones that i like to work on are the like the old rectangle reams where everything's right there and easy to work on that may be some of my favorites the air handler does not communicate with a condenser on the Gree Flex it is wired and thermostat wired just like a conventional excuse me just like a conventional system it um so it's got 24 volts control and everything basements in canada i see other channels i like to watch the um the michigan heating guy and 95 percent of the time he's in a basement or something like that and i i kind of envy that the zoom lock fittings the press fittings i'm not talking about the ones that just slide in but the press fittings might be okay i have not tried them yet but the the other ones that you can just unlock and lock and slide your copper in no i'm not even gonna think about trying those yeah sometimes when i say hmm that's either that might be something bad well mike what kind of uh mini splits are you what kind of mini splits are you having that trouble with no i have not even seen one of the new bosch systems i've watched some videos on them and how to work on them so that when i come up on one i'm not having to run out to the truck and read the manual right away i'm probably going to have to anyway but no i have not seen any bosch systems i was going to install a Bosch package unit. But when the fellow was asking about it, there was only one in the country. And when I found that out, I just realized that getting parts for it was probably going to be impossible. So we didn't do that. But I almost sold one of those. But the Bosch system seemed to be pretty nice. I don't like that they have the top discharge. The one thing I like about mine, it has a side discharge i'm much less likely to get leaf litter and stuff in there it helps keep the system clean and something i didn't show on the back of mine where the line set comes in and i have my thermostat wires and whatnot i um put some more armor flex in there to close off the hole to help keep them lizards and stuff like that from getting in there yes i have a simpson meter yeah i've heard about the problems with Navien because one certain person on youtube i don't install them i don't i don't really do the plumbing the closest i might do is working on something like a Rinnai heater like you saw on the side of my house but that's maybe only for me i don't really do plumbing work well hello i don't see a name but hello to the fellow from norway yes i was talking about um the pipe doctor yeah i've seen his videos and he really doesn't like Navien um i haven't seen any Navien down here none at all the um the indoor on-demand water heaters that i am seeing are electric i kind of thought the epa regulations were going to make us start going to um 90% furnaces like they did up north in a higher seer um heat pump but it's looking a lot like they're pushing heat pumps more than they're pushing the higher seer the higher what is it a AFUE rating on the gas furnaces i may have that wrong y'all forgive me well thank you Kevin. You know, it's not just y'all learning from me. I actually learned from y'all. I happen to be a person that does not associate much with other people in the business. There's only like a couple people I even talk to. So your comments sometimes actually do help me out. How's it going in California? Yes, I have an outdoor Rinnai heater on my house. I've had it over 10 years and i don't think it's ever been serviced the um the outdoor Rinnai heater and um well it's just a hot water heater that's basically all we use our gas for we do have a couple other appliances like our stove top but uh i don't do much cooking well john arnold um look in my videos i posted a video saturday evening of the Gree Flex that i put in my house how did i get a day off well um i talked to the boss and he gave me a day off well thank you Hans I'm glad your son watches I hope it gives him some good ideas look at here that's Kevin Barnes I figure I'd give a shout out to him um he contacted me on Facebook he's um from Trinidad and Tobago um Kevin uh I hope the videos help you and um I appreciate your support no I did not put any supplemental heat in my grief flex none whatsoever and here's a good thing about the Gree Flex if you choose not to put supplemental heat it's still not going to blow cold air when it goes through defrost if you do not add a heat kit when it goes through defrost the outdoor unit sends a signal like on w1 or d to the air handler and the air handler stops blowing while it's going through defrost and then as soon as it warms back up it'll start blowing again so you're not blowing cold air at any time that's one of the reasons i decided to go ahead and do that i almost put heat strips in it and then did not connect them and i decided just to go completely without them i have not caught that thing doing pulling the whole system any more than 14 amps i mean i've checked on it several times yeah if you're not real familiar with some of the stuff that we do don't try it um if you're working for somebody else and you have a company backing you up who has insurance and all that yeah you can try your hand at something but you need to be trained to do a lot of what we do i didn't have to change any of the duct work at all on my house my house was actually a um it actually had a five ton on it but they used it for hot water and it didn't need a five ton we put a three on it and it's doing perfectly fine in fact the one i took off was a three ton but it's been there for like 25 years well thank you kevin i think Gree was uh it's a real cool idea i like how they um set everything up so it's not actually a communicating system it's much easier on the low voltage side of things to troubleshoot. He tried cleaning it with muriatic acid. Okay, that's a form of hydrochloric acid. No, that's not a good idea. What percentage is apartments and rental homes? I would say 65% is probably rentals and rental properties. Gree is actually a very large company. They're kind of new to this area, but overseas in Europe, and throughout Asia and other places they produce a lot of air conditioners they're actually one of the biggest air conditioner companies out there yeah i had old equipment on my house too that um i just kept fixing it but that old teardrop pan system all i ever had to do to it was change a capacitor outside and replace the evaporator coil and the blower motor a mini split with a small leak. Check the usuals. Sometimes there is a joint behind the wall of like a mini split air handler and you have to pull the air handler off the wall and try to access that joint that's actually in the wall. Yes, I've actually thought about putting an alarm on my system at my house because it's under the house and if it don't drain, the air handler fills up with water and then it just leaks all over the place and you get mold growing in your air handler. So I've thought about that for myself. Yeah, I've run service calls and watched YouTube of other people doing it. I did the same thing. Yes, we have a lot of outdoor package units So thanks guys. Thanks Clay. I may be short on some videos in the next couple days. That's part of the reason we're doing the live stream today because it's going to be kind of slow. I've been organizing. I just bought a new one drawer pack out to put on my van because I was having to pull the pack out completely out and half unloaded to get my tools out of it thanks thanks kevin well um i think it's matt i'm glad you enjoy the videos happy holidays to you too no kevin i cannot sell you equipment i can only install equipment i'm not a dealer we don't do that it's kind of illegal well banjo proof it's my pleasure to do the videos what some tools that you can't get where you are is that what you're asking. Um, probably wouldn't want to get into that with anybody, but, um, what can't you get? Yes. In Georgia, you have to have, um, either three contractors or engineers sign off on your work and each of them have to sign off on three jobs that you've done from top to bottom. So it's not easy to get a license. Um, but once you get it, hang on to it and keep your continued education thank you tom georgia does require another contractor actually three of them and it's hard to do and they also require five years of you working for somebody else four and a half if you have a tech school degree how about a shout out for steven galvin from dallas texas he watches me with his son how about that all right get back to work banjo i also probably need to get to work i have bills that need paying that are just sitting on my desk guys it's really been good talking to you i'm probably going to cut it short here and i'll try to do another one um i had told john that i might do one on the weekend sometime so we might do one together guys um i appreciate the views and the comments i really do and i enjoy doing the videos i'm glad y'all like them um y'all have a happy holidays if i don't talk to you before the holidays and a merry christmas i'll talk to y'all later