WEBVTT 00:00:02.999 --> 00:00:06.320 Welcome to Did You Know, the ESCO HVAC podcast, 00:00:06.719 --> 00:00:08.820 the show where we explore the cool, the hot, 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:11.859 and the everything in between of the HVACR industry. 00:00:12.220 --> 00:00:15.679 Each week, we dig into the innovations, the insights, 00:00:15.900 --> 00:00:18.539 and the inspiring stories that power our trade 00:00:18.539 --> 00:00:21.160 from the classroom to the job site and beyond. 00:00:21.339 --> 00:00:23.660 This episode is brought to you by this week's 00:00:23.660 --> 00:00:26.519 amazing sponsors, Daikin Comfort Technology, 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:30.730 perfecting the air since 1924. Lincoln Tech, 00:00:30.949 --> 00:00:34.490 put your potential to work. NAVAC, professional 00:00:34.490 --> 00:00:38.729 tools and equipment for HVACR technicians. Amatrol 00:00:38.729 --> 00:00:42.750 Trainers, globally impactful, personally empowering. 00:00:43.030 --> 00:00:47.909 As well as AGAS, together we can. Whether you're 00:00:47.909 --> 00:00:50.130 just getting started or you've been turning wrenches 00:00:50.130 --> 00:00:52.890 for decades like myself, there's always something 00:00:52.890 --> 00:00:56.049 new for us to learn. I'm Clifton Beck, and this 00:00:56.049 --> 00:01:00.890 is Did You Know? The ESCO Age Fact Podcast. Let's 00:01:00.890 --> 00:01:03.689 dive in. Well, hello, everyone. Thank you for 00:01:03.689 --> 00:01:07.090 joining Did You Know? The ESCO Age Fact Podcast. 00:01:07.450 --> 00:01:10.569 So today we're spending some time with Sam and 00:01:10.569 --> 00:01:14.780 Steven from Hitachi. Guys, how's it going? I'm 00:01:14.780 --> 00:01:18.079 doing wonderful. It's decent weather outside 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:21.879 and looking forward to an up and coming weekend. 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:24.659 You know, we've had some really hot weather and 00:01:24.659 --> 00:01:27.459 it's hopefully going to cool down a little bit 00:01:27.459 --> 00:01:30.760 and kind of kind of lead us in today's scenario. 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:33.739 We're going to spend a little bit of time talking 00:01:33.739 --> 00:01:37.269 about. home and comfort and solutions. And in 00:01:37.269 --> 00:01:41.310 particular, we're going to dive into the Hitachi 00:01:41.310 --> 00:01:45.670 Air Home products and get a little bit more comfortable 00:01:45.670 --> 00:01:49.489 with heating and cooling comfort. What do you 00:01:49.489 --> 00:01:53.530 think? Sounds like a great plan. Let's do it. 00:01:53.590 --> 00:01:56.549 All right. Well, we can always talk about like 00:01:56.549 --> 00:01:58.890 technology. I think that's a great place to start. 00:01:59.129 --> 00:02:02.370 We know that Hitachi was like the industry first 00:02:02.370 --> 00:02:06.950 brushless DC compressor back in 1983. So Hitachi 00:02:06.950 --> 00:02:10.150 is not new to the inverter realm, to the comfort 00:02:10.150 --> 00:02:13.650 realm. And along the way, you've been building 00:02:13.650 --> 00:02:17.090 products and building the air home kind of comfort 00:02:17.090 --> 00:02:21.210 system, the ecosystem of its own. So let's talk 00:02:21.210 --> 00:02:27.729 about what's happening in that realm. So, I mean, 00:02:27.750 --> 00:02:31.729 as you know, right, you know, we've obviously 00:02:31.729 --> 00:02:35.830 been around the inverter technology, VRF, DFS, 00:02:36.110 --> 00:02:39.129 you know, since the 80s, I believe, if I can 00:02:39.129 --> 00:02:41.930 recall. Hitachi itself has been around for... 00:02:42.219 --> 00:02:44.159 100 year plus, you know, they started back in 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:48.520 the 20s, I think 1920s. But so obviously Hitachi 00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:50.800 has always been an innovator, right? We developed 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:53.400 some of the critical stuff. You know, I don't 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:54.939 want to say we were the first to develop this 00:02:54.939 --> 00:02:56.860 inverter technology. I don't know if that's an 00:02:56.860 --> 00:02:59.439 accurate statement, but we do know for a fact 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:02.139 that we were the ones to develop things like 00:03:02.139 --> 00:03:04.759 the scroll compressor. you know, which obviously 00:03:04.759 --> 00:03:07.919 in a lot of these new technologies with the DFS 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:10.319 or VRF, they're using these type of compressors. 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:12.319 You know, we developed one of the first pack 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:15.240 systems similar to the rack systems, a lot of 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:18.419 like new IDUs, like four -way cassettes, a lot 00:03:18.419 --> 00:03:20.960 of these indoor units that are being used as 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:23.419 of today. So we've been a lot of the new innovations 00:03:23.419 --> 00:03:26.039 when it comes to these products, right? And we 00:03:26.039 --> 00:03:29.219 know here, obviously North America, we use this 00:03:29.219 --> 00:03:32.719 opportunity with the new A2O transition. to develop 00:03:32.719 --> 00:03:36.080 our new lineup called air home that I think we've 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:38.360 developed it. We kind of fine tune that that 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:40.919 line card to be able to tie in specifically those 00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:44.120 to those residential markets. That is the that 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:46.180 is the reason why we call this air home product 00:03:46.180 --> 00:03:49.039 our rack products rack, meaning residential air 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:51.139 conditioning. So that's kind of a little bit 00:03:51.139 --> 00:03:53.539 of a little bit of a background on this, right? 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:56.960 Yeah. One of the cool things that we're seeing 00:03:56.960 --> 00:03:59.639 is heating capacities. Like some of the systems 00:03:59.639 --> 00:04:02.639 are doing, you know, minus four degrees Fahrenheit 00:04:02.639 --> 00:04:06.759 with 100 % capacity in that 800 series. So can 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:09.080 you tell us a little bit more about the 400, 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:13.599 600, and 800 series products? So we, you know, 00:04:13.620 --> 00:04:17.470 we've done a substantial amount of... analyzing 00:04:17.470 --> 00:04:19.689 i guess the market in general right we kind of 00:04:19.689 --> 00:04:22.670 try to see what what kind of products we can 00:04:22.670 --> 00:04:24.910 bring in to fit in in different categories of 00:04:24.910 --> 00:04:26.829 the market right whether it's based on comfort 00:04:26.829 --> 00:04:30.860 cooling whether it's based on heating or cooling 00:04:30.860 --> 00:04:34.079 zone regions, whether it's south, central, north 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:38.379 regions, different type of aspects of customers, 00:04:38.779 --> 00:04:41.379 depending on the features that they want, depending 00:04:41.379 --> 00:04:43.759 on what specifications that they're requesting, 00:04:44.019 --> 00:04:46.040 depending on kind of aesthetics and the feel 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:48.480 of the product. So we've done a substantial analysis, 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:50.699 and this is why we came up with different tiers. 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:53.639 of the air home right so as you mentioned we 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:56.100 have the tier of the air home 400 we have the 00:04:56.100 --> 00:04:58.899 air home 500 or sorry 600 and we have the air 00:04:58.899 --> 00:05:02.689 home 800 right so meaning is airhome 400 kind 00:05:02.689 --> 00:05:05.110 of ties into more of the we we don't want to 00:05:05.110 --> 00:05:07.110 call it an entry level tier but i guess we can 00:05:07.110 --> 00:05:09.490 start it as technically it is considered an entry 00:05:09.490 --> 00:05:12.050 level tier so it's more applying to those kind 00:05:12.050 --> 00:05:15.269 of region zone one zone two regions and it's 00:05:15.269 --> 00:05:17.129 applying to those more customers that are kind 00:05:17.129 --> 00:05:19.250 of focused more on kind of budget savings but 00:05:19.250 --> 00:05:21.589 still want a good product right you still get 00:05:21.589 --> 00:05:23.410 some of those decent features and technologies 00:05:23.410 --> 00:05:26.189 now you move on to the higher tier like the 600 00:05:26.819 --> 00:05:28.920 It's more applying to those cold climate regions, 00:05:29.060 --> 00:05:30.980 right? As we were discussing, it's a cold climate 00:05:30.980 --> 00:05:33.439 heat pump applying to more of those regions, 00:05:33.500 --> 00:05:36.240 three regions, fours, right? To be able to tie 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:38.300 into those customers, but at the same time, also 00:05:38.300 --> 00:05:40.939 improving the features and the benefits of the 00:05:40.939 --> 00:05:43.279 product. So being a little bit more on the standard 00:05:43.279 --> 00:05:46.379 costs, right? Kind of household income. Then 00:05:46.379 --> 00:05:47.959 you go into the higher tier products, right? 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:49.980 For those that say, you know what? I want the 00:05:49.980 --> 00:05:52.220 best of the best. Then you go with the Airhome 00:05:52.220 --> 00:05:55.459 800. So you get best of everything, right? Cooling, 00:05:55.459 --> 00:05:58.459 best of heating. best of the features best of 00:05:58.459 --> 00:06:01.360 the appearance best of i mean you name it you 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:03.019 know even your own handheld remote controllers 00:06:03.019 --> 00:06:05.560 everything just comes in a premium a premium 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:09.379 setup for those products so again uh cold climate 00:06:09.379 --> 00:06:12.079 has been a very big thing that heat pumps always 00:06:12.079 --> 00:06:15.649 lacked previously Right. And as we know, right, 00:06:15.709 --> 00:06:17.550 that is one of that was one of the doubts within 00:06:17.550 --> 00:06:21.069 the mini split world. Right. It was, hey, you 00:06:21.069 --> 00:06:22.750 know, can they really heat down to those cold 00:06:22.750 --> 00:06:24.449 temperatures? Right. I'm still comfortable using 00:06:24.449 --> 00:06:26.649 my furnace or I'm still comfortable using my 00:06:26.649 --> 00:06:29.589 conventional air handler unit. Well, we've kind 00:06:29.589 --> 00:06:31.709 of tackled that by improving our products to 00:06:31.709 --> 00:06:34.949 operate to operations down to minus 13 in our 00:06:34.949 --> 00:06:37.129 standard tier product. And even as low as minus 00:06:37.129 --> 00:06:40.329 22 F in our higher tier products that can still 00:06:40.329 --> 00:06:43.069 provide 100 percent heating. down to those minus 00:06:43.069 --> 00:06:47.769 4f minus 5f uh temperatures so a little bit of 00:06:47.769 --> 00:06:50.069 a background there yeah yeah it's pretty crazy 00:06:50.069 --> 00:06:52.050 the way that we've been able to you know advance 00:06:52.050 --> 00:06:54.970 the the equipment to produce that amount of heat 00:06:54.970 --> 00:06:57.170 of those lower ambient temperatures you know 00:06:57.170 --> 00:06:58.850 when we're talking about like some of those options 00:06:58.850 --> 00:07:00.750 as we start getting into the higher tier products 00:07:00.750 --> 00:07:03.250 one i thought was very interesting was uh the 00:07:03.250 --> 00:07:05.769 frost wash tell me a little bit about that feature 00:07:06.640 --> 00:07:10.100 I'll speak on that feature of frost wash. So 00:07:10.100 --> 00:07:12.339 that's one of our key things that we patent. 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:15.300 We're the only ones that have the true frost 00:07:15.300 --> 00:07:20.939 wash. What we did with our 410A, which was our 00:07:20.939 --> 00:07:23.220 previous product, then we came out with this 00:07:23.220 --> 00:07:28.980 new R32 product. And with the old 410A, we still 00:07:28.980 --> 00:07:31.420 had the great benefit of the frost wash and got 00:07:31.420 --> 00:07:35.720 rid of about 99 % of bacteria. We mean molds 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:40.120 and bacterias and stuff like that. But Sam, being 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:42.839 our DFS product engineer, he wanted to take it 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:45.850 another step further. So by taking that another 00:07:45.850 --> 00:07:50.050 step forward with our R32 product, we incorporated 00:07:50.050 --> 00:07:54.850 at the very beginning of it, it is a hot sequence 00:07:54.850 --> 00:07:59.389 of it's going to now heat the indoor heat exchanger 00:07:59.389 --> 00:08:03.009 to harden up all of those oils and stuff that 00:08:03.009 --> 00:08:05.949 we just produce as human beings, right? We have 00:08:05.949 --> 00:08:08.410 oils that are coming off of us and the skin and 00:08:08.410 --> 00:08:11.939 stuff like that we shed, right? So we are now 00:08:11.939 --> 00:08:14.860 going to use that heating part at the beginning 00:08:14.860 --> 00:08:17.680 of it. And we're going to harden up all of those 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:20.920 oils and stuff like that. And then we're going 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:23.300 to go into the freezing part where we freeze 00:08:23.300 --> 00:08:26.980 the entire heat exchanger. Then we go into a 00:08:26.980 --> 00:08:30.300 melting part of it where we wash all of that 00:08:30.300 --> 00:08:36.620 off. With the 400, it's a manual. Right. So they 00:08:36.620 --> 00:08:39.659 still get that same type of benefit, even though 00:08:39.659 --> 00:08:41.960 it's, you know, like Sam kind of referred to 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:45.139 it as an entry tier. It's manual. So the customer 00:08:45.139 --> 00:08:47.580 has to manually put it in that feature. Cross 00:08:47.580 --> 00:08:50.039 wash mode. That's correct. OK. When you get to 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:52.779 the six and the eight hundred, it's auto. OK. 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:56.279 So it's based off of run hours of that equipment. 00:08:56.379 --> 00:09:00.460 Oh, sure. Also, with the 600 and the 800, not 00:09:00.460 --> 00:09:03.120 only does it auto -frost wash the indoor heat 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:06.259 exchanger, we're even concentrating on your outdoor 00:09:06.259 --> 00:09:09.360 heat exchanger. So we'll do frost wash on your 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:12.960 outdoor heat exchanger as well if you're in those 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:16.419 temperature guidelines in order to do it. So 00:09:16.419 --> 00:09:18.559 during the summertime, if it's really hot outside, 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:21.240 the system itself recognizes, hey, it's hot. 00:09:21.379 --> 00:09:24.200 I can't go into this certain feature for the 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:26.779 outdoor frost wash because then I would start 00:09:26.779 --> 00:09:28.960 losing control of the space that I'm trying to 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:31.600 condition. So it will set that off until it gets 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:33.679 into those temperatures and then it will execute 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:38.340 that. Also, what we enhanced on the outdoor frost 00:09:38.340 --> 00:09:41.820 wash is what we call DuraSpin. So we know that 00:09:41.820 --> 00:09:44.519 we get grass clippings when we mow our yards. 00:09:44.620 --> 00:09:48.220 There could be construction or just a storm goes 00:09:48.220 --> 00:09:50.740 by and we have all this dust in the air. Well, 00:09:50.779 --> 00:09:53.179 all that dust gets trapped into that heat exchanger. 00:09:53.259 --> 00:09:56.000 Sure. If I was to freeze that and then melt it 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:00.500 off, that dust now turns into mud. So with DuraSpin, 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:04.889 we run the fan motor backwards. at a high rate 00:10:04.889 --> 00:10:07.850 of speed and blow out all of that loose particle 00:10:07.850 --> 00:10:11.190 dust and dirt, then it will freeze that heat 00:10:11.190 --> 00:10:14.230 exchanger and wash it off. Because the last thing 00:10:14.230 --> 00:10:16.289 we want to do is create a problem. We're trying 00:10:16.289 --> 00:10:19.769 to help with cleaning the heat exchanger. By 00:10:19.769 --> 00:10:22.149 the indoor frost wash, as well as the outdoor 00:10:22.149 --> 00:10:25.070 frost wash, that's where we separate ourselves 00:10:25.070 --> 00:10:29.350 in the industry out there of maintaining our 00:10:29.350 --> 00:10:32.350 sear rating and our efficiencies on that type 00:10:32.350 --> 00:10:36.370 of equipment. So most people at homes, they never 00:10:36.370 --> 00:10:39.649 clean their heat exchangers, right? And with 00:10:39.649 --> 00:10:42.169 the indoor frost wash, the old way of cleaning 00:10:42.169 --> 00:10:44.370 your indoor heat exchangers was getting that 00:10:44.370 --> 00:10:47.809 big blue bag that you put up underneath that 00:10:47.809 --> 00:10:51.289 fan coil. And now I'm introducing all this water 00:10:51.289 --> 00:10:56.000 into somebody's house on the wall. Me as a homeowner, 00:10:56.100 --> 00:10:58.220 I'm like, wait a minute. What do you got going 00:10:58.220 --> 00:11:01.879 on here? That looks very scary in a potential 00:11:01.879 --> 00:11:05.139 accident waiting to happen. Well, that's been 00:11:05.139 --> 00:11:07.659 one of the biggest concerns as we're trying to 00:11:07.659 --> 00:11:09.980 encourage customers and even ourselves to go 00:11:09.980 --> 00:11:12.100 to ductless systems is the maintenance on them, 00:11:12.139 --> 00:11:14.580 right? It's a different maintenance type of work. 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:17.799 And for some applications, it's a difficult procedure, 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:19.879 especially if we're introducing water into an 00:11:19.879 --> 00:11:21.720 area where we definitely don't want to take any 00:11:21.720 --> 00:11:23.940 chances. You know, we put a ductless system into 00:11:23.940 --> 00:11:26.620 a room that's got computers, got electronics. 00:11:26.940 --> 00:11:28.279 One of the last things I want to do is tell my 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:29.679 customer that I'm bringing a garden hose in. 00:11:29.929 --> 00:11:34.169 right? Just the thought of it gets scary to people. 00:11:34.289 --> 00:11:37.370 And so that has been an obstacle in the industry. 00:11:37.570 --> 00:11:41.289 And I love how we're doing the reverse airflow 00:11:41.289 --> 00:11:43.750 on the outdoor unit. I can remember, you know, 00:11:43.750 --> 00:11:46.389 as a refrigeration technician, one of the first 00:11:46.389 --> 00:11:49.830 times I encountered that, I had a small Coca 00:11:49.830 --> 00:11:51.590 -Cola cooler. I think it was manufactured by 00:11:51.590 --> 00:11:55.029 Beverage Air at the time. And it had a reversing 00:11:55.029 --> 00:11:58.649 condenser fan on it. And I can tell you, in comparison 00:11:58.649 --> 00:12:00.429 to the rest of the equipment sitting right next 00:12:00.429 --> 00:12:03.889 to it, that condenser very rarely needed cleaning 00:12:03.889 --> 00:12:07.169 in comparison to the traditional coils. So adding 00:12:07.169 --> 00:12:11.389 that extra maintenance feature is a huge, huge 00:12:11.389 --> 00:12:14.690 asset over things that don't use that technology. 00:12:14.889 --> 00:12:17.330 So kudos for doing that on the outdoor and using 00:12:17.330 --> 00:12:20.009 the frost wash on both sides. I mean, that saves 00:12:20.009 --> 00:12:22.490 a lot in the maintenance side of things. Absolutely. 00:12:23.769 --> 00:12:27.610 Yeah, very, very cool. All right, so let's talk 00:12:27.610 --> 00:12:30.210 about some of the connectability, too, as well 00:12:30.210 --> 00:12:33.549 with the AirHome. Our entry product has optional 00:12:33.549 --> 00:12:37.190 interfaces for end users, so it doesn't come 00:12:37.190 --> 00:12:39.610 with the unit. Again, it's an entry -tier product, 00:12:39.789 --> 00:12:41.629 right? But it is an optional accessory you can 00:12:41.629 --> 00:12:44.970 purchase. Now, all our units do come with their 00:12:44.970 --> 00:12:47.149 own handheld remote controller right out of the 00:12:47.149 --> 00:12:49.269 box, right? So there's no issues there. So they'll 00:12:49.269 --> 00:12:50.990 be able to control and do whatever they need 00:12:50.990 --> 00:12:53.370 to do with the system from that standpoint. But 00:12:53.370 --> 00:12:54.889 if they want to be able to control this product 00:12:54.889 --> 00:12:56.490 from anywhere around the world, right, we have 00:12:56.490 --> 00:13:00.230 our own proprietary Wi -Fi app, what we call 00:13:00.230 --> 00:13:03.769 our AirCloud Go. So for the entry tier, it's 00:13:03.769 --> 00:13:05.850 an optional accessory. For the mid -tier and 00:13:05.850 --> 00:13:07.610 high -tier, it comes standard with the units. 00:13:08.190 --> 00:13:10.490 And these apps are a little bit unique. They're 00:13:10.490 --> 00:13:11.809 a little bit different than what you see out 00:13:11.809 --> 00:13:13.529 in the market. I can name a couple of points. 00:13:13.590 --> 00:13:16.629 So the apps, of course, most do have, you know. 00:13:16.940 --> 00:13:19.480 amazon alexa so they do have that integration 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:21.820 in them of course you can control the system 00:13:21.820 --> 00:13:23.580 anywhere on the world as long as you have that 00:13:23.580 --> 00:13:25.940 wi -fi connectivity of the system in your home 00:13:25.940 --> 00:13:28.080 but they also have other neat features like they 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:30.480 have an energy monitoring system right now i'm 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:31.659 not going to say you're going to use that as 00:13:31.659 --> 00:13:33.440 a billing feature but you can use that to be 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:35.480 able to give you an estimate of how much energy 00:13:35.480 --> 00:13:37.720 you're consuming right throughout throughout 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:40.159 the month or the day or the week because a lot 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:43.340 of us right we know ac systems or hvac systems 00:13:43.340 --> 00:13:46.019 pull a lot of energy for most of your electrical 00:13:46.620 --> 00:13:48.639 uh consumption throughout the month the day or 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:52.019 the week so if you feel like hey if i'm if i'm 00:13:52.019 --> 00:13:56.240 hitting 68 69 uh f cooling right and i'm wasting 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:59.759 let's say 30 kwh kilowatts per hour right a month 00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:03.259 but if i keep it at 72 yes i'm sacrificing a 00:14:03.259 --> 00:14:05.059 little of my comfort but i'm keeping now at 20 00:14:05.059 --> 00:14:08.629 kwh every month You're saving a big chunk on 00:14:08.629 --> 00:14:10.710 your electrical bill, and you're able to verify 00:14:10.710 --> 00:14:13.409 that using that AirCloud Go app. Additionally, 00:14:13.470 --> 00:14:16.750 it has something like energy efficiency part 00:14:16.750 --> 00:14:19.830 of it, which what it does is it has what's called 00:14:19.830 --> 00:14:24.019 a Geo fencing or they call it like yeah geo fencing 00:14:24.019 --> 00:14:26.779 location So based on whether you're coming from 00:14:26.779 --> 00:14:28.539 home or leaving home, right? Whether you're going 00:14:28.539 --> 00:14:31.059 to work or going to school or coming back going 00:14:31.059 --> 00:14:33.419 to the grocery store, etc The system is going 00:14:33.419 --> 00:14:35.419 to adjust your temperature to be able to give 00:14:35.419 --> 00:14:37.759 you that extra bump and energy efficiency, right? 00:14:37.820 --> 00:14:39.960 So let's say you have it in cooling mode and 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:41.419 you go to work and it knows it's you're gonna 00:14:41.419 --> 00:14:43.559 be gone for eight hours Right. It's based on 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:46.080 a certain radius of your location to the system 00:14:46.669 --> 00:14:48.690 Then it'll adjust it by two degrees, three degrees 00:14:48.690 --> 00:14:50.830 higher in cooling, just so you're saving that 00:14:50.830 --> 00:14:52.429 energy. And as soon as you start coming back, 00:14:52.529 --> 00:14:54.389 it'll adjust it again. So as soon as you walk 00:14:54.389 --> 00:14:56.250 in your door, you're back to your set point. 00:14:56.309 --> 00:14:58.230 You're comfortable. You didn't even realize the 00:14:58.230 --> 00:14:59.950 system changed, but you're saving money at the 00:14:59.950 --> 00:15:03.049 same time. So our AirCloud Go app has a lot of 00:15:03.049 --> 00:15:04.809 those neat features integrated. And as well as 00:15:04.809 --> 00:15:07.029 being able to control frosh, wash, and all that 00:15:07.029 --> 00:15:08.750 good stuff, you can do it through the app as 00:15:08.750 --> 00:15:10.629 well. So those are some of the neat interfaces 00:15:10.629 --> 00:15:15.860 that we have for the users. I love having the 00:15:15.860 --> 00:15:17.740 analytics like that. You know, if you think about 00:15:17.740 --> 00:15:20.259 that as a homeowner, right? You know, hey, hey, 00:15:20.259 --> 00:15:23.559 Billy, when I get home from work every day, this 00:15:23.559 --> 00:15:26.399 house seems awfully cold. And are you messing 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:28.279 with this thermostat during the day? No, no, 00:15:28.460 --> 00:15:30.860 no. No, never touched it. No. And then you pull 00:15:30.860 --> 00:15:33.419 the report and you go, oh, why is our KW usage 00:15:33.419 --> 00:15:37.200 going up at 2 p .m. every Monday through Friday 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:40.139 and going back down at 430 before I get home, 00:15:40.220 --> 00:15:43.440 right? And how many of us have left our homes 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:45.899 and thought as we're. Two, three miles down the 00:15:45.899 --> 00:15:48.779 road. Did I change that? I still left it at 68 00:15:48.779 --> 00:15:51.820 degrees. It's going to automatically make that 00:15:51.820 --> 00:15:54.120 adjustment when it sees looking through that 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:57.580 eye sensor in the bottom left -hand corner. Oh, 00:15:57.620 --> 00:15:59.460 there's nobody in the room. Right. And it's going 00:15:59.460 --> 00:16:01.659 to make those adjustments. Plus, with the geofencing, 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:05.320 it's seeing that you have left that area, that 00:16:05.320 --> 00:16:08.149 radius that it's monitoring. Very, very cool. 00:16:08.269 --> 00:16:10.669 I know another feature that I'd seen, which I 00:16:10.669 --> 00:16:13.509 have not encountered in other ductless systems, 00:16:13.669 --> 00:16:17.009 is when we get into air filtration, even some 00:16:17.009 --> 00:16:19.769 of the carbon filters you're utilizing in air 00:16:19.769 --> 00:16:21.389 filtration. Tell me a little bit about that one. 00:16:21.950 --> 00:16:25.009 Yeah, I could tackle it. Yeah. So, yeah, we do 00:16:25.009 --> 00:16:28.149 have carbon filters and stainless steel mesh 00:16:28.149 --> 00:16:31.009 filters, all with standard with our with our 00:16:31.009 --> 00:16:33.970 mini split products. Right. Oh, so carbon filters, 00:16:34.129 --> 00:16:36.559 as you know, it's removing about. those small 00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:40.379 micron particles. So again, on top of the frosh 00:16:40.379 --> 00:16:42.759 wash, you're getting an extra bump in that indoor 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:45.980 air quality using this carbon filter on the indoor 00:16:45.980 --> 00:16:49.600 side. So you're able to get a lot of the bacteria. 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:51.659 You're able to get a lot of the viruses, a lot 00:16:51.659 --> 00:16:53.379 of the mold. A lot of that stuff gets kind of 00:16:53.379 --> 00:16:55.120 taken care of from the carbon filter side as 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:56.700 well as from the frosh wash. So you're kind of 00:16:56.700 --> 00:16:59.720 doing like a double -sided kind of sword, right? 00:16:59.779 --> 00:17:02.320 You're taking care of both ends. You're tackling 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:04.619 it from both sides. Additionally, we have the 00:17:04.619 --> 00:17:07.140 stainless steel. filter which is pretty neat 00:17:07.140 --> 00:17:09.359 because you know a lot of these filters right 00:17:09.359 --> 00:17:11.339 you know usually you have to take them out and 00:17:11.339 --> 00:17:12.859 as soon as you take them out they get damaged 00:17:12.859 --> 00:17:14.519 and when you start cleaning them they get damaged 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:16.940 and etc and then you have to replace it that's 00:17:16.940 --> 00:17:20.220 a more cost for the end users with these filters 00:17:20.220 --> 00:17:22.900 stainless steel they're sturdy enough right that 00:17:22.900 --> 00:17:25.180 you can just throw them in like a wash a dishwasher 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:27.680 No way. And you can just throw them in there. 00:17:27.740 --> 00:17:29.400 They'll clean them. You'll clean them. They won't 00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:30.960 get damaged. And then you can dry them up, put 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:32.460 them back into your unit and you're ready to 00:17:32.460 --> 00:17:34.460 go. Do you know how many of these, I was a service 00:17:34.460 --> 00:17:36.180 tech here in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex 00:17:36.180 --> 00:17:38.759 for 20 years. You know how many of these I've 00:17:38.759 --> 00:17:41.099 had to replace because we've washed them out 00:17:41.099 --> 00:17:43.200 a couple of times and now they got big holes 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:46.559 going through them. This is all stainless steel. 00:17:46.720 --> 00:17:49.759 So, I mean, you can flex this thing, twist it 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:52.650 all up. You're not damaging any of that steel. 00:17:52.710 --> 00:17:55.390 You can throw these in your washing machine and 00:17:55.390 --> 00:17:57.509 clean them off yourself and then slot them all 00:17:57.509 --> 00:18:00.109 right back in. And then this is the spot that 00:18:00.109 --> 00:18:02.690 that little carbon filter piece is going to go 00:18:02.690 --> 00:18:06.710 through. Excellent. All right. I want one. Where 00:18:06.710 --> 00:18:10.759 can we learn more about Hitachi Air Home? So 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:13.299 you can come to my facility here that we're doing 00:18:13.299 --> 00:18:17.039 this podcast from in Irving, Texas. We're about 00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:20.900 15 minutes away from DFW Airport, which is one 00:18:20.900 --> 00:18:24.660 of the main hub airports in North America. I 00:18:24.660 --> 00:18:27.500 offer classes. We have all this product. I have 00:18:27.500 --> 00:18:31.240 a 5 ,000 square foot lab that we have all of 00:18:31.240 --> 00:18:34.160 our residential, lot commercial, as well as our 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:37.619 three -phase commercial. um we have our air to 00:18:37.619 --> 00:18:41.359 water we have all of our equipment in my lab 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:46.640 i teach classes on these on a weekly basis and 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:50.279 so we invite anybody to come down you can go 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:54.279 and sign up for training on vrf pro so it's my 00:18:54.279 --> 00:18:56.619 training website you make an account on there 00:18:56.619 --> 00:18:59.480 and you can sign up for any classes come down 00:18:59.480 --> 00:19:03.500 here to texas and give us a visit All right. 00:19:03.559 --> 00:19:05.059 And I can personally vouch for that. I've been 00:19:05.059 --> 00:19:07.200 down there. It's an amazing facility. I encourage 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:11.440 you all to check it out and learn more at HitachiAirCon 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:14.400 .com. Gentlemen, thank you for joining us today. 00:19:15.019 --> 00:19:16.640 Thanks for having us. Thank you for having us.