What Up? What Up? Everybody? Welcome to another episode of Let's Ask
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UM. So, this question was sent in to me, A says Paul.
Can you explain room air conditioner receptacles, whether or not it's fed from
an individual brand circuit or it's on a circuit with other things like receptacles and
lighting units and whatnot. I'd love to hear your take on it. Thanks
again for all you do and I love your podcast. Okay, well,
thanks for listening. Um thanks for tuning in to the podcasts um. So,
So, what this person is sending in about is a room air condition
receptacle. U. Yeah, most houses a day are going to have central
air or something that that nature. But if you're going to be running a
receptacle dedicated, let's say for a room air conditioner, you have choices,
right, you can. You can put an individual brand circuit fifteen or triamph
Let's say you're run into this dedicated receptacle for this air conditioner. UM or
maybe the receptacle is on a circuit that's supplying other things like other receptacle goes
in the room, maybe lighting loads or maybe even appliance. Maybe you're also
supplied. So how does that work? So we're gonna look at that today
in this episode. So hopefully if you've got your codebook, or you're if
you're just going down the road and you don't have your codebook, don't worry.
I'll will paraphrase for it and kind of give you some code references so
you can make a mental note about it, and then when you get finished
or wherever you're at, you can grab your codebook. Maybe you've got link
on your phone and you can just simply pull it up and look at these
code references and always come back and listen to the podcast again to certain parts
that you may need. All right, So number one, let's look at
it this way. Now. If we're going to supply this receptacle okay,
for this room air conditioning unit okay, And if it's supplied by an individual
brand circuit, say it's fifteen or twenty AM brand circuit, then the rating
because this air conditioning unit, you know, sits in the window, it's
cordon plug connected. So the cordon plug connected room air condit ser can be
no more than eighty percent of these circuits ampere rating. All right, So
now where does that eighty percent come from? Because you've heard people say,
well, okay, why can't I just put if it's twenty amps, why
can't I just put twenty amps on it? So where does all this come
from? Well, if you got your codebooks, the first place we're gonna
look. We're gonna look at two places here. But the first thing I
want you to do is go to two ten and now two ten being brand
circuits. So obviously we're working out a brand circuit because we're talking about an
individual brand circuit to this receptacle for this room air conditioning unit. So we're
taking at two ten dot twenty three B one. Okay, so that's where
we want to go first. Now you're probably thinking, Paul, isn't this
two ten dot twenty three A one? Well, there you go. There's
a difference here for the twenty twenty three edition of the National Electrical Code.
In the twenty twenty three edition, it's now we're call according plug connected equipment
that is not fascinate in place, and of course that room air conditioner would
not be fascinate in place. Now you're going to be going to ten dot
twenty three and instead of going to A one, you're now going to go
to B one. Okay. So again for all you out there who ask
about code changes, Okay, we had a little bit of a code change.
Now why do we have this code change? Well, because we had
to make room for applications for ten amp branch circuits. Okay. Now granted
there's really none to be had out there, but there has been made room
for it in the NEC. So now to ten dot twenty three A one
and A two. That's dealing with ten amp brand circuits. So we're gonna
still deal with our traditional and the person that submitted it's question was about a
fifteen or twenty amp brand circuits. So just know that that's a slight change.
So you hear me talking, I'm talking about the twenty twenty three edition
of the ANEC. Okay, so same verbiage pretty much, but we want
to make sure we know there is a difference in the code. So I'm
at two ten dot twenty three B one and here's what it says. It
says Cordon plug connected equipment not fastened in place. It says the rating of
any one Cordon plug connect utilization equipment not fastened in place shall not exceed eighty
percent of the brand circuit rating. Okay, so you're not going to exceed.
If this is a twenty brand circuit, then you're not going to the
actual. In this case, the room air conditioner is not going to exceed
eighty percent. So if it's a twenty AM, then what you've got is
it is you look at the name plate. It can exceed sixteen amps.
Okay, that's going to be eighty percent of the twenty AM, all right,
And again the same if it was a fifteen So if it was a
fifteen times eighty percent, it can't be more than twelve amps. Okay.
Now, most of those little portable movable room air conditioners are probably not going
to pull anywhere near that. But again it's just things that you have to
be aware of, especially if you're going to run a circuit for some client
of yours wants you to put a receptacle for a window unit. Yeah,
in the house, it probably wouldn't happen, but maybe they have. You
run a circuit up in the attic and they're finishing it off and they're putting
a window unit up there. Because again it's not finished off. The rest
of the house was, and it had maybe central air or something, but
maybe it just behooves them better to just put a little window unit up there
in the room. So you have to understand, are you going to put
it on the branch circuit that's already there, just give a receptacle close to
the location, or are you going to run an individual brand circuit up there?
And I guess a lot of this is going to depend on what the
load is of the air conditioners, So you got to ask those questions,
right, all right. So that's what we've got for the again, and
it's not fascinating place, but it is cord and plug connected right all right.
So that's what we've got there. Now. One of the other things
that we want to look at here also is four forty dot sixty two B.
Okay, So we've already established the eighty percent for this room air conditioning
unit, which is utilization equipment, and it is going to be limited to
eighty percent of the brand circuit rating. And remember the rating of the brand
circuit is whatever the rating is of a breaker. Okay, that's what that
is, all right. So let's real quick, if you got your codebooks.
If not, don't worry, I'll read it to you. We're gonna
go to four forty dot sixty two. B. Why because four or forty
does deal with air conditioning. So we want to see what it says up
there. So let's go look. Okay, So in four forty dot sixty
two, we have a which is room air conditioners as a single motor unit,
and that's what you're going to be dealing with. And it says a
room air conditioners shall be considered as a single motor unit it and determining its
brand circuit requirements where all the following conditions are met. Okay. Number one,
it's a chord and attachment plug connected. Okay, so yeah, it's
just a standard A window air conditioner portable one you buy comes with an a
chord an attachment plug one. Okay. Check. It says it's rating is
not more than forty ampiers and two hundred and fifty volts single phase. Okay,
so we want to make sure we double check that. Now again,
I will tell you in this scenario, the forty amps is going to put
us way over our fifteen or twenty A brand circuit application, right, But
again This just says that the rating is not more than forty ampiers and twenty
fifty volts single phase. Right. Third okay, and it's notice this says
not more than forty am piers. Okay, so brand circuits being relevant,
if it's twenty at brand circuit of fifteen at brands or whatnot. Again,
it's just here. It's just saying it can't be more than forty amp years
and it can't be more than two hundred fifty volts. Okay. Probably not
going to be that way for a typical room air conditioner, Okay, but
I'm not going to say never because I know somebody will sit there and say,
oh, I've got one. It's you know, some amp weird amp
rating. But anyway, that's what it's just saying. Number three, it
says the rated load current is shown on the room air conditioner nameplate rather than
individual motor currents. Okay, So the total rated load current is actually going
to be on the little nameplate of the room air conditioner. It's got to
be on there to qualify and most of the ones you're going to buy,
the window units are going to be standardized with the nameplate. And then lastly
for says, the rating of the brand circuit, short circuit ground fault protection
device does not exceed the ampacity of the branch circuit or the rating of the
receptacle, whichever is less. Okay, So this is just reminding us here
that the short circuit and ground fault protection the breaker, to be honest with
your or fuse that we're working, it can't exceed the ampacity of whatever the
brand circuit is. So if we're dealing with a twenty am brand circuit,
okay, then it can't exceed that, okay, or rating of the receptacles.
So whatever the rating or rating of the receptacle twenty am and it can't
exceed that. And they should pretty much go together. But it's just kind
of setting up some ground rules for you that what they can exceed. So
in a real world, again, it's not going to be a big deal.
It's usually going to be if you select the nameplate, you know it's
a twenty am circuit, you're gonna put it on a twenty am breaker that
type of thing. Right now, what you have to be careful is what
we saw and read earlier. All Right, it cannot exceed eighty percent for
the branch circuit for the cordon plug. So all these things have to be
taken into consideration. So four forty is giving some of its own rules,
kind of some guidelines telling you what you're not to exceed, YadA, YadA,
YadA. All right, but you got to remember the branch circuit requirements.
If it is cordon plug and it's not fixed, then again you're gonna
be limited to eighty percent, right, so keep that in mind. Now,
the references. The real target reference here is two ten dot twenty three
B one for the twenty twenty three. It's two ten dot twenty three A
one for the twenty twenty version. Okay, so we don't get lost.
I just wanted to throw you an extra full forty reference so you can see
it definitely does talk about the branch circuit which you're not to exceed and give
you some ground rules up in four forty dot sixty two A four room air
conditioners. Okay, so that's kind of just why we wanted to kind of
throw it out at you so you could see that right now. It also
goes on in full forty dot sixty two and gets you a B in a
C and these B and EC are kind of kind of mirror what we saw
down in two ten dot twenty three. Okay, so what does B say.
Remember we're still up in four forty dot sixty two, folks. B
says, where no other outlets are supplied, So we're talking about that that
individual brand circuit. The only receptacle it's supplying is the one for this room
air conditioner, right, and it says, the total marked current rating of
a chord and attachment plug connective room air conditioner shall not exceed eighty percent of
the rated current of the brand circuit where no other outlets are supplied. Right,
So a little different because in two ten dot twenty three B one it
says eighty percent, but it's talking about fixed utilzation equipment. That's that's not
fixed in place. Here, it's more specific about the room air conditioning unit,
saying, look, if it's cord and plug attachment and it's not,
the room air conditioners shall not exceed eighty percent of whatever the rating is of
that brand circuit. So when you're selecting your air conditioner and you need to
know the circuits you're going to put it on. If your circuit's already there,
let's say you ran one already at twenty m. Then this is going
to impact the type of room air conditioner that can be used here, not
something that you can control all the time as an electrician. You know,
once you're done, you put it in and you leave, somebody plugs something
else in. You know, it's hey, but that's it is what it
is. That's you can't be held accountable for what other people do, right,
So that's where you have no other loads. Now I'm going to jump
back again because I want to make sure we jump back before I jump here.
And of course I am going to come back here again. Why am
I going to come back here again? Because fourty sixty two C says we're
lighting units or other appliances are also supplied. So this might be where you're
not running a dedicated receptacle for this window unit. There's other receptacles that are
on this circuit, maybe even other appliances that may be also supplied by this
circuit. And then that means the code is going to be even more restrictive
on that room air conditioner that you can put on that circuit. So let's
go and look at that. So we're gonna go back, Okay, I
hate to run you back and forth because we could read right here on see
while we're already here, but that's just not how I work. So we're
gonna go back and we're gonna look at two ten to twenty three B one
and for those who are in the twenty twenty edition, that's two ten to
twenty three A two. Right, So I said B one, but actually
we're gonna go look at two ten to twenty three B two and two ten
dot twenty three A two if you're in the twenty twenty edition of the NBC.
Okay, So let's hop on back to brand's circuits real quick, all
right. So we're back here, and if you've got your code books,
we're at two ten twenty three and we're looking to be two right now.
Now. If you're in the twenty twenty it's two ten to twenty three A
two. And this is where you see to talk about the fifty percent and
what that is all about. Okay, all right, so let's kind of
look at it real quick now. I want you to understand that this does
not apply the one we're going to talk about fifty percent here. This doesn't
apply if you have hardwired products you know other appliances okay, that are not
that are fastened in place. Okay, this is not going to apply to
that, right, So I want to keep that in mind. If if
I had a brand circuit, and the brand circuit is applying only items that
are fastened in place, okay, Let's say like a dishwasher and a garbage
disposer, and I'm running a twenty amp circuit for that, and provided the
size of each one of those was okay, neither of those appliances would be
restricted to fifty percent. Okay. Well, now the combined load of the
two appliances, now, obviously that can't exceed twenty amp years okay, because
they're fastened in place and they're fixed appliances, and so this rules aren't going
to apply, okay, So I just want to get that out of the
way up front. Now, what does this rule apply to. So let's
look at it. We have our room air conditioners, okay, same as
usual. And here's what B two says. It says, and again we're
talking fifteen or twenty brand circuit right now. It says utilization equipment fastened in
place. It says the total rating of utilization equipment fastened in place other than
luminaires shall not exceed fifty percent of the brand circuit amperating where lighting units,
cordon plug connected utilization equipment not fastened in place or both are also supplied.
All right, why is that important? Well, if I'm not dealing with
if all I'm doing is running it to this fastening place appliance, but it
also is on the same brand circuit that maybe has lighting on it. Right,
there's nothing that says that I can't put lighting on as well in a
living room, for example, on with the receptacles. There's nothing we do
that all the time. We go around the room, we pop up and
we hit the switch, and we do lighting, ceiling fans. All that
can be on one brand circuit. We're not getting into your practice of what
you may or may not do, but the code permits that it's okay.
Right, So, let's say I do have this utilization of equipment that is
fastened in place, and of course, at that point, let's say that
brand circuit does supply other loads, other cord and plug connected utilization equipment that
happens to be not fastened in place. Let's say, well, if that's
the case, then the appliance that is fastened in place is going to be
limited to fifty percent. Right, So, where other receptacles, lighting units,
or clients are also supplied on this brand circuit, the rating of the
cordon plug connected room air conditioner shall not exceed fifty percent of the brand circuit
amp' rating for a fifteen or twenty brand circuit. And that tells us that
now again, don't confuse that with feeding two separate, fixed in place appliances
that this rule is not going to apply to that. Okay, I could
have as long as it combined don't exceed twenty amps. If it's a twenty
amp circuit, then that's okay. That is not going to be an issue.
And some people get this rule confused. I think I did a blog
on this back on our website quite a while ago. People were people were
confused with this. But again, if I have a twenty AM brand circuit
and I'm supplying a waste disposer which is fixed in place, and a dishwasher
which is fixed in place, neither one of those appliances are going to be
restricted to fifty percent. They just can't exceed twenty amps because it's twenty amp
circuit, but they're not going to be restricted, right, So we're talking
about something that is fastened in place, but that same brand circuit also supplies
other, say, receptacles that would allow cord and plug right those type of
things. That's where you have a problem. And then that's going to push
the appliances like the room air condition in our case, to be reduced to
fifty percent. Okay, so you just have to be careful if you're putting
it on with an existing brand circuit that allows other receptacles to plug things into
it. And you said, I'll just put this air conditioner here and oop,
there's a receptacle based on my six and twelve layout is already a receptacle
right there. That's fine. Well, then you have to be real careful
because at that point your room air conditioner can't exceed fifty percent of whatever that
brand circuit is. So it probably behooves you to run an individ your brand
circuit to it. And in this case, it really doesn't matter when it
comes to this one either because to be honest with you, this is dealing
with utilization equipment that's fastened in place, and your room air conditioners not going
to be fastened in place, but it is still a great lesson to go
over and make sure that you understand the concepts of what we're doing here.
If any of that's confusing to a quick summary, if your room air conditioners
corden plug connected, it's an individual brand circuit, then the rating of the
room air conditioner can't exceed eighty percent of the brand circuit rating. Okay,
that's if it's a cordon plug connected equipment not fastened in place, that's probably
what you're going to have. B two is talking about utilization equipment that is
fastened in place, which would not be your room air conditioner by the way,
but it means basically to cover it. If you did have a piece
of utilization equipment that's fastened in place, right, but it also supplies other
receptacles, for example, that other things cordon plug would be connected into it,
then it's not really just for that fascinating place utilization equipment, is it.
And if that's the case, and people in that circuit is supplying other
receptacles for cordon plug and whatnot, then you're going to be limited to the
room air conditioner would only be limited to fifty percent of whatever the branch circuit
is Okay, so that's a big drop. So I'm probably not going to
lay that out for me to put that on the general You know, if
I'm doing an attic or loft and it's a rough end, you know,
it's an existing house and maybe they're finishing off the upstairs, I'm not going
to just run one branch circuit around to cover the receptacles and they might not
get a lot of use. Right, might be just an open space.
But the moment that I put that room air conditioner in and I plan on
plugging it into those receptacles, I have to make sure that that the room
air conditioner that gets plugged into that is not going to be the rating is
not going to be more than fifty percent of the brand circuit. Why,
because of the other cordon plug opportunities on that brand circuit. That would be
a problem. Okay, So it's just things that you need to think about,
especially with your client, because your client's just like, I just throw
me some receptacles in. Oh, I might put a window unit in,
Just throw me a receptacle right there beside it. Okay, Well, maybe
that won't be a big deal if you did everything in twenty amp and fifty
percent that is ten amps, and they're getting an air condition to a unit
that's eight amps, and that's no big deal. Sadly, you don't know
what they're gonna get, so you just need to think about that when you're
wiring it, and you need to have that conversation. Okay, all right,
so that kind of covered that. Now I did want to jump back
up to show you that this is covered well also up in sixty two C.
So let's go back. You should have a firm grasp for what we
talked about here when it comes to cordon plug connected equipment not fastened in place,
and then of course utilization equipment fastened in place. We're just using a
room air conditioner as that exa. But let's go look at full forty dot
sixty two C and kind of finish that up, all right, So fourty
at sixty two C says we're lighting units or other appliances are also supplied.
Okay, So remember this is under a full forty dot sixty two So this
is brand circuit requirements, right, and we're talking about let's kind of read
what it says, and we're talking about room air conditioners, by the way,
So it says the total marked current rating of a court and attachment plug
connected room air conditioner shall not exceed fifty percent of the current rating of the
brand circuit where lighting outlets are the repliances or general use receptacles are also supplied.
So doesn't that say it really well? When it comes to room air
conditioners, you got to remember that the use of two ten dot twenty three
B two and B one isn't really specific to room air conditioner. It's broader
than just room air conditioners. So here in four forty dot sixty two we
get a little more guidance very specific to room air conditioners. And you see
how it kind of mirrors to ten dot twenty two ten dot twenty three.
Do you see see kind of how it mirrors that. But it is very
unique to itself, and it just kind of reminds you of that. It
says, where the circuitry is interlocked to prevent simultaneous operation of a room air
conditioner and booh energization wow of other outlets on the same brand circuit, a
cord and plug connected room air conditioners shall not exceed eighty percent of the brand
circuit Radio Okay, So if you have it set up in some way.
That way, the circuitry has an interlock designed on it so that you're a
room air conditioner. Uh in the other outlets on the same circuit, Okay,
if you can keep them from some way from when the air conditions running,
the others, nobody can run the other loads. If you can do
that, then you can go back up to the eighty percent of the brand
circuit rating. Okay, but it clearly says circuitry is interlocked to prevent simultaneous
operation of the room air conditioner and interergization of other outlets on the same brand
circuit. Okay. Maybe that has something to do with something at the air
conditioning unit. I don't know, but again it's clearly stating some of you
out there may know this. I wouldn't do this because I'm not sure I
want to spend the extra money to try to maintain some interlocking system just for
this application. Right, I'm gonna probably run if I know there's going to
be an air conditioner, I'm gonna run an individual brand circuit and be done
with it, and do it that way rather than put it on with general
use receptacles. In the room. Okay, unless you're okay with the fifty,
then you just roll with it and you're okay, all right, all
right, So that pretty much covers that. So let's while we're here,
we might as well knock out a few other things when it comes to the
room air conditioning units. Okay, and so let's go on and see this
now. The other question that people ask about the attachment plug, can that
serve as a disconnecting means for that piece of utilization equipment? All right,
Well, the receptacles right there, it's chord okay, and we'll talk about
the chord link here in a second, so we can wrap this up about
room air conditioners. Is the attachment plug serving as a disconnect So if you've
got your codebook, what you want to go to is FUTT thirteen, all
right, So I'm gonna go to full forty dot thirteen, and that is
chord connected equipment right now. Also remind you it's in let's just say it's
under part two, which is talking about disconnect means anyway, an article full
forty, So we want to look at it because we're well certainly talking about
chord connected equipment. This is a room air conditioner. And here's what it
says it's and it also has an informational note that sends you to room air
conditioners. Right. It says, for cord and plug connected equipment such as
room air conditioners, household refrigerators and freezers, drinking water coolers, and bear
fast dispensers, a separable connector or an attachment plug and receptacle shall be permitted
to serve as the disconnecting means. Okay, So again you can go right
up to it if you're going to service it. You see the disconnect is
that attachment plug. You pull it right out of the receptacle and you you're
fine. Okay, So keep that in mind. So if it's a chord
connected equipment, then there you go. Now remember if it's not cord connected,
and then you're gonna be looking at full forty fourteen. That talks about
the location of the disconnecting means and within sight from and all these other goodies.
But obviously this question it was submitted as about a room air conditioner cord
and plug. Right. Lastly, we want to talk about the length of
that supply cord. Now, typically this should be pretty much covered by the
manufacturer so and unless you're going out and buying one as a replacement because one
is is maybe fairly chewed up or damaged or something like that, then what
you're going to need to do is you're going to need to go to fully
sixty four. This talks about supply chords and then give you some kind of
some context to where it's at. This whole question. The majority of this
you could find your answer all right in part seven of Article four forty which
is titled room air conditions. Anyway, So you got a bunch of information
here. But what we're looking at right now is a supply coord full forty
dot sixty four. It says, where a flexible cord is used to supply
a room air conditioner, the length of the such chords shall not exceed ten
feet for a nominal one hundred and twenty volt rated or six feet for a
nominal two o eight or two footy volt rated. So it's either ten feet
or six feet. If it's just a one twenty volte plugging into a regular
receptacle, then you're gonna have a ten foot cord on it. All right,
that's a lot of extra cord, but that's what you're that's that's what
you're gonna have. And again that's them. It can't exceed ten feet.
So if a manufacturer gives you six feet or five feet or whatever, they're
gonna give you whatever they're gonna give you based on they're listening for the product,
but it can't be more than ten feet, right, all right,
So hopefully that answered your question for your room air conditioner receptacle, as well
as a bunch of extra information if you've ever wondered about the room air conditioner.
Um. Okay, so let me get to some quick announcements before we're
done with this one. I know y'all hate my long podcasts and videos,
but so you probably heard, we are migrating away from YouTube. I kind
of went this morning on a little rant, and I apologize for the rant.
Basically I don't in reading their profile policies and things that they have and
how they use your content and what they do with it. I wasn't happy.
So we're slowly moving away from YouTube, and I had some smart Alex
post a comment and said, well, it's amazing that you talk about wanting
to get away from and here not about the clicks yet yet you put the
videos from monetization up on YouTube. Well, hello, if I'm going to
put a video up there, I'm getting something for it. But I'm not
about the clicks. I'm not putting content out there to try to get five
hundred thousand subscribers. My market is very niche. I'm looking for people that
want to learn the NC. I'm not looking for electricians out there. They
just want to watch videos of other people pull conductors through a raceway or bend
condoit. I'm sorry, I'm just not into that. I don't like watching
other other electricians work. That's not what I do. And there's a lot
of fanboys out there that like to do that. I'm just not one of
those. So I'm not going to put out that kind of video. But
I teach the code and it's a very niche thing, but I get paid
for my knowledge. There's a lot of young people out there putting things out
on YouTube. God bless them, that's how I started. I wish them
all the luck. I just can't do that anymore because we're a corporation and
we have to pay the bills. Hopefully our content is worth paying for and
so with that though, we're gonna be moving away from YouTube. It's a
slower process. No, we weren't kicked off on YouTube. That's how rumors
going around. Somebody texted me and said, would you get kicked off?
No, obviously, we're gonna still be putting stuff on there until we decide
to totally move and we're going to be moving to Rumbull for some of our
live streams. But we're still going to be on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitch,
got Twitter, We're still in those platforms. We're still going to stream
on those platforms, and we're all over Facebook. Like you said, we're
also going to be streaming to our own platform, which is fast trackstube dot
com and we're hoping more of you will check that out. So anytime we
announce a live stream, you can just go right over to fast tracks Tube.
You should be able to watch it. It's public, and we don't
that one's not. You don't have to pay to see it. It should
it should be live. If you go there, you can bookmark it'll say
live stream, but that's only one way that you can get it. We're
just slowly going to transition away from YouTube, and I just don't like their
controlling nature. Also, anybody out there that has a platform. You know,
for whatever reason, YouTube could decide to demonetize or take your content down.
I don't like it. Okay. Now, granted YouTube and Twitter and
all those can do it as well, but we call those secondaries because we
really don't care about those. We do our own Sparky Hub, we do
our own other stuff. Those are just for marketing purposes. All of our
paid content, all the new stuff that's going to be coming out here in
the next month with twenty twenty three, all of that content is going to
be exclusive over on our fast Tracks tube. Okay, So if you're a
subscriber, you get it. If you're not, you're not. That should
show you we're not into the clicks. We're not trying to get fifty million
subscribers. I'm just not. I just don't care about that. I care
about putting out good education. That's what I care about. So so also
with that, I wanted to let you know we have two new courses that
are up. If you know somebody that's really does a lot of work on
HVAC, we have a great course electricity for refrigeration, heating and cooling.
It really goes way beyond that, but it talks about how to service units,
how to service the capacitors, what to look for, troubleshooting conditions,
conditions that you might encounter. That's a really good course. And then of
course we have Magenta, and that was, by the way, is named
Aqua. People don't like my colors selection, but it is what it is.
And then of course we have Magenta. Magenta is a little bit advanced.
So before you were to step into Magenta, I mean I openly don't
push that course because it is very advanced. If you want to challenge the
Magenta would be the one that you would definitely would challenge you, that's for
sure. But again we're looking at about three weeks from now dropping our twenty
twenty three fast tracks, and look, I'm going to tell you up front,
it's not going to be a major change from what you're used to if
you're already a fast track student, right, the only difference is code references
will be difference contents pretty much the same. If it's not broke, you
know, why fix it. The images are still grew, they still work,
But for people that need the twenty twenty three, then that's going to
be the way to go. Also, we are definitely. You will see
this week we will be putting out, hopefully a budget Okay, don't quote
me here, a budget fast Tracks course for people that just can't afford our
normal course. And the reason our courses cost what they cost us because you
get me on Wednesday nights and I personally have to grade all your work and
I have to put in a lot of time with the students, and my
time is money. So that's why that course and then the other things that
we that's the convenience of the online system, the logging in the console,
all of that, the quizzes, that's a convenience. That's what you're paying
for. That's what makes the fast Tracks better than anybody else. However,
we have heard you and people have been asking for a budget addition, a
little cheaper addition of the fast Tracks for exam prep. Means it's not going
to be any courses graded by me. It's not going to give you access
to Wednesday nights. It's a exam prep down and dirty course with all the
content you need at a bare bones price. Okay, So if you want
the support from us, the me, the videos, they're wanting to join
us on Wednesday nights and things like that, then you want to stick with
the fast tracks black. But if you're on a budget, hey man,
I get it. And so we're going to put out something for folks here
in the next couple of weeks. It's going to be a budget version of
our fast tracks okay, going to have the same great kind of content,
but it's going to be kind of stripped down a little bit for those that
really don't need that. Don't need the Wednesday nights or things like that,
so and don't need the one on one grading and stuff like that. To
give feedback, if you don't feel you need that, this is still going
to be the best thing, then to buy some books somewhere. So at
the end of the because I think our content is far better, the illustrations
and graphics are far better than anybody else. So at the end of the
day, um, look for that to come as well. All right,
all right, folks, Um, that's it. That's all we've got.
I answered one question, and I for the gentleman, I went probably a
little deeper than I needed to go for his question, but I wanted to
make sure that I answered it and give you a little bit more. All
right, folks, Until next time, Stay safe and be careful out there.
God bless no Bo