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EPA 608 HVAC Certification

Posted by: Hvac at February 18th, 2009

Today’s lesson in the HVAC School will be about getting certified. In order to handle refrigerants, which you will need to be able to do if you ever want to make a living as and HVAC technician then you will have to be epa 608 certified. If you wish to have some further information from the professionals on what this is all about you can visit there site here.

Now what I had to do when I got my certification is take four different types of tests, and they are not that hard if you study. If you attend an HVAC school in Florida, or anywhere else this will be one of the first things that you will need to get.

There are four types of certifications that you can get, these are type 1,2,3 and the universal, which means that you have all of them. Having a type 1 certification means that you can work on small appliances that contain Freon, such as refrigerators and portable air conditioning units.

Type 2 holders can work on hvac systems that use high pressure refrigerant, some examples of this are home central air conditioners, super market air conditioners, heat pumps. Basically this is what you will need to work on any central heating and cooling system.

Type 3 consists of working on systems that use lower pressure refrigerants, some examples might include hvac in cars, or chillers.

The universal certification will be awarded when you pass all four tests, now notice that there is no type 4, and there are 4 tests, this is because there is a core section in hvac training courses that you must pass. You must pass the core test to get any type of certification. Once you pass the core you will not have to take that test again. You could pass tests 1-3 and if you fail the core you will not get any of the certifications at all.

The core consists of basically ozone depletion, CAA phase out, clean air acts and many other things that you will have to know. Before you go to get your hvac certification at either a testing center or an accredited hvac school you should really concentrate on what type of hvac certification you will want. It is good on a resume to have all of them but it is a lot easier to study and learn one section at a time. If you think that you can take on all of the tests at once then by all means go ahead, I did and I passed all but the type three, which I went back and got later.

In other posts here at the hvac school I will go over each test individually and what you will need to know to pass them with flying colors.