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Corbett Lunsford

Corbett Lunsford is an expert in home performance diagnostics, specializing in building science, ventilation design, and advanced home testing, with extensive experience in optimizing the invisible dynamics of home environments—including physics, chemistry, and microbiology—and applying this knowledge to projects like high-performance homes and educational content, with a focus in the session on designing ventilation systems that incorporate circulation, filtration, humidity control, dilution, and pressure relief.

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Michael Faraday: Patron Saint of HVAC Technicians

Who was Michael Faraday—besides the guy we named the capacitor after? Well, actually, we named the measure of capacitance after him (the farad), but let’s not get all caught up in semantics. Faraday was a scientist who lived from 1791 to 1867. He was an experimental scientist who had little to no formal education but […]

Blower Fan Watt Draw Considerations for ECMs

I'd like to give special thanks to Steve Rogers from TEC for helping write this tech tip and sharing some helpful visuals. Thanks, Steve! ACCA Standard 310 introduced a grading protocol for HVAC systems. While HVAC practitioners won’t be the ones carrying out the tasks laid out in Standard 310, energy raters will conduct them […]

Tool Selection: Electrical Meters

I'd like to give a special thanks to Tony Gonzalez from Fieldpiece for providing technical guidance about the SC680's power measurement capabilities, as well as VAC and AAC measurements on ECMs. We’ve talked through specifications, applications, and features for a few tools, but none of them have been quite as hardcore as electrical meters. Like […]

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Making of a TV Show About Home Performance (Podcast)

In today's podcast, I talk with Corbett Lunsford about his new show about home performance and diagnosis. Home Diagnosis airs on PBS in winter 2018. Even though Home Diagnosis mostly deals with building performance, HVAC work is a large component of overall home performance. Corbett Lunsford used to be a pianist before becoming a building performance expert. He […]

Blower Door Testing, Building Performance & More w/ Corbett Lunsford (Podcast)

In this podcast episode, Bryan talks to Corbett Lunsford about blower door testing and the coming building performance revolution. Building performance and HVAC have been becoming much more closely linked lately. So, it's a good idea for HVAC techs to learn a bit about building performance. In the HVAC world, we often see homes with […]