Many techs may not all know what SEER exactly means or how it’s calculated, but we know that it exists, is regulated by the government, and has something to do with efficiency. SEER is the standard efficiency rating of central air conditioning systems, and its values are determined from a controlled set of testing conditions. […]

We just wrote about rejecting heat to the atmosphere via radiant cooling. That’s one example of cooling without refrigerants, but there are quite a few others out there. In this article, we’ll look at some other cooling methods that don’t use refrigerants. Vortex tubes Vortex tubes swirl gas in a chamber, separating it into hot […]

When reading ANY article about electrical theory or application, keep in mind that it will only scratch the topic's surface. You can dedicate years of your life to understanding electrical theory and design the way many engineers do and still know just enough to be dangerous. In HVAC, we rarely need to have a DEEP […]