This is a business article I wrote several years ago. No hard-hitting tech tips, but I still hope you find it beneficial. “What would you do if you had a time machine.?” It’s a question that came up at least 17 times in your first week of 6th grade, answered with the typical “kill Hitler” […]

As we often do in these tech tips, we will start with the common and more practical explanation of saturation and then move to the more technical and nerdy explanation later. When we say “at saturation” or “saturated” in the HVAC/R trade, we are generally referring to the refrigerant that is in the process of […]

The piston (fixed orifice) and TXV (thermostatic expansion valve) are the two most common metering devices in use today, with some modern systems utilizing an electronically-controlled metering device called an EEV (electronic expansion valve). It should be noted that there are other types of fixed orifice metering devices like capillary tubes, but their use is […]