In these tips and on the podcast, we talk a lot about the importance of deep vacuum, and deep vacuum using proper processes and tools is the best. It's really the ONLY way to ensure that a system is clean, dry, and tight. Just for review, that means: Nitrogen purge, flow and pressurize > Cores […]

Belly band crankcase heater When I first started in the trade as an apprentice, we worked on many Trane heat pumps that used crankcase heaters. These crankcase heaters slid into the compressor sump on the big orange Tyler reciprocating compressors, like the one below. It was very common for these heaters to break off where […]

Since I started in the trade, we would take discharge line temperature in the winter on a heat pump system. You can easily check the discharge line in the winter, while suction superheat and even subcool can be more difficult to access. The old-timers who trained me would say that the discharge temp will be […]