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Confirming Liquid Levels with a Little Thermodynamics

Maintaining the correct vapor-liquid refrigerant balance is crucial for air conditioning and refrigeration system perfor

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Léon Creux’s Scroll Design: From Initial Failure to an Enduring Legacy

The HVAC/R industry isn’t short on tragic figures. There’s John Gorrie, whose ice machine showed a lot of promise but di

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Traditional & Desiccant Dehumidification and When to Use Each (or Both)

This tech tip is based on a conversation with Nikki Krueger and David Schurk. Nikki is a longtime contributor to HVAC Sc

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Switch Terms

A while back, I had a tech who was having some trouble finding a 35 PSI (2.41 bar) make-on-fall pressure switch. One adj

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Piston Design and Bypass

I remember it like it was yesterday. It was my first day of work as a trainee at my first technician job, just a wet-beh

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Size and Orientation of Return Grilles and Supply Registers

Proper sizing and orientation of grilles, registers, and diffusers may seem like such a simple thing, but it's an area w

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How to Diagnose a TXV Failure

There has been much written and many jokes made about the misdiagnosis of TXV (thermostatic expansion valves), and right

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Checking Disconnects

Disconnects walk the fine line of being HVAC or electrical, but the HVAC technician is allowed to repair and replace dis

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5 Capacitor Facts You Should Know

One of the most common parts to fail on a single-phase HVAC system is the run capacitor, so much so that we sometimes re

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Discovering Mental Reference Points

Trying to wrap your head around HVAC can feel like a constant firehose of new info, right? Whether you're in class or on

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Three Levels of Acid Testing

Anytime we have a compressor failure, we can’t just pull out the bad compressor and drop a new one in. We have to put ou

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C stands for “Common Mistake”

You have seen the C terminal on a dual run capacitor before. You have also seen the C terminal on a compressor. It stand

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Review of Vacuum for Service Engineers
Vacuum Science & Procedures

Review of Vacuum for Service Engineers

Revised by Jim Bergmann & Bryan Orr
Buy on Amazon
Refrigerant Charging and Service Procedures for Air Conditioning
HVAC Procedures

Refrigerant Charging and Service Procedures for Air Conditioning

Craig Migliaccio
Buy on Amazon
Bob’s House
HVAC Sizing and Design

Bob’s House

ACCA
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Commercial Refrigeration for Air Conditioning Technicians
Commercial Refrigeration in Plain Language

Commercial Refrigeration for Air Conditioning Technicians

Dick Wirz
Buy on Amazon
Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Technology
HVAC/R Textbook

Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Technology

John Tomczyk, Eugene Silberstein, Bill Whitman, Bill Johnson
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Fundamentals of HVACR
HVAC/R Textbook

Fundamentals of HVACR

Carter Stanfield, David Skaves
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Understanding Manual D
Residential Duct Design

Understanding Manual D

Jack Rise
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Electricity for Refrigeration, Heating, and Air Conditioning
HVAC/R Electrical Textbook

Electricity for Refrigeration, Heating, and Air Conditioning

Russell E. Smith
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The Home Comfort Book
Home Performance & Science

The Home Comfort Book

By Nate Adams
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Modern Hydronic Heating
Hydronic Heating

Modern Hydronic Heating

By John Siegenthaler
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Browning® Toolbox Technician™

Browning® Toolbox Technician™

Regal Beloit America Incorporated

The FREE Browning® Toolbox Technician™ app delivers an indispensable toolset for all HVAC contractors and maintenance personnel, including calculation tools, conversion tools, GPS enabled distributor locator, plus informative reference, installation and troubleshooting guides for everything from bearings to v-belts. This app also features the revolutionary V-Belt ID Wizard™, empowering personnel in the field to quickly identify an installed belt, even when the product ID is unknown.

Browning® Toolbox Technician™ features:

- V-belt troubleshooting

- V-belt selection guide

- Bearing basics & FAQs

- Air handler bearing interchange

- V-belt ID Wizard™ with part lookup & product images

- Where to Buy with GPS option

- Various conversion tools

- Efficiency calculators

- Much more!

Ref Tools

Ref Tools

Danfoss A/S

The essential, all-in-one mobile app for air conditioning and refrigeration technicians

Get the guidance, support, information, and tools you need—on the job and infield. Ref Tools is a free, powerful app that contains essential tools every air conditioning and refrigeration technician needs in their digital toolbelt.

Previously known as Refrigerant Slider, Ref Tools represents the next digital evolution in the cooling industry. HVACR tools are becoming smarter, better, and easier to use, and Ref Tools puts them in the palm of your hand.

Our latest update greatly improves the in-app podcast experience—you can now subscribe to podcasts, enable notifications for new episodes, filter podcasts by language, and enjoy a new, streamlined player.

Measure Quick Hvac

Measure Quick Hvac

MeasureQUICK

With measure Quick HVAC you can diagnose system problems from the most trivial to the most complex.

Our powerful data aggregation tools, coupled with just-in-time education, will increase a technicians ability to solve problems on the job site, ultimately leading to a huge increase in productivity.

Measure Quick makes measurement science work!

HVAC School

HVAC School

By Techs for Techs

The app that helps you remember some things you forgot along the way, as well as helps you remember some things you forgot to know in the first place.For all current and aspiring HVAC technicians: HVAC School is the premiere source for knowledge and success in the HVAC industry.

With this app you can:

Listen to all episodes of the HVAC School podcast, a podcast committed to bringing you relevant and up to date knowledge of the HVAC industry and what it means to be an HVAC technician.

Read tech tip articles written by industry professionals on various topics to help build your knowledge base and understanding of HVAC theory

Interact with calculators that employ common HVAC equations to help build your understanding of important HVAC mathematics

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