Electricity for Refrigeration, Heating, and Air Conditioning, 8th Edition

Electricity for Refrigeration, Heating, and Air Conditioning is the ideal book for beginning technicians and students. This text gives readers the basic electrical principles necessary to understand today's modern control systems. The practical approach taken in this text gives readers a focus on the electronics information they will use in the field, without bogging them down in unnecessary theory. Electricity for Refrigeration, Heating, and Air Conditioning places an emphasis on developing systematic diagnosis and troubleshooting methods with procedures that will give readers the ability to become highly-skilled, professional HVAC-R service technicians. This book also comes with a comprehensive glossary included to assist those who are new to the field in using and understanding industry terms. This text is 672 pages.

Features:

• Learning objectives, definitions of key terms, summaries, plus plenty of review questions are included in every chapter are to increase comprehension and improve retention.
• Contains new illustrations and photos that encourage readers to apply information presented in the book directly to modern components, equipment and control systems.
• Uses and introduces symbols consistently and explores schematic diagrams of twelve specific applications used in the industry, enabling readers to become expert troubleshooters in the field.
• Includes in-depth discussion of the designs, types, starting components and diagnosis and troubleshooting procedures for single-phase motors that mirror their importance in the industry.
• Includes coverage of thermostats, pressure and manual switches, contactors, relays, overload and other state-of-the-art electrical components that prepare readers for work in the field today.
• Contains a Lab Manual that includes the following for each chapter: unit review tests, overview, list of key terms and lab exercises when appropriate.

New to this Edition:

• Includes full color art throughout
• Includes a revised Chapter 13 (Electronic Controls Devices) with additional electronic controls.
• Contains a new chapter (Chapter 16-Residential Air-Conditioning Controls Systems) that includes furnace control heating systems, residential air conditioning control systems, and heat pump control systems, along with a sequence of operation of each. An overview of equipment configuration is also included, as is a short section on customer relations.
• Includes a basic overview of commercial and industrial control systems in Chapter 17, including the control methods for commercial and industrial conditioned air systems, basic circuitry of light commercial equipment, an explanation of the control loop as it relates to commercial and industrial control systems, as well as a brief explanation of pneumatic and direct digital controls systems.
• Contains "Green" awareness paragraphs placed in appropriate positions in the text.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Electrical Safety.
• 2. Basic Electricity.
• 3. Electric Circuits.
• 4. Electric Meters.
• 5. Components, Symbols and Circuitry of Air Conditioning Wiring Diagrams.
• 6. Reading Schematic Diagrams.
• 7. Alternating Current, Power Distribution, and Voltage Systems.
• 8. Installation of Heating and Air Conditioning Systems.
• 9. Electric Motors.
• 10. Components of Electric Motors.
• 11. Contractors, Relays and Overloads.
• 12. Thermostats, Pressure Switches, and Other Electric Control Devices.
• 13. Electronic Control Devices.
• 14. Heating Control Devices.
• 15. Troubleshooting Electric Control Devices.
• 16. Residential Air Conditioning Control Systems.
• 17. Light Commercial Air Conditioning Control Systems.
• 18. Troubleshooting Refrigeration, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Control Circuits and Systems.