HVAC Troubleshooting Guide

The HVAC Troubleshooting Guide is a handy resource written to aid you in your everyday tasks related to residential, commercial, and industrial jobs. You’ll stay up to date with the latest facts, figures, and devices, plus learn how to read, interpret, and prepare schedules, mechanical plans, and electrical schematics. This essential handbook puts a wealth of real-world information at your fingertips and includes numerous illustrations, tables, and charts, troubleshooting tips, safety precautions, resource directories, and a glossary of terms. 720 pp.

The HVAC Troubleshooting Guide helps you:

• Identify and safely use tools and equipment (both new and old)
• Use heat pumps and hot air furnaces
• Calculate ventilation requirements
• Work with refrigeration equipment and the new refrigerants
• Utilize control devices, including solenoids and relays
• Operate, select, and repair electric motors
• Work with condensers, compressors, and evaporators
• Monitor the flow of refrigerant with valves, tubing, and filters
• Comply with the Section 608 refrigerant recycling rule
• Program thermostats
• Insulate with batts, sheet, tubing covers, and foam
• Work with solid-state controls
• Understand electrical and electronic symbols used in schematics

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Tools and Instruments
• Chapter 2. Heat Pumps and Hot-Air Furnaces
• Chapter 3. Ventilation Requirements
• Chapter 4. Refrigeration
• Chapter 5. Refrigerants: New and Old
• Chapter 6. Solenoids and Relays
• Chapter 7. Electric Motors
• Chapter 8. Condensers
• Chapter 9. Compressors
• Chapter 10. Evaporators
• Chapter 11. Controlling Refrigerant: Valves, Tubing, and Filters
• Chapter 12. Complying with the Section 608 Refrigerant-Recycling Rule
• Chapter 13. Programming Thermostats
• Chapter 14. Control Devices
• Chapter 15. Insulating Pipes and Tubing
• Chapter 16. Electrical Safety
• Chapter 17. Temperatures, Thermometers, and Psychometrics
• Chapter 18. Troubleshooting
• Chapter 19. Solid-State Controls
• Chapter 20. Electrical and Electronic Symbols Used in Schematics
• Appendix A. Professional Organizations
• Appendix B. Industrial Associations
• Appendix C. New Refrigerants
• Index