HVAC Troubleshooting Guide

by Rex Miller

Overview

A Practical, On-the-Job HVAC Guide

Applicable to residential, commercial, and industrial jobs, this essential handbook puts a wealth of real-world information at your fingertips. HVAC Troubleshooting Guide shows you how to read, interpret, and prepare schedules, mechanical plans, and electrical schematics. This handy resource will aid you in your everyday tasks and keep you up to date with the latest facts, figures, and devices. The book includes numerous illustrations, tables, and charts, troubleshooting tips, safety precautions, resource directories, and a glossary of terms.

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071605076
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	02/10/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	720
File size:	32 MB
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About the Author

Rex Miller (Round Rock, Texas) is Professor Emeritus of Industrial Technology at the State University of New York College at Buffalo where he taught technical curriculums at the college level for more than 40 years. Dr. Miller authored or co-authored more than 100 texts for vocational and industrial arts programs.

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