Hvac School - For Techs, By Techs

Jon Bennert from Air Oasis teaches us about PCO and Bi-Polar air purification and how it works.

A summary of reach in coolers (refrigerators), freezers and wine coolers with some mindset and technical tips

Neil and Stephen talk about their dive head-on into building performance and what that looks like day in and day out in an HVAC contracting business.

Author of commercial refrigeration for air conditioning technicians, Dick Wirz talks to us about refrigerator and freezer defrost strategies.

In this episode Bill and Bryan recap the 2018 AHR conference with what they learned and what you can expect to see in the HVAC/R trade in the next year.

We talk to west coast commercial tech Jim Loring about pneumatic controls and VAV

Jeremy Smith goes over floating suction and floating head refrigeration strategies as well as some more on low ambient operation.

Bryan talks with Jesse and Nathan about setting up dehumidification for residential equipment in general as well as some of the required and recommended settings on an EcoBee thermostat

In this episode we cover the skills and traits needed to be the best residential service tech you can be.

As we ring in the new year this episode focuses on how people in the HVAC/R trade can make more money without being rejected or seen as selfish.

We discuss power distribution and some practical tips about 3 phase, single phase and split phase power.

Learn about large-scale Desiccant dehumidification from the expert, Tom Peterson w/ CDI

Carter tells us why compression ratio is important, what it means and why it changes so much on heat pump systems and the effect that has on system operation.

We look at voltage and resistance, specifically using a voltmeter and an ohmmeter for diagnosis as well as a discussion of voltage drop.

Jamie Kitchen from Danfoss talks all about variable speed motor technology. Why it exists, what it does and how to think differently about the future of HVAC/R

this is the second episode with Jack Rise. Jack is one of my favorite authors and educators in HVAC and you will enjoy his tips in this podcast.

Nate Adams loves to eliminate gas meters and install high-performance heat pumps on high-performance homes in Ohio. Learn his secrets and whether or not he is as crazy as it sounds.

Bill Johnson is one of the great educators and writers of our time in HVAC/R and he shares about his career and some of his top tips on keeping systems leak free.

Jim takes us all the way through the history of furnaces from the stone ages when he was a child all the way to modern modulating condensing furnaces.

This class recording discusses transformers, ground, common, and line vs. load sides of a circuit.