1. Phaseout Schedule for HCFCs
(HVAC & Energy Library/Residential Information)

... As a result, heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) system manufacturers may not produce new air conditioners and heat pumps containing R-22. January 1, 2015: The Montreal Protocol ...

2. Service Clinic: TX Valve Basics
(HVAC & Energy Library/Technician Resource)

... entering the compressor, there is a corresponding one and a half degree rise in the discharge gas temperature. This can lead to poor system performance and overheating of the compressor. By controlling ...

3. Service Clinic: The Art of Troubleshooting
(HVAC & Energy Library/Technician Resource)

... call for a gas furnace not heating. You find a bad fan motor capacitor, replace it, and restart the system. The problem you found was electrical, the system is heating and the homeowner is happy, so it's ...

4. Service Clinic: The Importance of Benchmarking
(HVAC & Energy Library/Technician Resource)

The Importance of Benchmarking by Bill Dove, CM Whenever the seasons change and your work changes from cooling to heating or vice versa, take a minute to review which of your measurement practices ...

5. Service Clinic: Mystery of Superheat
(HVAC & Energy Library/Technician Resource)

... refrigerant into vapor than it does in superheating the refrigerant. However, this would put your compressor in great risk for premature failure because it leaves you with an unknown and minimal margin ...

6. Service Clinic: Coil Cleaning
(HVAC & Energy Library/Technician Resource)

... heat transfer from the tube to the fin is reduced. 3. Runoff, pets, and plants Some coil cleaning products that we use at O'Neill-Bagwell Cooling & Heating are biodegradable. Yet even these, ...

7. Should You Clean Your Ducts?
(HVAC & Energy Library/Residential Information)

Should You Get Your Heating Ducts Cleaned? A hot air furnace heats and distributes air through its ducting system. The ducts are usually made of sheet metal and are most obvious in your basement, where ...

8. Technical Q&A
(Residential/Residential Clients)

...  Why should I purchase a new heating or air conditioning system? Efficiency and cost savings At Goodman Manufacturing Company, L.P., we realize that purchasing a heating or air conditioning ...