January 2019

I talk to John Oaks about his experience as a VRF tech in the field including branch boxes and two pipe vs. three pipe technology

This is a voice over audio presentation of the article of the same title on the HVACRschool.com website

This is a business article I wrote several years ago. No hard-hitting tech tips, but I still hope you find it beneficial. “What would you do if you had a time machine.?” It’s a question that came up at least 17 times in your first week of 6th grade, answered with the typical “kill Hitler” […]

Jason Obrzut come on and talks us through his furnace sequence of operation training  Take It Slow, It's Gonna Blow

We talk through stack effect. What it is and what issues it causes.

Jesse Grandbois is one of the techs who reads the tech tips, and he wrote a few tips that he wanted to share on some gas furnace control basics. This tip is about the basic terminal designations on a typical 24v gas valve. Thanks, Jesse! Have you ever noticed the TH/TR terminal on a gas […]

This article was written by up-and-coming young tech and new contributor Kaleb Saleeby. Thanks, Kaleb! Recently, I came across a work order description in my dispatch that made me scratch my head. Clean Salamander broiler I had to ask the omniscient Google for answers. It turns out it has nothing to do with vividly-colored, “fireproof” […]

Dissimilar metals, like aluminum, copper, brass, and steel, are some of the main metals one may experience in their trade, and few people are comfortable working with dissimilar metals. They don’t trust their brazed joint, or they are afraid of melting away material. To put some of the nerves of those in the field at […]

Jim gives us a year end review of all that is happening at MeasureQuick with Redfish, BluFlame, BluVac, Supco, Testo and Fieldpiece