Quiz: Test Your HVAC Skills: Understanding Residential Heat Load Calculations — Part 2
From Btu to building envelopes — see how your heat load know-how stacks up. Source link
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Freon and Load Capacity – How Are They Linked?
If you’re like most people, you probably don’t think too much about how your air conditioning system works. All you really need to know is that when you switch on the system, your house gets cooler. But if you’re looking to...
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HVAC Design Heat Load Factors: A Simplified Method for 10-Second Load Calculations
This article is Part 1 of a 3-part series on heat load calculations and proper HVAC sizing by Drew Tozer for HVAC Know It All. Read Part 2 & Part 3. Drew’s book “Feel-Good Homes: How to choose the right heat pump for a...
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HVAC Design Heat Load Factors: Finding the Shortcuts
This article is Part 3 of a 3-part series on heat load calculations and proper HVAC sizing by Drew Tozer for HVAC Know It All. Read Part 1 & Part 2. A Common Factor, Then a Theory When I was completing energy assessments for homeowners, I...
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Heat Load Factors: A Simplified Method for 10-Second Load Calculations
HORSESHOES, HAND GRENADES, AND HEAT LOADS: THE ART OF GETTING CLOSE ENOUGH Heat pump sizing comes in intervals of 6,000 BTU/hr (half-ton) so close enough is the only reasonable goal for heat load calculations. Calculating heat loads down to a...
Read moreChecking Run Capacitors Underneath Load
Tip: Checking Run Capacitors Underneath Load By Gary McCreadie Checking run capacitors beneath load is an alternate technique to shutting down energy to a system and checking within the conventional method through the use of the uF (microfarad)...
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