To REGISTER for this workshop, select the date and location in the box below.
This TSA training workshop is designed for:
- HVAC Technicians and Facility Maintenance Personnel
This hands-on workshop has been designed to meet the needs of both new and experienced techs who must troubleshoot and service the electrical systems in air conditioners, heat pumps, and furnaces. Workshop participants will learn how to use a digital multimeter. After a thorough explanation of how to use the meter, participants will test various HVAC equipment and components so that they know exactly how to use the meter when they return to their agencies.
Each workshop participant will be given a digital multi-meter.
Participants will also be provided a detailed workbook that explains how to do HVAC trouble-shooting, which they can use as a reference later on the job. This workshop will provide participants with the skills necessary to trouble-shoot the electrical components in modern HVAC systems. With proper safety procedures having been thoroughly reviewed prior, live electrical circuits will be used during the class to test electrical components.
Participants will learn the fundamental concepts of electricity, and apply that knowledge, firsthand, using a wide range of HVAC electrical components and digital test equipment. They will work from tech sheets and will receive individualized assignments to test HVAC components… all done under the direct supervision of the workshop leader, who is a skilled professional trainer in HVAC and mechanical areas, and who has had many years of full time working experience in the Industry. TSA certificates of attendance will also be presented to all workshop participants.
Agenda
Day One, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Day Two, 8:00 am – noon
Major topics that will be covered during this training:
- Understanding the functions of major electrical components, sources, controls and power users
- Using multi-meters to test for voltage and resistance
- Control transformers
- Space heating and cooling thermostats
- Control relays
- Capacitors
- Electrical diagrams
- Troubleshooting steps
The following HVAC system electrical parts will be tested during the workshop:
- Control circuit transformers (120/240 x 24 VAC)
- Heating & cooling space thermostats (24 volt)
- Control relays
- Motor compressor starting relays
- Fan motor run capacitors
- Compressor start capacitors
- Compressor run capacitors, two and three terminal
- Compressor contactors
- Pressure switches – low and high
Workshop objectives. Upon completion of this workshop participants will be able to use an electrical multi-meter to check the operation of the following:
- Control circuit transformers
- Space heating and cooling thermostat
- Control relay
- Electrical two and three terminal capacitors
- Pressure switches
- Compressor contactor
- Determine if a relay coil is good or bad
- Determine if a relay contact is open or closed
- Use an electrical ladder diagram to trouble-shoot a HVAC system
Additional topics to be covered throughout the workshop:
- Understanding general operating sequences of a HVAC system
- Control system arrangements for various HVAC systems
- Selecting replacement parts
- Trouble-shooting tips related to typical component failures
To REGISTER for this workshop, select the date and location in the box below.
PLEASE NOTE: Each workshop needs to be registered for individually OR you can make a note in the comments section of the registration form that you plan to attend BOTH Fundamentals of HVAC Systems & Servicing and Hands-on HVAC Electrical Equipment Trouble-shooting . If you do this, you do not have to fill in the registration form again for Fundamentals of HVAC Systems & Servicing
For information on the companion workshop: Fundamentals of HVAC Systems & Servicing