Replybest book I've seen for HVAC elec.
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Ele.../9781418042875
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Take an hvac electric fundamentals class at a community college or a trade school...They help...when i first started i didnt know squat about electricity...it helped me a whole bunch...and yes they teach about control voltage...
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best book I've seen for HVAC elec.
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Ele.../9781418042875
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I am a second year apprentice and what I found is Read, Read, and study, and more Reading works. You will feel like it does not make any sense until you get in front of a unit and get frustrated a few times. Each time the reading starts to click in slowly, and you start to understand. Schematics, and sequence of Operation is the key to troubleshooting a unit.
Another thing that helps me is when I was doing change outs I would strip the old units of basic electrical parts. Transformer, relays, inducer motors, safety switches, sequencers, t-stat, and a plug off a old condensate pump, and some boxes of 3amp fuses. Take a piece of plywood and mount this stuff to it. Take some 18/8 wire and wire up your low voltage to simulate a working system. This will teach you the basics, and help you understand your reading.
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Yes, that's a good route too, I have fond memories of working for the Air Force (Canadian) on the radar chain. We all (SAC) must have done a good job, 'cause we're not speaking Russian today...Originally Posted by bzzline
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I learned some stuff working on a 5 Megavolt Marx generator used in beam weapons research.
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Well, I guess the "advanced" HVAC tech can use that kind of knowledge to troubleshoot one of those new up and coming nuclear heating devices...I learned some stuff working on a 5 Megavolt Marx generator used in beam weapons research.
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Yeah, but it's difficult to find a meter to measure a couple of hundred kiloamps!
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The proper shunt will do it, I just don't like the high energy particles that are flying about (they deflect the analog meter movement too much
Am currently researching heat exchanger designs, and those ones in nuclear power plants are catching my eye...
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I would recommend a Radio Shack Electronics Learning Lab.
The manuals are well made and teach you the basics with hands on parts. Plus you will make mistakes you have to fix. Later you can have someone else introduce errors for you.
http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...uctId=3814337#
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Yes, that is also an excellent and inexpensive way to learn about electricity/electronics. They are fairly sophisticated from what I can recall, bought one for a friend's nephew several years ago and it had a set of digital electronics projects/experiments also...
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sounds fun
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Google Navy manuals, they have some excellent electricity and electronics manuals and they are free to download.
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Twilly's skool of lectricity
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We had a thread about this in pro technical.
Here you go.
http://hvac-talk.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=692771
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The Mr. Fusion Reactor needs no troubleshooting, as it has a self diagnostic routine that prevents an overload of the Flux Capacitor.
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That must be the one that teaches that electricity is smoke...once it comes out you can't put it back.
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good info
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I suggest along with the 'book learning'. Get an easy to use meter (fieldpiece HS 26, HS 35 or HS36) Find some scrap air handlers, condensing units, gaspacks, whatever you can get your hands on. Take the control compartments from these and the wiring diagrams if you can get them. Learn to do resistance readings on each component and learn what they do. Make yourself a 24 volt transformer you can plug in and practice energizing control components. Being familiar with the different devices and what they do really helped me to see 'the big picture' and understand this stuff on a deeper level. Good Luck!
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Each device has a fixed amount of smoke packaged into the device in the factory. US manufacturers could not be economically licensed to handle the smoke installation process by the EPA, so most devices are built and packed with smoke in Pacific Rim nations today.
And now I must go and pick up my wife, Morgan Fairchild......
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