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BASIC ELECTRICITY FORCED AIR HEATING & COOLING CONTROLS AC TUNE-UP HYDRONIC CONTROLS SEMINAR ONE PIPE STEAM GAS IGNITION CONTROLS ACCA MANUAL J ACCA MANUAL D HYDRONIC SYSTEM DESIGN CONNECTICUT HVAC LICENSE REVIEW OIL BURNER TUNE-UP   BASIC ELECTRICITY
When building a house, you first have to put in the footings, the foundation, the walls, and finally the roof. Every tradesman has to start with the basics, as he builds his career. As the title implies, this course is the very basics of electricity. This one-day seminar will take you through atoms and magnetism of electricity (the footings), and will build into amps, resistance and voltage (the foundation). We’ll then take a step up to series and parallel circuits (walls), and then series/parallel circuits (the roof). As you wire these circuits, you’ll also learn how to read your electrical meters. All of this will blend together as you have actual "HANDS ON TRAINING" building these individual circuit boards. Learn how magnetism is used in many of our controls. Transformers that are used in all of our equipment use magnetism to change voltage. Relays that are used in our equipment use magnetism for pulling in or switching circuits. Learn how to read an electrical schematic as you tie all this together. You’ll learn how a low voltage thermostat operates a line voltage control that brings on your heating and cooling.   Back To Top  FORCED AIR HEATING & COOLING CONTROLS
This intensive one-day seminar will teach the technician control wiring of a forced air heating system with cooling controls. Learn and understand the wiring of a heating and cooling thermostat. Learn how it ties into the heating system and controls the burner cad cell relay. Wire in the fan/limit control and see how it operates the heating side of a furnace. Many heating technicians see the fan center with all those wires hanging off, and a cold chill runs up their spine. Its understandable, they‘ve never had the proper training on this control. Learn how the thermostat controls the furnace high-speed fan and pulls in the compressor contactor. My “HANDS ON” training approach will have you building a control board incorporating these controls and more. I’ve been teaching this course for six years with great success. This course is for people with some knowledge of basic electricity. For the experienced technician it is a great refresher course.  Back To Top  AC TUNE-UP
This one-day course will teach the technician the refrigeration cycle of a cooling system and the proper way to start-up and service the system. Here you will learn the three common types of metering devices used on evaporating coils. Learn which part of the system has vapor, which part has liquid refrigerant, and where the separation point is. We’ll discuss how we come up with the proper size system and why it’s not a good idea to oversize just to be on the safe side. Learn how to properly charge a system using “Super Heat” and “Sub Cooling” and what happens when you don’t get it right. Are you one of those techs that just sweep a charge through a system and open the service valves just to contaminate a new system? Learn to properly evacuate and charge a system the right way using a micron gauge and the temperature/pressure charts. We’ll discuss soldering and brazing techniques and the use of nitrogen when brazing so as not to contaminate the system. Learn all of this as you do actual ‘HANDS ON” training.   HYDRONIC CONTROLS SEMINAR
This two-day seminar will cover installation and wiring techniques of hydronic controls on residential boilers, from the 1950’s to present day operation. This course is for people with some knowledge of controls and basic electricity. For the experienced technician it is a great refresher course. Many technicians don’t really understand the concept of the differential on an aquastat. Learn and understand its setting at my seminar. Learn the difference between direct and reverse acting controls. Our industry burns up controls on a daily basis due to a lack of understanding and proper installation. I will be teaching wiring and operation of single, double and triple acting aquastats. Students will be trained on the R8124 and the significance of the ZR/ZC terminals for the second zone. The students will be taught the wiring schematic for the second zone to include the actual wiring of the control. Students will have actual “HANDS ON” wiring of the following controls. L4006A Direct Acting Aquastat L4006B Reverse Acting Aquastat L6006A Double Acting Aquastat L8124 Triple Acting Aquastat R845 Switching Relay R117 Stack Relay R8184G Cad Cell Relay T87F Thermostat The training boards provided are an electrical replica of a hotwater heating system. Students will learn to read control-wiring schematics, and understand the purpose of the transformer, the magnetic coil in the control, and its function with the contacts. Learn the difference between contacts and switches, when they’re open and when they’re closed. Learn the cycling of the controls based on water temperature. Learn how to wire these controls into circulators and primary controls. Upon completion of this seminar, student's should be able to wire and troubleshoot these controls on an actual hotwater heating system.  Back To Top  ONE PIPE STEAM
This one-day seminar will enable the student to understand the concept of various one pipe-steam systems. The student will learn how to install and service one-pipe steam boilers the right way. Don’t guess at what the steam pressure is, learn and know what it should be. Don’t guess at the piping size; let me show you what the piping should be. Know and understand what the pitch of the pipe should be on various one-pipe steam systems. At this seminar you’ll learn what “Dimension A” is and how it works. Learn the dimension between your water line and system header. Learn the purpose of a Hartford Loop and its application. Learn the wiring of your Pressuretrol, low-water cutoff and automatic water feed. Learn what happens when you cheat and raise the low-water cutoff to a higher level to cover the domestic hotwater coil. Are you using that new computer program to size your steam boiler? Taking into account all the insulation and storm widows that have been added to the house since that first steam boiler was installed. If your answer is yes, you are sizing wrong, and the new system isn’t going to work. Back To Top GAS IGNITION CONTROLS  This two-day “HANDS ON” seminar will take the student through the various types of gas ignition systems. From the thermocouple to the thermopile up to our modern "Hot Surface Ignition" and "Intermittent Spark Ignition". Students will learn how the low voltage transformer, thermostat, fan/limit control and gas valve wire together.We’ll study each control separately learning how it works, and how to troubleshoot it. Once you understand how the controls work, I’ll show you how easy they are to install as you follow my color coded schematic. Once we’ve completed the installation of our controls, we’ll actually live fire the training boards. This will enable us to study the sequence of operation of a gas heating system. Giving us the opportunity to take electrical readings, and learning how to use the manometer to adjust gas valve pressure. Back To Top   ACCA MANUAL J
Are you still using the rule of thumb method when sizing a heating and cooling system? Are you giving your sketch or blueprints to someone else to design “YOUR CUSTOMER’S” heating and cooling system? Ever wonder if the other person designing your job is doing it right? Do they guarantee the job, or do you? Do you get tired of waiting for them to get back to you? They’re busy with the operation of their business too! Come to my two-day seminar, and I’ll show you how to design your jobs the right way. No quick form, no rule of thumb. I’ll train you in the proper procedures to follow when computing load calculations using the “ACCA Manual J7”. Let me show you how easy it is as I take you step by step through the manual, explaining the various sections and tables, cross referencing each section with the other. On day one we’ll train in the heating section of the “ACCA Manual J7”. You’ll be given a blueprint from which you will manually input information onto the “Manual J Worksheet”. After completing and understanding the worksheet, you will now compute the same information using the “Wrightsoft” program for HVAC Design. Day two will bring us more of the same, but we’ll now train in the cooling section of the “ACCA Manual J7” and “Wrightsoft”. As it all comes together, you’ll be amazed at how quick you become in your designing. You’ll now see and understand where the numbers come from when designing a heating and cooling system on your computer. We’ll spend time on the computer, navigating through the tool bar, learning the various aspects of the “Wrightsoft” software. I’ll show you how easy it is to use the drawing portion of the program. As you draw each room, the software automatically computes the load for you!  Back To Top  To be Posted. Back To Top  HYDRONIC SYSTEM DESIGN
Are you still using the rule of thumb method when sizing a boiler? Maybe you’re just looking at the numbers on the existing boiler and using that. If so, was it sized right the first time? Is the baseboard sized right, or is it wall to wall? Sure they have heat, but was the system operating economically? Are you giving your sketch or blueprints to someone else to design “YOUR CUSTOMER’S” heating system? Ever wonder if the other person designing your job is doing it right? Do they guarantee the job, or do you? Do you get tired of waiting for them to get back to you? They’re busy with the operation of their businesses too! Come to my two-day seminar, and I’ll show you how to design your jobs the right way. No quick form, no rule of thumb. I’ll train you in the proper procedures to follow when computing load calculations using the IBR H-22 Heat Loss Calculation Guide. Let me show you how easy it is as I take you step by step through the manual, explaining the various sections and tables cross referencing each section with the other. After you become comfortable with the H-22 Heat Loss Calculation Guide, we’ll work on designing various heating systems. As you learn where the tables and their respective corresponding numbers are, you’ll be surprised at how quick you become in your calculations. We’ll then learn how to select the proper boiler to match our calculations. On day two, we’ll design piping for our boiler. After designing our piping you’ll learn where the pumps “Head” and “GPM” comes from. Once we understand the needs of the system, you’ll learn how to select the proper circulator and expansion tank.  Back To Top CONNECTICUT HVAC LICENSE REVIEW  The long awaited apprenticeship program is over. Or are you upgrading to a higher license? It’s now time to take the test for your State of Connecticut S, B, or D license. Your understandably nervous, we’ve all been there. I’m in my tenth year of teaching the license review class. Let me help you prepare for your test by attending my one-day seminar. This seminar will cover Refrigeration, Gas, General Subjects, Oil, and Boilers. Manuals covered are, 2003 International Mechanical Code, 2006 NFPA 31 Oil Codes, and 2002 NFPA 54 Gas Codes. In this seminar, I’ll show you how to design gas piping, chimneys and combustion air ventilation. Subject questions that are on everyone’s test. This no nonsense, intensive review seminar will help you to build more self-confidence in your ability to take the exam. Back To Top  OIL BURNER TUNE-UP
Let me help you take the mystery out of that oil burner. Learn as these students have by doing actual "Hands On Training". In this one-day seminar you will learn the components of an oil burner. You'll learn about the electrodes and their settings. Learn about proper air adjustment by making necessary air adjustments on a live-fire burner. Understand the relationship between the nozzle and proper pump pressure. Learn to read your pump pressure gauge and what happens to the oil and firing rate of the burner as you make these live-fire adjustments. I'll teach you how to understand vacuum pressure and how to read a vacuum gauge. As we open and close the valves on my burner trainer you'll see and understand all of this during live-fire training.  Back To Top P.O. Box 579 Wallingford, Ct 06492 203-294-4574 info@trainingontheroad.com | Return Home | Contact Us | Student Comments | Training Calendar | Important Links | Seminar Content | Cool Sites | Honoring Our Military | Seminar Pictures | |
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