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Full Maintenance Contracts

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Let's get something straight, Fires suck at scheduling. Where am I going with this? Read on.

Depending on who you talk to, full maintenance contracts are either the best thing to come along since sliced bread, or a sure-fire way to financial ruin.

How can one person’s secret to success be another person’s road to ruin?

To understand the huge difference in opinion you first need to look at what a ‘full maintenance’ contract is.

A full maintenance...

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What should liquid and suction lines feel like anyway?

A quick feel of the liquid line can tell you a lot about how the system is operating, not everything, but a lot nonetheless. You may not be able to diagnose a system by grabbing refrigerant lines and playing "Human Thermometer Man" but a little touchy-feely can point you in the right direction. Before we go too far let me say this; I've always hated it when technicians say a good suction line temperature is "

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Non Condensables: The Ghost in the System.

condensateHigh head pressure, high suction pressure, loss of capacity, erratic head pressure control operation.

You've cleaned the coils, removed refrigerant, added refrigerant, cleaned the coils again; and the problems remain...what gives?

Bad TXV? Not likely.

A 'Weak' compressor? Nope. (I don't even know what the heck a 'weak' compressor is....it can't do twenty pushups?)

Restricted coil? Uh, no.

How about non condensables? YES!

Non condensable introduced...

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Got 24 Volts? Part 1

voltageJust about every HVAC system out there has a low voltage control circuit, and just about every one of them is 24 volts A/C.

You name it, and it probably uses it: gas furnace, oil furnace, condenser, heat pump, rooftop unit, chiller, water source heat pump, zone valve, even zoning systems use good old 24vac.

It's also one of the first things you check after line voltage when you're troubleshooting a problem, how many times have you muttered to yourself; "let's see, I have 24...

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Customer Service Can Whisper

ListenThink about all the money, time and effort you spend trying to promote your business. Glossy brochures, graphics on the side of your trucks, a fancy new website, the yellow pages, perhaps even billboards and radio spots. All of time, money and effort.

Today's word is filled with chaos, we are constantly bombarded by thousands (yes thousands) of messages all day long. On the radio, the top and side of a Google search pages ,TV commercials, radio, billboards, and on and on and on. It is...

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