Air Handler Reviews Category Index
Here you will the editors technical reviews for specific brands and some air handler brand models plus consumer opinions for specific brands in the comments section below the technical air handler review. If you have any questions or comments to the staff here at High Performance HVAC please use our contact form.
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Finding a Good HVAC Company | Buyers Advice
Finding a good HVAC Company - Finding a good, honest, and reliable HVAC contractor or service company that will take care of all your HVAC needs doesn't have to be a challenge. There are plenty of good-quality heating and cooling companies out there competing for your...
Ohms Law and HVAC | Heating and Cooling Technical
Ohms Law and HVAC - Ohms Law is used by HVAC Technicians, electricians, electronics technicians, engineers, and others who deal with electrical circuits every day. It is a necessary fundamental that anyone dealing with electricity or electronics should learn. Ohms law...
Air Conditioning and Heating Sizing | HVAC Technical
Air Conditioning and Heating Sizing - It is not uncommon for HVAC estimators or HVAC contractors to use various rudimentary techniques, which are generally referred to as rules of thumb. Some will say on the low end you need 1 ton of cooling for every 500 square feet....
Glycol Feed System for Chiller Condenser Water Loop | Antifreeze Protection
Glycol is like antifreeze and is used in chilled water piping loops to prevent freezing. Everyone knows when the pipes freeze they also break and start leaking. Having antifreeze in a chilled water loop is important to prevent freezing. Glycol Feed System for Chiller...
Air Handler Equipment DDC Controllers | HVAC Control
Air Handler Equipment DDC Controllers - These controllers will control an air handler once the wiring is completed. The panel is freshly mounted and waiting for the technician to run the piping and pull the wire from the control points. Other points, such as outside...
Heat Pump Troubleshooting Guide | Diagnosis and Repair
Heat Pump Troubleshooting Advice. When you have a problem with your heat pump, you want to check the basics. Anything beyond that, you need to call in a professional to troubleshoot the heat pump. The heat pump or any electrical-mechanical equipment you have problems...
Furnace Air Filter Maintenance | HVAC & Indoor Air Quality
Furnace Air Filter Maintenance - We all know that fresh clean air is important to our health. We should also know that our home air filters need to be kept clean. Kept clean not only for our health but also to protect the air conditioning and heating equipment. A...
Two-Stage Gas Furnaces | Heating and Cooling Systems
Two-Stage Gas Furnaces are ever-increasing in popularity among HVAC manufactures of gas furnaces. The product lines are ever-increasing from single-stage gas furnaces to a two-stage gas furnace. The reasoning is that the two-stage gas furnaces are more efficient than...
How DDC Status Works – Methods and Types | HVAC Control
How DDC Status Works - DDC and Status – Is the Device On or Off The basics of DDC include learning about the status of a fan or a compressor or pump. How does a DDC controller read the status of the device it is monitoring? There are several ways to prove a device is...
Boiler Types | HVAC Heating and Cooling
Boiler Types - There are many different types of boilers in the boiler room today in a variety of heating applications. There are two main categories of boilers among the different boilers and those two categories are steam boilers and hot water boilers. Either of...
HVAC Centrifugal Compressors | HVAC Refrigeration
HVAC Centrifugal Compressors - Centrifugal compressors are used in many applications including pipeline transport of natural gas along with many other related applications including vapor compression refrigeration. These compressors have different operating...
Dangerous Cracked Heat Exchangers in Furnaces | Heating Safety
Dangerous Cracked Heat Exchangers in Furnaces - Everyone wants heat when old man winter arrives in the fall. Many times we take it for granted. When the temperature falls all we have to do is go to the thermostat and turn the heat on. Usually, this is not a problem....
Actuators for Chilled Water Valve | DDC Commercial Systems
Actuators for Chilled Water Valve - These chilled water actuators control the flow rate for a chilled water system in a data center. There are various sequences of operations for chilled water systems and the sequence of operations is usually always different from one...
HVAC Control and Direct Digital Controls 2 | DDC & BAS
HVAC Control and Direct Digital Controls 2 - An HVAC technician who knows nothing about HVAC control systems would wonder how these HVAC control systems work. To understand HVAC controls, one must understand basic electricity and circuits. HVAC Control and Direct...
Boiler Efficiency Options | Buyers Advice
Boiler Efficiency Options - High Performance HVAC wants to help you understand your next boiler purchase better. To do this we want to break down all the different types of boilers and components, and various options and features that you may find when making a...
Air Conditioner Inverter Review | Heating and Cooling Efficiency
Air Conditioner Inverter Review - Many mini-split air conditioners and heat pumps use inverters for efficiency. Conventional split system air conditioners and heat pumps can now be purchased with inverters for ultra-efficient heating and cooling. Inverter air...
Rotary Compressors | Air Conditioning & Heating Systems
Rotary Compressors - The rotary compressor used in HVAC applications for air conditioning and heating systems offer some of the most efficient air conditioner and heat pump systems one can find on the market. Despite the rotary compressor being a key component of an...
How a Programmable Thermostats Works | HVAC Control
How a Programmable Thermostats Works - Programmable thermostats can save you more than ten percent on your homes utility bills. For that reason a programmable can pay for itself within a few years depending on the type and expense of the type you purchase. I always...
Hot Water Boiler Reset Control | Heating and Cooling
Hot Water Boiler Reset Control - Richard, We are looking at replacing our boiler with a new hot water boiler. The HVAC contractor, I suppose he is the salesman for the HVAC contractor, is trying to sell us what he refers to as a reset control for our boiler. He tells...
Refrigerant Alarm Control for Chiller Room
This refrigerant alarm serves two chiller rooms and alerts operators and other staff that refrigerant has been released into the mechanical room. Chillers have a built-in pressure relief valve that will release the refrigerant in the event too much pressure builds up...
Trane 90 Plus High-Efficiency Gas Furnace | Heating and Cooling
Trane 90 Plus High-Efficiency Gas Furnace - This is a Trane High-Efficiency gas furnace. It is also called a Trane 90 plus gas furnace because it offers efficiency ratings up to 90 percent plus. Gas or oil furnaces generally cannot achieve efficiency ratings over 95%...
Outside Air Dampers with Energy Recovery | Energy Efficiency
The dampers straight across are outside air dampers or make-up air coming from an energy recovery unit. According to the mechanical code, commercial buildings require a certain amount of fresh air from the outside to maintain good IAQ for the occupants. An energy...
Economizer Systems and HVAC Control | Building Automation
Economizer Systems and HVAC Control - Direct Digital Controls Systems in HVAC control have taken leaps and bounds in the last few years. Especially so in being user-friendly, ease of designing systems, troubleshooting system problems, and increasing efficiency over...
Electronic Ignition Vs Standing Pilot | Gas Heating
Electronic Ignition vs Standing Pilot - Modern gas furnaces use electronic ignition systems to light the burner's modern furnaces. One can still purchase a gas furnace or water heater with the old standing pilot ignition systems. These systems have been proven...
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