When choosing a replacement motor, you can often use the motor's nameplate to help you in making the selection, but a nameplate doesn't always provide you with everything you need to know.
When managers give useful feedback, employees know how closely their work meets the expectations of customers and managers. Useful feedback is information that tells individual employees as well as work groups how well they're doing and what to do to improve their work.
Techs interested in becoming certified in carbon monoxide (CO) testing not only need an understanding of combustion, but also low-level CO poisoning and what CO alarms do and don’t do.
In this edition of the Btu Buddy
series, Part 2 of the previous article, Bob returns to the motel that had a
heating problem to determine how air got into the closed loop
piping system.
Here are methods for performing differential
pressure measurement between two rooms or areas; airflow measurement for spray
booths, laboratory hoods, and unit ventilators; and other measurements.
A recent online poll on The NEWS Website, “Are You Finding Enough Qualified Technicians?”, indicates that many HVAC contractors around the country are still finding it difficult to fill their ranks with the service technicians they need.
In troubleshooting situations involving a motor,
more than half the battle is simply isolating the problem. So when problems arise, how can you tell if it
is the drive, the motor, or the load? Here are a few tips.
A major factor contributing to employer and employee dissatisfaction with group health insurance programs is a lack of awareness of what their plan covers. The expanding health care product portfolio and the introduction of consumer-driven plans, including Health Savings Accounts, are making employer education a priority.
The perception of arbitration being a cheaper, faster, and more “fair” way to resolve a dispute seems to have taken a foothold in the minds of the average person, but do these perceptions hold true?