HVAC Technician Fundamentals

Hours: 80 / Access Length: 12 Months

Retail Price: $1,295.00

Course Overview:

High-quality online training developed by leading HVACR experts that truly develops your core technical skills and advances your industry knowledge.  You want to be among the best HVACR professionals in the industry. You know that ongoing training is essential to developing your core technical skills and advancing your industry knowledge.  All of the courses are North American Technician Excellence (NATE) recognized, providing technicians with the opportunity to earn continuing education hours in addition to continuing education units.

Course Outline:

• Alternating Current: Reactance, Impedance and Power Factor+B4:B3B4:B37
• Basic Structure of Matter
• Basic System Operation
• Circuit Protection Devices: Fuses
• Circuit Protection: Circuit Breakers and Overload Protection
• Compression Cycle I
• Compression Cycle II
• Electrical Safety
• Electronics—History and Concepts
• Fan Safety
• Fire Safety
• Fundamentals of Alternating Current
• Gas Laws I
• Gas Laws II
• Heat Energy
• Ladders, Scaffolds, and Lifts
• Magnetic Attraction, Repulsion, and Shielding
• Magnetism and Transformers
• Material Handling
• Personal Protective Equipment
• Pressure-Temperature Relationships
• Refrigerant Properties
• Refrigerant Tables
• Refrigerant Usage Certification
• Relays, Contactors and Starters
• Series Circuits, Parallel Circuits, and Power
• Soldering, Brazing and Welding
• Terminology and Units of Measurement
• Tools and Test Instruments
• Transformers
• Type I: Small Appliances
• Type II: High-Pressure Systems
• Type III: Low-Pressure Systems
• Understanding Electrical Schematics

System Requirements:

Internet Connectivity Requirements:

• Cable, Fiber, DSL, or LEO Satellite (i.e. Starlink) internet with speeds of at least 10mb/sec download and 5mb/sec upload are recommended for the best experience.

NOTE: While cellular hotspots may allow access to our courses, users may experience connectivity issues by trying to access our learning management system.  This is due to the potential high download and upload latency of cellular connections.   Therefore, it is not recommended that students use a cellular hotspot as their primary way of accessing their courses.

Hardware Requirements:

• CPU: 1 GHz or higher
• RAM: 4 GB or higher
• Resolution: 1280 x 720 or higher.  1920x1080 resolution is recommended for the best experience.
• Speakers / Headphones
• Microphone for Webinar or Live Online sessions.

Operating System Requirements:

• Windows 7 or higher.
• Mac OSX 10 or higher.
• Latest Chrome OS
• Latest Linux Distributions
  

NOTE: While we understand that our courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, we do not recommend the use of these devices for our courses. The size of these devices do not provide a good learning environment for students taking online or live online based courses.

Web Browser Requirements:

• Latest Google Chrome is recommended for the best experience.
• Latest Mozilla FireFox
• Latest Microsoft Edge
• Latest Apple Safari

Basic Software Requirements (These are recommendations of software to use):

• Office suite software (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice)
• PDF reader program (Adobe Reader, FoxIt)
• Courses may require other software that is described in the above course outline.