HVAC

 

The Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning program at Pathfinder prepares students for one of the fastest growing and demanding technical trades. According to the Department of Labor, the demand for skilled HVAC technicians has continued to persist across the nation with 50,000 openings needing to be filled by 2008.

 

The Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning program at Pathfinder prepares students for one of the fastest growing and demanding technical trades. According to the Department of Labor, the demand for skilled HVAC technicians has continued to persist across the nation with 50,000 openings needing to be filled by 2008.

 

The Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning program at Pathfinder prepares students for one of the fastest growing and demanding technical trades. According to the Department of Labor, the demand for skilled HVAC technicians has continued to persist across the nation with 50,000 openings needing to be filled by 2008.

Freshman Year

Proper and safe operation of all hand tools and test equipment. Preparing copper tubing and fittings. Preparing iron pipe and fittings. Basic electricity: Parallel and series circuit Diagrams as applied to HVAC Oil burner types; construction. components and functions. Oil fired warm air furnaces. Venting of combustion gasses. Combustion efficiency. Temperature pressure relationships. Basic Air Conditioning/Refrigeration. Recovery, evacuation and leak checking.

Sophomore Year

Motors, thermostats, transformers, relays and switches. Charging of refrigeration and air conditioning systems. Troubleshooting of refrigeration and air conditioning systems. System specific air conditioning circuits. Psychometrics. Refrigerants. Gas burners and components- low voltage, millivolt systems. Mid and high efficiency gas fired furnaces and boilers.

Junior Year

Split A/C systems installation and troubleshooting. Advanced heating and air conditioning wiring diagrams. Programmable thermostats. Oil fired hydronic heating systems. Zoning hydronic heating systems. Applied hydronic piping diagrams. Section 608 and 609 recovery test preparation. Commercial refrigerant flow controls accessories and application. Heat pumps components and operation.

Senior Year

Commercial refrigeration systems and associated electrical diagrams. Commercial refrigeration pipe sizing and design. Supermarket refrigeration. Ice machines -flakers and cuber. Heat gain/loss. Duct design. NEFI (New England Fuel Institute) and Mass oil code test prep. Domestic refrigerators and applied circuitry: Starting circuits, defrost circuits and compressors

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