This 450-Hour Hybrid Course consists of four 7-week segments. The first two segments are taught in a synchronous online modality while the second two segments are taught in person at the school. We cover foundation in refrigeration and electricity in the synchronous online platform during the first 14 weeks and in the second 14 weeks, we cover charging, recovery, and troubleshooting. After completing this training, our students are able to take the machines apart and put them back together after repairs, as well as troubleshooting the cause of the problem instead of just changing parts.
For over 25 years we have been providing cutting edge HVAC training for our students. Before enrolling any student, we prove their ability to benefit from our training. Once we know they are capable of benefiting from our training, we offer them the opportunity to enroll. Their attendance is key to their success and many of our students achieve perfect attendance. We work with our students individually when necessary to ensure that they understand the material and can perform all of the hands on shop projects with confidence.
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The first thing you will learn at The Refrigeration Institute is “How to Learn”. We teach you how to move information into short term memory. Then we teach you how to move this information into long term memory. Next, we teach the language of the subject, and then we teach all of the theory, all the engineering formulas, diagrams, et cetera. All of this comes into fruition in the second half of our program where students in shop class apply what they have learned, and everything crystallizes for them, and a metamorphosis takes place from a student to a technician.
In our Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Hybrid 450-Hour Course we teach the 1st Quarter (refrigeration theory foundation and electrical theory foundation) in a synchronous online modality. Then, for the 2nd Quarter (Charging & Recovery and Troubleshooting segments), students attend the school in person and get the opportunity to further their theory knowledge and to develop and practice their hands-on skills including torch skills, accessing sealed systems, recovery, evacuation, pressure testing, triple evacuation, and charging air conditioning and refrigeration equipment. Students learn the language of troubleshooting, diagnosing motor windings, bench testing motors and compressors, live troubleshooting of control panels, and diagnosing 3 phase motors. This curriculum prepares our students with the knowledge and skills necessary to obtain entry level employment in the HVAC field, with the foundation needed to build a successful career in the HVAC field.
The four segments are taught as listed below.
In this segment we teach the Language and Basic Principles of Refrigeration including Temperature Conversions, Pressure Conversions, The Gas Laws, Heat Quantity, and Heat Quantity Transfer. We will also train you to size Pipes, Risers, and Tanks in Volume – in Cubic Feet and Gallons, and in Weight - in Pounds of Water with Specific Gravity Conversion to any Substance in the tank. Students will be able to plot any operating system and calculate NRE, HOC, Compression Ratio, HOR, CFM per Ton, COE, Systems Diagnosis on Pressure/Enthalpy Diagrams.
In this segment we teach the language and Basic Principles of Electricity including Parallel and Series Circuits, Ohm’s Law, AC Impedance, Inductive Reactance, Capacitive Reactance, Phase Angle, and Power Factor, The VOM and the Clamp-on Meter, how to take readings safely and correctly, and be able to anticipate the readings. We teach you all about motors including Single Phase Split Phase 120 Volt Motors, Various Starting Devices, Capacitor Arrangements, and Thermal Overloads, Single Phase 208/230 Volt Motors, Three Phase Induction Motors, Three Phase Synchronous Motors, A/C Generators, Solenoids, Relays, Contactors, Starters, Time Clocks, Transformers and much more!
In this segment we teach the Language and Basic Principles of Charging & Recovery including skills to correctly solder and braze copper and aluminum tubing, Recovering, Recycling, Reclaiming, Evacuating, Dehydrating, System Pressure Testing, and Critically Charging Liquid and Vapor Refrigerant. Students will develop skill level in the use of equipment such as: Recovery Machines, vacuum pumps, nitrogen cylinders, nitrogen regulators, mercury manometers, micron gauges, vacuum gauges, gauge manifolds, quick couplers & disconnects, electronic scales, charging cylinders and more. These skills are developed by replacing components such as compressors, condensers, evaporators, et cetera.
In this segment we teach the Language and Basic Principles of Troubleshooting by applying the accumulation of knowledge learned in the first half of the course to simulated service calls, systematically pin-pointing the problem, determining the reason for the development of the problem, and treating the cause rather than just the symptom to correctly repair the system. Here students build confidence while also building their own test cord for bench testing motors and compressors. The students wire a control panel and then we test them on our advanced troubleshooting control panels. Finally, all students will diagnose 3-Phase Motor Windings on our Advanced 3-Phase Motor Windings Troubleshooting Trainer.
If you are interested in finding out more information about The Refrigeration Institute’s refrigeration and air conditioning training course located in New York City, then give us a call today at (212) 244-2588
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