Our 450 hour course consists of four 7-week segments. We cover foundation in refrigeration and electricity in the first 14 weeks, and then in the second half we cover charging, recovery, and troubleshooting. After completing this training our students will be able to take the machines apart and put them back together as well as troubleshoot and fix 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.
There is no ideal candidate. Our students are of all age groups, and of different social, ethnic, economic, and educational backgrounds. Their ages range from 18 years to 65+ years.
Ideally, we would like them to have a GED, TASC, High School Diploma, or a College Degree. The most important ingredients are that they are highly motivated and willing to commit to excellent attendance.
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. We teach our students techniques to tap into the 85% of their brain that most people do not know how to use. 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 apply what they have learned, and everything crystallizes for them and a metamorphosis takes place from a student to a technician.
Our course is broken into 4 seven-week segments 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. You 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
At the Refrigeration Institute, we are committed to helping all of our graduates, providing them with Lifetime Career Placement Assistance. We are highly successful in placing our graduates, which reflects the excellent quality of our graduates and the high-quality education and hands-on training they receive at The Refrigeration Institute.