Electricity for Refrigeration, Heating, and Air Conditioning

MindTap for Smith’s ELECTRICITY FOR REFRIGERATION, HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING, Eleventh Edition, is an integrated online course that combines an enhanced ebook with video, simulations, games, interactivities, quizzing and more, to enrich the teaching and learning experience for instructors and students alike.

“Delmar Online Training Simulation” icons designate readings accompanied by 3D, immersive simulations that allow students to explore and experiment with interactive wiring diagrams and adaptive questions, enabling them to engage more deeply with concepts covered in the reading while gaining useful hands-on experience.

A chapter on Electrical Safety, including a section on arc flash, emphasizes the importance of awareness while working in the field and outlines preventive measures to help readers avoid dangerous situations.

Detailed schematic diagrams walk readers through the intricate arrangements of control systems and components to help them understand how parts fit together and function effectively as a whole.

Integrated within the text chapters, “Service Calls” and “Practice Service Calls” features provide engaging learning experiences, encouraging readers to visualize and troubleshoot realistic issues they may encounter in the field.

“Green Technology” features highlight refrigeration, heating and air conditioning practices related to protecting the environment, providing useful insights into an increasingly important focus for the industry.

Newly added and expanded information highlights recent advances in the industry, providing easy-to-understand, up-to-date coverage of important topics such as arc flash, the universal capacitor, DC brushless motors, constant torque motors, Wi-Fi thermostats, electronic thermostatic expansion valves, troubleshooting integrated furnace controls and mini-split control systems.

The art in this new edition has been updated with better quality photographs emphasizing new technology controls, providing useful visual references to help readers more easily apply key concepts in real-world scenarios.

This industry is making the transition from earlier-model mechanical controls and control systems still found in the field to the new electronic controls and controls systems being used more often today. This edition balances coverage of older technology that HVAC technicians are still required to know and likely to encounter on the job, along with detailed information on the newer technology and equipment that are becoming increasingly common in the industry.

Chapters 8 and 9 include updated information on the variable speed motors that are being used in the industry, giving readers helpful exposure to these important advances.

Chapter 11 features an updated section on thermostats that discusses the transition from older mechanical thermostats to the newer digital, communicating and wifi models that are now used in the industry.

Chapter 12 includes a new section on electronic expansion valves, providing up-to-date information on technology readers are likely to see in the field.

The chapter on Installation of Heating, Cooling and Refrigeration Systems now follows the introduction of Residential Air-Conditioning Control Systems, reinforcing the text’s systematic approach to presenting concepts in logical sequence and introducing the practical application of those concepts in the field.

The Eleventh Edition features additional troubleshooting practice problems (“Practice Service Calls”) integrated within the chapters, and Review Questions, which allow students to apply what they have learned, have been updated to reflect new information added to the readings.

The author has thoroughly reviewed and revised text content to ensure alignment with current industry standards, including updating schematic diagrams, photos and reference tables to feature information from the 2017 edition of the NEC®.