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The BTU Buddy Notebook is a collection of more than 50 unique service call scenarios conducted by an HVAC technician which describe real-life service scenarios related to troubleshooting. Many high quality images help to illustrate troubleshooting techniques and the equipment being serviced.

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COOLING SEASON Introduction
Service Call 1. Servicing A Frozen Suction Line and Compressor
Service Call 2. Charging an Expansion Valve System after Loss of Charge
Service Call 3. Charging a Fixed Bore System with a Fixed Bore Office
Service Call 4. Cleaning a Very Dirty Air Cooled Condenser
Service Call 5. A Conversation about Vacuum Procedures
Service Call 6. Removing Water from a Wet Heat Pump
Service Call 7. Changing a Badly Burned Compressor
Service Call 8. Burned Four-Way Valve Coil on a Heat Pump
Service Call 9. Discovering Reduced Airflow in the Ducts
Service Call 10. Fixing a Chronic Leaking Residential A/C Unit
Service Call 11. Quickly Cooling a Hot Hermetic Compressor
Service Call 12. Troubleshooting a Water-Cooled Condenser
Service Call 13. Examining a Cooling Tower Problem
Service Call 14. Compressor with Refrigerant Flooding Back
Service Call 15. Compressor with Low Oil Level
Service Call 16. A Training Lunch with BTU Buddy
Service Call 17. A Compressor with Internal Leak
Service Call 18. A Stopped Up Condensate Line
Service Call 19. Outdoor Unit with Restricted Airflow
Service Call 20. Repairing a Restricted Liquid Line
Service Call 21. High-Efficiency Cooling in Mild Weather
Service Call 22. Frozen Evaporator on a 15-Ton Cooling Unit
Service Call 23. High Head Pressure, Air in the System
Service Call 24. Stopped Up Condensate Line
Service Call 25. 50-Ton System with a Defective Solenoid Valve
Service Call 26. Reciprocating Chiller with Fouled Condenser Tubes
Service Call 27. Topping Off the Charge for a Fixed Bore Metering Device System
Service Call 28. Topping Off the Charge for a TXV System
Service Call 29. Helping on a 100o F Day
Service Call 30. A Cooling Tower Starved for Water
Service Call 31 Evacuation Leak HEATING SEASON
Service Call 32. Working with a Gas Furnace that is Down Drafting
Service Call 33. Handling an Over-Fired Boiler
Service Call 34. Tackling Low Airflow with Electric Heat
Service Call 35. A Lunch Seminar with Bob and BTU Buddy
Service Call 36. A Problem of House Windows Sweating
Service Call 37. Finding Excess Heat Exchanger Scale
Service Call 38. Handling a Frozen Outdoor Coil on a Heat Pump
Service Call 39. Looking at a Heat Pump Drawing a Lot of Current
Service Call 40. Changing a Four-Way Valve on a Heat Pump
Service Call 41. Checking a Heat Pump with Dirty Indoor Coil
Service Call 42. A Heat Pump Blowing Cold Air
Service Call 43. Carbon Monoxide Problem with Gas Furnace
Service Call 44. Frozen Heat Pump Outdoor Coil
Service Call 45. Burned Transformer Due to Shorted Coin in Relay
Service Call 46. Handling a Stopped Up Oil Filter
Service Call 47. A Smoking Oil Furnace
Service Call 48. Grounded Electric Heat Coil Causes Fan to Run
Service Call 49. Air in a Hot Water Heating System
Service Call 50. How Air Gets Into a Hot Water Heating System
Service Call 51. Stolen Outdoor Unit for a Heat Pump
Service Call 52. Grounded Compressor Motor
Service Call 53. Grounded Compressor Motor (continued)
Service Call 54. Heat Pump with a Stuck Check Valve
Service Call 55. An Oil Furncase with Sooted Electrodes
Service Call 56. Smelly Gas Furnaces
Service Call 57. Luncheon about Flue Vents
Service Call 58 Combustion Air for a Gas Furance
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