Troubleshooting and Servicing Modern Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Systems

This book is a solid keeper, I am on my third time reading thru and I am getting more of the information than the first two reads. The in formation here will definitely put you on the drivers seat. And yes "adiabatic cooling" would be worth the cost of the book, if I didn't know it. From the number of Techs, I've seen, that don't work to know and use this information, the harsher their jobs are.I plan to commit this book to memory before I finish, just so I can enjoy working in HVAC field.

I love it

I ordered this book just after our 11 years old refrigerator ran into cooling problems, and then just to have a book, at a reasonable price, with drawings and pictures which I could use to show to my wife and other persons, when explaining the cooling system, and point for possibly failures. Here in Chiang Mai I couldn’t find alternative books written in English.But when receiving the book, I found that it is missing much for being up to date, as for example pictures of the new measuring tools and electrical part inside the refrigerators. And besides, as I would like it, pictures from outside and inside of a new refrigerator. Because in the book we nearly only are seeing drawings of the big flat evaporators, or pictures with them hanging on the wall for education training, and so I only connect them to the refrigerators from before 15 years ago. Where they were positioned out on the backside of the refrigerators, opposite to now a days where we don’t see them before we search inside the refrigerator.So after having received the book I again started searching in Amazon after a more up to date book, and again went looking at John Tomczyk: “Basic Refrigeration & Charging Procedures”, from 2003, but in the Customers Reviews I found that, this book only contain copies of the book from 1995. So instead I took the chance and ordered the book by Ananthanarayanan, P. N.: “Basic Refrigeration and Air Conditioning”, which we can’t look into it. But besides because I did not, during the engineering education in thermodynamics, 30 years ago, owe a book especially about refrigerators.But concerning the book which I here write about I first nearly not would give the character 3, for not being up to date and besides missing different thing. For example, as I’m from Europe, not England, I’m used to in tables having Celsius, or Celsius and Fahrenheit. So especially for helping the Thais I must put in the C values, and also in the tables with graphs.But the book is delightfully easy to read, and it’s excellent with the many big drawing showing how the cooling system function, with the air changing into being liquid, as the result of a combinations of the pressure and evaporation temperature. And beside there are many helpfully examples with their solutions.So as I wrote earlier, the book is for example good to use by a person who by himself want to learn the basic in the cooling and heating system. And beside the book by using the spiral binding is very helpful to keep open when for example working with 2 hands and at the same time wanting to look in the book.

It was a gift

Good book for the basics, but it leaves out auto a/c charging and diagnostics. Since I bought the book specifically to learn auto a/c procedures, I wasted my money. This lack should have been explicitly noted in the publisher's blurb.

It is a very well written book on AC principles, theory and practice. It is must for any one working on AC units and refrigeration units.

I was expecting a brand new book, but the binding looked old and ragged and front cover was ripped off when I opened the box. The information is great.

excellent product and fast delivery

It is fine, but didn't satisfy my purpose.