HVAC 107 - Heating System Fundamentals

3 Credit Hours

This courses focuses on heating fundamentals; the types of furnace designs and their components and presents the basic procedures for installing and servicing furnaces. It describes the tools and instruments used in trouble-shooting gas heating appliances and teaches the principles of fossil-fuel venting; covers various types of iron and steel pipe and fittings and provides step-by-step instructions for cutting, threading, and joining ferrous piping. It additionally presents the operation and testing of electric furnaces and their components and reviews the operation of electric heating appliances. Also included in this course is the design, construction and joining of sheet metal ducting used in HVAC systems.

Corequisites: HVAC 109 - Heating Systems-Lab