The Refrigeration Cycle
Tools & Troubleshooting
Safety & Professionalism
Piping & Materials
HVAC Science & Math
100

Using suction, a compressor draws in refrigerant by creating this inside the evaporator.

What is low pressure?

100

This is the person a technician should speak with first when troubleshooting a problem.

Who is the building owner?

100

These symbols convey health, physical, and environmental hazard information assigned to a GHS category. 

What are Hazard Pictograms?

100

Mechanical fittings are required when you are joining these types of metal joints.

What are dissimilar metals?

100

This is the term for a liquid’s resistance to flow. 

What is viscosity?

200

This heat-exchanging device is specifically designed to expel or reject heat from the system.

What is a condenser?

200

This is the specific item listed in the very first column of a troubleshooting chart.

What is the problem?

200

This is the greatest hazard associated with using a hand tool.

What is using it for a purpose other than that for which it was intended?

200

This is the only type of refrigerant system that generally uses steel pipe to circulate refrigerant.

What is ammonia?

200

This type of heat is added to a substance to cause a change of state without raising its temperature.

What is latent heat?

300

As refrigerant exits the condenser, it is in this physical state and pressure level.

What is high-pressure liquid?

300

This tool type is unique because it features only single-cut teeth. 

What is a mill file?

300

 When cutting or removing asbestos, you must run a ventilation system equipped with this specific filter.

What is a HEPA filter?

300

When swaging, the length of the overlap of the two pieces of tubing should equal this measurement of the tubing.

What is the outside diameter?

300

This is the range of temperatures at which individual refrigerants in a zeotropic blend change phase.

What is temperature glide?

400

This state of refrigerant is capable of absorbing the most amount of heat compared to other stages in the cycle.

What is low-pressure liquid?

400

To check a thermometer for accuracy, you should dip it in this to get a reading close to 32 degrees F

What is a mix of ice and water?

400

These are signs of heat-related illness, which include nausea, weakness, dizziness, and fainting.

What are elevated body temperature, headache, and confusi

400

This action is the recommended method for removing an external bending spring from tubing after it has been bent.

What is twisting the spring?

400

This test determines the temperature at which wax separates out of a mixture of lubricant and refrigerant.

What is a floc test?

500

These components equalize pressure between the high and low sides during the OFF cycle and work with the suction line as a heat exchanger.

What are capillary tubes?

500

When using a wrench, you should always perform these two specific actions to loosen and tighten, respectively.

What are pull to loosen and push to tighten?

500

 This type of "investment" is the only item listed that an estimator does not add to a bid.

What is emotional investment?

500

When brazing, this specific event indicates that the correct brazing temperature has finally been reached.

What is when the filler metal melts and is drawn into the seam?

500

This is the result of calculating the square root of 2025

What is 45?

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