Automatic Controls for Heating and Air-Conditioning: Pneumatic-Electric Control Systems

by Harry J. Edwards

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070190461
• ISBN13: 9780070190467
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 1.87 lbs.

Customer Reviews

From jacket

"For ready answers to day to day questions on automatic temperature controls for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems, look to this timely book for both seasoned and beginning professionals alike. Written by an expert in the field, it covers the purpose and application of pneumatic temperature controls with detailed how-to information on making them work at their most effective and efficient best. In an easy to understand language that comes alive by means of crystal-clear, step-by-step illustrations, this practical guide provides essential information on what pneumatic controls are all about... How they are selected... How they are applied... How they are installed... And how they are maintained. It discusses, for example, such important areas as modes of control afforded by pneumatic systems, types of equipment on which pneumatic systems are used, how magnetic motor starters operate in ways they interlock, however signals are utilized to pneumatic devices to affect automatic action, control diagrams with an exclamation sequence of operations associated with various control loops to be found on the typical air handler, tempering equipment for an individual areas localized temperature control," and much more.

From back of book:

Written by an expert in the field, this book covers the purpose and application of pneumatic temperature controls with detailed "how-to" information on making any HVAC unit wotk most efficiently. Fully illustrated, covers: -What pneumatic controls are all about -How they are selected -How they are applied -How they are installed -How they are maintained -Complete comprehensive guide, with schematics & diagrams