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Summary: To much Head lines news. Zero details!
Review: This book has good basic fundamental in physics and math. But it is not UP TO DATE. Also, It does not have a well structurated design. It presents much info, but not related. Is information is old, very old. It does not cover new technology. I would recommend a whole review of its contents! I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS BOOK!
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Summary: Textbook of technical schools
Review: This book is the core textbook of the technical schools here in Puerto Rico, my father has been instructor of refrigeration and air conditioning for 35 years and this book (recent and previous editions)has been the choice for this course. It contains all the technical information needed for the beginer, and is an excellent reference book for the technician.
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Summary: Good diagrams- but that's all!
Review: This is a good book to get a beginners understanding of refrigeration equipment. HOWEVER be careful not to buy this paperback edition in hopes that it will give you anything close to the hardcover's information! This is at best a good classroom companion to be used with a teacher at the helm. It is even set up as a lesson and answer book, just like in highschool. I was dissappionted when after the thirty day limit, I cracked the book for the first time and found that I had purchased a highschool coarse book. Good as it would be for that, the description is not clear about it. The hardcover might be the thing you're looking for if you would like good straight forward info.
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Summary: Modern Refrigeration and A/C
Review: This is the book that I used through my entire 2 year curriculum while earning my Associate Degree in AC&R Technology. It is very detailed and explains content for beginners and pro's alike.It has also been a good companion in the field. It describes just about every formula related to the field. It comes with good heat content charts for many popular refrigerants to allow the calculations for BTU/H. If you are planning a career or already in , you should have this book.
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Summary: Modern Refrigeration and A/C
Review: This is the book that I used through my entire 2 year curriculum while earning my Associate Degree in AC&R Technology. It is very detailed and explains content for beginners and pro's alike.It has also been a good companion in the field. It describes just about every formula related to the field. It comes with good heat content charts for many popular refrigerants to allow the calculations for BTU/H. If you are planning a career or already in , you should have this book.
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Summary: It all begins right here
Review: This is the only book you need, but if the book has one weak area, I recommend a comprehensive electronics overview to complement this book, such as Ronald A. Reis' "Understanding Electronic and Computer Technology", as more air conditioning and refrigerations applications move into enhanced micro-electronics components. The better companies need articulate people who can speak and write well for their customer base, so I also recommend "Plain English at Work", by Edward P. Bailey, or "Basic Grammar in Use", by Raymond Murphy.
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Summary: modern refrigeration and air conditioning
Review: This soft cover book is a study guide and only has questions (an examination book). The questions can only be answered from information in the larger hard cover book of the same title by the same authors. The contents of this book as listed here are not correct and are the contents of the hard cover text book. This soft cover book has no information what so ever, it is purely questions to be answered by the reader based on the reader reading the hard cover book. It also appears that there are two hard cover books available with the same list of contents, both books being by the same authors but the front cover photo is different; the most recent book is modern refrigeration and air conditioning 2000. It is incorrectly shown by Amazon that this soft cover book is the same book as the two hard cover books. This soft cover book is usefull to a reader who wants to test themselves after reading the hard cover books.
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Summary: good general reference
Review: We have used this book as a study textbook for the last two semesters at college. As a student it has proven to be very useful. It has very good illustrations and diagrams along with helpful insight to the nuts and bolts of all A/C units. Where the frustration part comes in and is a mystery to me is what ever department that was responsible for reviewing the end of chapter questions and the questions in the test bank dropped the ball. It is quite evident that the questions and the text don't correspond. This leads one to believe that the department that is responsible for test questions and chapter questions do not have a back-ground in Air Conditioning / Refrigeration. I have used a lot of frustrating time in a futile effort to match answers with text. Its a shame that such an informative textbook be degraded on default.
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Summary: good general reference
Review: We have used this book as a study textbook for the last two semesters at college. As a student it has proven to be very useful. It has very good illustrations and diagrams along with helpful insight to the nuts and bolts of all A/C units. Where the frustration part comes in and is a mystery to me is what ever department that was responsible for reviewing the end of chapter questions and the questions in the test bank dropped the ball. It is quite evident that the questions and the text don't correspond. This leads one to believe that the department that is responsible for test questions and chapter questions do not have a back-ground in Air Conditioning / Refrigeration. I have used a lot of frustrating time in a futile effort to match answers with text. Its a shame that such an informative textbook be degraded on default.
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