Welcome to my blog.
My name is Dale Rossi.
I have worked as a technical person in the commercial HVAC service
industry my entire career, something like 35 years at this point. I am writing this blog for several reasons.
- I remember when I first started working on air conditioners. I knew almost nothing about the refrigeration cycle. I remember trying to figure it out. I remember working with fellow technicians and learning from them. I now know that much of what I “learned” turned out to be wrong or partially true. It took me about 15 years of working on commercial HVAC equipment to begin to understand. I work with technicians still. I see evidence every day that there are many technicians working under the same disadvantages I experienced. I would like to help.
- There are several factors that I think allows me to be of help to my brothers and sisters in the HVAC service industry. These include the fact that I spent a career working on commercial HVAC equipment and that I have been associated with my younger brother who has a PhD. In this subject. I believe this allows me to be a bridge or a translator between the engineering world and the technician working on equipment every day. I still learn new things all the time, but I am reasonably confidant that the knowledge I have gained will stand up to examination.
- I think I have the skills to communicate this type of information effectively. For the past couple of decades some of my work has been making documentation and developing training materials and delivering training to technicians. I have been thinking about, and practicing, how to present these sometimes complex ideas to people who, like me, have very practical intelligence but may not have the benefit of an extensive educational background.
To sum up, I want to help; I think I know this subject and I
think I know how to explain it. Because of this, I feel a responsibility to
help.
There are many basic concepts that must be explained and
then brought together to have a clear understanding of refrigeration cycle
diagnosis. I will go through these in detail over the course of this blog. I invite comments and questions at
Dale.T.Rossi@gmail.com.
I would like to start however at the end. Where is this all going?
