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Mike Taitano

Mike Taitano is a technician with 20 years of experience troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining air conditioning and refrigeration equipment. He also operates Air-Conditioning-and-Refrigeration-Guide.com. For more information, visit www.air-conditioning-and-refrigeration-guide.com.

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Refrigeration Cycle

Refrigeration Theory

Heat has its own laws, called the laws of thermodynamics
Mike Taitano
February 6, 2017
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The first point to understand about refrigeration theory is that heat is energy, and it can be made to move. If enough heat is removed from a glass of water, the water will freeze to ice. When that heat is allowed to move back into the ice, the ice will melt.


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Commercial Refrigeration Equipment Tech Tips

Service tips for techs
Mike Taitano
December 5, 2016
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Whether the commercial refrigeration equipment you’re working on is a small under-counter refrigerator, a keg refrigerator, a large walk-in freezer, or a transportation refrigeration system, many of the technical concerns will be the same.


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Leak Testing and Evacuation

Service Tips for Techs
Mike Taitano
December 9, 2013
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For newer technicians on the job, here are a couple of HVAC service tips about leak testing and evacuating after repairing a system.


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Tips for Refrigerant Retrofitting

Mike Taitano
January 9, 2012
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These are a few tips to help contractors save some time and money on commercial kitchen and restaurant equipment refrigerant retrofitting.


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Can You Reduce Chiller Maintenance?

Mike Taitano
December 5, 2011
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I simply don’t know of any way to reduce chiller maintenance (recommended scheduled maintenance), below industry standards and manufacturer recommendations, without reducing the system’s long-term efficiency and working life.


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Air Conditioning Coil Cleaning

Mike Taitano
April 4, 2011
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Air conditioning coil cleaning is an important air conditioning maintenance procedure that sometimes takes some patience, and usually takes a lot of water. First, you have to make some common sense evaluations.
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Refrigerant Retrofitting

Mike Taitano
October 4, 2010
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For several years, refrigerant retrofitting has been a common procedure for a lot of the commercial kitchen and restaurant equipment I work on, so I’ll go over some of the things I’ve learned that might help you save some time and money on your own retrofit projects.
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Improving Chiller Efficiency

Mike Taitano
February 8, 2010
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When you improve chiller efficiency, you can have better control of the chiller and the air conditioning in the building, and the chiller will also last longer. The recommendations here are for centrifugal chillers. Several different methods are suggested.
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Troubleshooting a Refrigeration Control System

Mike Taitano
June 8, 2009
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When you’re troubleshooting a refrigeration control system, keep in mind that no matter how complicated the schematic might look on paper, the control system is actually only trying to provide a few simple outcomes.
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Handling Central Air Conditioning Condenser Problems

Mike Taitano
October 6, 2008
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If your central air conditioning condenser problem is that the compressor and condenser fan won’t run, this article lays out a series of troubleshooting steps to help you in identifying and correcting the problem. By the time you make all these checks, if the problem was electrical, you should find it.
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