In the News: Air Conditioning Essentials That Keep Machine Operators Working Cool

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​Master essential housekeeping chores as well as clues to refrigerant leaking to ensure comfortable operators keep construction sites productive.
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By Larry Stewart, Editor, ForConstructionPros.com 
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Keeping equipment operators productive as summer comes on requires an air conditioning system maintained to harness some cool physics. Most of the maintenance is pretty simple, but knowing how and where refrigerant phase-shifts between gaseous and liquid states can make diagnosing problems pretty straightforward.

The basics are essential

As with most equipment-system maintenance, the most profitable AC system maintenance usually masquerade as mundane housekeeping.

Ask Robert Brocx, technical steward (his actual title) at mobile air-conditioning-system maker Red Dot Corp., how to prevent the most-common failure modes for air conditioning, and he doesn’t hesitate: “Just keeping the condenser clean and not plugged with debris, and the fins not folded over from high-pressure washing.

Read more of Robert's expert insight in the full article from For Construction Pros.

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