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Installing Appliances and Interior Vapor Distribution Systems focuses primarily on the procedure of designing and installing a vapor distribution system. This course addresses the different techniques and procedures for designing and installing vapor distribution systems as well as proper validation of installation to include the appliance and venting system.

Registration includes the following:

• Book: CETP 4.3 Installing Appliances and Interior Vapor Distribution Systems (2019 Edition)
• Exam
• Lunch

COURSE OBJECTIVES: Students who complete this course successfully will progressively be able to:

Requirements for Certification include the following:

• Prerequisite: 1.0 BP&P Certification
• Passing score on 4.3 Installing Appliances and Interior Vapor Distribution Systems exam
• Complete 4.3 Installing Appliances and Interior Vapor Distribution Systems Skills Assessment within 12 months of passing the exam

Individuals will be able to take the skills assessment to complete the final action required in order to receive the certification. To learn more about the required skills assessment, please click here

Skills Assessment Topics Will Include:

• Section 1: Design Considerations for Gas Appliances
• Section 2: Designing Venting Systems
• Section 3: Design of Interior Vapor Distribution Systems
• Section 4: Installing Appliances
• Section 5: Installing Venting Systems
• Section 6: Installation of Interior Vapor Distribution System

Our Instructor: Eric Leskinen is veteran of the industry. Eric has over 30 years of experience with career progression from field operations to corporate direction. He has designed, managed, and executed safety training and compliance programs for multi-state companies with up to 1,100 employees. As a true compliance and safety specialist, his background and skill set is invaluable to propane marketers.

Hotel Accommodations

PPATEC is pleased to partner with local hotels that are in close proximity to our primary training venues. Our hotel partners offer student discounted rates on overnight accommodations. Please see the link below to visit our hotel partners page.

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This class is for technicians with a basic understanding of the refrigeration cycle. If you are looking to gain a basic understanding of the refrigeration cycle, we recommend taking our “Basic A/C Operation, Start Up & Servicing (1 Day Class),” “A/C Principles, Theories, Installation & Troubleshooting (10 Day Class),” or “Intro to Air Conditioning (4 Day Class).”

The Heat Pump Operation, Testing, and Troubleshooting class will help both installation and service technicians better understand the operation of heat pumps. Whether an installer isn’t sure what they should be seeing when starting up a heat pump, or a service technician feels there is room to improve when diagnosing heat pumps, this class has something to offer.

Heat Pump Operation, Testing, and Troubleshooting: – Refrigeration cycle for heat pump, what changes from air conditioning temperatures, pressures, and etc.? – Understanding the difference in low voltage wiring from standard A/C – Checking charge in heat mode and understanding what affects readings – Troubleshooting: what’s different from a standard A/C? – Dual fuel wiring and optimization -Understanding defrost cycle and troubleshooting defrost cycle

Our Instructor:

Vito Rodaligo has been in the HVAC industry since 2007 and has worked for leading contractors in the Central PA region. His background includes residential and commercial HVAC service, installation, and design. Vito brings a unique instructor perspective by serving in roles of a service technician, installation technician, and as a service manager.

Understanding Manual S – In One Day!

This course covers the fundamentals of residential equipment selection.  You’ll learn more about the code-required nationally recognized residential equipment selection standard and in a way that’s easy to understand and apply. This program teaches you how to dive into performance data to select equipment for residential structures. The user will get key information required to be code compliant and deliver predictable comfort.  Equipment covered:  cooling-only, heat pumps, fuel-burning furnaces, ducted, ductless, and hydronic systems will be covered in this class.

Topics covered include: • Understanding Sensible Heat Ratio • Understanding Air Conditioning Capacities • How To Select a Cooling System • How to Select a Heat Pump • How To Select a Fuel-Fired Heating System • Cooling System Sizing Limits • Heating System Sizing Limits • Determine Proper Cooling Airflow • Determine Proper Heating Airflow • Apply an Altitude Correction Factor • Calculate a Heat Pump’s Thermal Balance Point • Calculate a Heat Pump’s Economic Balance Point

Registration fees includes: Catered lunch

Instructor: Ed Janowiak, Manager HVAC Design Education at Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA), has 35-plus years of HVAC experience and more than 20 years delivering technical topics from his time as the technical director at Eastern Heating and Cooling Council based out of Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. He has more than 15 years of practical experience in the field as a service manager, technician, and installer working at various companies and as the owner and president of Bramante Energy Inc.

This course covers the fundamentals of residential heat loss and heat gain calculations in the nationally-recognized Manual J standard. The topics are broken down so it’s easy to understand and apply. This course also teaches an HVAC professional the basic elements needed to use approved software to calculate heat loss/gain. Populating fields in a program is easy, but if you’re not 100% sure what you’re populating, this is the class for you.

Topics covered include: • Heat transfer • How To Perform a Proper Survey • Design Conditions • Building Components Insulation Fenestration (window, skylights, glass doors) Opaque Surfaces (walls, floors, ceilings, etc.) • System Loads Infiltration Ventilation Adequate Exposure Diversity Duct Systems

Registration fees includes: Catered lunch

Instructor: Ed Janowiak, Manager HVAC Design Education at Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA), has 35-plus years of HVAC experience and more than 20 years delivering technical topics from his time as the technical director at Eastern Heating and Cooling Council based out of Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. He has more than 15 years of practical experience in the field as a service manager, technician, and installer working at various companies and as the owner and president of Bramante Energy Inc.

Primarily focuses on the interior portions of the piping system and on the checks and tests required when installing new piping and regulators or restoring service to an existing vapor distribution system.

Registration includes the following:

• CETP 4.2 Placing Vapor Distribution Systems & Appliances into Service

• Exam

Course objectives include:

• Identify the different vapor distribution system and appliance checks and tests and recognize the steps to perform them.

• Explain the general procedure for placing a vapor distribution system into operation and when to make the final connection to turn on the system.

• Identify how to validate container, pipe and tubing, regulator, and vapor meter installations.

• Understand the importance of proper venting, combustion air, and purging.

• Identify appliance controls and safety devices and understand their purpose.

• Understand the basic characteristics of burning propane to include the components of a burner, air adjustments, and flame abnormalities.

• Understand the importance of communicating customer safety information.

Requirements for Certification include the following:

• Prerequisite: 1.0 BP&P Certification completed within 12 months of passing the exam

• Passing score on 4.2 Placing VDS and Appliances into Operation exam

• Completed 4.2 Placing VDS and Appliances

Individuals will be able to take the skills assessment to complete the final action required in order to receive the certification. To learn more about the required skills assessment, please click here

Skills Assessment Topics Will Include:

• Section 1: Vapor Distribution System Installations
• Section 2: Identify Appliances in Vapor Distribution Systems
• Section 3: Identify Venting Requirements and Validate Combustion Air Requirements
• Section 4: Perform a Leak Check
• Section 5: Purge Air from a Piping System
• Section 6: Perform Appliance Startup
• Section 7: Identify Appliance Controls and Safety Devices and Perform a Spillage Test
• Section 8: Identify Burning Characteristics of Propane
• Section 9: Explain Company Policies and Procedures Related to an Uncontrolled Release of Propane

Class will not be held on Saturday or Sunday.

Our Instructor: Eric Leskinen is veteran of the industry. Eric has over 30 years of experience with career progression from field operations to corporate direction. He has designed, managed, and executed safety training and compliance programs for multi-state companies with up to 1,100 employees. As a true compliance and safety specialist, his background and skill set is invaluable to propane marketers.

Hotel Accommodations

PPATEC is pleased to partner with local hotels that are in close proximity to our primary training venues. Our hotel partners offer student discounted rates on overnight accommodations. Please see the link below to visit our hotel partners page.

Click Here for Hotel Partners

After 10 days of concentrated fundamental classroom theory, coupled with practical laboratory work, including hands-on experience on a variety of live-fire equipment, you will acquire a solid foundation of knowledge. This training, along with field experience, will help build careers as installation and service technicians that will become an asset to you and your customers.

The final day of training is a test day. The test takes place in the morning. Standard test times range from 30 minutes – 3 hours depending on the individual student. In nearly all cases, students are completed prior to 12:00 PM.

Bronze Certificate of Training will be awarded to each student who completes the course and passes the examination. The test is based on the NORA Oil Heat Technician’s Manual, which is used for Silver Certification.

Requirements: There are some study assignments required to be done by the students in the evening during the course. Therefore, students should consider this in fulfillment of the program.

***Registration includes FREE bleeder wrench, multimeter, and coupler popper***

Instructor

Mike Elmer, a PPATEC instructor, has been in the HVAC and plumbing industry since 2002 and has worked for leading contractors in the South Central PA region. His background includes service HVAC, plumbing, and electric.

Taking the EPA Section 608 certification is a crucial step for anyone who wants to work in the HVAC field. Successfully passing this test gives you a lifelong license. It’s also good across the country – so if you decide to move to another state, you’re still covered. The program will feature a morning preparation along with an afternoon test. Attendee has the opportunity to attended a future EPA 608 Test if they do not initially pass during the first two test attempts. Scheduling will be contingent on PPATEC instructor and class availability.

It is expected that attendees read the manual before attending the class to increase the likelihood of passing the test. The manual will be sent as a PDF two weeks before the start of the class.

Cost Structure

• PPATEC Members – Discounted Registration ($150): For PPATEC Members who participated in the four-day Intro to AC training
• PPATEC Members – Normal Registration ($250): For PPATEC Members who are only participating in the one-day EPA 608 Certification Prep & Test
• Non Members – Discounted Registration ($250): For Non Members who participated in the four-day Intro to AC training
• Non Members – Normal Registration ($400): For Non Members who are only participating in the one-day EPA 608 Certification Prep & Test

Lunch is provided for attendees at no additional cost.

Our Instructor: Mike Elmer, a PPATEC instructor, has been in the HVAC and plumbing industry since 2002 and has worked for leading contractors in the South Central PA region. His background includes service HVAC, plumbing, and electric.

Introduction to the Propane Industry along with the Fundamentals of Propane, now part of PERC’s Safety Basics program has replaced CETP 1.0 Basic Principles and Practices which was a prerequisite to the more advanced CETP classes. This newly offered PERC Education Program (PEP) provides an “entry level” training course on the history of LP-Gas along with instruction on the properties and characteristics of propane, the theory of combustion and how propane is produced and transported.

This class includes all the primary fundamentals of oil heat training for technicians in a three-day training program. Technicians who have experience servicing HVAC equipment, but have limited background working on oil equipment, are ideal candidates for this class. This training also serves as a great resource for oil heat technicians who completed the NORA Bronze Two Week Basic Oil Heat Program in the past, but could use a refresher training.

Three Day Basic Oil Heat will cover: • Introduction to Oil Burners • Oil Tanks, Piping, Fuel Units, and Oil Valves • Nozzles and Combustion Chambers • Draft and Venting • Combustion • Ignition Systems • Motors • Primary Controls and Limited Controls • Hands-On Troubleshooting in Lab

Registration fees include: Lunch is provided each day

Our Instructor:

Alan Mercurio, a technical trainer with the PPA, has over 30 years of industry experience in various roles including service technician, equipment sales, and service manager. Alan is an industry author, consultant, educator, and proctor. He holds certificates as a Master Technician in the State of Pennsylvania, Silver certificate from the PPA, is NORA Gold Certified, and is EPA Certified by the VGI Training center as a type I and type II Air Conditioning Technician. He is the past president and founder of the Susquehanna Valley Chapter of OESP (Formerly NAOHSM), is on OESP’S Education committee, and is a liaison to NORA.