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Tony Rogers at HVAC Technical Academy
Tony Rogers video - The Contactor
Tony Rogers video transcript - Contactor (Training Transcript)
Speaker: Tony Rogers
Hello there. I’m Tony Rogers with HVAC Technical Academy. You know, I got a call from Miss Smith. She said she was having a hearing a noise problem. I immediately assumed it could possibly be the contactor, and that’s what we’re going to be talking about today: the contactors. This is where the contactor is, and we actually have three types of contactors. We got the single, double, and triple. The triple is basically for industrial, you know, it has the power, and it has what they call circuits, fuses, and everything, and it tells it. The single-pole is for basic comfort cooling in homes. The double pole is for some homes or commercial, and the three-phase, the three pole, is definitely for industrial.
So, how it works is you put your power load on lines one and two, it goes through the system loads, and it generates power and turns it into 24 volts. That’s why you have these down here, 24, and they come off there, and they generate. It’s just like a light switch, basically. You know, when the power is on, that means it’s supplying power. When it’s out, there’s no power running through it. And it goes bad easily. You know, it could be over time, it could be weather, it could be a lightning strike, anything. Or it could be something else causing it to pull power from it and make it go bad.
So that’s basically, I think, about it. I’m Tony Rogers. Thank you for checking me out and checking out my video on Second Chance Technical University or Academy. I’ll see you soon.