Introduction to HVAC
True-beginner HVAC — safety, electrical, heating, air, and cooling foundations.
Sixteen-week beginner HVAC — shop safety, electrical math, heating and cooling overview, air-side vocabulary, the DX cycle, and EPA/licensing awareness. Seeded from HVAC Foundations; included with All Access.
16 weeks with autograded assessments. Included with All Access. Finish to lock completion and keep a printable certificate.
What you'll learn
- Apply shop safety, PPE, and lockout awareness
- Use Ohm’s and Watt’s law on simple HVAC examples
- Explain single-phase vs three-phase power basics
- Identify thermostat and low-voltage control ideas
- Describe electric and gas heat at overview depth
- Use pressure, fan, damper, and DX-cycle vocabulary correctly
- Recognize EPA 608 and AHJ licensing boundaries
Course content
16 sections
- Week 1 Orientation, careers & shop safety
- Week 2 Ohm’s law, Watt’s law, overload & overcurrent
- Week 3 Single-phase vs three-phase · LVR vs LVP · Quiz E
- Week 4 Thermostats — general, line voltage, low voltage
- Week 5 Electric heat types
- Week 6 Gas heat — principle & control
- Week 7 Pilots, thermocouples, hydronic · Quiz H
- Week 8 Midterm — electrical & heating foundations
- Week 9 Pressure terms · fans & blowers
- Week 10 Axial & centrifugal fans · dampers · Quiz V
- Week 11 Mechanical cooling applications & hydronic cooling
- Week 12 Gas laws · phase changes · DX systems
- Week 13 The DX cooling cycle · Quiz C
- Week 14 EPA 608 & licensing awareness
- Week 15 Capstone practicals & service write-up
- Week 16 Final exam & practical check-off