5 Things You Need to Find Correct OEM Replacement Coils
Finding the right OEM HVAC replacement coil doesn’t have to be complicated. Whether you’re replacing a chilled water coil, hot What Information Is Needed for an OEM HVAC Replacement Coil?
Top 10 Tips For Measuring HVAC Coils
1. When measuring HVAC coils, performance has very little to do with accurately measuring for replacement coils. Fitting the coil in the existing space with the least amount of labor has everything to do with measuring a coil. If you duplicate the coil in almost every respect, the performance will match and take care of […]
Replacing Carrier Chilled Water Coils
For HVAC professionals, replacing Carrier chilled water coils is a task that demands precision. One miscalculation in dimensions, connection types, or circuit configurations can turn a straightforward replacement into a significant challenge, leading to delays and complications like compromised airflow or customer callbacks. Why Precision Is Critical Carrier chilled water coils are engineered with extremely […]
Guidelines For Air Velocities
Step # 1 in determining the size and performance of a coil is dependent upon understanding face velocities of air across the coil. Whether you use CCA’s coil selection program to help size the coil, or you are replacing an existing coil; the height, length and resulting velocity determine everything.
Why Cooling Coils Need to Be Replaced
In theory, properly engineered and maintained cooling coils should deliver 20+ years of service life. In practice, most coils are replaced prematurely. The root causes are typically operational neglect, environmental exposure, improper application, or design limitations. Below are the three primary drivers of early replacement, along with technical context. 1. Increased Air Resistance from Coil […]
Top 5 Reasons Commercial HVAC Coils Prematurely Fail
Capital Coil & Air has come across virtually every scenario over the years in which a commercial HVAC coil had to be prematurely replaced, and we have since created an easy guide targeting the main reasons HVAC Coils prematurely fail.
How to Make Sense of Heating Coils
Of all the types of HVAC coils available, heating coils are probably the easiest to select and understand. Capital Coil has listed the three most common types of heating coils that you are likely to come across.
Chilled Water Coils – Circuiting Made Easy
Circuiting chilled water coils is really a balancing act of tube velocity and pressure drop. In other words, think of a coil as a matrix. Each coil has a specific number of rows, and a specific number of tubes within each row.
Frozen Steam Coils: How Do You Prevent This?
Freezes generally happen in older systems, however if your new system is not maintained properly or correctly installed, your steam coil can and will freeze.
Top 10 Fan Coil FAQ’s
1. A fan coil is among the easiest units to understand in the HVAC industry. Basically, there is a small forward curved fan, a coil, and sometimes a filter. They are all direct drive units. Click HERE to see Capital Coil’s full Fan Coil Product Lineup. 2. Fan coils run from 200 CFM to 2200 CFM, […]