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John F. Walsh
Biography
John F.
Walsh is a 40 yr. Veteran of HVAC industry,
John has worked as a technician, project
supervisor, and business owner, specializing
in refrigeration, heating and air
conditioning.
Since 1968, John has been involved in HVAC
and refrigeration sales, selling residential
and commercial HVAC/R installations,
manufacturer’s products to distributors, and
HVAC software. He was the owner/operator of
Walsh Refrigeration on Cape Cod, MA, where
he and his crew installed refrigeration
units, including specially designed lobster
tanks and environmental chambers, and HVAC
systems.
John was
an instructor in several Vo-Tech schools in
New England. In addition, John has taught
continuing education courses for the past 14
years.
John
holds a Universal EPA Certification and is
certified in Asbestos Abatement from Tufts
University.
John has
also worked as the sales manager for
Wrightsoft. Today, he is a master
distributor for Elite Software, assists the
company as a beta tester for new programs,
and is the United States trainer for Elite
Software.
Currently John runs Training for the Trades
where he teaches courses to HVAC, plumbing
and electrical technicians. Seven
instructors are available to teach courses
in a wide range of technical topics. Some of
the organizations that have hosted TFTT
classes include distributors from one coast
to coast, a Kansas weatherization group and
the New York Transit Authority.
A
popular course offered through Training for
the Trades is on computerized heat loads.
The class is offered on-site as well as
through the web. Some of the classes are
approved for continuing education in many
states. The web class, which was designed to
help technicians receive training when it is
most convenient for them, has also been
approved for Continuing Education in many
states.
John is
author of "Hit the Load J", the simplistic
way of reading a manual J.
HVACR Educators and Trainers
Conference Sessions
Energy Auditing
The
Energy Audit program calculates monthly and
annual heating and cooling costs for
residential and light commercial buildings.
Virtually any type of cooling and heating
system can be simulated by Energy Audit
including standard DX evaporative air source
heat pumps water source heat pumps direct
exchange heat pump sand all types of fossil
fueled furnaces and boilers including two
stage and modulating boilers. An optional
version of Energy Audit with appliance
capabilities can calculate appliance and hot
water energy use as well. Still another
option available is for utility companies
that want to show disaggregated past utility
bills. Energy Audit uses heating degree days
weather bin data and full load cooling hours
in its calculations. Weather data for over
1500 cities throughout the world is built-in
to Energy Audit and additional weather data
can be easily added. Along with calculating
energy costs Energy Audit also performs an
economic analysis that allows you to compare
system types and costs over any given study
period. There is even a loan lease and
credit card analysis report designed to
demonstrate affordability of better systems
by showing that the effective net monthly
cost is often very low when monthly energy
savings are considered. To make system
comparisons easy Energy Audit allows you to
manually enter equipment data or
automatically look it up from ARI and GAMA
equipment data files. Pictures for numerous
equipment models are included as well.
Energy Audit provides a wide selection of
nicely formatted color charts graphs and
reports.
Duct
Design
Manual D
Ductsize works as a component within Drawing
Board and Rhvac to calculate optimum duct
sizes. It automatically creates runout ducts
in each room of your floor plan and assigns
them the proper air flows as calculated by
Rhvac. Reports show the static pressure loss
of each individual duct as well as the
cumulative loss at each point in the system.
Calculation Method
The Manual D Ductsize Program is based on
the design procedures given in ACCA's Manual
D. The equal friction sizing method is used
to determine optimum duct sizes to the
nearest inch or centimeter. You can also
select to size ducts based on a user-defined
schedule of sizes or exact (nearest tenth of
an inchor millimeter). Or you can select
Presize for the sizing method and enter your
own diameter or height and width for the
duct. Static pressure losses resulting from
fittings and dampers are based on Manual D's
equivalent length definitions with the
several hundred fitting definitions from
Manual D built in to the program Including
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