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What classes would be most beneficial to you or your employees?

RayWohlfarth
RayWohlfarth Member Posts: 1,649

I will be doing more classes next year and wanted your opinion on which classes would be better for the techs. There are 3 options for the 4 hour classes:

1 Understanding & trouble shooting steam systems This would be on low pressure steam systems.

2 Understanding & troubleshooting hydronic systems. This would focus on hydronic systems

3 Common boiler mistakes This would cover both hydronic and steam and would include common mistakes I have seen

Thanks for help with this

Ray

Ray Wohlfarth
Boiler Lessons

Comments

  • Intplm.
    Intplm. Member Posts: 2,178

    Qualifying your customer and that customer's needs and how to relate to said customer.

    Thats first. The rest, if the latter is done properly, will go much more smoothly.

    RayWohlfarth
  • RayWohlfarth
    RayWohlfarth Member Posts: 1,649

    @Intplm. Thats a good point

    @JohnNY LOL I agree 100%

    Ray Wohlfarth
    Boiler Lessons
  • hot_rod
    hot_rod Member Posts: 23,279

    I would offer a menu of options to the potential shops . See what best fits their market and offerings

    Ideally they sign up for all three over a period of time

    Control wiring and troubleshooting is an important topic, many hydronic installers get tripped up on basic 24v wiring

    Bob "hot rod" Rohr
    trainer for Caleffi NA
    Living the hydronic dream
  • Larry Weingarten
    Larry Weingarten Member Posts: 3,581

    Hi, I agree with HotRod, troubleshooting. Teach the process, so your students can use it anywhere.
    Yours, Larry

  • Pumpguy
    Pumpguy Member Posts: 692

    The importance of IDENTIFYING THE PROBLEM.

    So often people go round and round about what they want, but never get to accurately describing the symptoms they're dealing with, or what they really want to accomplish.

    Dennis Pataki. Former Service Manager and Heating Pump Product Manager for Nash Engineering Company. Phone: 1-888 853 9963
    Website: www.nashjenningspumps.com

    The first step in solving any problem is TO IDENTIFY THE PROBLEM.
    HVACNUTIntplm.JohnNY
  • CLamb
    CLamb Member Posts: 323

    This is true for other fields also. I developed software for military and securities trading and have yet to find a user who can accurately describe problems. For that matter, requirements documents are usually written by folks who don't understand the problem they are trying to solve resulting in a product which doesn't do anything useful.

  • HVACNUT
    HVACNUT Member Posts: 6,302

    Look at the problem before looking for a solution.

    SuperTechCLamb
  • Mad Dog_2
    Mad Dog_2 Member Posts: 7,513

    Dale Carnegie Training

  • pecmsg
    pecmsg Member Posts: 5,282

    troubleshooting

    Basic electrical