Arkansas HVACR NewsMagazine September 2019

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will accommodate just about any single system equipment situation. Never double or stack any filters as the costs in available energy kills performance. Disposable filters should never be cleaned and reused.

Comments from Tom: “Our industry has strayed from employing engineering data to adopting rules of thumb and we must correct course. Our effort will begin with delivering as advertised performance. This will occur only with specific installation guidelines with regard to equipment installation, distribution design, transition application, duct layout and updated return flow and filter criteria. These are measures that must be identified and specification set forth…”

Disposable filters should never be cleaned and reused.

Filter selection can be complicated; however, with a little common sense and diligence, your labor will yield amazing results. By cataloging your selections from research, you should be able to build a library of filters to suit just about every need. This area of contracting is one of the most overlooked factors of underperforming systems you will find. Article furnished by Tom Turner Air Evangelist https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-turner- 719a8b7/ The Arkansas HVACR NewsMagazine

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welcomes Tom Turner to another year as a guest writer. Tom, formally of Austin Energy, has been involved with the construction industry for over forty-five years and directly

involved with the Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning industry since the mid 1970's. He is regularly featured in ACHR News writing about quality installation practices.