Refrigeration RT/RC Prep Quiz

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Quiz Result Settings

1: What is the purpose of a surge capacitor on a contactor?

  • to keep the contactor pulled in
  • to provide smoother start/stops
  • to protect low voltage equipment
  • to balance the sine waves

2: _____ alloys shall not be used in contact with an halogenated refrigerants.

  • Copper
  • Zinc
  • Magnesium
  • Nickel

3: What is a Category "D" fluid?

  • A fluid which is nonflammable, nontoxic, not damaging to human tissues, does not exceed 150 psig, and design temperature is between -20F to 366F
  • A toxic fluid, which can produce serious irreversible harm to persons on breathing or bodily contact
  • A typical refrigerant used on newer air conditioning and heat pump ssytems
  • Any fluid that exceeds 150 psig and has design temperature of over 366F

4: All machine rooms must be outfitted with a detector that _______?

  • activates an audible alarm
  • activates a visual alarm
  • starts the ventilation system
  • All of the above

5: 1 Watt = ______ BTU's?

  • 7.216
  • 3.412
  • 4.482
  • 12

6: A motor starter is a device that includes an overload and a _______?

  • contactor
  • 2-pole contacts
  • duel-coil
  • all of the above

7: A crankcase heater has a supplied voltage of 100 volts and is drawing 1.4 amps. What is the resistance?

  • 71 ohms
  • 104 ohms
  • 80 ohms
  • 27 ohms

8: A single pole-double throw switch used how many wires excluding the ground wire?

  • three
  • four
  • five
  • two

9: Atmospheric pressure is equal to

  • 29.92" Hg
  • 14.7 psia
  • 14.7 psig
  • both a & b

10: Ammonia (NH3) is a group III refrigerant

  • True
  • False

11: After setting up a forward curved fan for the desired conditions, something happened to lower the total static pressure the fan had to operate against. Which would occur?

  • CFM and HP decrease
  • RPM and CFM increase
  • CFM and RPM decrease
  • CFM and HP increase

12: The density of a gas refers to

  • pounds per absolute pressure
  • pounds per cubic foot
  • pounds per square foot
  • cubic feet per pound

13: A micron is

  • one millonths of a micrometer
  • one millonths of a centimeter
  • one thousandths of a millimeter
  • a larger unit of measurement than Hg

14: The outer portion of shell of the compressor used on low-pressure chillers is called the

  • baffle
  • volute
  • nozzle
  • suction

15: The normal operating evaporator temperature of R-410A for air conditioning is typically

  • 45F
  • 32F
  • 155F
  • 158F

16: Machinery rooms must be vented to ______?

  • outdoors
  • neutralizing tank
  • unoccupied spaces
  • basement

17: The location of the thermal bulb for the TXV on the evaporator effects

  • both the pressure and temperature in the feeler bulb
  • the amount of superheat required to operate the TXV
  • the amount of liquid in the evaporator
  • the amount of gas in the evaporator

18: Gauge pressure is

  • Atmospheric pressure
  • Force of pressure above that of atmosphere
  • Barometric pressure
  • Absolute pressrue

19: A High-Probability System

  • is a system highly likely to leak form a failed connection or component of such system
  • is such that a leak of refrigerant from a failed connection will enter an unoccupied space
  • is such that a leak of refrigerant from a failed connection will enter the occupied space
  • is such that any leak will cause injury or death to anyone within a 100 square foot area

20: copper and its alloys shall not be used in contact with _____ except as a component of bronze alloys for bearing or other non-refrigerant containing uses.

  • Lithium bromide
  • ammonia
  • HCFC-123
  • CFC-11

21: A compressor that increases vapor pressure by changing the internal volume of the compression chamber is called?

  • Positive displacement
  • Non-positive displacement
  • Low Pressure displacement
  • Pressure induced displacement.

22: A hotel is considered a _______ occupancy.

  • mercantile
  • residential
  • institutional
  • commercial

23: The two basic types of evaporators are

  • prime surface and finned
  • flooded and direct expansion
  • finned and plate
  • direct expansion and plate

24: The test pressure applied to the high side of each factory-assembled refrigerating system shall be at least equal to the design pressure of

  • 2.5 times the design pressure
  • the aggregate of the high side and low side
  • the low side
  • the high side

25: System design pressures must take into consideration, not only, pressures found during normal operation but also what?

  • When it's cold out
  • When there is a malfunction on the high side
  • When its warm out
  • All of the above