Refrigeration RT/RC Prep Quiz

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1: The certificate of inspection

  • shall be posted and protected from dirt, water, and other elements
  • shall be $20 and an additional fee of $1 for each tone above 20 tons
  • shall be posted on the compressor shell or electrical panel at the unit
  • shall be authorized by a notarized insurance company

2: Where a refrigeration or air conditioning system is installed,

  • it shall not be operated below prescribed pressuers
  • A field inspection shall be made before it is put into service
  • the form or certificate shall be authorized by the Department of Public Safety
  • The company who installed the system must notify the fire department in the jurisdiction where installed

3: The gauge thickness required on a CO2 tank construction is

  • 1/16"
  • 5/16"
  • 1/8"
  • 3/32"

4: What is the amp draw of a 40 VA transformer at 24 volts

  • 106 amps
  • 1.6 amps
  • 1,000 amps
  • 1K amps

5: How many square inches per square foot?

  • 144
  • 64
  • 98
  • 24

6: A thermometer inside a duct measures ____ heat.

  • latent
  • sensible
  • specific
  • hidden

7: Sublimation occurs when

  • liquid is formed from a gas
  • ice melts and turns to water
  • gas is formed from a liquid
  • gas is formed directly from a solid

8: The maximum permissible amperage draw for a 40VA transfomer with a secondary voltage of 24V is

  • .1
  • 1.7
  • 1.2
  • .8

9: The total amount of refrigerant stored in a machinery room in all containers not provided with relief valves shall not exceed

  • 660 lbs
  • 330 lbs.
  • 55 lbs
  • 550 lbs

10: Who authorizes changes to the safety codes?

  • Person in charge of the facility
  • Contractor who last serviced the system.
  • Person who pulled the permit
  • Board of Boilers

11: A movie theater would be considered a

  • commercial occupancy
  • institutional occupancy
  • mixed occupancy
  • public assembly occupancy

12: The two float-type metering devices are the

  • liquid float and the vapor float
  • high-side float and the low-side float
  • vapor float and the low-side float.
  • liquid float and the low-side float

13: A positive displacement compressor is

  • a compressor in which the increase in pressure is attained by changing the internal volume of the compression chamber
  • where the compressor's suction pressure and the compressor;s discharge pressure is more than 50 PSI
  • a compressor in which the increase in pressure is attained by changing the internal pressure of the compression chamber
  • is a reciprocating type compressor with 2 or more pistons

14: What is the leaving chilled water set point for water chiller systems?

  • 45F
  • 55F
  • 38F
  • 66F

15: A class A3 refrigerant is considered

  • toxic and somewhat flammable
  • non-toxic and non-flammable
  • toxic and non-flammable
  • non-toxic but highly flammable

16: In a horizontal shell & tube condenser, the ammonia is liquefied by

  • removing the latent heat of fusion
  • removing the latent heat of vaporization
  • passing thru the tubes from top to bottom
  • water sprayed over condenser

17: The dial of a pressure gauge, when installed on the high side of a system be graduated 1.2 times the designed pressure.

  • True
  • False

18: Capacitors are rated in

  • volt - amperes
  • megaohms
  • kelvins
  • micro-farads

19: If two 500 ohm resistors are connected in series, the resistance will be

  • 20 ohms
  • 1000 ohms
  • 200 ohms
  • 500 ohms

20: Calculate the voltage in a series circuit when the total amperage is 10 amps and the resistors have values of: R1=12 ohms, R2=8 ohms, R3=4 ohms

  • 240 volts
  • 2.40 volts
  • 2,400 volts
  • 24.0 volts

21: How many refrigerant classifications are there for flammability?

  • 2
  • 1
  • 7
  • 3

22: It takes how many BTU's of latent heat/hr to boil 1 lbs of water into steam?

  • 12,000 BTU
  • 24,000 BTU
  • 144 BTU
  • 970 BTU

23: What's the purpose of a megohmmeter?

  • To measure low to very low resistance values
  • To alternate the current in a DC circuit in order to calculate the total impedance of a circuit
  • To measure very high resistances
  • None of the above

24: 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
  • HCFC-123
  • CFC-11
  • ammonia

25: R-12 is

  • dichlorodifluoromethane
  • dichlorofluoromethane
  • trichlorofluoromethane
  • dichloromethane