Several years ago, Supply House Times changed the name of my monthly column to “The Air Side,” to differentiate it from Dan Holohan’s fine series that deals mostly with hydronic systems.
It’s not that I am unfamiliar with hydronics. As a former service/training manager for a large Carrier products wholesaler in the Mid-South, I dealt with many water-side problems on large equipment. However, it is a matter of location. Where Dan lives and works (the Northeast), there are a lot of boilers, radiators and steam systems. But in most of the places where I’ve worked and lived, the companies are nonunion and there are a lot of air-side components, even when that isn’t the best type of application for the job. Also understand that my areas are primarily in climates where cooling is important.