American Standard SEET Lab Trip
Only The Strong Survive

Visualize a scorching high noon in the Sahara Desert, and then picture a bitter Buffalo, NY morning in January. Now imagine these two extremes occurring back-to-back, within days of each other and you’ll have an idea of the conditions that American Standard Duration Compressors are put through.

Last week 12 customers, and VP employees braved the elements of American Standards SEET (System Extreme Environment Test) Lab in Texas. At this 27-acre facility they experienced first hand the rigors that AS Heat Pumps are put through during 2,688 hours of continuous extreme testing.

Trudging through drifts of snow they witnessed a compressor operating at minimum load heating in the numbing 0° temperatures. With minimum refrigerant flow motors often seize because there’s not enough oil to lube the bearings. The Duration compressor, however, had the velocity necessary to handle the situation – pulling oil back through the lines and into the compressor to lubricate all bearing surfaces.

In need of a thaw, our intrepid group soon found themselves in a blistering 125° room. With the compressor set at maximum load #1, it cooled an adjoining room to 80° without shutting down despite the stress of high load conditions.

SNEAK A PEAK
American Standards NEW 3-Stage, Variable Speed, 95% AFUE Furnace

There will likely be another factory tour in late September. Anyone interested in going should contact Troy Bane at 585-272-1813 ext. 3080 or tbane@vpsupply.com.

Dave Dousharm CNY Pipeworx	Rick Arcuri Arcuri's Heating	Paul Maltese VP Supply	Jim Betlam Betlam Htg & Cooling
Darryl Fishbaugh Betlam Htg & Cooling	Matt Nicodemus High Performance Htg	Darren Dalton Dalton Htg. & Cooling	Troy Bane VP Supply
Sean Towlson S. Towlson Plbg & Htg	Tom Corolla VP Supply	Dave Sayles VP Supply	Ron Perkins VP Supply