Mainstream Engineering, a leading manufacturer of aftermarket service/maintenance and education/certification products, now offers the HVAC/R industry’s only free R-410A online training and certification course R-410A Certification Program, in the wake of the EPA-mandated R-22 bans and phase-outs beginning this year.

The training course is available at www.epatest.com as a downloadable 23-page manual or packaged as manual and interactive software with practice tests, study modules, and a certification test all free of charge. The course was written by Mainstream Engineering President, Robert P. Scaringe, P.E., Ph.D, a holder of more than 60 HVAC/thermal control/energy conversion patents and a former Florida Institute of Technology, engineering professor, former R&D engineer at General Electric’s Heat Pump group and frequent speaker at industry educational conferences.

“We offered this program because there’s a lot of misinformation in the industry,” said Ross Soyka, director of marketing and the coordinator of Mainstream Engineering’s contractor training services program. “EPA-608 certification, which includes an R-410A section, is still required, but a prevalent rumor in the industry that R-410A specific certification is required is not true. We offer this program free as a goodwill public service measure to help educate the industry on R-410A safety and practices”.

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