Tools
Calculators, converters, and viewers for the day-to-day. Pick one — no login, nothing to install, nothing tracked. New to the trade and the titles read like alphabet soup? The explainers cover the concepts behind these tools.
TOOL :: SIGNAL SCALING
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Signal Scaling Calculator
mA / V signal ↔ engineering units, with % of span and a 2-point → slope/offset tab ready to paste into Niagara's ProxyExt.
Analog I/O4-20 mA0-10 VSlope / Offset
TOOL :: THERMISTOR
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Thermistor / RTD Calculator
Temperature ↔ resistance for the common HVAC sensors — 10K Type II / III, Johnson 8.7K, Schneider Type 5, 20K, 3K, 1K Balco, Pt100, Pt1000 — looked up both ways, or identify an unknown sensor from measured readings.
SensorsNTC / RTDT ↔ RID Unknown
TOOL :: MODBUS REGISTERS
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Modbus Register Viewer
A 16-bit register laid out as a clickable bit grid, two-way bound to decimal / hex, with dec / hex / binary readouts.
Modbus16-bitDec / Hex / Bin
TOOL :: MODBUS FC
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Modbus Function Codes & CRC
Function codes and exception codes looked up by name or number, plus an RTU CRC-16 calculator that builds or checks a frame's checksum.
ModbusFunction CodesExceptionsCRC-16
TOOL :: BACNET/IP HEX
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BACnet/IP Hex Converter
The hex address strings EBO shows for BACnet/IP devices ↔ dotted-decimal IP and UDP port, both directions.
BACnet/IPUDP 47808Hex ↔ Dec
TOOL :: BACNET OBJECTS
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BACnet Object Reference
Object types, property identifiers, and the engineering-units enumeration, filterable by name or number — decode object type 1 and property 85 without opening the standard.
BACnetObject TypesProperty IDsEng. Units
TOOL :: BACNET VENDOR IDS
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BACnet Vendor ID Lookup
The full ASHRAE-assigned vendor ID registry as one searchable table — decode the Vendor_Identifier a device reports in its I-Am, or filter 1,600+ manufacturers by name.
BACnetVendor_IdentifierProperty 120Registry
TOOL :: BACNET UNITS
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BACnet Engineering Units Decoder
The full BACnet Units enumeration (property 117) as one filterable table — paste the number a point reports for its units and get the name, or filter all 255 standard values by number, name, or symbol.
BACnetProperty 117Units EnumDecode
TOOL :: BACNET ERRORS
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BACnet Error Code Decoder
Decode the class + code a device returns when it refuses a request, plus reject and abort reasons — what unknown-property, write-access-denied, or an APDU-too-long abort actually means, all searchable.
BACnetError / Reject / AbortClass + CodeDecode
TOOL :: BACNET PRIORITY
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BACnet Priority Array
Set a value or NULL in any of the 16 command slots and watch Present_Value resolve to the lowest non-null slot — the priority stack, Relinquish_Default, and why writing NULL releases an override.
BACnetPriority_ArrayPresent_ValueOverride
TOOL :: PSYCH CHART
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Psychrometric Chart
Walk an AHU through its processes — mix outdoor + return air, then cool, heat, and humidify — on an interactive ASHRAE psychrometric chart that follows the header's US / Metric toggle. Drag OA and RA, or type leaving conditions; coil capacities appear when you set the airflow.
HVACPsychrometricsASHRAEUS / Metric
TOOL :: ECONOMIZER RATIO
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Economizer Ratio Helper
Required %OA to mix outdoor and return air down to a mixed-air dry-bulb setpoint, with a feasibility verdict and an OA-vs-RA enthalpy-changeover sanity check for high-end economizer logic.
HVAC% Outdoor AirMix SetpointEnthalpy Check
TOOL :: MIXED AIR
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Mixed Air Temperature Calculator
Blend three air streams by mass flow (CFMs at the panel) or mass fraction (percentages off a schematic) and read out the full mixed-air state — dry-bulb, humidity, enthalpy, dew point.
HVAC3-Stream MixCFM or %Mixed-Air State
TOOL :: COIL SIZING
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Coil-Sizing Calculator
Total, sensible, and latent capacity for a cooling or heating coil from its entering and leaving air — or run it backwards to solve the leaving-air state from a known load.
HVACCool / HeatSensible / LatentForward & Reverse
TOOL :: COIL FREEZE RISK
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Coil Freeze Risk Checker
Freezestat-season triage: place the mixed air, set it against what is in the tubes — water, glycol, or steam condensate — and get a margin plus a protection verdict.
HVACMAT MarginGlycol / SteamVerdicts
TOOL :: DEW POINT
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Dew Point Calculator
Dry-bulb + RH or wet-bulb to dew point at a glance — wet-bulb, grains, and enthalpy alongside — plus a coil check that flags whether supply air is dropping below the return dew point.
HVACDew PointCoil CheckUS / Metric
TOOL :: REFRIG P-T
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Refrigerant P-T & Superheat Calculator
Saturation pressure ↔ temperature for R-410A, R-22, R-134a, R-407C, R-404A and R-454B — bubble and dew both, so blend glide is in plain sight — plus a superheat / subcooling check off a measured line temperature.
HVAC6 RefrigerantsBubble / DewSuperheat / Subcool
TOOL :: POWER & ENERGY
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Power & Energy Converter
Convert any power or energy unit to all the others — W, kW, BTU/hr, MBH, tons, hp, boiler hp, joules, kWh, therms, MMBtu — bridge power and energy through time, and check a boiler input against its burner turndown.
HVACBTU / kW / hpPower × TimeBoiler Turndown
TOOL :: AIRFLOW
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Airflow & Velocity Pressure
The field airflow square-root, both halves — a VAV box's CFM = K × √VP solved forward or back-solved for K against a hood reading, and pitot velocity V = 4005 × √VP with duct area to CFM.
AirflowK-FactorV = 4005·√VPDuct CFM
TOOL :: AIRSIDE LOAD
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Airside Load Calculator
The airside workhorse trio solved in any direction — sensible q = 1.08 × CFM × ΔT, latent 0.68 × CFM × Δgrains, total 4.5 × CFM × Δh with tons — following the US / Metric toggle.
Airflow1.08 / 0.68 / 4.5Sensible / Latent / TotalUS / Metric
TOOL :: DUCT TRAVERSE
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Duct Traverse Calculator
Average a full pitot traverse the way the math demands — root each reading, then average, V̄ = 4005 × mean(√VP) — with duct area to CFM, plus diffuser Ak-factor flow solved forward or back against a hood.
Airflowmean(√VP)Pitot / TABAk Factor
TOOL :: AIRFLOW CHECK
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Equipment Airflow Check
Judge a measured airflow against equipment limits — CFM per active ton of DX cooling with staging-aware icing / carryover verdicts, and the gas-furnace rise window turned into an allowable CFM band.
AirflowCFM / Active TonRise WindowVerdicts
TOOL :: MINIMUM OA
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Minimum Outdoor Air Calculator
ASHRAE 62.1 breathing-zone math — Rp × Pz + Ra × Az through zone effectiveness to a % OA damper floor, split into the DCV-resettable share and the permanent per-area floor.
AirflowRp·Pz + Ra·AzEzDCV Split
TOOL :: DUCT SIZER
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Duct Sizer
The ductulator solved four ways — friction rate and velocity from CFM and diameter, or size to a target friction or velocity — plus Huebscher rect ↔ round, where equal friction is deliberately not equal velocity.
Airflowin. w.c. / 100 ftAltshul-TsalRect ↔ Round
TOOL :: VALVE CV
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Control Valve Cv Calculator
Size a control valve from its flow coefficient — Cv = Q√(SG/ΔP) solved any direction — plus a valve-authority check and a Kv equivalent for metric work.
HydronicsCv / KvAuthorityFlow / ΔP
TOOL :: VALVE AUTHORITY
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Valve Authority Calculator
Authority β from the wide-open valve drop and the rest of the branch, with a good / marginal / poor verdict and a live plot of how the installed characteristic distorts as β falls.
HydronicsAuthority βInstalled CurveVerdict
TOOL :: AFFINITY LAWS
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Pump & Fan Affinity Law Calculator
Scale a known operating point to a new speed or trimmed impeller — flow with the ratio, head with its square, power with its cube. The energy case for VFDs.
Pumps & FansAffinity LawsVFD SpeedImpeller Trim
TOOL :: TRANSFORMER VA
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Control Transformer Sizing Calculator
List what hangs on the 24 VAC secondary, pick the transformer, read the percent loaded and headroom — plus a secondary fuse suggestion sized off the transformer rating.
Electrical24 VACVA BudgetFuse Sizing
TOOL :: VOLTAGE DROP
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Wire Run & Voltage Drop
Copper resistance for the run, then a verdict in the signal's own language — loop supply margin for 4-20 mA, real-vs-imagined error on 0-10 V, degrees of lie on a temperature sensor.
ElectricalAWG4-20 mA LoopLead Error
TOOL :: ELECTRICAL CALC
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Field Electrical Quick Calc
Four field calcs in one: the Ohm's-law wheel (any two of V/I/R/P), single- and three-phase AC power (kW, kVA, kVAR, PF), a motor HP↔kW and full-load-amp estimate, and the NEMA voltage-imbalance check.
ElectricalOhm's Law3φ PowerMotor FLA
TOOL :: WATERSIDE LOAD
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Waterside Load Calculator
The hydronic workhorse q = 500 × GPM × ΔT, solved in any direction — the load a measured flow and ΔT imply, the flow a load needs, or the ΔT a healthy loop should show. Tons ride along.
Hydronicsq = 500·GPM·ΔTMBH / TonsUS / Metric