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Bosch Home Comfort · Single-family homes · Apartments & multi-family

Bosch Home Comfort: IDS inverter ducted heat pumps that pair with conventional air handlers and coils, Climate-series mini splits, and a long water-source heat pump lineage (the FHP line). Since 2025 the York, Coleman, Luxaire and Champion brands live here too.

The family: Bosch’s own inverter lines plus York, Coleman, Luxaire and Champion — the residential HVAC brands acquired from Johnson Controls in 2025.

Same family: York, Coleman, Luxaire, Champion

What they make

Split system A/C (straight cool)

Covered in the simulator

Outdoor condenser plus an indoor furnace-and-coil or air handler — the most common machine in single-family homes and garden-style multi-family.

The whole sim is built on this machine: every wing of the board and the guided no-cool flow apply directly.

Heat pump (split)

Lessons carry over

A split system that also heats: one reversing valve decides which coil condenses. Everything a straight-cool split has, plus the O (or, on some brands, B) circuit and defrost.

The HEAT PUMP wing of the board works the reversing valve; the guided flow routes heat pumps to escalation until its playbook ships. The electrical side transfers one-for-one.

Air handler / fan coil

Covered in the simulator

The all-electric indoor cabinet: blower, coil, and controls. In multi-family it hides in closets and mechanical rooms; hydronic fan-coil versions swap the coil’s refrigerant for water.

Modeled as the sim’s indoor unit: control power, blower circuits, condensate float, coil airflow. Hydronic (water-coil) versions add loop diagnosis the sim doesn’t model yet.

Ductless mini split

Reference for now

Inverter-driven outdoor unit feeding one or more wall, ceiling or compact-ducted heads over a communicating line. The fastest-growing machine in both segments.

Inverter boards, communicating controls and electronic expansion valves — not the contactor-and-run-cap machine the board models, and dedicated mini-split tickets are on the roadmap. From the A2L start-up guide, the refrigerant handling, nitrogen and deep-vacuum discipline transfer; its charge-to-subcooling step does not — these machines charge by weight to the manufacturer’s line-length math, behind flares torqued to spec. On the call itself, flash codes and the manufacturer’s service data lead.

Water-source / geothermal heat pump

Lessons carry over

A heat pump that trades with water instead of outdoor air — a building loop in condos and offices, a ground loop in geo homes. Compact, quiet, hidden in closets.

The compressor circuit — caps, contactors, windings — fails exactly like the board’s scenarios. The “condenser” is a water loop: verify flow, entering water temperature and ΔT before you trust any gauge reading.

Tech support

Tech support here is the guided Copilot with your Bosch info already loaded — one question at a time, evidence before parts, and everything you enter rides into the service report.

Start tech support — Bosch loaded

Opens the guided Copilot with Bosch already on the equipment card.

Reading Bosch model numbers

Letter block, then size: YCJF36S41S1 reads Y (York) / CJ family / F efficiency / 36 = 3 tons. Coleman and Luxaire wear TC/AC-style prefixes on the same platforms. Furnaces TG9S/TM9V code heating input in the digits after the letters. (Bosch IDS inverter models use their own BOVA/IDS grammar — size still rides in the digits: BOVA-36 is 3 tons.)

  • YCJF36S41S1York LX split A/C, 14–16 SEER class (the D tier is the 13 SEER version), 3 tons (36).
  • TCGD48S41S3Coleman/Luxaire-family split A/C, 4 tons (48).

Thirty years of these units

1990s–2000s: York H*/E* R-22 lines. 2010s: YCJ/YCG R-410A families under Johnson Controls. Since 2025 the badges live at Bosch Home Comfort — platforms and grammar carried over.

Residential packages (PCE/PCG-style) carry the same trailing size codes.

Dating a unit from the serial

Post-October-2004: plant letter, then the year’s two digits split around a MONTH letter — the letter is the month, not a year code. Older serials letter-code the year on a repeating cycle; date those from the family table. (Bosch IDS serials are their own scheme entirely.) Serial W1E5xxxxxxx → E = May, 1_5 = 2015: May 2015.

Common rule — spot-check against the manufacturer’s table

Need the wiring? The practice board’s ladder diagram is live and interactive — the same circuit these units share, with a meter on it. Open the board →

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