Champion
York-family badge (Bosch Home Comfort since 2025); Fraser-Johnston rides the same platforms regionally. One family, one service manual, several names.
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: Bosch, York, Coleman, Luxaire
What they make
Split system A/C (straight cool)
Covered in the simulatorOutdoor 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.
Start a guided call →Practice: whole system dead →Practice: outdoor unit dead →Practice: runs but won’t cool →Practice: no air inside →Practice: acting possessed →Practice: blows fuses →Practice: gauges on →Practice: wrong part, wrong size →A2L start-up guide →
Heat pump (split)
Lessons carry overA 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.
Open in the Copilot (reference) →Practice: heat pump →Practice: whole system dead →Practice: outdoor unit dead →Practice: runs but won’t cool →Practice: no air inside →Practice: acting possessed →Practice: blows fuses →Practice: gauges on →Practice: wrong part, wrong size →A2L start-up guide →
Gas furnace
Covered in the simulatorThe indoor half of most split systems outside the Sun Belt: burners and heat exchanger below, the A-coil above, the 24V control system inside.
The control side — door switch, transformer, board, blower, low-voltage fuse — is fully modeled as the sim’s indoor cabinet, and the guided flow applies on cooling complaints. Combustion-side diagnostics are on the roadmap.
Start a guided call →Practice: whole system dead →Practice: no air inside →Practice: acting possessed →Practice: blows fuses →
Air handler / fan coil
Covered in the simulatorThe 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.
Start a guided call →Practice: whole system dead →Practice: no air inside →Practice: runs but won’t cool →Practice: acting possessed →Practice: blows fuses →Practice: gauges on →A2L start-up guide →
Evaporator coil
Covered in the simulatorThe indoor coil itself — cased or uncased, A, N or slab — often replaced separately from everything else, which is where mismatches are born.
Freeze-ups, restrictions, airflow starvation and mismatched-coil audits are all on the board, and the guided flow’s superheat/subcooling paths read straight through it. Match by capacity and metering device, never by badge.
Start a guided call →Practice: gauges on →Practice: runs but won’t cool →Practice: wrong part, wrong size →A2L start-up guide →
Package unit
Lessons carry overThe whole system in one outdoor cabinet — on a pad beside the house or on the roof. Gas/electric, straight cool, or heat pump.
Same parts, one cabinet: contactors, dual-run caps, PSC/ECM motors and the refrigerant circuit fail exactly like the board’s scenarios. The guided flow’s split-system routing doesn’t fit a single cabinet, so it escalates package units by design.
Open in the Copilot (reference) →Practice: runs but won’t cool →Practice: blows fuses →Practice: gauges on →
Tech support
The Copilot loads your Champion equipment details. Guided diagnostic coverage depends on the equipment type; ductless and monoblock systems currently use the reference library.
Opens the guided Copilot with Champion already on the equipment card.
Reading Champion 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.)
YCJF36S41S1— York LX split A/C, 14–16 SEER class (the D tier is the 13 SEER version), 3 tons (36).TCGD48S41S3— Coleman/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 →