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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. Ductless reference: Select the Climate 5000 manual for the actual refrigerant edition and matched combination. Keep ductless controls separate from Bosch ducted inverter equipment, and verify any required A2L mitigation from the exact manual.

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

Ductless troubleshooting reference

Brand documents, component causes, diagnostic checks and commissioning guidance.

Open Bosch reference →

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

The Copilot loads your Bosch equipment details. Guided diagnostic coverage depends on the equipment type; ductless and monoblock systems currently use the reference library.

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.)

  • 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 →

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