Bosch
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 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 →
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 →
Ductless mini split
Reference for nowInverter-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 overA 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.
Open in the Copilot (reference) →Practice: runs but won’t cool →Practice: gauges on →
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.
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 →