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Day & Night

Carrier Global · Single-family homes · Apartments & multi-family

ICP badge (Carrier company), strong in the West and Southwest. Same iron as Heil and Tempstar under a different sticker.

The family: Carrier, Bryant and Payne, plus the ICP badge set — Heil, Tempstar, Day & Night, Comfortmaker, Arcoaire, KeepRite. Shared platforms, different distribution.

Same family: Carrier, Bryant, Payne, Heil, Tempstar, Comfortmaker, Arcoaire, KeepRite

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.

Gas furnace

Covered in the simulator

The 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.

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.

Evaporator coil

Covered in the simulator

The 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.

Package unit

Lessons carry over

The 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.

Tech support

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

Start tech support — Day & Night loaded

Opens the guided Copilot with Day & Night already on the equipment card.

Reading Day & Night model numbers

Carrier condensers start 24 (cooling) or 25 (heat pump) — the R-454B generations move to 26 (A/C) and 27 (heat pump): 24ACC636 reads 24 / ACC6 line / 36 = 3 tons. Bryant uses three-digit series (113A, 126B, 189B) with the same trailing size code. Payne mirrors with PA/PH prefixes. The ICP badges (Heil, Tempstar, Day & Night, Comfortmaker, Arcoaire, KeepRite) share one grammar: N4A336 reads N (ICP) / 4 = R-410A (5 = R-454B on 2025+ units) / A = A/C, H = heat pump, plus a tier digit / 36 = 3 tons. Furnaces (58-series Carrier, 9xx Bryant, N9MSE ICP) code heating input, not tonnage. Fan coils FB4/FV4 and coils CNP carry cooling sizes.

  • 24ACC636A003Carrier split A/C, Comfort/Performance era, 3 tons (36).
  • N4A548GKAICP badge split A/C, R-410A, 4 tons (48).
  • 126BNA042Bryant split A/C, 3.5 tons (042).

Thirty years of these units

1990s–2006: the 38-prefix R-22 fleet and ICP H/T prefixes (24/25 arrive with the Puron relaunch). 2006–2010: the 13 SEER minimum reshuffles the lines. 2010s: Puron-era 24ACC/24ABB and ICP N-series everywhere. 2023–24: 24SCA4/5 SEER2 refresh closes out R-410A; 2025: R-454B moves to the 26 (A/C) and 27 (HP) prefixes — 26SCA5, 27SCA5.

Residential package units follow the commercial grammar: 48 prefix = gas heat / electric cool, 50 = electric/electric — size code in the middle digits.

Dating a unit from the serial

Two rules, one family — do not mix them. Carrier, Bryant and Payne stamp week + year (WWYY) in the first four digits. The ICP badges (Heil, Tempstar, Day & Night, Comfortmaker, Arcoaire, KeepRite) REVERSE it: skip the leading letter, then year + week (YYWW). Carrier 3005E12345 → week 30 of 2005 · Tempstar L0839xxxxx → 2008, week 39.

Reliable rule for this family

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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