You may have noticed these while looking through Safety Data Sheets. You may have noticed them when looking at labels on refrigerant cylinders. I hope you noticed them while you were in the classroom. Either way, there are a lot of questions about how refrigerants and their safety group classifications and I’m going to do … Read more
R-1234yf, or HFO-1234yf is soon to be one of the most popular refrigerants in the world. Making it’s debut in the early 2000’s it has quickly rose to power and will soon be the dominant refrigerant in the automotive industry. Today, as I write this in October of 2017 there are approximately thirty-five million cars … Read more
Most of you in the automotive industry have already heard of the new HFO 1234YF refrigerant. Depending on where you are in the world you may have already come across 1234YF vehicles during service appointments. If you haven’t heard of it or seen it by now I can assure you that it is coming. As … Read more
Last week I wrote an article going into how Honeywell and Chemours are filing an appeal to a federal court’s ruling that overturned the EPA’s phase out of HFC refrigerants. I explained how this was exactly what I thought would happen. These two behemoths aren’t going to sit back and watch their investments into HFO … Read more
Well ladies and gentlemen I have to say that I saw this coming. The deadline to file an appeal on the Federal Court’s ruling against the EPA’s phaseout of HFC refrigerants was September 22nd, 2017. Lo and behold, at the last minute on the last day an appeal was filed by Honeywell and Chemours. This … Read more
Let me preface this with France is a great country. I had never left the States before until a few months ago when I had a business trip in Belgium. We had an extra day so we took a train down to Lille and then another train down to Paris. I had a lot of … Read more
The other day I wrote an article about Hudson Technologies acquiring one of my favorite refrigerant companies of the past, AirGas/Refron Refrigerants. This article can be found here, but basically in that article I went over how as the years pass by that the number of refrigerant distributors and declaimers across the country are shrinking … Read more
Hello folks and welcome! If you haven’t noticed by now over the past few weeks I have taken the time to go find, research, write, and do a product review on each and every refrigerant leak detector that I could find. While I did not use these units first hand I want to point out … Read more
Hello ladies and gentlemen! Today on RefrierantHQ we will be doing another review on a refrigerant leak detector. Today’s product is the HDE Refrigerant Leak Detector. This detector is in our ‘budget’ category as it is a very low price based product. Remember folks you get what you pay for! Now before I get into … Read more
Almost two months ago on August 8th, 2017 a federal court ruled against the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed ban and phase-out of HFC refrigerants. Originally, the EPA had planned phase out of HFC refrigerants to begin next year with R-404A and again in 2020/21 for R-134a. I’ve written about this ruling before so I will … Read more
Hello everyone! I’m proud to announce that RefrigerantHQ has been featured on HVACtraining101’s Best HVAC websites and blogs. This article from HVACtraining101 goes into all of the great sites and blogs of the HVAC industry. I highly recommend reading through and exploring some of the links provided. As we know there is always more information … Read more
Hello ladies and gentlemen! Today on RefrigerantHQ we will be doing yet another product review on a detector. Today’s product is Robinair’s TIFZX Heated Pentode Refrigerant Leak Detector. How will this detector compare to the others out there? Will it be a buy or a shy? Let’s find out. Now before I get into the … Read more
Greetings and salutations folks! Today on RefrigerantHQ we will be reviewing Elitech’s CLD-100 refrigerant leak detector. If you haven’t noticed by now I’ve been going through and reviewing every possible leak detector that I can find. My goal here is to provide a comprehensive listing of every detector on the market. Once the listings are … Read more
Hello folks! Today on RefrigerantHQ we will be doing a product review on Elitech’s WJL-6000 refrigerant leak detector. If you haven’t noticed by now I have systematically been reviewing every single leak detector that I can find. The goal here is to provide you, the reader, a comprehensive listing of all of the detectors out … Read more
Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome! Today on RefrigerantHQ we will be taking an in-depth look and review at Signstek’s Portable Refrigerant Leak Detector. Over the past few months I have gone through and have done numerous reviews on all different types of leak detectors. Some of these were the best of the best, some … Read more
Hello folks and welcome! Today on RefrigerantHQ we will be doing yet another review on a refrigerant leak detector. The goal here is to cover as many detectors on the market and to give you a rounded approach of everything that is available. Today’s targeted product is Reed Instrument’s C-380 Refrigerant Leak Detector. Now before … Read more
The other day I wrote an article that showed a comparison table showing the top refrigerant leak detectors on the market today. I included a Fieldpiece model, an Inficon model, and the famous Bascaharach’s H-10 Professional detector. The goal here was to showcase the top detectors and what the Pros and Cons of each one … Read more
Hello folks! Today on RefrigerantHQ we will be reviewing JB Industries’ LD-5000 Prowler Refrigerant Leak Detector. I feel kind of bad about this but I hadn’t even heard of this product until after I wrote my Premium Leak Detector Comparison article. Upon reading this article a reader reached out to me and asked why I … Read more
As I am sure that all of you know when it comes to manufacturing refrigerant there are only a few players left in town. Sure there are some smaller companies scattered here and there across the country but for the most part when you are buying refrigerant it is coming from one of two companies: … Read more
Infrared refrigerant leak detectors are some of the most popular refrigerant leak detectors that are used by day to day professionals in the HVAC industry. Most green guys in the industry will buy one of the cheaper detectors on the market just to have one in their tool bag. Usually, it’s a heated diode detector … Read more