Timeline for How do A/C professionals dispose of refrigerant?
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| Nov 6, 2019 at 22:43 | comment | added | Tom Russell | @dlu Indeed. Instruments, tools and service equipment easily cost $thousands for a single tech.My instructor sold his HVAC business after 15 years partly due to the never-ending equipment hassles. It's a real turn-off for anyone interested in getting into HVAC, which provides job security for some but more headaches for everyone else. And recent changes focus not on the very real ozone depletion but, rather, global warming. IMO it's a real stretch to link any refrigerants to global warming. So what we've done, in essence, is sabotage climate control for little or no improvement to the climate. | |
| Jul 28, 2016 at 21:19 | vote | accept | Zaid | ||
| Jul 7, 2016 at 20:16 | comment | added | SteveRacer | @dlu High side pressures went ludicrously high (~450+ psi). And there were these cross-threaded adapters that turned a threaded R-12 style fitting into a presslock R134a style. | |
| Jul 7, 2016 at 20:15 | comment | added | dlu | Sounds like there's a serious investment in setting up to do A/C service… | |
| Jul 7, 2016 at 20:12 | comment | added | Ben | @dlu A gas sniffer will tell you what kind of gas(es) are in the system. | |
| Jul 7, 2016 at 19:48 | comment | added | dlu | How would a shop even know if they were facing a mix of R-12 and R134a? | |
| Jul 7, 2016 at 18:39 | history | answered | SteveRacer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |