Timeline for Is AC refrigerant toxic?
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| Oct 9, 2020 at 5:02 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Sep 9, 2020 at 15:32 | comment | added | Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2♦ | Also, R-1234yf is flammable. So is brake fluid. Hmmm, gasoline (octane/petrol) is flammable. Tire rubber is flammable. Engine oil is flammable (and toxic). Seems an automobile is one big Molotov Cocktail just waiting for someone to make it happen. | |
| Sep 9, 2020 at 14:12 | comment | added | Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2♦ | @Moab - Don't think I didn't go there, lol. Would work great in a car ... you could use the exhaust heat and get back some of the energy which would otherwise be going out the tailpipe! I'm thinking this could be Mosquito Coast all over again, Woot! :-| | |
| Sep 9, 2020 at 13:57 | comment | added | Moab | @Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 One problem, it is highly flammable! Also why not use ammonia! | |
| Sep 9, 2020 at 4:36 | answer | added | sweber | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 9, 2020 at 0:28 | comment | added | Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2♦ | @Moab - And yet propane is supposed to be an awesome refrigerant ... we should be using it instead. | |
| Sep 9, 2020 at 0:20 | comment | added | the_storyteller | Random info: Peltier coolers usually don't work well because they're only 10-15% efficient, as compared to a compressor style cooler which is 40-60% efficient. This means that to to achieve the same relative level of cooling, the device will require multiple times as much energy, and give off multiple times as much heat. | |
| Sep 8, 2020 at 23:48 | comment | added | Wes Sayeed | @Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2; I don’t know. The product page doesn’t say. | |
| Sep 8, 2020 at 23:47 | comment | added | Moab | 134a is toxic to humans, Europe banned its use. | |
| Sep 8, 2020 at 23:15 | comment | added | Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2♦ | Since it's a compressor, what type of refrigerant does it use? | |
| Sep 8, 2020 at 22:45 | comment | added | Wes Sayeed | It says it uses a compressor and not a TEC. I specifically avoided Peltier coolers because they’re generally garbage in my experience. | |
| Sep 8, 2020 at 22:35 | comment | added | Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2♦ | Welcome to Motor Vehicle Maintenance & Repair! It really depends on the refrigeration type. I'd bet the refrigeration unit you're looking at doesn't use gas at all, but rather heat transfer via a Peltier Module of some type. This is the common way for coolers to work which plugs into the vehicles electrical system. No gas there to leak out, so no chance of toxicity. | |
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| Sep 8, 2020 at 22:14 | history | asked | Wes Sayeed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |