Review on 🔍 Amprobe 3474968 RLD-1 Refrigerant Leak Detector: Expert Solution for Detecting Refrigerant Leaks by Richard Dean

I spend a lot of time in my friend's heated, air conditioned, fully stocked garage. We work on our vehicles and projects for a select group of classic car owners. One of the toughest problems we face is running the air conditioners on older cars (1980's and earlier) at full capacity. We usually call in a local air conditioning expert to diagnose our problems - mainly to find leaks and refill the system. When this tool appeared on Vine (a test product), I called my friend and asked if he thought we could save time and money by doing these tasks ourselves. To my surprise, he was delighted to receive it at his shop and begin diagnosing an air conditioning problem on a vintage Ferrari. My friend is an engineer, so he unboxed the device and carefully studied the simple instruction manual before even putting it in (included). ) batteries inside. Confident that it understood the functionality, we installed the batteries, ran it, and tested it with the source material vial that came with it. it shone like a Christmas tree. Cool! We then opened the Ferrari door and began examining the lines that carried the A/C refrigerant through the firewall to the under-dash block. At a high level. it immediately caught fire. Then he set it to a low level and probed the same spots. It took careful (and slow) probing to find the possible culprit for the fluid loss. Using the table in the manual, we found that the loss is several grams per month. With a system weighing over two pounds, this meant the leak was very minor and did not require immediate repair. Seasonal charging was all that was needed. The older Ferrari we had in the shop had a much larger leak and again, after following the high/low protocol recommended in the manual, found a leak in what is known as a capillary. The part has been ordered and when it arrives he will install, service and re-smell the system. To our surprise, it reads and recognizes any air conditioning refrigerant - a valid "legal" compound as well as an older type of "ozone depletion". . It can also detect hydrocarbon leaks! We sniffed the trunk of an old German car that constantly smelled of gasoline. It immediately caught fire at the top. My friend says he's going to pull out the carpeting and insulation (with the client's consent) to see if he can find the source of the smell. will be a fun and useful addition to your kit. Warning. You will become very popular with your car friends when they ask you to borrow it too. We spent several hours checking all the cars (11!) in the garage and found that most of them drove past without any sign. However, the two we suspected of the problem lit the sensor and we are now pointing in a better direction to fix one and service the other. Last thought - read the manual!