We're here at the diversitech booth at ahr 2022 in las vegas nevada and we're going to make some pigs fly. So i'm here with uh here with scott from diversity, who's like the tool genius tool, whiz to a guru tool, whiz kid yeah, where's, kids expert and i'm really excited about the line cycling. This is actually a product that scott's had to keep me shut up about. For quite a while, because i've been wanting to tell everybody about it, absolutely and uh, it's been under lock and key, but it's finally public.

It is uh out out there in the wild and we're going to go through and do a quick tour of everything. That's in it, i've already done a quick youtube video on it, but you know scott's like the expert on this thing. So absolutely so. The the line set cleaner from hillmore actually comes with five nozzles from 3 8 to 7 8.

So you get 3 8, half inch, 5, 8, 3, 4, 7, 8, the launching mechanism itself, two foam pigs of each size and yes, pigs, it's an industry term and a catch bag. Now the other unique thing about this set is i'm a tool junkie. So i like to make sure i give everybody options, so if you don't like carrying around a set the blow mold case, you can take this out. Put it in your tool, truck toolbox, put it in your toolbox at home or, however, you want to carry it.

So you have options, so it's a really nice set available at hillmore. So let's talk about the application here and why i'm so excited about this, so we've been using kind of a similar setup for many years at calos. I had some things i didn't like about it, and so this is an improvement on something we've been doing for a long time, a lot of people. The objection to this is well look.

If i start pushing this through a line set, it's going to get stuck. I'm so afraid it's going to be, i'm going to be in an apartment, complex, it's going to be stuck in a wall. The risk is too great, but we've done about 5 000 installs and not a single one has gotten stuck and with this we even have some kind of key improvements, and so we're going to show it pushing through the h we're going to show it going through A kink the goal here is to get the line set, squeaky, clean, there's so many things that we've done with flushes and all that and some of it works okay. But for those of us who have done installs for a long time, you know not that much comes out the end under normal circumstances right, but when you're actually squeegeeing everything out of that line, it all comes out.

I mean it really gets it squeaky clean. So a lot of benefits to this we've seen a decrease in callbacks warranty claims all that with txvs compressor failures by getting all that stuff out of the lines. Now some people quickly ask is this something you push through an evaporator coil, a condenser coil a valve? No, this is for a line set. This is to clean your your three eighths and you're, seven, eight three eighths three quarter and you do wan na clean both lines.

Even though the liquid line, you would think, wouldn't have a lot in it. We've been amazed at how much stuff comes out of that liquid line, we'll talk about some of the kind of the key practices after we do the demo, but let's go ahead and go into the next step. So you mentioned improvements and one of the things i do want to point out brian, what we've done with the foam. It's an eva pvc blend pig, so it's actually kind of what i would say: hydrophobic.

It doesn't like moisture. So whatever it encounters inside the line set, it's going to push it's not going to absorb it at all. It's going to push it out, the other end yeah. So how you hook this up.

Is you? You grab the launching tool. You pick the appropriate nozzle. You can we're going to go to three-quarter here, real quick, you screw the nozzle onto the gun itself. You attach it to your line, set via the thumb screw and you open the chamber.

Put your pig in the chamber close the chamber hook it up to your 70 psi compressed nitrogen tank pull and hold the trigger till that pig starts to fly. So we've got a demo set up over here to run these through the hillmore h here once again, we're going to open the chamber chamber, the pig close the chamber, pull the trigger and watch that pig fly we'll do it one more time, because i know that Show everybody what it came through yeah. So here we go we'll do it again, one more time, one more time. I love the sound of it yeah it's it's a very sad.

It's a very sensitive! It's a very satisfying, sound yeah and if you, and if you you want to do more than one pig, we don't recommend oh he's putting more than one at a time. Oh, did you launch that one, oh wow, how many have in there you can make music. If you want to sorry i'm laughing like a school girl yeah, absolutely it's too much fun. It makes executives giggle.

Absolutely it does yeah, that's good stuff. So one of the most common objections that we get is well what happens if there's a horrible kink in the line set right? What happens if there's something wrong? We can't do it it's going to get stuck absolutely so. The first thing that we want to show is that it's probably not going to get stuck even with a pretty extreme kink, so scott made up this just because it's what people keep saying they say it on my channel. They say it everywhere.

Take a look at how kink that bad boy is. It is really really kinked and i would honestly say brian if you encounter a kink anything more extreme than this. You truly have an efficiency problem. Right you've got to fix it.

I mean even a kink of that big is, is probably going to be an issue, but it's going to make it through, or at least we'll demonstrate yeah. You have to push it through, but if the pig doesn't come out, the other end you can easily unattach the gun from that one end go to the opposite end and then hook the gun back up and blow the pig out the opposite end. So we're going to do it just into this catch bag reel here real quick, we'll make sure that uh all the safety features are in place and there it went. I know that was quick, i'll put one more through there.

I went we'll do the third one. Just a picture there, it is there they are have a question fantastic. Oh, we got a question for the audience. Yes, sir um, where you the connections where you have the connections, but it just the pipe joint like say, different ways: yeah.

So, like a solder, joint yeah or if you have sometimes you know when they solder correct, you know correct yeah, like a ridge on the inside right, so the cage, so the foam the way it is. It's a very dense foam here, you go, you can go ahead and squeeze that real, quick, the worst thing that'll happen is it'll. Actually, sheer off, but it'll still continue to push everything through that pipe still wiping that pipe clean yep and that's what makes this really unique, because a lot of people will have the objection well what if it does get stuck? What, if there's a kink? That's worse than that, right, okay, if there is a case where it literally gets stuck, you've got a problem like and you need to know that, and this helps you know that right, because how many times, if you are reusing a line set and you get down You're, like you know, what do we? I think we might have a kink suction line here. That's a really hard thing to know.

Whereas if you use this product, you would know if you did and you still can get it out, you just push it back. The other way exactly you take it off the one end you move to the other side. You push it back to the inside. You know, move your catch net around to the other direction, really easy to do so.

It actually gives you a whole another kind of facet to troubleshooting. Should you run into that really difficult situation? 100. Brian, you are exactly correct. Yeah, yeah and again, like we mentioned you are going to need to have open line, sets on both ends.

Yes, you are going to want to ream both sides, but especially the entry side, because if you don't ream - and you have that little edge on there - that can cause damage to the edge of the pig. Now it's not going to be catastrophic. It's not the end of the world, but it you know for some people who may want to get more than one use. I think we're recommending only using them once correct.

If you wanted to get more than one use out of it, it is going to be. You know more likely to kind of score the edges. If you leave that sharp edge, correct correct, if the the foam pit comes out, you know in pristine condition. It may be a little dirty, you could definitely use you know your typical dish, soap and some warm water just to make sure you get all the contaminants, because you don't want to run the old nasty oil that may be partially in these pigs into the next Line set, so you want to make sure it's 100 clean, well yeah one one use would be ideal, yeah question from the audience: will it travel on a line set over 50 feet? Absolutely so um? Yesterday we had a 100 foot line set here.

I hooked up the half inch line set. It did blow a couple of pigs through it. It all depends on how big of a tank you have and how much you have in that tank to really push that pig through yeah, the larger diameter. Obviously, you're going to need more volume so be prepared to have you know a full tank when you're going after some of those longer line sets of over 100 foot yeah and again that doesn't because the pig represents a blockage in the line.

Some people get confused and they imagine pressure drop, but pressure drop isn't a factor. It's just a matter of how much nitrogen volume you have to put in to get it out. So there's no there's no theoretical length limitation to this correct. In fact, what a lot of people don't realize when we talk about this being a pig i was actually talking to people like.

Oh, that's, a, i think, that's a brand name. No, that is literally the term industry term. That's used for uh for something that goes through a line to scrub it clean. This is used in all sorts of pipe cleaning applications all throughout the world.

Yes, oil and gas is a large one. They have up to eight inch diameter pigs that they use so and they're they're, huge and they'll go they'll go miles in some cases, cleaning cleaning lines, so this is a very established technology put together in a really nice kit. That's specifically designed for our trade. This is not something, that's you know crazy.

You know on the edges of what is done and it's called a pig. That's right and you make pigs fly. We do make pigs fly yeah. 100.

That's that's kind of the tagline for the product, hillmore tools. We do make pigs fly yeah, and i think this is really cool wow. That was a lot of them, so one another thing that i think is nice about this product is: it shows the commitment that hillmore has to the hvac industry, because this is an hvac specific product. It's it's made to solve a specific application problem.

It's really well engineered. The kit was put together really well and again. This is scott and his team. Who did this, so i think it says a lot about the direction that hillmore is going as far as building products that are specifically designed for our trade.

100. Brian and we definitely appreciate it - yes, sir, we got a question yeah um. What about burnhouse? We talked about that yesterday, yep uh. What's that look like i mean if you have a burnout.

This is an absolutely excellent application for this tool, especially if you've had multi multi burnouts. You would need to cut the lines before you can push through. This isn't going to go through a manifold or a coil or a valve, or a line dryer or anything like that. But if you've got a bad burnout and you want to make sure that the line set is completely cleared, you don't have any burned out oil.

Absolutely perfect application for this. Well, we talked about that in your class, like you got to put the burnout kit and all that stuff, correct, theoretically, you'll come back, pull that back out, put a new dryer on there. Will that eliminate any of that? It's not going to eliminate those steps because, again, in the case of oil charge, most of your oil charge is contained in the compressor and in the accumulator and a lot of it's also going to be in the condenser coil. So this is this, isn't going to eliminate the need to do acid protocol, but it would be a nice step, especially if you had a pretty extreme circumstance, but also, if you're doing a changeout.

There's many cases where you're doing a change out on a system and the reason why you're doing the changeout is because the compressor's failed and a lot of times the compressor's failed, because it's a burnout right and so doing this. If you're going to reuse, a line set is probably the best way to ensure that you've got a really clean and clear line set, and also like the fact that if there is a bad kick and you can't get it through, you know the problem before exactly Before you get started, it does make sense, that's a good thing, not a bad thing. This whole idea of like well. If it gets stuck, that's a problem, it's like no.

If it gets stuck, it teaches you something and then you can still get it out. Just push it back the other way, absolutely, and as far as restriction of turns and alliance and stuff, like that, i mean as hvac contractors, we kind of know how the houses are built. Is there any restrictions with how many 90s or how far or no because yeah? Because you know you don't pump it up, you leave it, you leave it at 70-ish, psi yeah and that's all because again, the more volume that comes behind this pig. It's not it's, not a cumulative resistance, that's going to affect it, see when we're thinking about resistance, we're imagining flow.

In this case, we don't have flow, we're building up pressure behind something, so it wouldn't matter if it was 50 feet or a thousand feet so long as we're building up that column of pressure behind that's actually static pressure, that's being applied, it's not flow pressure. If that makes sense, so it'll get it through yeah, if it's not getting it through, there's a problem. Yeah 100 percent. Sweet! Well scott! Thank you so much.

Thank you very much. Thank you for coming and for people who want to you know find out more about it, find out more about what you do. What are some places they could go. Oh they could they could so where to get it, so they can go to hillmoretools.com.

The website should be up um, i want to say it's going to be available. Truetechtools.Com yeah truetechtools is one option, but then you know distributors everywhere. If they don't have it yet well, then ask them to bring it in absolutely. If they already distribute hillmore tools, they have access to it, so they should be able to order it right away.

That's the hlc007! Hlc007 thanks scott! Hey! No problem! Thank you, hello! Everybody! Eric kaiser here for the hvac school and right now we are at booth in 10, 920 at ahr 2022. This is the micro fill by stuart turner booth and i'm here with nicholas and he's going to talk about a new product that they're bringing to the united states for hydronic and chilled water systems, especially water-based systems. So tell us a little bit about this product and what it does for technicians and plant owners - okay, uh! Well, it's our first fire into the u.s, it's a product that we've had for over 20 years in the uk, it's market leader and in essence it fills commercial heating and chill water systems from empty. It provides suitable, u.s backflow protection to prevent the ingress of inhibited water getting back to the wholesome supply, and it's also an electronic pressure manager.

Okay, beyond that, it does lots of other things which we probably have time to get into. But, as you can see, it's a wall-mounted unit. It utilizes, unlike conventional units, that use pumps and tanks to fill and subsequently top up systems it utilizes mains or boosted mains. Water through a series of solenoid and check valves to administer water to a commercial system.

Okay, then, once you hit a target pressure for that relative system, it stops, closes valves and opens a drain valve that exhausts a small amount of water that would fill an egg cup that creates the relative backflow protection required for the us. So that then prevents any inhibited water getting back to the mains, so there's no pump. There's no tank see very few moving parts. It's utilizing the energy that's already been created by the mains to fill and subsequently top up, and it's one size fits all and the only thing that changes the parameters to suit that specific site.

So you set the pressure and it just keeps that pressure constant. So does that get rid of an expansion tank? Then no, you still require that, because you're now sealing what was maybe previously an open system to a seal system uh. So you need a an expansion vessel or a tanker or tanks with it. Okay, so the relative air cushion or nitrogen cushion charge needs to match the coal fill setting on that, okay, so on a heating circuit, if you have 30 psi on the coal fill, which is the highest point of that heating or chilled circuit, you have 30 psi In the uh air cushion on the bladder of the tank yeah on heating through the elevation temperature, the pressure increases and the the tank is there to absorb that volumetric expansion through this awesome, and so i'm guessing with the electronics in this say if it needs a Fill up or a top up on that system, it's going to keep track of all of that electronically, correct yeah.

So, as you see on the left hand side here, it's monitoring the incoming pressure. That's constantly changing, and this is the system side which of course, changes relative to temperature yeah. So once it's in its targets, pressure and there's, maybe some nitrogen exhausted out of the system. It knows what it's trying to hit on a target cold fill.

It opens up the valve administers the relative volume of water. It hits its target closes again and monitors constantly. That's pretty nice, so kind of like an electronic fill valve. I would call it maybe exactly what it is.

Yeah you've got it yeah. So does this offer any monitoring and alarms out to a customer yeah? It does yeah. So at the moment it's on bms, so we've got high level and low level, so they're relative to the coal field, setting of course, they're changing and movable to the p t valve on a heating circuit or otherwise so uh. What it's doing is it's protecting the capital plans.

So if you have a large, chiller or expensive boiler plant hundreds of thousand dollars, you put this on the wall. It's kind of monitor that so it's going to protect it from low level and high level to prevent it from potentially running dry or over pressurizing, cracking etcetera, yeah, that's fantastic, because if we run dry or crack one of those systems that cost, as you said, hundreds Of thousands of dollars, sometimes in repairs or downtime lost manufacturing, who knows that's it yeah, so you've got a you've got a 120 hertz um uh 120 volt 50 hertz connection in and the connection out is only going to that plant. Okay, so it's protecting the plant. So that the last device is under the safety valve, but this is going to cut out before your safety valve lifts and weeps incessantly the normal backflow preventer correct.

What is the test interval on this? Let's see the test center about yearly testing right, correct! You just need to be tested like that. No, it doesn't so. It gets rid of that yearly testing requirement on the side floor. This has now had the awsc approval for water and it's just going through electrical as we speak uh.

So what this allows you to do is to put it onto any commercial heating. Chill water system administer mains water to it to fill the system uh. But, unlike an rpc, you don't require a verification check every 12 months it's fit and forget wow, that's kind of handy for an operator there and very much unlike conventional pump units. This only consumes 10 watts an hour on standby and 30 watts an hour when fully functioning and so low power draw very much so, and it fills the system at approximately 3.8 us gallons, based on 30 bar 30 psi incoming money.

Okay! Well, that's pretty good! Pretty good, so if somebody wants more information on this and they can't get by the booth this week to see you guys, where can they find more information, you've gone to microfilm.com, it's mikrofil.com uh, there's a landing page there for the us with detailing exactly what i've Just discovered awesome microfill.com, so if you can't get by to see everybody at the ahr show this week go to microfill.com learn more about the product. It's new to the us sounds like a really great solution to me. Having worked on a lot of those systems before may stop a lot of problems eric kaiser for hvac school thanks, everybody, hey guys. We are here at the navac booth uh at ahr, expo 2022 with kevin mayer and he's going to show us a new tool that navak has put out.

So i'm going to hand this over to him. Uh, hey kevin, hey how you doing good glad to have everybody. Take a look at this. This is our brand new battery-operated swedging tool.

It's built on the same platform as our battery operated, flare tool uses the same battery, so it will go from 3 8 of an inch up to inch and 8 and 8 inch increments. We'll prepare our tube just like. We would any other time to uh to make a swedge simply slide the tool into the into the tubing push the button. Let it go on the back side, there's a battery status light and a working status, light and uh in about 12 seconds.

You end up with a swedge wow: that's fantastic! Isn't that cool yeah and there you go nice tight, fit depending on where you are a lot of local wholesalers. Will uh have this tool in stock very shortly it will be out in about two months. Uh initial inventory is arriving now, as we speak as soon as they unload the 87 ships sitting off the coast of long beach. You can also it will also be available from internet sales groups such as trutech tools and t equipment, so visit your local wholesaler or order it online comes with a two full two year, warranty that includes all the heads the tool and the battery in the charger Comes in a very nice case, you keep everything in one place, so you won't lose it.

So if you get a chance, take a look at navac tools. Hope you guys are having a great day hope you visit you sometime soon. Thank you. Thank you.

Hey. We are at the diversity tech here at ahr, expo with alliston, hey austin good morning good morning. What do you have for us today today? I would like to show you um our latest addition to the speedclean product family. We had a full line of bib kits from cassette bibs to a standard bib, but the feedback we received from our contractors was that they really wish they had something to protect the ceiling and the top of the mini split.

So over the past year we went to work developing a 360 bib kit. The kit comes with the lower frame like our previous kit, but also includes a full frame that goes to the back of the unit and allows you to get inside that mini split spray and not have to worry about doing any damage to the walls or getting Any splatter anywhere at speed clean. This is certainly the most innovative bib kit on the market today. So please come by and check it out.

Nice. Thank you! That's it! We are here with addie at ahr, expo 2022 in las vegas, and i'm pretty excited about this little uh booth tour and i'm we're with antonia and uh good morning good morning and so they're gon na talk with us about their products. Good morning, everyone and tony's going to take us through a basic overview of really what 80 is all about. Our goal is to counteract corrosion, so yeah, and so we we manufacture a range of products for testing cleaning and protecting boiler systems, chilled water systems and steam systems from corrosion, and so corrosion occurs.

Um as contaminants and er get into the system that then oxidizes and it causes magnetic particles to form in the system also known as magnetite. Now, what this does is it actually attaches to system pipe work, heat exchangers, ecms causes them to block overwork and crack um. Eventually, it can lead to boiler failures, and so we've got a three simple step solution to preventing corrosion in new systems and counteracting it in retrofit systems. So we've got cleaners that are designed to dislodge and lift magnetite and scale from system components, metal components allowing them to be easily flushed out of the system.

We then have this product here, which is the magna cleanse, and so this is designed to work with our magnetic filters, so you can hook it up to the valves and you can flush the system on a bypass sort of run um, and that means that you Only have to drain the system once at the end and all of the magnetite is captured on the magnet as the system is flushing. The water through you've got transparent hoses here, so you can actually see when the water is completely clean. This is our most popular residential filter um in north america. This is our pro 2 xp.

It comes with one inch compression and one one and a quarter inch mpt adapters. It has a flow rate of 21 um gpm. So it's perfect for boilers. Up to 300 000 btus um, these are actually 360 degree, isolation valves so to service the filter.

You would simply isolate the valves release. The pressure from the top inside here is the actual magnet, so the magnet is underneath the sleeve. The reason for this is simply for easier servicing and so the magnetite captures on here and when you take that out, you just take it over to a sink and rinse it off and you're good to go again. The beauty with this is that you can see inside all of the canister, so you know when it's completely clear of magnetite and scale, and then we've got inhibitors for the system as well.

So the final step is to protect the system, so the inhibitors um actually provide a courting on system components to prevent any future scale of magnetite buildup and it also balances ph. So it's got buffers in it that will prevent the water from becoming acidic or alkaline. Um, we also have testing products, so obviously the key first step to any of this process is testing the water quality and so diagnosing the problem finding out um what is actually wrong with that system um. So we have got some tools that test for magnetite that test for corrosion, and you can also test for inhibitor levels as well, um, so yeah.

Basically, our key message is counteract corrosion, with our three simple step process test clean protect and i will pass you off into doug. Thank you very much. Antonina yeah i'll give a basic overview on this demo rig here to explain what it is. Uh antonio, is addressing, and what we're trying to get out of the system we talk about magnetite.

Sometimes you call it sludge uh. Really. What it is is a it's a black iron oxide uh black iron oxide is magnetic uh, so the founder of the company chris 80 discovered uh the magnetic properties of this uh long ago and realized that we could get this black magnetite flowing through every system. Every system is susceptible to corrosion, so we can get it out of the system using a magnetic filter.

Antonio demonstrated how easy it is to service. We really pride ourselves on that. It has the contractor in mind at all times, um really. The goal is to protect the more expensive components so, instead of replacing a pump every you know a couple years or a few months, uh, it's a small investment to protect those uh more expensive components.

So it's really the principle that uh goes behind all of our designs and all of our products. We have everything from the residential products that antonio took you through all the way to our commercial products, which we're gon na find a way to get to right now. Come along with me sorry, mr roger: that's right: should i change my shoes and put a little cardigan on so this is really a demonstration of our entire commercial line. The largest of our commercial filters goes up to eight inch.

Again. We have service in mind, simple lifting ring. You can lift the rod uh to demagnetize the system. First, of course, you use isolation valves to shut it off, just like with the residential you lift the rod to demagnetize everything collected then is uh in the body here.

There's dream ports on the bottom, simply flush. The system return, the magnets into their home position continue flow uh. So again, that's the commercial line. Uh the next well, these are all commercial that is the magna clean commercial.

This is the drx again easy service in mind. A little more um flexibility with this unit because you can mount it vertically and horizontally. You want to come around here, i'll show you the servicing again very easy uh. Basically, these are clipped in when they're engaged.

So you simply unclip suspend the magnets. The nice thing about this - you don't actually have to take the magnets off similar to the commercial unit. There's other solutions out there, where you have to actually take the entire lid off with all the magnets uh, which you know can be a pain and and uh. It's extra effort, that's not needed in our solution.

So again, uh up here on the drx uh same thing: isolation valves, everybody here, there's a drain on the other side, but once you suspend the magnets uh every all the magnetite is captured is now suspended and you can drain it out of the system. Return. The magnets continue the flow you're on your way, uh drum roll. The big the big announcement here at uh ahr expo is the launch and release of our cmx filter.

This really completes our commercial line uh, because now we have dual filtration capability for both magnetic and non-magnetic material, because we have a cartridge filter added around the magnet, so just a quick overview. In fact, i can show you a little more detail on the cmx. What you see inside that cmx this is the cartridge filter i was talking about, so you can capture again non-magnetic free in addition to magnetic debris. These cartridge filters come in different micron levels to capture uh, different sizes of particles.

Most of the what we capture, you can't even see with the naked eye, um slides right off put that back here. This is uh. The cmx line is very adaptive. This is a clamshell magnetic jacket, it's very easy to put on and take off for servicing and that's the product.

We're excited to announce um, so you can find more about it on our website, which is www.adam.com, slash us and we're also on instagram um linkedin facebook um. So you can just search 88, north america or our instagram name is ada underscore n a so. If you follow us on there, you can keep updating. We do also have a newsletter sign up page on our website and we do send out a monthly newsletter with product spotlights blogs that we've written on corrosion, so yeah.

Please visit there and get signed up good afternoon. Everyone eric kaiser here from hvac from hr 2022 hvac school uh. We are live today at the crow con booth talking about a new company. That's coming to the united states from the uk and graham i'd like you to introduce your company a little bit.

Tell us what you guys are about absolutely so, i'm graham jarvin, i'm the managing director of pro con and pro corn, we're part of the halma group, huge company globally, so crow con we're based in the uk just south of oxford. We manufacture gas safety, equipment measuring toxic and flammable gases and we sell globally. So we've got a lot of um experience of that and we've got portable detectors, fixed detectors, engineer fixed systems, so we do a lot in the gas detection environment we've been doing it for over 50 years, so quite experienced and we're looking to move some of our Products and work with the our markets in the us - that's fantastic, yeah, so kind of excited. There's a couple products in here that i've already seen that i'm really excited to show you guys.

It's there's some neat stuff here, absolutely so anything else, or should we turn it over to the dominant because dom's our product specialist in hvac, to be able to take it through one of our products that we um, probably about a third of the market in the Uk um over 20 years experience with our um our hvac um flue gas analysis products. Oh yeah, i'm gon na go over here and nerd out with dom for a little bit. I'll, certainly learn something sounds good dom. What do you have for us today? Okay? So what we're really pushing here at ahr eric is the sprint pro combustion analyzer.

Okay, so we've got one here set up in an environment that maybe some of the contractors that that view the hvac school podcast might be familiar with yeah, so increasingly in the market. We're seeing the introduction of high efficiency appliances absolutely. This is a high efficiency boiler here from ideally high efficiency furnace, and these products cannot be installed um without a combustion analyzer. So something that might have been seen as an optional tool in the past is now seen as something mission, critical and without one in the tool bag.

Hvac contractors cannot perform certain functions. They cannot work with certain appliances so to really be able to offer value to their customers. We'd encourage all contractors to if they haven't got. One already get one of these tools.

You know they're very critical, even even on older appliances that aren't the high efficiency, where they're required, there's still a really really good idea, yeah exactly right. So what we've got here is the sprint process. If i just bring this into you, you can have a little luck. So we've been selling this for about four or five years in the uk and we're the market leader.

We've got about 35 market share in that territory, and we're really proud of that fact, and the reason we've done so well with that eric is because it's a pretty good product and i'd like to tell you a little bit about it, go for it. Okay, i'm excited to learn about this. There's some really cool stuff in here that i've already seen. Okay, so we've got some good stuff in here.

So, first of all, there's a few key sort of values. The first one is it's not just a combustion analyzer. It's a true multi-tool experience for the contractor, so they're getting efficiency and value. It's many tools in one.

So yes, it's a combustion. Analyzer we've got the probe here, we've got it in the flue and of course it does your combustion analysis, but it's also a manometer. So you've got your pressure terminals on the bottom here and you can do let by testing draft pressure testing differential pressure testing, there's a full suite of pressure testing functionality in there. What kind of range are you talking about on that pressure? I think you'll see about 2.1 millibars, okay, so it's quite a how about inch.

You know inches of water column. I can't convert that in my head. I can't either so i'd have to get back to you, okay, we might have to convert that and let everybody know so. We've got some that we'll have to convert and let them know you put that in on the bottom, like a little kicker.

So we've got a full suite of pressure measurement there. You've also then got a temperature, so you've got the terminals here. This one is connected to the probe, which would give you the temperature of the flue, but also you can you can use these and connect different, clamps and probes to do um differential pressure measurement. You could do a clamp on a flow and return pipe or something and yeah the difference.

Is there so just standard k-type standard, k-type, connector comfortable with any k-type probe? I do sell a selection of accessory probes, of course, for clamp liquid binder and things like that. But they will work with any k-type connector probe, so you've got that on there as well, very nice. The other thing that's a little bit unique with this one. Is it does gas leak detection? So it's got a built-in sniffer.

If i just grab this and come over so this is part of the kit as well connects into the side, and you now have flammable gas uh leak, detection very nice, so you've got an led light on the end there i think in the trade. Do you guys call them sniffers, perhaps yeah? Typically, we call it a gas sniffer or a flammable gas sniffer gas sniffer, that's built in as well. So you can use that to run it along your pipework or whatever, and if you have established there's a leak you can find it with this. So that's great as well.

Full color display on there, of course, which again when you're doing that gas leak detection. You know you get a bar graph on there. That shows you in you know, yellow through to red. So you get that visual indication very nice, strong, the leakage and again, when you're just doing flue gas tests.

If it's wrong it'll be red if it's not great. It'll be yellow, you know, so you do have color coding on there to make it really obvious. Are those um are those colors adjustable for various um levels, or is that all pre-set in it? It is preset, it's all pre-set. The idea is to make it simple.

Okay, especially if someone's not familiar with this device, it makes it a little bit easier to know that hold on that's red something's, not right. Okay, but they're, set at you know reasonable levels that cover most instances that they'll come across. How many gases will that handle? You know for typical flue gas detection, okay, so in flue gas detection as standard there's, we do six different models. Okay, they all have oxygen in there.

They all have co in there and they all calculate co2, so you're going to get coco2 and oxygen, no matter what model you choose. We do do a few kind of higher end models. They have no sensors in that. Allow you to do no no2 and nox from the hand sensor yep, which are very important in some models in some appliances, yeah exactly right and in some circumstances where air quality is a factor.

You know you want to get that no reading in there as well. So they're also accurate enough to do air quality readings with the nitrogen oxides and things like that exact sensors, that's good, and you can also get a dedicated co2 sensor now, when you do a flue gas test, it's calculated from the ratio of co 102. Okay, but there are instances where you might want to do an ambient room test, so one of the other features this product has is it can do ambient room testing, so you can set it to run for an hour or 15 minutes whatever. However long you want it to run for, and you set how often you want it to take a sample and it'll tell you the peak level and the average so it'll data log that, over at whatever period of time, to tell you how much co2 is in The room well, which is the co normally all co, yeah and all co.

The one that has a dedicated co2 sensor can do that as well. Oh, okay! So it's looking at all the levels in the room at all the time. Okay! Well, that's that's! Pretty useful! Yeah, you can see that so there's quite a few things in there. You've got a lot of sensor options.

You've got all these various tests, so it really is a true multi-tool. So that's one of the key values, the other things we've done is we've made it. We know that an engineer needs this tool. A contractor needs this tool to to operate to make money, so any downtime is not a good thing.

So the first thing is this is really robust. So obviously it's drop tested. It's impact tested it's made from the same material as motorcycle crash helmets, so it really can take a beating which, in some of the environments, the contactors work is a good thing. Well, yeah we're not easy on our tools.

Believe me, and when you're talking about spending a chunk of money on something like that, you want it to be durable, you want it to be durable. So it's very, very durable. If we look at this and the main cause of damage that you get on any combustion, analyzer is water, ingress right these flues there's a lot of noxious gas in there moisture is a by-product of the combustion process. You know, and it's in there and you're sucking this into the device via a pump, so you are going to suck in some level of condensation yeah it happens.

We don't want that in our sense. We don't want that in our senses. If it goes in our senses, they're toast right exactly and that's down time while you get them fixed, so we've really got to double down on stopping any water ingress. If this is going to have longevity and if it's going to work well for the contractor.

So what we've done here is we caught with what we call our triple filter, hydrophobic protection system, so what we've got in here is first of all, the the water trap is big. It's again impact resistant, so it won't crack if it gets knocked around on things. It's not going to crack or break those impact resistance. It's in your eye line, so when you're actually using the device, you can see it.

You know there are other devices out there, where you can't see this it's hidden in a handle, it's hidden in the device. You need to consciously make the effort to see what's in there ours, it's really apparent if anything's going on in there you've got a dust filter in there. You've got a three micron filter in there as well. So that's a specific hydrophobic filter, that's tailored to not let water through and that's a three micron, so really fine holes on there that allow the gas to flow, but not the water and then at the point where it joins the device.

Here. Our positive click connector. You've got an extra filter in there as well, so there's three stages of filtration and we've got intelligent algorithms that detect the flow rate of the pump. So if this does fill with water, you don't notice, you don't empty it if it does eventually overcome the filters.

This will detect a change in flow rate and what it'll do is it'll shut off the pump it'll beep up a bright orange warning on the screen. Saying blockage detected check your water trap and filters. So since we've launched this new model, we haven't had a single model returned to us with water ingress damage. That's a big thing.

I mean as someone who's done. A lot of combustion analysis. I've destroyed sensors before in water. So i i really like that feature in there.

I really love this connection on the back of the pump too, where that that's a positive connection in here, so it's not just a hose sliding onto a barb like it's, it's not going to come off of there. So you can pull on that and it stays in there really well you're exactly right in that. We designed this because one of the feedback we had from the market was contractors were telling us that you know over time the you lose elasticity in that rubber and, if you're just using a basic spigot, then it's going on and off all the time it gets To the point where it won't stay on, it's slipping off. It might not be fully on properly and you're getting a little bit of extra air in there, which will distort your readings or if it falls off halfway through the test.

Yeah you've got to start again right. You've just wasted your time, and you know time is money. I guess to your guys. You know they want to be efficient, something like that something like that yeah.

So this ensures that you get that really true positive connection. It's perfect connection, every time you're not going to have those issues. So what about battery life? On this, it looks like it's a rechargeable battery to me. It is it's a rechargeable battery, so you don't have to take separate batteries and have the hassle of swapping that fully rechargeable.

It uses usbc. So it's an up-to-date charging connector that's readily available. Obviously we supply charger in the box, but if you, if you're caught short, it's not hard to come across, one of these usbc type charges yeah easy to find that in the market today, it's a big capacity battery we've actually got a very high capacity. Um brain freeze isn't telling me the exact capacity, but i know that when we did the analysis, we do have more compatib more capacity than all of the other analyzers out there.

So we've got a really big, so you've got a significant amount of runtime on this. Very, very, very much so right because that's that's a pain to get halfway into a test and all of a sudden, the battery's dead. That's right! It's also bluetooth. Okay, so you've got numerous ways to get your data off of this device.

You can store between 500 and 1000 reports in the memory of the device itself. Okay, you can recall them in that memory and obviously handwrite your certificate. If that's how the contractor operates or you can send it via infrared to our printer, so send it to this and it'll print the report out. So that's another way of getting the data off yep or you can turn on bluetooth and send it into our mobile app.

We've got an app on ios. We've got an app on android if you send it across to that you're able to add your company logo. You're able to add your company address all that kind of stuff. You can use the touch screen to add a handwritten signature and then you can store email or pdf those reports, whatever you want to do, and finally, you can use that usbc connection not just to charge, but it's also a data port.

So you can connect to a laptop and on that laptop you can again transfer your data over and you can um add the header everything you put in the app you can also do on the pc, so pc, app bluetooth print or just the memory of the Device itself, so i think we're using all kinds of different ways to get that data. We've covered a lot of bases, eric yeah. You know we've had to do our best, though absolutely well, i mean the device yeah. Now i think you've got some other stuff over here, you're going to show us that i, this is another really big feature guys that i'm i'm really interested in this analyzer here because of this next piece: okay, okay! So what i'd like to show you here? I guess we can talk about the orange bits.

First, we do have some portable gas detection here, just as a slight offshoot, so these are portable monitors that would be clipped onto a belt or a shirt pocket or or whatever you want to do and what they do is they're, just they're, just detecting gas. That's in your surrounding and they are a personal protection device. So this one, for example, has a it's a single gas unit and you've got a carbon monoxide sensor in there. So, if you are a contractor, i strongly recommend you have one of these.

You are working in environments, you're, working in basements, you're working in plant rooms. They often don't have great ventilation. If the appliance is kicking out some co or there's a leak, it will build up in that area and you might not know it because it's odorless, you can't taste it. You can't smell it.

You don't know you just get very ill very quickly, correct from personal experience. I've had these go off in places where i've walked into anybody. Who's working around a combustion appliance should be wearing a personal monitoring device. You really should even in hotel rooms, i've had them go off in automobiles.

I carry one on myself all the time. A lot of you may have seen me walking around with a backpack here in the in the show, and i've got a little orange detector very similar to that that hangs on my backpack right now. It's setting over at the booth, but i carry it a lot of places yeah, so we we of course, as a safety brand, have these and we do multiple gas detects as well, so a bit bigger, but these ones have multiple sensors. So again, you've got the carbon monoxide but you're, looking at h2s, flammable gas, and this is our gas pro it's a pumped unit, so you can take samples from do pre-entry checks.

You know if you're in a manhole or something you can put a pump down there and you can get that pre-entry check going before you go into the space to make sure that it's safe yeah. So we've got a range of stuff like that which we would highly recommend if someone is working in a confined space yeah. So let's go on to the main event then oh, this is this: is a game changer right here yeah. In my opinion, we're really proud of this one eric so with combustion, analyzers, something they have to be calibrated each year.

The sensors in them do degrade over time. There's numerous factors as to why sometimes it's um, how often they're used sometimes it's how much of a beating they take. You know how much co has passed over them, but even if you never used it over that year, just with the uh they do react. The electrolyte is consumed or dries out, and they do lose sensitivity over time.

So each year they have to be calibrated right because they're an electrochemical sensor. They they they go bad. It's gon na happen. It happens.

It's it's not one of these. If you don't use it, it won't happen. Even if you don't use it, it happens because it reacts with the air right, so it will degrade. It does need to be calibrated each year to be accurate.

If you don't calibrate, it's not accurate, then you may well be liable if something goes wrong. So it's really important to do that now. The calibration process traditionally is quite complicated. It's something that you need an engineer, a contractor.

They will have to send it off somewhere to be calibrated right. Normally, they have to send it to the manufacturer or a third party to get it calibrated manufacturer or third-party to get it calibrated. So you're not going to have that device in your hand and you're not going to be able to use it for a week, two weeks and extreme cases six to eight weeks, so you could be without it for quite some time. Yeah that manufacturer performs its calibration process and gets it back to you.

We've developed something that we call the autocal jig. So this is a really clever bit of engineering that effectively automates that process and makes it much more streamlined and much quicker. So your gas is connected to it. Your device is connected to it virus umbilical and you connect it to a pc which drives the process at the click of a button.

It will run it fully automated fashion. It does it in about five to seven minutes, depending on how many sensors the device has. It takes minimal interaction from the engineer performing the process and then at the end, you realize, if you've passed or failed. If you've passed happy days off, you go.

If you failed, it might need a sensor swap or something, and then you do it again. So we've made the process easy, but what we're doing is we're allowing we're allowing these automatic calibration jigs to be installed with our partners, our suppliers, so we've got them our kentucky hq, but we've also got them out there in the field right so they're, local to Engineers, so, rather than sending that back say if your distributor has this at their location, you can walk in there plug this in 20 minutes later you're out the door down the road with a new certificate. In your hand, it's exactly right. So what you can do now, that's a game changer, it's very different, yeah, we're quite pleased with what we're doing here.

We we're trying to disrupt the market a little bit we're trying to make the lives of contractors easier. We want the device in their hands as much as possible, so the idea here is exactly that. If you bought this from a distributor local to you, you can go back to the distributor and they'll either have one on site which you could use there and then or if they don't, that they'll have one in their distribution center. So you hand it over to them they'll, send it there.

It's calibrated the next day, you'll, have it back within a couple of days nice. So it's either same day or a couple of days, depending on how local you are to the j. So could a large contractor even purchase one of these and put that in their uh facility as well, if they have enough analyzers in their fleet? Yes, yeah, okay, so there you go big contractor and you've got a lot of these units. Then yeah come and talk to us and yeah.

We could get one of these installed, so they'd be able to run it themselves. That's and we do that in other territories. Yeah, that's pretty fantastic! I'm really impressed with that feature right there. That's right and the final thing i wanted to just just talk to you about just a couple couple of other new things that are coming up in the future.

So probably not the best thing we're extending our range so coming soon. We've got three pressure meters that we're going to be launching, so these are standalone. Manometers we've got an entry level one here. We've got a step up, one that has the same button configuration as the sprint pro.

It has the same menu structure as the sprint pro, and this is also bluetooth and infrared, so it will send those pressure reports into the app like the split pro does. It will also send it to the printer, like the sprint pro does, and then we've got an industrial version with a higher range sensor and it's also got industrial connectors got some flow rate measuring cups. We've got some standalone gas sniffing devices and we've got an ambient co2 detector, so we've got a range of other devices that are coming soon. We're also launching very finally we're also going to be launching a range of accessories for the sprint pro itself.