Moderator Bert is back at the 5th Annual HVAC/R Training Symposium, this time speaking with Mark Hucko from Inficon at their popular booth. Inficon is showcasing their impressive line of leak detectors that technicians have relied on for precision and accuracy.
Mark provides an overview of their variety of leak detectors for different applications and gases. He demonstrates their infrared refrigerant leak detectors that can not only detect leaks but also quantify the leakage amount in parts per million. This allows technicians to hone in on the exact location of leaks very quickly. Mark also shows how the detectors can be switched between different sensor types to test for various refrigerant gases.
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All right guys, we're back over here at Inficon and uh, everybody's favorite. Tool The Leak Detectors that you guys produce. Amazing! Precision Super helpful so take it away again. Mark Tell us what you got! Yeah! So from a a leak detector standpoint, we really have multiple.

Leak Detectors for all different applications. different gases. I'll start over here on the right. We've got our gas made is a combustible gas leak detector.

The nice thing about this is certified intrinsically safe via Met. Labs Okay, Um, so all the electronics here are um, are sealed and contained. Not going to create a spark. We have an ultrasonic leak detector, so obviously it's not gas specific, but it's going to detect anything that's under pressure or vacuum.

Any gas that's under pressure or vacuum and you're going to hear those sound waves that a a leaking gas would would make wait. So you put the headphones on. Yeah, so you would put the headphones on and you actually can hear chasing the sound? Exactly Okay, that's Sci-fi Stu Exactly. Yep.

And then these three here. these are our refrigerant Leak Detectors and we really have a good better best selection. Our Tech mate that we've been selling for a really long time uses a heated diode sensor powered by that's been my best friend for years. Yeah, a lot of people's best friends for sure.

Yep. and then when we move into here we have our infrared Leak Detectors and we have our DTE 3 and the Big Brother which is Detex Stratus. And the nice thing about the DC Stratus is it's not just like identifying that refrigerant is in your background, but it's quantifying Mhm quantifying how much refrigerant is in your background with parts per million. Yeah, and the nice thing about this is you know with the parts per million I always say this is now your navigation.

If you are leak checking in a large area, you're now just looking at a number and you're watching the number higher the number closer you are to your leak source. so it's going to dramatically decrease the amount of time that someone is leak checking. Walk you walk around the building hotter, colder, hot colder I mean Exactly. Yep, exactly.

So we always love doing this demonstration and we like to always say Okay Picture this as like your mechanical room right? If you're in Market Refrigeration you're going to be le checking there. Okay, so as you walk into that mechanical room, you immediately start detecting refrigerant. Yeah, right. And then obviously as you get closer that number is going to increase.

Okay, yeah, but what I really want you to see is as we move away how quick it is to respond to tell me as the technician that I'm going away from my leak. Oh wow, right? So I got to go. So we have like right here we have different compartments and then our leak in the third compartment and so as he steps that's right, I mean that's so quick. So now as I'm getting closer my leak I'm right.

on top of it. I should get my highest reading and that's going to tell me as the as the technician that I am right on top of my leak. I should be seeing signs of of a leak. That is fast.
It's very fast, very efficient. The other nice thing about our leak detector is we also have different modes. This is what we call pinpoint mode or Auto zero mode. So this is going to be used when you are leak checking.

let's say on a coil or even on a a braze. it's not working. There we go. So as you as you go across that leak you're going to start seeing and you can pinpoint right down to where it is which is the more traditional.

Like uh exactly. Yep and the nice thing about it, this does Auto zero. So if you do go into that same room, if I leave it here, it's going to zero to that background and it's not going to go off on anything less, only on something more. Got it? Okay, okay so you walk into a tight area where there is a heavy condensed leak Auto Zero.

Let you get closer and closer and closer. Correct? Yep, it's so you would. You would walk in, you would leave it right there. Yeah, nothing less, only only something more.

Yeah. And then we have what we call manual Zero which kind of says exactly what it is. I've walk into that same room, you start detecting that it's going to stay there until I say zero. Okay, that's your new base Point that's my new base Point Okay, nothing less I like that, only something more.

The manual I Like that. Yep, nice. And then the other nice thing about these, uh, the series of Leak Detectors is the ability to Interchange the sensors based on the gas. Okay, okay, so we have three different sensors to choose from.

The metallic one is your traditional refrigerant leak detect leak. uh sensor, right? your infrared sensor. So Hfc's Hcfcs the new Hfos A2l. these are A2l approved by the way, so you're good there.

But if I was in Market refrigeration and you know you needed a CO2 leak detector, all you're doing now is you're just interchanging the sensor, just taking the sensor out out. Added in my CO2 leak detector CO2 sensor and you're good to go right now. I have a CO2 leak detector and you do the same thing here. So I have a a red one here for your flammables r290 r600 so one leak detector for all gas.

All applications. Awesome! Wow, Cool. Well thanks for displaying that I'm sure you get a lot of traffic over here cuz this is a popular tool so hope you guys got a little piece of action that you're missing not being here. And uh, next time, get in line a little quicker and you can actually get to talk to Mark See the tool yourself? so right on right on.

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6 thoughts on “Everybody’s favorite tool at the inficon booth”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars @realSamAndrew says:

    "Everybody's favorite". Quite an assumption.

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  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars @mikedockman8463 says:

    Dtek 3 is awesome, so far no issues

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars @user-dx1qe3vt7l says:

    Are their refrigerent leak detectors good. I just Got one. Haven't used it yet. I'm Used to using the fieldpiece one. Are you in Kanata ?

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars @Fred-zt6gf says:

    I have the gas detector and can genuinely say it’s made very cheaply, and will trip when there’s no gas present. If you’re fingers or anything is relatively close to the tip it will give a false positive, if you move it semi abruptly it will give a false positive. This occurs on every single model they have. It will also trips on low amounts of residual gas when retesting an area giving false positives. Lastly to put batteries in this tool you have to snap the whole assembly apart which I swear to god is designed to actually break the tool after a few battery swaps to make you buy another one. Once it’s open it’s incredibly cheap looking and feeling.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars @justinkozel9639 says:

    I do supermarket maintenance and the Stratus is an absolute life saver. The sensitivity is top notch and saves so much time and headache. The portability is helpful as well.

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars @hvacslayer2929 says:

    Did HVAC GUY show up to the booth with a hammer? 🔨

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