Smells Worse than it Looks

[@tomasnewson6744]

New Fgas regs start in a few days now… I’m gonna be doing more retrofitting of refrigerants from now on too… have a good Xmas 👍🏻

[@heavydiesel]

Yeah, I need to read up on the new regs, been told any new milk tanks I sell will be on R454A which is flammable like R32.....

[@tomasnewson6744]

@ I’ve recently had to bone up on it for my workplace …. The Carel breakdown of it seems to be the easiest to digest. mn.newsletter.carel.com/nl/res/2109/shared/0/files/carel_refrigerant_scenario_2024_whitepaper_eng.pdf

[@Thermoelectric7]

@@tomasnewson6744 it's funny seeing how far ahead you guys are over the pond. We're still installing equipment on 404A in Aus. I think this year it's finally going to start getting more expensive than 448/449

[@tomasnewson6744]

@@Thermoelectric7 404a over here has been cracked down on for a while now.. you’re not allowed to charge virgin 404a into a system larger than 10kg ish ( 40t co2 equivalent ) .. It keeps things interesting, but can’t help but feel like it’s a waste of time when China are boiling whales and blasting r22 at dolphins 😄 Seen some new daikin chillers coming with 1234ze . Seems to run similar pressures to 134a

[@Thermoelectric7]

The Appion core depressors and core removal tools are pretty solid, would recommend giving them a shot! Edit: ah I see you're all over it, commented too early haha

[@heavydiesel]

Yeah I've got some, need to put one in my gauges tool bag so I have it when I need it.

[@SeanBZA]

That same bottle of gas is 54 GBP by me...... 10kg bottle. R22 is 100 GBP as well, I can still buy it.

[@heavydiesel]

Last bottle of R404A I got was £1000.17 for 12kg!

[@SeanBZA]

Looks like it is more leak than intact joins and parts.

[@heavydiesel]

You're not wrong!

[@FrontSideBus]

£1k for a bottle of gas! How much is a new unit lol.

[@heavydiesel]

Thats what they want us to do, fit new stuff thats on a different gas by pricing the old stuff out of the market. I converted this to R449A which is about half the price per kg, but I think that is getting banned for new systems soon too!

[@OcRefrig]

That was a Late one. Got dark on you.

[@heavydiesel]

Yeah, I think it was the shortest day here so only eight hours daylight.