combustion analyzers

J.C.A._3

Take a day and go to Timmies class. It is well worth the expense and time, trust me.

I have gone down to R.I. from the North Shore for a few of them and I consider it time well spent.(Fourtunately, my boss does too!) Chris

Mitch_5

combustion analyzers

I am a remodle and service plumber doing mostly natural gas boilers and water heaters (a little oil too). I have an old Bacharach single gas analyzer for co2. I have been thinking of taking the plunge to the electronic Fyrite Pro 125, anyone have any experiance with this device and is it worth it for an occasional user?

Mitch

Jim Davis_3

Fyrite Pro 125

The Bacharach units are great but the #125 is over kill. The model #120 is a better investment. The pressure gauge in the 125 is costing $174 extra and it isn't that accurate.
TSI makes a unit that is priced about the same and it can read CO up to 10,000ppm which means the CO sensor will last longer. Doesn't need to be sent to the factory or calibrated when you change the sensors. Testo is also good but has a slow response time. Just had a situation where one of our own employees was testing a roof top with a Bacharach and said it was producing 1600ppm of CO. That's all the higher the analyzer could read. Based on his Oxygen reading of .7%(less than 1%) the CO had to be over 10,000ppm. The difference is he could have been unconscious in less than 5 minutes at 10,000ppm, but fortunately I was on the phone with him at the time and made him turn off the unit immediately.

Unknown

Mitch, I agree with Jim

in his posting. I do not know if he has tried the TESTO 330-1. I have not tried it but several people who have say it is very user friendly and more accurate than older Testo products. It also they tell me is giving you a faster and more accurate response on CO than older meters.

I am looking to get hold of one to try out in the very near future.

Mitch it is probably a good idea to get to one of Jim's classes or mine in the near future to get some good tips on safe and proper testing. If not those classes then Bacharach classes are also great.

Mitch_5

Jim & Tim

I have been looking into training cources with both of your outfits, I am from the Southern Boston area which makes it hard to get to Riverside RI on time (want to take the Ignition System courses ? do they cover co issues do you go on the road).

Also have not seen any National Comfort seminars in my area for a while, when I found the web site initialy there was a Boston course offered only the next week but no one responded to my E mail on were in Boston it was being held.

My main intrest in training is co testing and setting up boilers / furnaces for proper opperation aftere repairs like gas valve changes. I am a master plumber with over 20 years experiance have taken the Peterson Oil & HVAC courses but non realy covered repairs and co well on gas, the Oil did cover combustion testing on oil extreamly well.

I would think this is an issue we could get more and local training on.

Thanks For the input.

Mitch,

Unknown

Mitch, I sent you an e-mail

about our training. We have been doing courses here in New England since 1994 as Gas Training Institute and before that with Providence Gas Company. If you can give me your postal mailing address I will put you on our mailing list.