Looking for CO meter recommendations

Dingo

Looking for a recommendation for good accurate CO meters. Durablilty a plus! I want them on all our service vans.

Thanks!

Rudy

Bacharach instruments

Hi Dingo, if you have any questions about the Bacharach line of CO test instruments, please feel free to give me a call (740-594-0033) or email.

We also have a bunch of CO and combustion testing info on our application website: www.bacharach-training.com .

You might also want to consider a full combustion test instrument, many times knowing the O2/CO2 reading can help troubleshoot a CO problem.

I'd look forward to hearing from you, rudy

Firedragon_4

Check out Testo, they also make

both seperate testers and single units. The top-of-the line is awesome.

http://www.testo350.com/about350.html

Mark Hunt

I use


Bacharach Fyrite pro's.

If you haven't already, it is most important to get trained on how to use test equipment and how to understand what the equipment is telling you.

You may have already done this, not trying to insult, but it is VERY important.

It's amazing what you will see when you test!

Mark H

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Robert O'Connor_6

How

often should a Fyrite Pro 125 CO sensor be calibrated or checked for accuracy?

Jim Davis

CO meters & Cal

Mark and Rudy are correct in the fact that before you make a decision you should check out all the things that can be accomplished with a complete combustion analyzer through training that is available, either Bacharach or NCI. Too many students are disappointed when they find out their CO only meters can't give them all the information they need to accompish the job.
Robert-Although most manufacturers recommend every six months there are many ways to check them yourselves. Having worked with them for 25 years, repairs and calibration, most units do not drift more than 10% in the first year or two. Accuracy is more in the user and the interpretations of the readings as long as the meter is verified to work.

Mad Dog

Me too same model

actually got a second one, in case one goes down or goes out for service to Rudy. I understand testo is also very good. Mad Dog

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Rudy

CO sensor calibration

The manufacturer of the sensor recommends every 6 months. However, I've calibrated hundreds of them and my own personal opinion is once a year is sufficient unless the sensor really gets hammered (several times) or the instrument is used by emergency response folks.

Another option with the Pro is to calibrated it youself - it was designed to be very easy to do.

It is alot less expensive and much more convenient to do it yourself, particularly if you have more than one instrument.

The calibration proceedure is on the training website if you would like to take a look: http://www.bacharach-training.com/Calibration/fp/calibration.htm

A cal kit is around $250, tanks of cal gas are about $100. You will probably get somewhere between 20 and 30 calibrations out of a tank of gas. I use and recommend the 100 ppm range gas.


Another advantage to having a cal kit is that if there is any question as to the accuracy of the reading, you can very quickly verify it.

Any questions, get it touch, rudy

gerry gill

i vote for bacharach also

i have the fyrite pro, and love it...i've found many problems with installations that i would never have noticed..its made me so aware of non-visual problems that i test my new water heater installs too, cause i trust nothing anymore..other plumbers think i'm goofy, but thats because they just dont know..i brought up testing at a recent master plumbers meeting,,geez,,guess i was the only one testing..i think they thought i was a nucklehead..thats okay..i'm a nucklehead with a meter then...

Glenn Harrison_2

Have to go with Bacharach

I've got a Bacharach Monoxor II since '95, still has the original CO sensor. Get it calibrated once a year and change the string filter regularly, and take it inside when it's cold out. Keeps running like a champ.

I will agree with every one else that you really should consider a full function combustion analyzer, which will tell you far more than a simple CO detector will.

Rudy

Like Nucklehead says

Sorry Gerry, just couldn't resist .

Gerry makes a very important point. If you are not testing, you're leaving money on the table!! Alot of problems just simply cannot be found without CO and combustion testing.

I was up in Grand Rapids, MI last week working with a company who recently purchased additional test instruments for each crew - they are required to test everything they see.

Got to talking with the service manager who showed me the bill for a recent job. Told me that 800 ppm on the original furnace made them $3700.

I'm certainly not implying that CO testing be used to scam customers, just that in addition to being a liability issue, it is an investment that has the potential for a tremendous return.

They are also going to be on the local news. There was a recent CO poisoning where the homeowner had a CO alarm (another issue) and it never went off.....

Talk about great advertising for your company. Not to mention the fact that those guys are saving lives and injuries by helping to get the word out about the problems with the current UL2034 home alarm standards.

JMHO

Dingo

CO tester

THanks all. We currently do have the Firyte 125 ...
The input, as always, was great.

Thanks so much

Dingo