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combustion testing equipment

Paul@P.C.
Paul@P.C. Member Posts: 2
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What is a good combustion tester for oil and gas for residential purposes.

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  • Paul@P.C.
    Paul@P.C. Member Posts: 2
    combustion testing equipment

    What is a good combustion tester for oil and gas for residential purposes.
  • gerry gill
    gerry gill Member Posts: 3,078
    i use a bacharach

    the bacharach fyrite pro is what i use, and i love it..one of the guys i work with uses a bacharach tech60 and he likes it well.
    gwgillplumbingandheating.com
    Serving Cleveland's eastern suburbs from Cleveland Heights down to Cuyahoga Falls.

  • Dave_38
    Dave_38 Member Posts: 8
    combustion analysers

    The Bacharach Tech 60 is an excellent unit for the money, we have also recently purchased an Einstruments BTU-1000-2 and would not recomend this to anyone. The thing is huge, cumbersome, and slowerer than a Yugo. It is also calibrated to some standard that no one has ever heard of, the built in printer is not, it is an expensive option and if it works as poorly as the rest of the unit would not be worth throwing at the neighbors cat.
  • Ken D.
    Ken D. Member Posts: 836
    Combustion

    We use the Bacharach PCA 25 with excellent results. It has a printing feature for a permanent record. Tracks readings in real time. Much more accurate and faster. Still keep the CO2 and O2 bottles with smoke gun and draft gauge for back up.
  • tommyoil
    tommyoil Member Posts: 612
    Nowadays,

    Would it be considered poor practice to use only a wet kit? I'm trying to get my employer(w/approx 15,000 accounts) to spring for ONE analyzer. His excuse is this, "if I get one for you, I'll have to get one for everyone"(30 or so techs). These guys (other techs) dont even use the wet kits, nevermind an analyzer. For the most part its nozzle, filter, out the door. For the most part they just copy the results from the year before with the exception of about 5 or 6 of us. Sad but true. How can I convince him to move forward to this century? I'm trying to take my work to the next level with no luck or help from a multi million dollar company. I asked as recently as today for clearance to buy one. Was told to "quit whining" and use what everyone else has been using for years.As he told me "its the industry standard". Its quite frustrating. It was more important to him to buy a line painting machine for the parking lot than it is to supply his tech(s) with 21'st century equipment.
  • lchmb
    lchmb Member Posts: 2,997
    just a thought

    But why not tell him it could be used for the trouble boilers? It may help to solve some of his call back nightmares. That and when you consider the cost of a wet kit it's not really that much more.
    Good luck to ya....
    Another thought is buy it yourself and if he ever mention's borrowing it, rent it to him...LOL :)
  • Ken C.
    Ken C. Member Posts: 267
    If I were in your shoes....

    ... I'd look for another job, maybe with a smaller company more concerned about quality. Supposedly, there's a shortage of oil techs, so you should have no trouble finding a more conscientious employer. I'm a plumber who works for a company that also sells and services oil. I've been trained to work on oil boilers for annual cleanings/servicing, and can do combustion testing. My company has invested in not one, but three Bacharach Fyrite Pros, and we've only got 15 employees (of those 15, only five work on oil). I don't know much about oil, but it's saddening to hear that the majority of your co-workers consider annual servicing of oil boilers to be just a filter and nozzle change. But I'm sure there's a lot more of that going on in other companies too.
  • Mark Hunt
    Mark Hunt Member Posts: 4,908
    Tommy


    I've been in your shoes. No easy answer here.

    It is impossible to do a complete combustion analysis if you only test one inert gas. CO2 is a small part of the picture.

    Fight like hell for "modern equipment".

    BTW, Did any of you know that the original wet kit is in the Smithsonian?

    It is so important that we understand what happens when we set something on fire.

    Mark H

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  • Mark Hunt
    Mark Hunt Member Posts: 4,908
    I've looked at most of them and.......................


    Bacharach is hands down the best analyzer avaialble.

    Testo is ok, but the Germans only test steady state. The Testo models cannot see spikes, because they can't.

    Germans do not like spikes.

    More important, learn how to understand what the analyzer is saying.

    There is so much more to what we do than "setting it on fire". We all need to know how to CONTROL the fire.

    E-mail me for more info if you like.

    Mark H

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  • Rudy
    Rudy Member Posts: 482
    hey mark

    It's amazing the response you get when you tell the mother or father of a family about neglect of a piece of equiptment in the cellar that breathes fire!!!!! I have kids of my own, and I feel a whole lot better when I know I have done everything in my power to check out the equiptment and verifiy(sp) that it is safe and operating at peak efficiency. btw I'm still waiting for my beer!!!!!!!!!
    Apple valley AL!!
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