okay we got the sweet hum of these dan
foss scroll compressors going in the
background
and what we're going to do in this video
is review the elitech
ir 200 infrared and heated diode
refrigerant leak detector it's two
sensors in one we're gonna get this done
right now guys
okay so i've taken the cap off of this
so you guys can see the filter inside
all right there's a filter in there
which filters out any debris from
getting
into the unit there's spare filters in
this little bag right here
and this gets easily screwed back on
just like that okay an accessory that it
comes with is very cool
is a dual flashlight it's a uv
and led light that sticks onto
the gooseneck like that and then you can
turn the light on and it shines on
the area that you're leak checking i
thought that's a very cool feature now
this is a
chargeable device okay it's not
uh battery powered like you don't switch
up batteries you actually
charge it up and we have a usbc
charging cord and the cable right here
and then we also have
a spare gooseneck just in case
right here curiosity got the best of me
here
i took this little panel off because it
had a screw in it and i'm like
i wonder what's under there obviously
batteries lithium batteries can be
removed and changed
if needed okay we look at the back here
here's the refrigerants that the
detector is good for right here
okay now the sensitivity level we can
change that high medium low
and 4g slash a means four grams
of refrigerant per annual basis
so on high we can find leaks up to four
grams
annually leak rate okay so that's pretty
cool and then we have the medium and low
settings
it's all changed from the interface on
the front of the detector
okay guys what i've done here is zoom in
on the interface this is the
infrared interface okay now we have that
beep
the audible buzzer is on or the beeping
is on we can mute that
very easily with the mute button right
here so that's gone if we're working in
a
sensitive noise area we can shut that
right off
our sensitivity is on low as you can see
right there we want to change that
all we got to do is go to this reset
sensitivity button
we can go to high and go to medium and
we can go
back to low now what i found is in high
it's very very sensitive and it needs to
be kept out of the wind and stuff like
that because it can go off
so if you're on high be sure that you're
not in a windy area
or you have air blowing across it
because it could actually set it off
medium and low i find it doesn't do that
just so you guys are aware okay
the peak is off right now but we can
turn the peak pecan now what that
does is if we have a leak and this rises
to the top and then
falls back when we move the detector
away
the peak will show right here right in
this area here if we turn it on
with the peak off it won't show
whatsoever
okay so continuing on we're going to
change up the mode on this
this is in now heated diode mode this is
the heated diode interface
here the first thing that you want to do
here guys is you want to take this out
into the open air
and hit the reset button in heated diode
mode this is a reset button
and infrared mode it's a sensitivity
button you want to take it out in the
open air
and reset it now you have 0 0 0 across
here when we
when we hit a leak depending on the
concentration the number gets higher
this is an inherent value it's not in
ppm
so basically if you hit a really high
number it's a really high leak
if you hit a really low number it's a
really low leak
and what you can do in this specific
case is you can hit the peak button
okay it's zero down here in section a
because we're at zero
but let's say we hit a really big leak
and we get up to
about 900 we hit the peak there and it
will log that 900 right there
and this is good for different locations
of possibly you walk into a
a mechanical room that has a rack system
and you're walking by a location with a
high peak
you can hit the peak button and save it
there so you know
what the peak was in that area as you
walk by
i think there's some value in having
that in the leak detector so let's go
see if we can
find some leaks okay so i've pulled the
cap
off of this valve core okay
and the gooseneck is very flexible on
this
so we can get it into strange places
so if i try to get this into here
that's not a problem
let's see we can register anything on
this which we are not at the moment so
that is actually not leaking
okay so i'm going to take the cap off of
this core right here
and we're going to check at this one
now we got something there okay we're
getting something right there
at that specific spot just for a split
second
so we got something at that specific
core and the value there
was 153 when it got to its peak as i was
checking
i hit this peak button and it saved it
right there
okay so same fitting and we have
changed this over to the infrared mode
sensitivity is on high and the peak is
on so let's see
kind of reading we get this time
so we're picking up a leak on this mode
as well
and we can see that our sensitivity is
on high and our peak has gone all the
way up to the left-hand side
and the actual measurement has dropped
back down to zero so we have verified on
two different modes
there is a leak at that core so we're
gonna have to replace it
all right guys one thing worth
mentioning is the dense foam on the
bottom of the case
the soft foam on the top of the case
gonna keep the tool well protected
okay we know how to mute this thing we
know how to use the peak we've gone
through both modes
okay and we've seen a leak in the exact
same spot all right just make sure when
you go from
infrared to heated diode that you hit
this
reset button in open air to reset that
sensor
back to zero because it's going to help
you with your readings going forward but
that's it guys
this is the elitech ir200 happy hvacing
