Until today, most of car’s air conditioner units still use Freon mechanism to cool the air temperature inside the car. And during the hottest months, getting low on Freon is one of the frequently problems that should be anticipated as well. It can be caused some factors but the most dominated factor is refrigerant Freon leak car. The leaking could come literally any-location in the ac system like in accumulator and tubing! The leaking not only can decrease the performance of the air conditioner system but also can bring the risk into your car. Therefore, the leaking or even small leaks must be concerned and repaired properly as soon as possible!

Finding and seeking the Freon leaks in car’s air conditioning usually is going to a time consuming and tedious, particularly if you choose to use the manually procedure. There are several methods (by using refrigerant leak detectors) to make it can be finished not too difficultly and more quickly. Most of those methods involve handy equipments that can be used with a relatively simple exercise! Which one is recommended? Well, basically choosing the best one of them is dependent on the situation like the car’s ac system mechanism type, your ability (beginner or professional) that usually is related to the level of difficulty of the method to choose, the situation of work area, etc. Three kinds of most generally used are; (1) ultrasonic detector, (2) ultraviolet dye detector, and (3) electronic refrigerant leaks detector.

Refrigerant leaks detector that use ultrasonic technology

The sound usually will be produced when Freon escaping from the system. Ultrasonic Freon leak detectors are the newest technology which capable to detect the leaking by using the principle of sound detection. Therefore, getting the quickly result then better you should make the refrigerant to leak out and produce loud noise by pressuring the system and make sure the work’s environment is not noisy. Unfortunately, keeping the work area free of loud noise is not simple effort. It can not be realized easily especially if you have work area in the big city. Therefore, it is big downside of using ultrasonic models that make them cannot be found easily in auto-shops until today.

Ultraviolet dye Freon leak detectors

This second method will inject the ultraviolet dye into air conditioning system. This mechanism is more technically knotty. But overall, this method is better than other because it can detect the leaks quickly and more accurately particularly if we compare to the first method.

Electronic detectors

Many people and experts have the same opinion that this third method is the most popular than other methods which can be used easiest and promise quickest performance. Some of them also are already equipped with the audible alarm feature that will give sound signal once finding the Freon leak.

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