I'm looking for good mano

[JohnnyB]

Has anyone used this brand before? I'm looking for a mano for testing airflow in ducts pressure drops and such. http://www.hvactool.com/catalog.phtml?hcategory=15&hsubcat=65&hpagenum=12&hproductid=hproductid=TPl620

I'm looking at the TPL 620, I asked about the dwyer stuff on the forum and I didnt get a good rec so I'm looking for something less expensive than Alnor stuff.

[Breeze]

Kind of high $. for only one feature. If you have to have one with neg in. wc there are non digital types that are under $100. Had one for years, still do, but i wanted a digital, was about $80 (not sure of brand) sorry I bought one without neg. reading though.
Even worse is the testo meter I bought for co, co2, eff etc. also does pres. in wc.....oops

So I really didn't need the pos pres. one cause I had one but didn't know it.... came in handy other day when I was checking combustion fan vacuum.

Would a cfm/fpm meter be more effective ?

[JAMES 3528-old]

Johnny:

Most of my dig. meters always end up on vacation back at the repair shop. I agree with Gil, that is a lot of money. I would not expect an employee of mine to buy that kind of equipment. When I was working for someone else and had nice tools my damn boss would tell other people to go ask me if they can use my stuff.
Ask your boss to buy it if you need one.

[Breeze]

James have you seen the Testo meter before? It does a lot, though the manometer funtion isn't really something they say to do with it.

Did you send any pictures up? I did a few, seems to work.

[JAMES 3528-old]

Got a lot going on. Got to leave again. Later

[Gil]

you need a harley pic for your avatar

[JohnnyB]

Originally posted by JAMES 3528
Johnny:

Most of my dig. meters always end up on vacation back at the repair shop. I agree with Gil, that is a lot of money. I would not expect an employee of mine to buy that kind of equipment. When I was working for someone else and had nice tools my damn boss would tell other people to go ask me if they can use my stuff.
Ask your boss to buy it if you need one.

You know, my wife keeps telling me the same thing, to ask my owner for the tool if I think I need one. Its like I feel like a smuck if I'm on a job and I'm hung up because I dont got. Then theirs my service manager, who is really some guy with a lot of experience that I never see, but whom I can ask a question over the nextell if I need to, that seems to not need any test equipment. I just don't have the "intuition" to say definitively that this is the problem without a device to give me the data to make an informed decision.

[JAMES 3528-old]

A company that can afford nextell. can afford a manometer Johnny. If you do large commercial then charge a cheap one out to the next job.

[Pegleg Smith]

I got nextel! I haven't always been happy with their service but I really like the 2 way. They don't have good coverage in the deserts or mountains I travel daily but in the areas they do have coverage they are hard to beat. I can contact Las Vegas or Sacramento just by pressing the button. You never can tell when that will come in handy. It's the need to contact one of my other techs here in my general service area that their limited use is blazingly apparent. The batteries seem to last longer than the ones in my wife's cellphone. I neglected to charge the battery for 3 days and still had a days use out of it. My wife's cellphone battery goes dead in a couple of hours.

I love the digital meters. I have a Fieldpiece 'stick' multi-meter with interchangeable heads for amps, infer-red temp, carbon monoxide, dual temp head with thermistors, and an air velocity head. I also carry another dual temp digital t-stat unit by Supco, and another digital multi-meter by UEI. I have a digital micron gauge by Supco also. It's too bad Fieldpiece can't incorporate a leak detector into their line, but they do have a micron gauge, now. And it all comes in a handsome, and, (dare I say it?) fashionable black accessory bag, for that sexy professional look.

Tools are your responsibility. If you have put in enough time you will acquire the tools required of your trade because they make your job easier. I got tired of using the crap the companies provided to do my job, when Ii worked for others, and I bought my own torches and vacuum pump, and even the stake-on terminals. I had a written understanding that all these would be resupplied, and repaired if needed. Most of the people I did work for saw the wisdom in this written agreement. If you do happen to purchase a balometer and get practiced at using it with some accuracy then you should also have the ability to negotiate a separate additional payment from your boss for that service.

Spell check quite working...

[Breeze]

who needs spell check :)

Maybe one day they will add a spell checker to this program without using a third party web site like they are doing now ... not sure if a server could handle it though... but one day, just maybe they will.