Static?
How much refrigerant were you moving?
okay!
thursday night I was fixing a carrier 30rb chiller.
had a leak in the hot gas tee.
after the repair I was charging it when my light broke, so I just worked in the dark.
I hung my gauges on the chiller on those little chicken wire gaurds whatever they are called?
when I purged the air out of my hose some refrigerant blew on the hook of my gauge manifold and sparked!!!
it was very dark out and I could see it clearly.
I kept doing it over and over like a dozen times! It was definately sparking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what the heck?????????????
i wanted to take a video but my phone/flashlight/camera also died!
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Static?
How much refrigerant were you moving?
I guess?????????????????
sure was cool to look at in the dark!!!!!!!!!!!!
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how cool!
did he explain what was causing that?
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Interesting topic, and good video...
I do know liquid refrigerant will conduct electricity... spilled it into an elec box many years ago and got a vivid display. I doubt gaseous refrigerant will though... no proof, just a hunch.
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huh??????????????????????????
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that is why I asked how much refrigerant you were charging.
I've never worked on a 30rb machine so I don't know if you're talking a couple pounds, a couple jugs or a couple tons.
As fluid flows, it can generate a static charge.
I was pulling some gas from a rack on a roof one day. Only a hundred pounds or so, but the 125# tank was sitting on a rubber roof, my manifold was NOT grounded nor was the tank.
It only took about 2 minutes to build a noticeable 'zip' when you touched the tank. If you let it go much longer, the shock was almost painful.
I've seen it happen before, but this was the worst I can remember.
and here it was I thought I was having flash backs, kewl video !!
That happened to me before, it even killed my scale one time! I was dumping liquid into a system in a vacuum and all of a sudden I started hearing sparking.. I touched my manifold and got shocked, then i heard a big zap and the screen on my scale went blank..
From then on I usually attach a wire from the tank to the unit or some metal to keep it grounded. I do get some little shocks here and there from it, but never that bad again.
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That is crazy. Never heard of or noticed that before!