Help Your Customers Select the Right Recovery Unit

When recommending a recovery unit to your customers, talk to them about the type of service work they do. If they do mainly appliance and vending machine service, their needs will be different from a contractor who does everything from rooftop units to chillers. You'll also want to know the type of training their technicians receive and what's more important to them—automatic features or budget considerations. Just remember, chances are your customers will need more than one type of recovery unit to efficiently handle all the service situations they encounter.

Match Unit to System 

Here's what different systems require:

Appliances, ice makers, window A/Cs, vending machines

  •   Move small amounts of refrigerant
  •   Little heat exchange 
  •   Lightweight, quiet running

Residential A/Cs, heat pumps

  • Move up to ten pounds of refrigerant, under varying temperatures
  • Reasonable heat exchange 
  • Lightweight, easy to carry

Light commercial A/Cs

  • Move larger amounts of refrigerant
  • Ample heat exchange
  • Vapor and liquid control

Large commercial A/C and refrigeration, such as rooftop chillers and walk-in freezers

  • Move large amounts of refrigerant
  • Large heat exchange    
  • Liquid recovery
  • Universal Features

Lightweight—If the unit can't go where your customer needs to go, what good will it do? Point out units that are compact, lightweight and easy to carry like Robinair's Model 25150.

Amount of automation—Automatic recovery units, like Robinair's Model 25200A, free the technician to do other work while refrigerant is being recovered and require less technician training. Handy features on the 25200A include:

  • Self-clearing capability
  • Automatic switch between liquid and vapor for fast refrigerant recovery 
  • Oil-less compressor requiring less maintenance