Gas Detection Equipment. What do you use?

[gmartine]

I have the Kane GLD450 which detects at 50ppm but the GLD451 detects at 250ppm. What am I missing, why would you want a less sensitive detector?

Leak Detectors | Kane International Limited

 

[Last Plumber]

I have the Kane GLD450 which detects at 50ppm but the GLD451 detects at 250ppm. What am I missing, why would you want a less sensitive detector?

Leak Detectors | Kane International Limited

I don't know.
I started with the cheap wand end with my search as a Commercial Vaillant Engineer was wafting one about that looked like a pen and I thought it looked easier than having a Gascoseeker swinging off my neck for checking leaks after working on Boilers. I always test around Gas valves, solenoids, joints etc that are only live when things are running.
Then I moved onto the dearer stuff like the one in shauns link because a Colleague of mine uses the Testo 316-2. It's great and it has three beep levels going from 10 ppm Nat Gas then 200 ppm then 10000 ppm.
I am pretty sure it also does Propane, Hydrogen as well.

It's £260-00 ish. It has no read out of levels though, just the noises.
So you know when you start thinking.
"for another £100, I could have that one"
On it goes. Hence the questions.

I know a lot depends on what kind of work you do. I do mainly Commercial gas work so I always tend to have a Gasco with me and that's why it gets so much use. It's not necessary to use kit like this all the time though.

 

[gmartine]

Can be handy to scare the bejesus out of potential clients when it clicks away like a radioactive Bruce Banner. :0

 

[ShaunCorbs]

I don't know.
I started with the cheap wand end with my search as a Commercial Vaillant Engineer was wafting one about that looked like a pen and I thought it looked easier than having a Gascoseeker swinging off my neck for checking leaks after working on Boilers. I always test around Gas valves, solenoids, joints etc that are only live when things are running.
Then I moved onto the dearer stuff like the one in shauns link because a Colleague of mine uses the Testo 316-2. It's great and it has three beep levels going from 10 ppm Nat Gas then 200 ppm then 10000 ppm.
I am pretty sure it also does Propane, Hydrogen as well.

It's £260-00 ish. It has no read out of levels though, just the noises.
So you know when you start thinking.
"for another £100, I could have that one"
On it goes. Hence the questions.

I know a lot depends on what kind of work you do. I do mainly Commercial gas work so I always tend to have a Gasco with me and that's why it gets so much use. It's not necessary to use kit like this all the time though.

You tried the fga one ?

 

[Last Plumber]

You tried the fga one ?

What's that?
Who by?

 

[ShaunCorbs]

What's that?
Who by?

Testo they make a ldp that goes onto the fga

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Gas leak detection probe for flue gas analyzers | Gas | Flue gas, gas and particle | Parameters | Testo Ltd

 

[Last Plumber]

Gas leak detection probe for flue gas analyzers | Gas | Flue gas, gas and particle | Parameters | Testo Ltd

Oh crikey Shaun. Now you've added to my decision making problems.
lol.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

any update Last Plumber did you pick?

 

[sammathias]

Just Anton wand for me. Does the job. Can be abit deceiving at times tho.

 

[Old Account]

What Gas detection equipment do you use daily?
What do you all use to pinpoint leaks?
Do any of you wear Gas monitoring equipment? If so what's it for? CO, CO2, CH4? All of them?

Curious as I am about to spend Money on a new gadget along with servicing Gascoseeker and want to know what's popular.

I find this one pretty handy when checking longer flues. I also use only the detection things from testo which aren’t cheap but good

 

[Last Plumber]

any update Last Plumber did you pick?

Nothing as yet.
I spent a couple of hundred quid on old faithful and it's working well and calibrated again for 6 months.

 

[Darren Jackson]

I just use the sniffer that came in the kit with my Anton FGA, find it very useful to get into tight spots and it has an LED on the end to put some light on the situation, And it gives an audible and a visual warning.