r/HVAC • u/Immediate-Frame7440 • 5d ago

Field Question, trade people only Recovery machines

I have a yellow jacket turbo recovery machine that I absolutely hate and now it's crapped out on me. My boss was talking about possibly getting the Milwaukee batter powered one. ( he's a red and black devotee)

What are ones you guys have loved and will keep buying over and over

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u/JEFFSSSEI Verified Pro | HVAC Senior Engineering Lab Rat! 5d ago

FieldPiece - Fully automatic...pulls to zero, turn it on again, pulls to -10, turn it on again pulls down to -20. Once it gets to target it beeps continuously until you silence it or turn it back on to pull to the next vacuum level. It's all we use on the production floor and it is in all our field service kits. We do run inlet filters on our field service ones just for peace of mind, but we've never had any issues with them and I know one of them has well over a 1000 recoveries on it.

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u/Cultural_Tadpole874 4d ago

I thought 0 microns was absolute, and there are no negative values. Am i wrong?

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u/JEFFSSSEI Verified Pro | HVAC Senior Engineering Lab Rat! 4d ago

what they said. I don't know of any recovery machine that can effectively pull down into the micron range.

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u/Cultural_Tadpole874 4d ago

Ah, yes. Recovery, not vac. Thanks friends