Duct Air Leak Tester
If you place your hand near these joints and you feel air coming out you know that there s a leak.
Duct air leak tester. It s designed to be simple to use accurate and extremely convenient. 1 blower with speed control vfd to generate range of pressure flowrange of pressure flow 2 flow measuring devices flow grid flow station high flow flow grid flow station high flow orifice plate low flow. 25 pa across the system including. Test apparatustest apparatus duct leakage test system consists of duct leakage test system consists of.
The above test procedure describes how to determine total duct leakage or how much leakage there is. En 12237 ventilation for buildings ductwork strength and leakage of circular sheet metal ducts. Though built tough with an on board powerful motor the dalt 6900 is very easy to transport on its pneumatic tires and leaves little to no. Figure 5 1l from the 2012 smacna hvac air duct leakage test manual shows the allowable leakage as a function of duct leakage classification and static pressure in the duct.
The alf150 2019 model duct leakage tester now comes with automatic closed loop testing as standard allowing you to run leakage tests automatically to set duct static pressures. The spots where two air ducts connect are common places for leaks to occur. Additional methods leakage to outside. Total leakage measured with a pressure differential of 0 1 inch w g.
En 1507 ventilation for buildings sheet metal air ducts with rectangular section requirements for strength and leakage. Ductwork leakage testers the tsi positive and negative duct accreditation panda system pan200 series is designed to provide fast accurate duct leakage detection as well as duct performance measurements. Our duct leakage testers are compliant with the following standards. A third test method.
Mark any leaks you find with a grease pencil. It s also now equipped with bluetooth as standard for use with bluetooth enabled thermal printers. You can also try running your hand under other parts of your ductwork to feel for larger leaks. Total leakage measured with a pressure differential of 0 1 inch w g.
The instrument provides step by step test configuration and automated leakage testing based on the smacna hvac air duct leakage test manual and is accurate to 2 5 of reading. Ducts shall be pressure tested to determine air leakage by either of the following. Kanomax has developed the most advanced duct air leakage tester dalt for commercial duct systems.