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The HVAC gauges and AC hoses are color coded

The manufacturers color coded the exteriors of the HVAC gauge

(compound gauge and high pressure gauge) to distinguish between high
pressure and low pressure gauges.

The low pressure gauge or compound gauge is color coded blue and the
high pressure gauges are color coded red. Don’t confuse this with the
manifold gauges assembly (body). It’s not color coded. The AC gauge
hoses are color coded in blue, yellow, and red.

The AC gauge hoses port are not color coded, but the hose is color coded.
The blue hoses are used to connect the manifold to the low pressure side
(central air units suction line).

The color coded red mark the high pressure gauges and it’s connected to
the air conditioner unit discharge valve or liquid line valves. Some
manufacturers even color code the hand valves.

The manifold gauge uses flexible hoses with connector on both sides.
These hoses are label with maximum pressure in PSI or bar. This mean
that if someone used the wrong hoses with the wrong pressure it will
burst.

The compound gauge – located in the left hand of HVAC gauges

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The compound gauge is mounted on the left side of the air conditioning
gauges. The compound gauges allow the HVAC technician to measure
both pressure. The pressure above atmospheric pressure and vacuum
pressure (blow atmospheric pressure).
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Here is the actual compound gauge:
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How to read air conditioning gauges

Site Map Air conditioner gauges are a pressure and temperature charts in a
gauges. We’ll read it the same way we read a pressure and temperature
chart.

When every HVAC technician looks at gauges, he or she either looking

for pressure or temperature. Let say we have R -22 refrigerants and the
temperature is 33°F, but we don’t know the pressure.

So, we used the pressure temperature chart or the manifold gauges to

find out what is the pressure of R-22 refrigerant. That pressure would be

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58.8 psi for R-22 refrigerant.

Here is sample of temperature and pressure chart in HVAC gauges:

In the temperature and pressure charts above, the Temperature scales

are on the left side and it’s in Fahrenheit or Celsius. On the right side we
have the difference types of AC refrigerant pressure.

Here is another example:

Ex. HCFC-22 refrigerant has a pressure of 62.9 psi, what is the

temperature of R-22 refrigerant? The temperature would be 36 °F or 2.2
°C.

The most valuable information about the manifold gauge set is it could
read a pressure and temperature of refrigerant in a close system. All
HVAC gauges set read the same way. Except the pressure and
temperature scales are different for R-134, R-410 refrigerant.

How to use HVAC manifold gauges videos

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The high pressure gauge

The high pressure gauge is mounted on the right side of the manifold set.
This air conditioning gauges set measure pressure above the atmosphere
pressure. It reads from 0 to 500 psi and it scales is usually in 2-lb. or
5-lb. increments.

The high pressure gauge is label the same way as the compound (low
pressure gauge), except we couldn’t read inches of mercury in high
pressure gauge.

The black number is the PSI scale and the inner number is the refrigerant
temperature of R-502, R-22 and R-12.

This is the actual high pressure gauges:

Types of air conditioning gauges

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In HVAC field, we don’t have single set of HVAC gauges that work on
every refrigerant. It saves us money and time if we have it. But, we
don’t.

The reason we don’t have single HVAC manifold gauge is because of the
refrigerant property. Each air conditioner Freon has a difference
pressure, chemical compound, and boil points. However, that isn’t the
main factor. It’s the refrigerant pressure and it temperatures scales.

Here is air conditioning manifold gauge we carry:

R410A Manifold gauge set

R22 Manifold gauge set
R134a manifold gauge set

This means that we can’t use R - 22 gauges manifold to read an R - 410A

refrigerant. It would damage the R- 22 gauge set due to high pressure of
R 410 refrigerant.

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