How To Read HVAC Gauges

How to Read HVAC Gauges
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
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).
Here is what compound gauge looks like:

How to use compound gauge (low pressure gauge)
This compound gauge is a R-22 gauge (There is a R410A, 134A compound gauge).
In this gauge we could read R-502, R-12, and R-22 temperature and pressure.
The pressure scales are in black and in red number. The black numbers are above atmospheric
pressure, which range from zero to 150 pounds per square inch gauge (psig). However, I couldn’t
label all of it, so we only see zero to 100 psi in the picture above.
The pressure below atmospheric pressure is in red number and it’s read in inches of mercury (in.
Hg). The below atmospheric pressure is measure from zero to 30 in. Hg vacuum.
Here is the actual compound gauge:

How to read air conditioning gauges
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 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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Air conditioner gauges training Videos made by DrZarkloff
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
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.
HVAC gauges part 1

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The HVAC gauges and AC hoses are color coded

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

Here is what compound gauge looks like:

Here is the actual compound gauge:

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

Here is another example:

How to use HVAC manifold gauges videos

Air conditioner gauges training Videos made by DrZarkloff

The high pressure gauge

This is the actual high pressure gauges:

Types of air conditioning gauges

Here is air conditioning manifold gauge we carry:

 R410A Manifold gauge set

HVAC gauges part 1

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