Features:

  • Compact and lightweight, the RG3 features a 40 percent smaller footprint, is easy to carry, and weighs in at just 18 pounds for superior portability
  • Handles almost all refrigerants - the RG3 works with all common CFC, HFC, and HCFC refrigerants including R-410A
  • 1/3 HP, 115V AC, 60 Hz single cylinder, oil-less compressor is capable of recovering both liquid and vapor
  • High efficiency cross flow design features a fan and condenser layout that is optimized for shorter cycle times
  • High pressure safety shut-off switch automatically shuts off machine if pressure rises above 550 PSI
Great Value for the Shadetree Mechanic

This little machine does a great job, especially for automotive applications. For whatever reason, Robinair does not post the instruction manual for this machine on their website. I find this to be foolish, especially since I almost didn't buy it because of conflicting information about refrigerant compatibility available on the internet. At the end, I took the plunge, and sure enough, in the manual it says it's good for R-134a. It recovers about 2 pounds in 30 minutes or so. If you live in a hot climate and have any desire to do this kind of work yourself, you should pick this machine up. It will help you save lots of money. AC service adds up fast when they start having to do diagnostics to chase problems. You could easily pay for this machine in the savings. Here on Amazon, it will cost you about $700 to get tooled up to do AC work on your car with basic tools like the RG3. Learn about it on Youtube, and pretty soon you'll be staying cool.

Works well, trades portability for speed

Some other reviewers mentioned how long this takes to fully evacuate a system. Depending on the size of the system and the length of the line sets between the outdoor and indoor units, it could take a while. But this is a very lightweight and compact unit, and I felt it was reasonably fast for the size; Evacuated about 9 lbs of R22 from a split system with a 55' line set in about 1.5 hours, but this was under ideal conditions and using an empty recovery cylinder.

Done leave home without it

Performs exactly as designed. Great for residential and light commercial systems. Lightweight, low current draw, quiet and relatively well constructed. It'll evacuate a typical 3 ton residential system in about 30 minutes, depending on temperature, system volume and refrigerant type. It's not designed to be reclaim unit, just a recovery unit so contaminated refrigerant will need to be reclaimed using other methods.

Works good, would definitely buy another one

I have used this thing probably a hundred times over the last couple years. It's small, easy to carry around, and it evacuates air conditioners. An excellent product

Working good so far

Have used to evac two systems and all went well. It did baulk at starting a couple of times if it was under pressure. It also did not come with a sight glass which is recommended.

so far so good

I used this to install 180 lbs of r134a into a large piece of utility equipment that uses a pumped 2-phase cooling scheme (no compressor). The little guy worked surprisingly fast. maybe 15 minutes to put in a 30 lb bottle.

it was very easy to operate to vacuum the system and recover the ...

it was very easy to operate to vacuum the system and recover the coolant, it was also very easy to put the coolant back in the A/C system from the recovery tank.

High Quality

Recovered 20 pounds of R22 and it worked very well.

Great recovery machine

The recovery is not ultra fast but is great for systems under 30 pounds. Make sure you have good hose connections that do not restrict flow. The machine will restart under high pressure unlike machines I have used before.

Robinair vacuum pump

This robinair is great. Light as hell. Portable but I've pulled vacuums on 30 lb. Systems in what feels like minutes. The price is perfect to buy a quality product and known name in the industry . I would buy a 2nd if I needed it

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