file.newsgroup.cars.103008 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Jonathan Bruce Hacker)
Subject: Re: Auto air conditioning without Freon - Rovax
[email protected] (Allen Tobias) writes:
>Better still, years ago they demonstrated a cold air system which only used
>"air". It was called a Rovax. The unit worked very well, the short coming
>was the seal technology. Where is it today?
As I recall from reading posts here a while back, Rovax (Rovacs?) died
because it was larger and noisier than the competing cheap R12 systems
of it day. Probably a case of bad timing. I think the system would
have a better chance today now that R12 systems are on death row, but
investors may be hard to come by a second time.
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