Hydrocarbon Conspiracy

03/04/2026

Happy Passover ("Easter") and Resurrection!
You only live twice, location is concern.
You don't go on vacation ☠️ without packing the right stuff ✝️ otherwise it's a lousy 🔥 vacation ☠️

01/03/2026

Higher prices during peak hour are here to stay.

The safety net has been pulled out from under Australian energy consumers, leaving more than 1 in 6 househo...

23/02/2026

It's like that

18/01/2026

Public vs private.
Semantics.
They say you'll own nothing and be happy. Actually you don't own anything. If you were to stop paying your car / trailer registrations or council rates, you'd soon find out who really owns it.
Someone got charged $88K for slapping googly eyes on a boring sculpture. I'm sure it could've been resolved with a bottle of turpentine and an hour's labour. Just one example the government goons can take anything at any time.
What's business? Something likely to generate a profit. Given the cost of "living" (government), you're unlikely to generate a profit.

This is what the ultra rich do. 👇🏼

Should this be allowed or should the gov intervene and tax the borrowed money?

Thoughts?💭

22/12/2025

I have an early Christmas gift for you!

It seems to me that there's been a bad batch of Hisense air conditioners (I've seen a few others too, just not as prevalent) with Electronic Expansion Valves that fail a few months after being installed. Why not replace the bad EEV with a capillary and be done with it?

Here's a new spreadsheet.
R32 capillary generator.
Based on actual samples from working R32 air conditioners.

http://hydrocarbonconspiracy.info/R32%20capillary%20generator.xlsx

I've also been helping beta test some new Hychill samples behind the scenes. Hopefully one of those makes it to market soon.

As for Christmas, Santa comes at random times throughout the year (usually a few weeks after ordering stuff online), and I think Jesus was actually born on September 11 3BC, not December 25. Conceived in December - maybe.

14/12/2025

I'm currently up to about 19.5% (15.5% above 32°C) energy savings on the air conditioners, and more tests / results coming soon (with possibly even better results). It's not a cost of living crisis, it's a cost of government crisis.

14/12/2025

Solar and battery is all well and good, but most of those companies don't want you to know about saving on your air conditioning and refrigeration costs. They usually want to sell you more solar and battery. Why use the battery if you don't need to? Save your battery for longer running time into the night, or sell onto the electricity grid with providers such as Amber Electric. Air conditioning and hot water usually make for the lion's share of an electricity bill. With energy savings (on the cooling cycle) as high as 19.5% at the moment (and possibly higher soon, with a new refrigerant product on the way), and potentially even more on the heating cycle, who doesn't want to make their air conditioners and fridges more energy efficient?

11/12/2025

All except 2, 3, and 39, I have more, and I can elaborate on how everything is all interconnected and where it's going.

29/11/2025

The only air conditioner with a star rating of 10 is the 2.5Kw Haier Quartz (and it only has a 3 star rating for heating). What if I told you it's possible to mod any air conditioner to achieve a flat 10 stars across the board?

You replace halogen or fluorescent lights with LED to improve efficiency. There's different LED lights. The same goes for replacing the gas in your air conditioner.

Different hydrocarbon gas refrigerants perform differently in different climates. What if it's possible to have something that is universal and performs above and beyond, while reducing power consumption at the same time?
If the outdoor unit goes above 32°C on the cooling cycle, performance is reduced slightly. Below 32°C and performance is enhanced.

Previous tests achieved:
Condensing temperature 32°C got 15.47% energy savings.
That's with a custom bottle I made up.
I gave a suggestion to the professionals at HyChill, who are sending me a couple of different formulated gas bottles to test. Is it possible to do better than my last test? This could be interesting!

28/11/2025

The new Rinnai JX series air conditioner has just hit the market at Harvey Norman, replacing the J series. Here's my detailed review:

• The foam packaging has been replaced with cardboard.
• They give you a cardboard template for the indoor unit.
• The indoor PCB is well encapsulated but not completely gecko proof.
• The indoor unit is straighter, meaning you can't see the interconnections if you run them out the side of the unit.
• The indoor unit doesn't feel as solid as the J series ones.
• You can use the remote control from the old Rinnai series on this one.
• The energy efficiency star rating is neck and neck against the J series.
• The electricals are a little different, and all JX series now use the standard 3 core + earth wiring (though was quietly brought out in the later stages of the J series).
• The 3.5Kw JX series gas pipe size is smaller than that of the J series.
• The JX factory gas charge raises a few questions, with little to no difference between the 2.5Kw (830g), 3.5Kw (830g), and 5Kw (850g) units.
• I've discovered a vulnerability with the outdoor PCB - which can easily be fixed using roof & gutter silicon sealant.
• Based on a little research on the remote controls, I suspect it's a rebadged AUX branded air conditioner (or vice versa).

I'd say yay, if you can find an installer willing to silicon the exposed inverter board IC.

Hisense J series is my other favourite, being one of the cheapest to buy. Those are fully gecko proof, but they use capillary refrigerant metering (except for the 7Kw and 8Kw units) meaning a fraction less energy efficiency. Their indoor units are fairly light in comparison to the Rinnai J series.

I think expensive doesn't mean best. They're all R32, so what's the point?
Mitsubishi? I'm not a fan of those. And there's a few different Mitsubishi types. Seen a couple of MHI fail before their time.
Fujitsu? I don't like them at all. Had a few of their schrader valves fail.

27/11/2025

New resources and test data.

Solar and battery is all well and good - until the sun goes down and your battery runs dead. If your air conditioner is more energy efficient, you can save your battery and not need to buy as much from the grid.

Energy savings calculator: http://hydrocarbonconspiracy.info/Energy%20savings%20calculator.xlsx

An improved refrigerant product is proposed. More data coming soon.