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On 5/28/2012 1:25 PM, harry wrote:
On May 28, 4:46 pm, wrote:
Has anyone tried using the freon that you buy for a car AC system in a
home centralized AC system?
Are there any reliable discussions about this topic on the web. I see
some, but don't know who to believe.


Freon is supposed to react with high altitude ozone in the atmosphere
causing "holes" which let in solar radiation.
CFC (the worst sort has been banned worldwide (in theory) for years
now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freon


The new Freons are not CFC's (chloro fluor carbon's) and no longer named
all called Freon:

http://www2.dupont.com/ISCEON/en_US/...ment_guide.pdf


This guide may help the op.