Cool Mavericks: a living history of the larrikins who showed the world how to air condition anything on wheels
A book called ‘Cool Mavericks’ reveals for the first time how colourful characters fired with gold-rush zeal worked out how to air condition every car ever made, leaving the top car makers out of the game for almost half a century. How it all started The buyers of the vast majority of air conditioned Australian […]
Design award for Unicla is dedicated to the world’s midnight technicians
The only independent automotive compressor manufacturer in the world, Unicla International, is celebrating its 60th anniversary in October 2024, and the icing on its cake was its recent win as best product in an engineering class at the Australian Good Design Awards. The award was for its eDrive electric compressor, released in 2020, that the […]
Unicla eDrive Wins Good Design Award
Unicla International’s new eDrive compressor has been hailed as a ‘standout’ winner of the 2024 Australian Good Design Award engineering category. The 80-strong global jury panel was impressed by the eDrive’s innovative approach to thermal management in mobile applications. Its focus on sustainability and efficiency represented a significant advancement in the industry, showcasing a forward-thinking […]
SuperCool Supports Kids to Learn Through Play
Will Joomunjie Land produce the next generation of budding designers, makers, engineers and thinkers? Albert Einstein once said, “play is the highest form of research.” The wild, free, and fun play that happens in the free-form playground called Joomunjie Land helps nurture the inner builders, engineers, researchers, creative thinkers, risk-takers and problem solvers of tomorrow. […]
Unicla at Lat.Bus Transpublico 2024
Lat.Bus Transpublico 2024 was a great success last week with the trade show confirming its status as the premiere bus and transport exhibition in South America. Held at Expo Imigrantes in Sao Paulo, it is the largest urban mobility event in Latin America, which brings together all segments of public urban transport and road transport […]
How Important is Maintenance? Here’s the hard data.
Preventable Faults Bench Testing: What We Discovered The Issue: A considerable portion of the electricity grid is consumed by refrigeration and air-conditioning (RAC) systems worldwide. In 2016, around 23.6% of the electricity production in Australia was used by RAC equipment 1. Electricity use related to greenhouse gas emissions and direct emissions from RAC equipment produced […]
The Best Micro Leak Detector on the Market?
Brett Meads, Head of Training at SuperCool, provides an overview of one of our hero products that has been in the market for decades and still to this day is considered the Rolls-Royce of micro liquid leak detectors: Viper Big Blu. Brett Meads Head of Training https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39l7XHwjAc8 Big Blu: The Best Micro Leak Detector Around […]
Repairing Drill Holes and Hacksaw Cuts with BurgaBRAZE
In this article, our Head of Training, Brett Meads, covers several common applications for BurgaBRAZE flux-cored alloy brazing rods: repairing hack saw cuts and drill holes in AC pipes and tubes, and joining fittings to a pipe. Brett Meads Head of Training 1. Repairing a Hack-Saw Cut BurgaBRAZE flux-cored alloy brazing rods are the ideal […]
SuperCool’s Secret Role in Refrigerant Retrofitting
https://youtu.be/qKgB6-6djcA How covert tests in our Gold Coast workshop helped a global environmental innovation Just over 30 years ago, SuperCool announced that R134a refrigerant could be simply and reliably retrofitted in motor cars operating with R12 refrigerant, heavily reducing CFC emissions. SuperCool’s Southport workshop was the first in Australia to trial the replacement of old […]
What does a Yamaha TA125 race bike have to do with the weather?
Unicla director Mark Mitchell explains his relationship with racing two-stroke motorcycles in the 1970s and testing HVAC systems in various psychometric conditions. In this video Mark explains as a teenager he raced Yamaha two-stroke motorcycles in the 1970s. A Yamaha TA125 was his pride and joy, and the bike on which he had the most […]