Msa chillgard rt refrigerant monitor offers economical, low level monitoring of refrigerant gases such as cfc-11, cfc-12, hcfac22, ammonia, etc, used in most industrial refrigeration system. The monitor utilizes very stable and highly selective photoaquastic infrared technology to detect gases as low as 01 parts per million and also eliminates effects of moisture which is a common problem in most of the available technologies. It can be used to monitor single location or with the use of multipoint sequencer. The system can be expanded to monitor up to eight locations.