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Unfortunately the r290 equipment hasnt gotten better. Used to recommend "name brands" like true and bevair, but they fail the same rate as rebranded offshore. Only advantage is we can get the replacement parts with name brand. Lol.

Talking to manufacturer techs, compressors are an issue and evaporators are leaking. Ive done A LOT of evaporators on 1-2 year old equipment. I wonder if it is a refrigerant issue with the copper or a quality issue with the evaporator. As to compressors, the manufacturers are forcing customers to buy new units as compressors are quoted in months, not days; and not cheap either.

Great for the environment, dont build a 30 year cooler, dont fix your 1-5 year old cooler; toss it into the landfill and buy an new cooler that you can replace in 2-3 years. Because the environment and efficiency and #we care.

Should be even more fun coming, hoshizaki says all their small to mid sized ice machines will be r290 in a year or so. Claim its mandated by Uncle Sam. Might as well hook the r290 can to them and change the can every week. 🤷

Unofficial, i hear 134a works well in r290 equipment. 🤦

Oh,

The small commercial systems have finally caught up to the dehumidifier crowd? Leaking all over the place?

My dad just bought a R32 dehumidifier to replace one he had that's 2 years old and leaking, and it's icing up out of the box. Apparently they start leaking just sitting on the shelf.

Anything mid 1930s to mid 1940s is probably an excellent choice if you just want it to make your food cold and never stop working.

I'm holding out buying a new refrigerator until its an R290 unit that way I can be fairly sure the tech will stick around long enough the manufacturers might have a chance to perfect it. That or do what @ChrisJ would do and buy an antique monitor top.

Thinner=more efficient—-yes

We have a 10 to 1 leak rate on indoor wall units, the "high efficiency" wall units are 10x more likely to leak.

That's just mt data. I've been logging this into a speadsheet for 10plus years

Use an 1/8” impact bit in a micro ratchet, like the Klein one.

@Alan (California Radiant) Forbes I misunderstood; thought there was a comfort issue. BTW, I did the same…oversized runtal rads; boiler ended up way oversized, not because of planning, but because I installed during COVID and a smaller boiler just wasn't available. Max water temp is set at 150 degrees however, on 30 degree day, modulates to well under @120 ish.

Is that HW or Steam? The manual vent looks like it would be water. Might make a nice seat on a cold day……..for a short time

Or a piece of steel between the lugs you could cook breakfast on it.

I wonder what the purpose of the step in it was?