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Piston

johnjohn89
johnjohn89 Member Posts: 114
in A-C, Heat Pumps & Refrigeration
Why charge wet bulb and dry bulb when system use piston metering device ? And why txv doesn’t charge by wet bulb and dry bulb ?

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  • ChrisJ
    ChrisJ Member Posts: 16,260
    edited May 2022
    As far as I know with a fixed orifice device like a piston you charge by superheat.

    With a txv you charge by subcooling because the txv controls superheat, so you can't really charge by it.   Personally I watch superheat as well with a txv and adjust the txv if possible to get both superheat and subcooling where they need to be .

    Subcooling is really just showing you how much reserve liquid refrigerant you have backed up in the condenser.  



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  • pedmec
    pedmec Member Posts: 1,055
    because with fixed metering device a greater portion of the refrigerant is used to remove the latent heat plus the sensible heat. so on a humid day your superheat will increase due to the higher latent heat load on the evaporator coil.
    with a txv it will just open up to maintain the proper superheat due to the increased load.
  • johnjohn89
    johnjohn89 Member Posts: 114
    ChrisJ said:
    As far as I know with a fixed orifice device like a piston you charge by superheat.

    With a txv you charge by subcooling because the txv controls superheat, so you can't really charge by it.   Personally I watch superheat as well with a txv and adjust the txv if possible to get both superheat and subcooling where they need to be .

    Subcooling is really just showing you how much reserve liquid refrigerant you have backed up in the condenser.  

    Ture thanks


  • johnjohn89
    johnjohn89 Member Posts: 114
    pedmec said:
    because with fixed metering device a greater portion of the refrigerant is used to remove the latent heat plus the sensible heat. so on a humid day your superheat will increase due to the higher latent heat load on the evaporator coil. with a txv it will just open up to maintain the proper superheat due to the increased load.
    Great answer thank u so much

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