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Too much cooling load on this HP?

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hot_rod
hot_rod Member Posts: 22,143
in A-C, Heat Pumps & Refrigeration
from a video posted on FB
Bob "hot rod" Rohr
trainer for Caleffi NA
Living the hydronic dream

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  • ChrisJ
    ChrisJ Member Posts: 15,677
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    I thought that was a special defrost mode?
    Single pipe quasi-vapor system. Typical operating pressure 0.14 - 0.43 oz. EcoSteam ES-20 Advanced Control for Residential Steam boilers. Rectorseal Steamaster water treatment
    Ironmankcopp
  • ratio
    ratio Member Posts: 3,626
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    Nah, there's a cottonwood growing nearby, it's time to clean the coil.
  • Jamie Hall
    Jamie Hall Member Posts: 23,286
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    ratio said:

    Nah, there's a cottonwood growing nearby, it's time to clean the coil.

    But wouldn't that clean the coil?
    Br. Jamie, osb
    Building superintendent/caretaker, 7200 sq. ft. historic house museum with dependencies in New England
    delta T
  • Ironman
    Ironman Member Posts: 7,376
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    That's the latent heat of vaporization.
    Bob Boan
    You can choose to do what you want, but you cannot choose the consequences.
  • unclejohn
    unclejohn Member Posts: 1,833
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    I actually had a customer call and say that smoke was coming out of the top of his HP in the dead of winter. I assured him that it was just steam from the defrost. He asked how does it defrost. I said by the hot gas. He said he did not have gas hooked up to his HP. I told him there is gas it his unit, he said natural gas I said no. Finally he says there are flames coming out of the top of my HP. Turns out the start thermister [I call them blasting caps now ] caught the unit on fire.
    Solid_Fuel_Man
  • GBart
    GBart Member Posts: 746
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    No, that's the home of the blind guy, he got confused again when lighting his charcoal grill, the burgers are going to taste nasty.
  • HVACNUT
    HVACNUT Member Posts: 5,835
    edited July 2018
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    Put the phone away and grab the backpack dummy.
    And the disconnect is near the flames. Hope the breaker was off or tripped.
  • Solid_Fuel_Man
    Solid_Fuel_Man Member Posts: 2,646
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    That's the new drop-in replacement for R22, comes in a tank that looks just like that 20 pounder from the grill...... cheap too!
    Serving Northern Maine HVAC & Controls. I burn wood, it smells good!

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