Great video, man, slick work. You should teach us regular guys who just watch for fun how to calculate/tune your superheat on the txv. Cool trick on the cardboard too to get your condensing heat up. Keep it up man, much love from utah brotha
dave that is 4.6 Liters I installed a freezer with that very same condenser unit I was having difficulty getting the superheat to between 6 - 8 degrees, I called Heatcraft tech support and that dude told me I had to add more refrigerant to account for the evaporator, so I just defaulted to slowly adding until my sight glass outside the evap cleared. Box is at -9 and superheat was 8.
What about the poor guy whose manual starts at “Page 24” lol. Do you know what ever happened to Jim Pettinato? Another awesome guy. Hope your staying safe. 95 and humid in Ct.
Paslode electric tool cleaner revived my Supco micron gauge. I filled the port and let it sit overnight and poured it out and then did that twice more and that cleaned up the sensor. It now reads about the same as my BluVac gauge. I think that I got the Paslode at Lowe's. I heard about Paslode online a few years ago.
Receiver capacity is 4.6l (liters) which is volume, not weight so you need to know the density of your refrigerant and convert 4.6l into weight (kg) then kg to lbs. Also that sight glass looked completely empty to me (which would make sense as 4lbs is about half of what the charge should be)
looks like you would need page 30 for the additional wieght of r404 to add for condenser flooding in the winter to keep the head pressure up for all those buckets of water. lol
Micro channel sssuck at least they give you a receiver HVAC units with micro channel coils never seem to have receivers and are super critical on charge 👍
