Morphing Air Conditioner into Autocascade System

[mytekcontrols]

New thought...

I have been pondering why it took so much more refrigerant to get this unit to work than I originally thought. I have been staring at the data collected, and what stands out to me is that that strainer#1 (coming out of the first phase separator) is running colder then expected, and most unusual is that Strainer#2 and #3 tracked pretty close together until I began flooding the final stage. I think I have a plugged captube. And it's either #2 or #3

So I'll have to dig into the foam insulation to expose just the captubes, run the unit from a warm start-up, and feel each captube to see if it is flowing (does it freeze water vapor).

If one of them is plugged, then who knows, I might be able to get even more out of the unit.

[Jack]

New thought...

I have been pondering why it took so much more refrigerant to get this unit to work than I originally thought. I have been staring at the data collected, and what stands out to me is that that strainer#1 (coming out of the first phase separator) is running colder then expected,

LOL! Exactly what I noticed yesterday

Very impressive indeed!
And the temp at the first strainer is really low! Even loaded! Never expected to see that...

Anyway, not so good news. It looks so perfect right now...