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Thread: TXV at my house crapped out!
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07-26-2009, 08:02 PM #1
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TXV at my house crapped out!
OK, how do I account for this? Last year, new 14 seer amana worked perfect. Last winter same heatpump kicked butt! Well, Friday I fired up the cooling for 1st time and headed to work. Got off work and came home to a hot house. Checked pressures. no low side, 500 on high side. Changed indoor txv today and it's coolin fine again. What coulda happened?
My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
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07-26-2009, 08:04 PM #2
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Hmmmmmmmmmm...............................the freon gods were angry?
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07-26-2009, 08:05 PM #3
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07-26-2009, 08:18 PM #4
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Stop before you jinx us all.
Originally Posted by spotts
You sure are cocky for a starving pilgrim.
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07-26-2009, 08:36 PM #5
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TXV quality has been comprimised for several years now, probably made in China like everything else.
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07-26-2009, 08:37 PM #6
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lol Originally Posted by zachhvac
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07-26-2009, 08:39 PM #7
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Did you try talking to it?
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07-26-2009, 09:10 PM #8
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Originally Posted by jpsmith1cm
Bad install???
Thats what I'm wonderin............. Could have a piece of solder been floatin around in there? Tore the old one apart. Nothing in it. But I still can onlyblow through it in one direction. It acts like a check valve.My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
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07-26-2009, 09:17 PM #9
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sensing bulb may have lost the charge. to check if this was the problem, cut the capillary tube to the bulb and see if any pressure leaks out. If theres nothing in there, that was your problem.
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07-26-2009, 09:20 PM #10
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It broke. That will be $82 please.
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07-26-2009, 09:21 PM #11
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Man your cheap, can i sub you out? Originally Posted by DeltaT
You sure are cocky for a starving pilgrim.
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07-26-2009, 09:26 PM #12
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Professional discount. And I like to think about it as "inexpensive." Originally Posted by zachhvac
Man your cheap, can i sub you out?"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the public's own money.
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07-26-2009, 10:00 PM #13
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You here a lot of people say that if you have a restriction that the high side would be low unless someone tried to force more refrigerant into the system to compensate for the low pressure. Here your high side was too high without anyone putting in any more refrigerant. Just an observation.
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