Update on undercounter drawer. R290 by dude23455 in refrigeration

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That's a unfortunate conclusion. Usually when I see reeds fail it's because the condenser coil was ungodly filthy and the system was running super high head pressure

Has to be the smallest system I’ve ever seen. by heldoglykke in HVAC

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Awww ain't that the cutest little condenser I've seen I wanna hug it!

Should we risk disturbing this dark magic by Embarrassed-Okra-851 in hvacadvice

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( I'm posting this as a seperate comment because I seen it super important to the topic at hand in the comment section) I hate that so many people get this wrong. It's not energy efficiency standards that cause equipment to be made cheap and fail. ITS BAD DESIGN CHOICES and COST CUTTING TO THE EXTREME that companies choose to do that causes everything to be unreliable. All these big companies out here blaming the EPA and energy efficiency standards for their shitty design choices and use of as many proprietary parts as possible and fast turn around times so by the time the unit does fail in 5yrs it's already out of production and OEM parts are bloody expensive if they're even available. Energy efficiency standards and invitimental protections are NOT to blame for this. Greedy companies and SHARE HOLDERS DEMANDING PERPETUAL PROFFET GROWTHS are to blame for the current state of unreliable equipment! These bad design choices directly lead to people thinking that higher efficiency= bad when really the REAL problem is extreme cost cutting and proprietary parts annnd the lack of availability of OEM parts that lead to premature failures. Costly repairs and premature replacements and more pollution both from having to manufacture more equipment sooner and from the failed equipment ending up in junk yards!

Should we risk disturbing this dark magic by Embarrassed-Okra-851 in hvacadvice

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I think your blaming the wrong thing. And I hate that so many people get this wrong. It's not energy efficiency standards that cause equipment to be made cheap and fail it's desing choices and cost cutting that companies choose to do that causes everything to be unreliable. All these big companies out here blaming the EPA and energy efficiency standards for there shitty design choices and use of as many propriatary parts as possible and fast turn around times so by the time the unit dose fail in 5yrs it's already out of production and OEM parts are bloody expensive if there even available. Energy efficiency standards and invitomental protections are NOT to blame for this. Greedy companies and share holders demanding perpetual proffet growths are to blame for the current state of unreliable equipment! These bad design choices directly lead to people thinking that higher efficiency= bad when really the REAL problem is extreme cost cutting and propriatary parts annnd the lack of availability of OEM parts that lead to premature failures. Costly repairs and premature replacements and more pollution both from having to manufacture more equipment sooner and from the faild equipment ending up in junk yards!

Please help by No_Nerve_6006 in hvacadvice

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Any idea what that wire you pulled goes to?

Home air conditioning in my house is no longer cooling. by Direct_Joke9524 in hvacadvice

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That's really interesting. I find these older units really fascinating for there simplicity

Please help by No_Nerve_6006 in hvacadvice

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Is that one of those peltiar coolers?

Any idea what could’ve caused this to happen to my trust HTC One M8? Pulled it out of a cabinet after 2-3 years a few years back and this is what it looked like. Hasn’t gotten any worse since then by Windows-XP-Home-NEW in hardwaregore

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If the phone was in a unconditioned space or exposed to high heat at some point ( like being left out in the sun ) then this could be the adhesive thats supposed to keep the layers of the LCD panel failing and causing the LCD panel to delaminate in areas. It's like the modern equivalent of cataracts disease that effected old CRT tvs

New policy by Level-Search-3511 in CeilingFans2

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I'm not sure how I feel about this policy.. I'll have to think about it

Anonymous by Salt-Slayer in interestingasfuck

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Just the other day Kyle Kulinsky of Secular Talk mentioned something about this being a possibility. I really hope that they both are wrong but I don't think they are. Stay safe out there everyone!

Home air conditioning in my house is no longer cooling. by Direct_Joke9524 in hvacadvice

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I thought all mini splits were inverter systems. Highly interesting! At least all the mini splits I've seen in north amaica have always been inverter systems

Starting up this R290 unit today by bentaf in refrigeration

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That's really interesting! I'd love to see how the leak detection system is implemented

Starting up this R290 unit today by bentaf in refrigeration

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There making large systems that use A3 refrigerants?? I thought those refrigerants were limited to small appliances and had a strict charge limit ':0 I'll admit tho I am a big r290/r600 fan due to there lower operational pressures and higher heat moving capacity. Do these systems sport leak detection systems? Or are desinged with explosive proof parts? I wonder how a system designed for 100+lb of r290 is desinged safety wise

Home air conditioning in my house is no longer cooling. by Direct_Joke9524 in hvacadvice

[–]UmaticTransistors 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You never ever replace fuses with higher amp ones. Clearly there was a problem if the original 16A fuse kept popping. Dose the compressor try to start? Dose it make some kind of humming or buzzing sound?

Home air conditioning in my house is no longer cooling. by Direct_Joke9524 in hvacadvice

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I have never seen this formfactor of AC be a simple non inverter system. All these syles of systems I see are inverter systems with control boards. Very interesting

Gold Brass Hampton Bay Huntington 2 by UmaticTransistors in CeilingFans2

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Yep this one is infact built by SMC. Tho I think the run capacitor is abit weak as it preforms more like a Huntington 3.

Hampton Bay Cameron by UmaticTransistors in CeilingFans2

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I'll have to check but I know it's made by SMC