{"id":11995,"date":"2010-07-12T03:06:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T08:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=11995"},"modified":"2010-07-12T03:06:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T08:06:57","slug":"ultimate-refrigeration-meter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/ultimate-refrigeration-meter\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate Refrigeration Meter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Pssg-to-Portugal-303.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Pssg-to-Portugal-303.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Pssg-to-Portugal-303.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We have had zero problems with our Frigoboat sealed compressors, three of which are in use with our two freezers and one fridge. But after five years the fridge had lost a touch of refrigerant and was running more than normal. We carry 134A and a charging system for this eventuality, but in the process of adding refrigerant we allowed air into the system. The result was a frozen evaporator system requiring a vacuum pump. This was at 1400 on a Friday afternoon in Spain. What do you think of the odds?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A walk to the Vigo marina office initiated a phone wall resulting in a savvy local tech showing up on board an hour- and- a -half later. He quickly diagnosed the problem, evacuated the system, refilled with gas, did a second evacuation, and then a careful balance of refrigerant using this very cool digital gauge as a guide. Note that it measures not only pressure but suction and high pressure temperatures (and switches between various refrigerants).<\/p>\n<p>We were billed through the marina for the service call, which includes 21% VAT and their markup. The invoice was 95 Euros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have had zero problems with our Frigoboat sealed compressors, three of which are in use with our two freezers <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/ultimate-refrigeration-meter\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}