{"id":7340,"date":"2010-01-04T00:12:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T05:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=7340"},"modified":"2010-01-02T20:18:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T01:18:05","slug":"does-your-air-conditioner-have-sufficient-refrigerant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/does-your-air-conditioner-have-sufficient-refrigerant\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Your Air Conditioner Have Sufficient Refrigerant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/berthon-9-09-118.jpg\" alt=\"Berthon-9-09-118\" width=\"576\" height=\"455\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Correct amounts of refrigerant are essential to proper operation of air conditioning equipment (refrigeration too). One sign that a system is low is the evaporator coils (the device which chills the air) will become coated with ice. This reduces air flow and cooling and can lead to compressor damage.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Last year we had one of our four Marine Air units exhibit this symptom on our way to Panama. But once we were in a more normal environment it seemed OK, so we did not bother to service the unit.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re thinking now about warmer climates, so had a tech onboard to check the units. As expected, the one unit was low on gas. The other three are fine.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/berthon-9-09-120.jpg\" alt=\"Berthon-9-09-120\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have refrigeration gauges aboard you can get an indication of correct operation from the temperature of the suction and pressure piping. Ideally there will be a record of these temperatures with a remote sensing heat gun. Note air and water temperature as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correct amounts of refrigerant are essential to proper operation of air conditioning equipment (refrigeration too). One sign that a system <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/does-your-air-conditioner-have-sufficient-refrigerant\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7340"}],"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=7340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}