Keeping it Frosty
We've spent a few hours here and there over the last month on the SV-Time and Tide, oiling the wood, cleaning out storage, and washing off bird poop. One of the items on the to-do list was to crank up the freezer/refrigerator and when we did, it ran, but the cold plate didn't turn, well, cold. I got the gauges out and found that the system was low of R-134, though I didn't have my adaptor for the can I had on board (long story, but it's in Tennessee). One Amazon delivery later, and I was ready to add the freon. Cute little unit. It's actually a commercial 3-phase compressor used for water fountains that is "pulsed" into life by the 12VDC control board. The unit only holds 5 ounces of the R-134 refrigerant at most, and it had a bit left before I started to top it off. In less than a minute I had overfilled the unit. 10 psi on the blue dial, when it first gets going, is where it should be. I bled a bit out and started checking the cold plate temperatur...