coldkeeper1
07-06-2008, 04:52 AM
I´m not sure if any of you have faced this problem: in a low temperature supermarket rack system with hot gas defrost, just after the re-activation of refrigeration following a defrost period, liquid refrigerant was pouring back to the suction manifold.
I was having a hard time trying to troubleshoot such a situation last week, until an old-timer gave to me what seemed to be the pefect cure.
He advised me to forget about the standard thermostat-based evaporator fan control and instead rely on a contactor wired to the refrigeration-on rack relay for that particular circuit. In this way, the evaporator fans would be turned on by the contactor only after the liquid line solenoid and epr valve are activated.
He believes that this liquid pouring down into the suction manifold is nothing but a consequence of the evaporator fan thermostat turning on the fans too early after defrost, something that makes the hot gas still trapped in the evaporator to liquify, returning through the suction line once refrigeration re-activates.
I applied his suggestion and it seemed to work fine in my particular problem. I hope this comment would be helpful to someone else.
I was having a hard time trying to troubleshoot such a situation last week, until an old-timer gave to me what seemed to be the pefect cure.
He advised me to forget about the standard thermostat-based evaporator fan control and instead rely on a contactor wired to the refrigeration-on rack relay for that particular circuit. In this way, the evaporator fans would be turned on by the contactor only after the liquid line solenoid and epr valve are activated.
He believes that this liquid pouring down into the suction manifold is nothing but a consequence of the evaporator fan thermostat turning on the fans too early after defrost, something that makes the hot gas still trapped in the evaporator to liquify, returning through the suction line once refrigeration re-activates.
I applied his suggestion and it seemed to work fine in my particular problem. I hope this comment would be helpful to someone else.