wexfordman
09-03-2014, 12:41 PM
Hi,
I hope posting here is ok, I am looking for some help with my cooler which is giving problems. To give a background, the cooler is in my house, I use it just for cooling deer carcass during the hunting season, so my knowldege of cooling etc is fairly basic to say the least. The guy that installed it for me, has left the country, so Im hoping the problem here is fairly straightforward, a setting or something.
Anyway, the control unit is an eliwell ID1971. It is about two years old, and has been running fine up until the last two weeks. I had a carcass in it and went to check it the other day to find the temp had dropped to -6 deg c, which was way to low, im looking for betwen 2 and 4.
I rest the unit to see if it was some kind of glitch, and watched it for a while. I noticed the compressor kicked in at 4 deg, and off again at 1 deg, so I was thinking that looked a bit better.
So, I left it run till the next day, when i checked it had dropped to -17!!! So definately something odd here.
We did have a power cut a few weeks back, power was gone for the whole day, so I was thinking perhaps something got reset.
Anyway, I am hoping someone can give me some basic step by step instructions/guidelines on how I can go about troubleshooting this. While I have no clue about refridgeration, Im quite comfortable with control panel type stuff, realys etc, but completely lost on the particulars of refirdferation, set temps, etc.
I suppose firstly, I want to check the unit has the correct settings, and something has nto just defaulted. Secondly, would I be correct in thinking perhaps a sticky relay on the compressor or something like that, and how would I go and prove this.
Really appreciate some assistance on this.
Thanks,
Eamon
I hope posting here is ok, I am looking for some help with my cooler which is giving problems. To give a background, the cooler is in my house, I use it just for cooling deer carcass during the hunting season, so my knowldege of cooling etc is fairly basic to say the least. The guy that installed it for me, has left the country, so Im hoping the problem here is fairly straightforward, a setting or something.
Anyway, the control unit is an eliwell ID1971. It is about two years old, and has been running fine up until the last two weeks. I had a carcass in it and went to check it the other day to find the temp had dropped to -6 deg c, which was way to low, im looking for betwen 2 and 4.
I rest the unit to see if it was some kind of glitch, and watched it for a while. I noticed the compressor kicked in at 4 deg, and off again at 1 deg, so I was thinking that looked a bit better.
So, I left it run till the next day, when i checked it had dropped to -17!!! So definately something odd here.
We did have a power cut a few weeks back, power was gone for the whole day, so I was thinking perhaps something got reset.
Anyway, I am hoping someone can give me some basic step by step instructions/guidelines on how I can go about troubleshooting this. While I have no clue about refridgeration, Im quite comfortable with control panel type stuff, realys etc, but completely lost on the particulars of refirdferation, set temps, etc.
I suppose firstly, I want to check the unit has the correct settings, and something has nto just defaulted. Secondly, would I be correct in thinking perhaps a sticky relay on the compressor or something like that, and how would I go and prove this.
Really appreciate some assistance on this.
Thanks,
Eamon