dougrainer wrote:
Gjac wrote:
I understand that this blockage is a slow build up over time and understand how to check to see if the refer is totally blocked. What I was trying to figure out is if temperature measurement could alert us if the cooling unit is starting to have blockage. I would think the blocked areas would be cooler than the rest of the tubing. I check my radiator this way to look for blockage and it shows cold where radiator starts to develop blockage.
Yes, you can use a temp measurement, but it has been so long, I do not have the variables or temp normal measurements. It is just as easy to do the 120 element hot wire test. IMO, all cooling units will have a small blockage over the years due to the occasional running off level. NOBODY, always runs the refer within spec all the time. Doug
Thanks for the further understanding Doug. I'm not sure anyone understood my second question but would also appreciate any incite you have. You and Chris and others have posted many times about refers running hotter when off level so my thought was if you can establish a ref point maybe several inches above the flue and take some temp readings over time and various out of level angles I would think that at the lowest temp reading this would be the best condition, as you move off this condition and the temps begin to rise this would be the acceptable out of level tolerance that the refer can safely operate at. Do you know if the refer Mfg's have done something like this to establish the out of level tolerance.
