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Bobbo
Oct 04, 2013Explorer III
The ammonia is in solution in your cooling system. The burners vaporize it and it rises to the top of the cooling unit where it cools and precipitates out. Then, as it runs down it absorbs heat from the freezer/refrigerator. If the refrigerator is too far out of level, there are low points in the path where the ammonia solution is running down causing the liquid to pool. The pooled ammonia solution then dries and cakes the inside of the tubing reducing its diameter. The dried, caked materiel does not re-dissolve. Over time, it continues to restrict the tubing until it blocks.
So, yes, the damage is cumulative.
(Others will have a better grasp of the details, but that is the overview.)
So, yes, the damage is cumulative.
(Others will have a better grasp of the details, but that is the overview.)
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