Will a compressor run without freon?
Neighbors 2004 Forest River TT air conditioner is not cooling. Fan, blower runs fine, compressor also as it is hot to the touch. My experience has been if there is no freon the compressor will not run...
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Wayne Dohnal wrote:
I guess this is another terminology thing. If this document is to be believed Dept of Energy Motor Document, the instantaneous peak current is the inrush current, and LRA is an RMS value. No way to get an RMS result with a one millisecond window. The inrush current will be highly dependent on the position in the AC cycle where power is applied, while the LRA should be reliably repeatable. Just what do those peak-holding meters measure: Instantaneous peak? RMS? And if RMS, how is the window defined?
Feel free to turn this into an engineering discussion if you want to, but from a technician standpoint, this is how we do it in the field and it's the way we are going to continue to do it.
The reality of it is, most of the time we are able to narrow the problem down to a bad component before any of this is really necessary.
