Home(ish) A/C Help Needed

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I've picked up a Movincool Classic Plus 14 1-ton commercial A/C unit for the garage. It's running R-22 freon. I had it looked at by Collins Comfort Cool and although it has a full charge, new start and good run capacitors and everything else is in excellent shape it looks like the compressor is bad. It cycled once during charge but won't cycle again and didn't get cold when it did cycle even though it pulled in 1oz of freon. I want to swap in a new compressor but convert it over to R-410A in the process. I can get a compressor from Graingers for about $500, but need help getting it flushed out, brazed in and recharged. Anyone knowledgeable in the Mud/CSC circle that can help me out for cheap or trade?.

 

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Justhe sold it, thread closed.

 

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I've picked up a Movincool Classic Plus 14 1-ton commercial A/C unit for the garage. It's running R-22 freon. I had it looked at by Collins Comfort Cool and although it has a full charge, new start and good run capacitors and everything else is in excellent shape it looks like the compressor is bad. It cycled once during charge but won't cycle again and didn't get cold when it did cycle even though it pulled in 1oz of freon. I want to swap in a new compressor but convert it over to R-410A in the process. I can get a compressor from Graingers for about $500, but need help getting it flushed out, brazed in and recharged. Anyone knowledgeable in the Mud/CSC circle that can help me out for cheap or trade?.

Would have been more involved switching refrigerants. Possible seals and metering devise. It it was a new unit I question the compressor being bad. Worked for Chas Roberts in the seventies and early eighties. One summer I got suck changing compressors. Wasn't popular with the other techs. Any given week week I would bring back from a 1/3 to 1/2 of the compressors I was suppose to change because it was something else. One of the most common was a non working crank case heater and the compressor was lock because it was full of a mix of oil and liquid refrigerant.

 

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Wow, I didn't know there were so many options for those symptoms. The unit was a 2004 model.