Day 86. 4/24/23, Refrigerator, Electrical , 8 Hours.

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 Refrigerator

Charged  refrigerator, and.. no cooling effect observed.
Compressor runs, pressure dropped to almost zero. 
Suspected obstruction in the system.
I cut thin tube and observed how pressure pushing oil BACK from evaporator, but no flow from high side.
I opened filter-dryer and found nice liquid refrigerant fountain out of it. 
Dipper look showed the thin tube was soldered shut.

Filter and all system soldered back.
Now it works! Evaporator is really cold! but... will see in a week :-)

Icing evaporator ;-)


 

But lowest temperature I was able to reach in  ice chest is +8.2C. Not so good, but lid is not sealed and and box insulation need to be repaired. Actually it was "dry run" 

Looks I need to add some fan to circulate air in the box for better cooling.

 Electrical 

Installed terminal blocks on the back side of fuse box and terminated wires to there.



 

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