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Anytime we do a compressor replacement on any out of warranty unit, I put a Copeland scroll in it. Even the American Standard units with the big orange cans get a Copeland scroll with a homemade mounting plate.
They work flawlessly.
Same here... Scrolls are the best design IMO, and the local supply houses have a lot more Copelands than any other brand.

Now the vending machines are a different story... generally I use Tecumseh.. mostly the AEA4440.
 
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Same here... Scrolls are the best design IMO, and the local supply houses have a lot more Copelands than any other brand.

Now the vending machines are a different story... generally I use Tecumseh.. mostly the AEA4440.
I have installed embraco, Tecumseh, and I have used the Chinese made Supco 990 in domestic refrigerator freezers.
 
This is just my spider-sense for it - but I have a suspicion that a fixed, closed, factory-assembled, packaged system, especially as close-coupled as is a window unit or other smallish appliance, is a much easier duty than is a field-assembled split system.

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Window shakers tolerate it well.
 
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Window shakers tolerate it well.
They usually use capillary. Their cyclic EER is considerably lower than continuous EER and the difference is worse than a modern split system.

Scroll by design is self-unloading, so you can use a non-bleed TXV which improves start-up time and decreases efficiency loss from reduced run-time. Rotary would need to use a high starting torque setup that can pull up against full head pressure, so to maintain efficiency and start torque, it will have to be CSCR. One member might suggest some adjustable speed drive using his own proprietary hush hush super secret proprietary DSP software code.
 
I would imagine a vending machine uses a rotary vane comp. ?
So far in my exposure to them (a couple of years)... They are all recips.

Mostly I see Embraco's and an occasional Daiken.

The Tecumseh's seem to be a little tougher... and they cost more... go figure... :)
 
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Used to be in the SB line... the 'B' means builder grade.

Not surprising the cheapest pump goes in there... and R&D in the field happens there also... :)
 
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The newest version of the 4TTB3030 will have an Alliance scroll. Anything with a rotary would have to be a field test, not a production unit.

COMPRESSOR; SCROLL, ALLIANCE, SXA025C1CPA, 2.08 TON, 208V-230V/60/1, R-410A, 3/4 SUCTION, 1/2 DISCHARGE, STUB TUBE, BLACK
 
Copeland invented the Compliant Scroll, they live and breathe it. They understand it intimately. Buying anything else is accepting a cheap, reverse-engineered knockoff.
 
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According to my research, a French guy Léon Creux first patented a scroll compressor in 1905 in France and the US (Patent number 801182). I'd have to look further to confirm Copeland was the first to make them. Certainly the first to mass market them. Somewhere I think I read Daikin was early in scrolls but I'll have to keep looking.
 
According to my research, a French guy Léon Creux first patented a scroll compressor in 1905 in France and the US (Patent number 801182). I'd have to look further to confirm Copeland was the first to make them. Certainly the first to mass market them. Somewhere I think I read Daikin was early in scrolls but I'll have to keep looking.
we will give Copeland 100% credit.
 
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