Any tips to speed up defrosting a walk in? No clock no heaters. The map gas takes forever.
Walk in defrosting tips.
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Any tips to speed up defrosting a walk in? No clock no heaters. The map gas takes forever.
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Water nothing faster
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heat gun
Ah, memories of time spent in a jacket and short pants, defrosting walk ins with a hand held pump sprayer. It's nice when the place has a heated water tap for coffee. Too hot will mess up the o rings in the pump sprayer though. And make sure the drain is clear and not frozen over first. If it's plugged you'll make a mess on the floor and maybe some product.
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sump pump and a garbage can work good
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How often does this happen to this WIR?
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Sprayer , or hair dryer
I dunno why , but a torch takes forever
I dunno why , but a torch takes forever
All the time lol
1. assuming there is one...kill power to LLSV
2. allow unit to pump down and go off on low pressure
3. ensure that evaporator fans are still running
4. below
2. allow unit to pump down and go off on low pressure
3. ensure that evaporator fans are still running
4. below
I'm starting to think about using one of those methods instead of map gas....
Are they really much quicker?
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Hot water 100%
Never catch me with a torch/heat gun again. Haven't used one in years.
My heat gun only touches gaskets now!
In all honesty, it doesn't even need to be scalding hot. Room temp water works better (faster) than a torch. Added benefit of no burnt wires!
Never catch me with a torch/heat gun again. Haven't used one in years.
My heat gun only touches gaskets now!
In all honesty, it doesn't even need to be scalding hot. Room temp water works better (faster) than a torch. Added benefit of no burnt wires!
I have found that the torch flame sort of bounces off the ice rather than heating it.
The real issue is to solve the icing problem. Placing a solid state sensor, or two, in the fins of the coil for complete defrost sensing and termination may solve a lot of icing in the future and let you get on with less messy jobs.
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Thank you all for the suggestions. The fix was easy this time. Defrost clock was bad.
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Heat guns are good for gaskets, useless for frozen coils!
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Are you using water in freezers? I can say for sure the heat gun SUCKS! Alot slower than MAPP gas. I work at a plasma donation center where the freezer is at -32 to -40 degrees! Would the water work there too? Obviously, the freezer is not running, but everything in there is freezing cold. If they can do with out the freezer for a day or night, I've shut it off and put a heater in the box. Next morning all clear.
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