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Old 08-07-14, 09:15 AM   #208
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Originally Posted by gtojohn View Post
I thought r209 is a drop in for r22. Very close to the same pressure temperatures. So new metering device. If its a piston that can be super quick. Sounds like you know your refrigeration. One of the reasons I found this site was the r209 info.
It is R290, not R209... it's like the difference between fog and fgo.

If you have already an R22 system it is pretty much a drop in replacement. You don't even need to change the metering device.

oil pan 4 is starting off with a R410 system. I haven't tried this conversion, but the characteristics of R290 and R410 are not close. Different compressors, different lubricants, different HX sizes, different metering device sizes, different P-V curves.

There is someone on this forum who hasn't tried it either, who say it will work great.

That person isn't me.

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