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Old 01-20-15, 01:57 AM   #32
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Originally Posted by RB855 View Post
...Discovered that the evaporator between a heatpump and straight cool model differed. The heatpump coil, which I was using, had the suction coming off the air downstream of the coil, which was not very good at extracting all the available superheat. The a/c version has the suction on the front of the coil, allowing higher coil capacities as the superheat could be set much lower. So of course, I changed the coil. Fixed my txv hunting issues and increased system capacity. I achieved almost the same btu at 54*F ambient, as I was getting before in the mid 70s!
Thanks for sharing your results.

Is there any way that you could show with photos what you mean regarding, "The heatpump coil, which I was using, had the suction coming off the air downstream of the coil..."

This is really good info that everybody needs too understand.

Great work!

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