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Originally Posted by pachai
Can you use soapy water from a spray bottle?
(That's how they find leaks on tires... :-)
Then you don't have to immerse a partly
electric device...
Seth
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Seth,
Thanks for your suggestion. I did try the soap-bubbles method previously and I couldn't find the leak.
...and you're right about the electronic part, but that is all easily detachable from the top of the compressor (one nut & three spade connectors), leaving nothing but hermetically-sealed mechanical parts.
The problem is that the leak is really small, about 2% a day, so I'm afraid I'll need to use extreme methods.
In the meantime, I'm running daily tests and carefully monitoring COP, to determine what the most efficient refrigerant charge level is. So far, the COP is still climbing.
Regards,
-AC_Hacker