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Old 06-04-19, 11:08 AM   #49
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Default 2 years, 10 months, 20 days later..

Like sands through the hour glass, so are the days of our lives..
Where does the time (and the R410a) go?

I turned on the old Santa Fe and it was still working. And, it was also still leaking R410a.
It was drying out the basement. The air-output was 20 to 25 deg F warmer than the room temp.
When it stopped running, I used the leak detector and got a lot of beeps at the bottom of the removable side panel.
The amount of water coming out of the unit was a bit lower than normal.

Last night, I hooked up a 4 oz can of Enviro-Safe Proseal up to the port and attempted to shoot in about 1 oz.
Not sure how much made it into the system, since the can still felt like it was full.
I didn't want to put in too much, since the Santa Fe only takes 23 oz of R410a.

I ran it for a while and then added about 10 oz of R410a. It worked fine overnight.
The Enviro-Safe Proseal seems to have worked. No trace of leakage!
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