TURBO COMPRESSOR WORKS
Want to learn more about what we do?
Here’s what a normal day looks like for us.
- We were called out to a client to evaluate failed Turbocor compressors over 2 chillers; 4 compressors in total.
- On arrival, we found one Compressor electrically failed with the another Compressor manually locked out on the controller, the other 2 compressors were runners.
- We began by carrying out investigations on Compressor 1, resulting in the discovery of a soft-start card with a broken capacitor and a blown fast blow fuse.
- We diagnosed a failed Magnetic Bearing on the second compressor; which unfortunately is terminal. To get compressor 1 running again, we commandeered this compressor soft-start card.
- Our next step was to carry out bearing calibration on the now 3 running compressors – as it hadn’t been done since July 2016 to any of the Compressors! We saved this to EEPROM & downloaded fault logs of the 3 Compressors.
- Next, we ran all three compressors up but were unable to get them to 100% due to low cooling load. Luckily, the refrigerant charge looked all okay
Simple.
And did we mention we did all this in just five hours?
Want to know what to do if you’re ever in that situation? Other than call us (of course), we’d recommend:
- Carry out regular Bearing Calibrations to head off any magnetic Bear Plague build-ups that cause premature failures
- A chemical clean on air cooled condenser coil heat exchangers for maximum efficiencies
- Keep your Pressure relief valves certified as to keep your Insurance company happy and YOU’RE site street legal.
