After restarting flow to the solenoid yesterday in // cold return mode
TIC121 just refused to go lower than about 29K even when we closed CV155
all the way. Tried various things, switching to // warm return, changing
opening of CV155, setting TIC121 to auto, even tapping TIC121. Finally
tried reducing flow to solenoid by reducing // warm return valves to about
70% open to see if possible to cool just refrigerator a bit.
TIC121 temp fell a bit and then inlet temperatures to solenoid began to
fall and solenoid slowly began to cool even though the mass flow to the
solenoid was reduced. Guess is that with solenoid homogeneusly at about 30K
there was not much resistance to flow so turbine massflow was starved just
enough to stall further cooling.
After temps were on a good downward trend Doug switched to //cold return.
At about 16:00 yesterday I reduced CV155 to about 70% and waited a bit to
confirm that temps were falling and then left the system to cool until
later that evening. |