Additional Refrigerant Charge - York HP Series Service Manual

namely ordinary vacuum drying and special
vacuum drying.
1 Ordinary vacuum drying
 When conduct first vacuum drying, connect
pressure gauge to the infusing mouth of
gas pipe and liquid pipe, and keep vacuum
pump running for 1hour (vacuum degree of
vacuum pump
-755mmHg).
If the vacuum degree of vacuum pump

could not reach -755mmHg after 1 hour of
drying, it indicates that there is moisture or
leakage in pipeline system and need to go
on with drying for half an hour.
 If the vacuum degree of vacuum pump still
could not reach -755mmHg after 1.5 hours
of drying, check whether there is leakage
source.
 Leakage test: After the vacuum degree
reaches -755mmHg, stop vacuum drying
and keep the pressure for 1 hour. If the
indicator of vacuum gauge does not go up,
it is qualified. If going up, it indicates that
there is moisture or leak source.
2 Special vacuum drying
The special vacuum drying method shall be
adopted when:
 Finding moisture
refrigerant pipe.
 Conducting construction on rainy day,
because rain water might penetrated into
pipeline.
 Construction period is long, and rain
water might penetrated into pipeline.
 Rain water might penetrate into pipeline
during construction.
shall be reached
during flushing
Procedures of special vacuum drying are as
follows:
 Vacuum drying for 1 hour.
Vacuum damage, filling nitrogen to reach

0.5Kgf/cm2 .
Because nitrogen is dry gas, vacuum
damage could achieve the effect of
vacuum drying, but this method could not
achieve drying thoroughly when there is
too much moisture. Therefore, special
attention shall be drawn to prevent the
entering of water and the formation of
condensate water.
 Vacuum drying again for half an hour.
If the pressure reaches -755mmHg,start
to pressure leakage test. If it cannot reach
the value, repeat vacuum damage and
vacuum drying again for 1 hour.
 Leakage test: After the vacuum degree
reaches -755mmHg, stop vacuum drying
and keep the pressure for 1 hour. If the
indicator of vacuum gauge does not go up,
it is qualified. If going up, it indicates that
there is moisture or leak source.

13.7 Additional refrigerant charge

 After the vacuum drying process is carried
out, the
process needs to be performed.
 The outdoor unit is factory charged with
refrigerant.
charge volume is decided by the diameter
and length of the liquid pipe between indoor
and outdoor unit. Refer the following
formula to calculate the charge volume.
Diameter of
liquid pipe
(mm)
Formula
V: Additional refrigerant charge volume (g).
L: The length of the liquid pipe (m).
Note:
71
additional refrigerant charge
The additional
Φ6.35 Φ9.52
V=15g/m×(L-7.5) V=30g/m×(L-7.5)
refrigerant