Symptom: Thermostat In Off Continues Or Cycles Off & On Too Frequently - Panasonic S-36PU1E5A Technical Data & Service Manual

5-5. Symptom: Thermostat in OFF continues or cycles OFF & ON too frequently
1. How to detect abnormality
• Abnormality does not occur. Protective function can be checked when the outdoor maintenance remote controller is
connected.
2. Error Diagnosis
1 Indoor control
Setting temperature reaches the level set ON thermostat.
PC board
1-1 Setting temperature is too low in heating mode and too high
in cooling and dry mode.
Check if the sensors are connected correctly.
Are all connection made properly?
1-2 Room temp. (TA) in yellow, heat exchanger (E1) in red,
heat exchanger (E2) in black, heat exchanger (E3) in brown,
air outlet (BL) in green
1-3 DISP (display mode) is applied.
With a thermostat OFF in heating mode, wind speed
1-4 (item code 05) is out of range 0 - 6. (Use Simple Setting
Function on standard timer remote controller.)
1-5 DEMAND is applied.
Outdoor unit and protective function of a system are operating.
2 Outdoor
control (Connect outdoor maintenance remote controller to RC socket
2-1
PC board on outdoor unit main control PC board and check alarm
messages.)
Discharge temperature is over 80°C in stop mode and does not
decrease. (Connect outdoor maintenance remote controller to
2-2
RC socket on outdoor unit main control PC board and check
alarm messages.)
Demand value always stays low. (The value is lower than 70.
Excluding -1 (unlimited))(Connect outdoor maintenance remote
2-3
controller to RC socket on outdoor unit main control PC board
and check alarm messages.)
2-4 DEMAND is applied.
3 Control
Demand setting is made by control units (P-AIMS, Seri-Para I/O
3-1
equipment
unit for outdoor unit, Seri-Para I/O each indoor unit.)
4 System When operating in cooling (including auto cooling & heating)
4-1 and dry mode, lowest temp. of indoor E1, E2 and E3 sensor is
less than 2°C (under anti-freeze control).
4-2 During defrosting operation
4-3 Outdoor unit PC board failure → Replacement
According to a type of model, the indoor sensors will not be supplied in some cases.
According to a type of model, the outdoor DEMAND will not be supplied in some cases.
When LINE Checker is used, the temperature sensors can be observed (display, record) simultaneously.
According to some areas, some of the models are unreleased.
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Adjust setting
Yes
temperature
No 1-2
Yes Connect correctly
No 1-3
Yes Turn OFF(OPEN)
No 1-4
Yes Choose one of 0 to 6
No 1-5
Yes Turn OFF(OPEN)
No 2-1
Yes See operational status
No 2-2
Replace discharge
Yes
temperature sensor
No 2-3
Increase values
Yes
(over 70
No 2-4
Yes Turn OFF(OPEN)
No 3-1
Yes Turn OFF
No 4-1
Wait until more than
Yes
2°C reaches
No 4-2
Wait for a few minutes
Yes
to 10 minutes or so
No 4-3
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