How cold is your Air Con

Re: How cold is your Air Con

Postby Longranger1 on Mon Jan 30, 2023 2:30 pm

That's awesome!
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Re: How cold is your Air Con

Postby Longranger1 on Tue Jan 31, 2023 4:34 pm

What bypass valve did you use RHK?

This sounds like an excellent mod, especially for those in North Queensland.
I've seen a few valves on the 'bay I guess it would be one that best lines up with the hose entries at the firewall.
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Re: How cold is your Air Con

Postby RHKTriton on Wed Feb 01, 2023 7:27 am

The one I used is spec'd for VN Commodore from memory. Vacuum operated.

As I don't use the flappy valve in the inlet manifold, I use the solenoid valve for this to control the vacuum, with a seperate switch. Works a treat.

My AC hasn't been touched since built, 08.

As I run a thermo fan, the condenser is dependant on the condenser fan. I can manually fire up the radiator fan on demand.
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Re: How cold is your Air Con

Postby Longranger1 on Thu Feb 02, 2023 2:44 am

I just received the new condensor fan to install in my son's ML (did my MN ages ago). It will be slaved via a relay off the a/c clutch as the wiring that is plug and play on the MN doesn't exist.
The heater bypass valve set up you have done is elegant. I haven't yet done the cleaning of the manifolds on his ml but let's just say that the manifolds wont deteriorate any further.
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Re: How cold is your Air Con

Postby RHKTriton on Sat Feb 04, 2023 8:06 am

Slaving the condenser fan using the compressor feed as the control works perfectly fine and meets the KISS principle.
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