Ian
Notorious member
I spent all afternoon talking to Carrier about some mobile AC parts for a reefer unit. Turns out I had learned and understood more about the system in five minutes just looking at the thing than the entire staff of a Carrier service center could tell me with all the data plate info. Trying to buy a compressor when the yo-yos at Carrier couldn't tell the difference between six different possibilities and didn't even know if they BTU rating mattered (they never thought of it) or number of lines mattered (it has three). Fortunately I 'phoned a friend' who's an AC God and he was able to come to the shop and figure out the BTU rating doing some math on the condenser and evaporator, and confirm it's a 404 system and not R-134a like the stickers plastered all over the compressor, dryer, and evaporator say it is. Now I'm gonna go home and service the transmission on my Toyota, something I can do without having to rely on anyone else's input 'cuz I got my OWN parts and CORRECT Aisin T-IV fluid.