Maintenance & Common Faults

Refrigeration plant rarely fails loudly. It degrades: a film of dirt on a condenser here, a few hundred grams of refrigerant lost there, a sensor drifting a degree over a summer. The cooling still arrives, so nobody complains, and the electricity meter quietly absorbs the cost. Managing that degradation is worth 10 to 20% of a typical system's consumption, and this lesson covers the faults that matter, how they announce themselves, and the legal duties that come with refrigerants.