"Flying Pig" wrote in message
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I'm leaving out the various conversations from contributors just to not get
in a ****ing match :{))

Richard Kollmann, a reasonably respected marine refrigeration guy, has been
playing this tune for quite a while.

The overheat function is supposed to be in the controller which, if IT'S
cool enough, won't do anything. If the outgoing gas (with minute traces of
oil in it, of course) gets hot enough (as apparently it did, based on my
having to replace an o-ring on the high pressure connector), it doesn't have
to be in the compressor to change state, either. So, unless whomever your
builder is had put in a sensor IN/ON the compressor, an overheat might well
be missed.

Well, that sure is a defective engineering design. It's a simple
matter to place a thermostat in or on the condenser which, when
it reaches a preset critical temperature, switches the unit off.

An overheat failsafe that's elsewhere is African engineering at best.

Frigoboat should be ashamed of such an inferior design.

--
Sir Gregory