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Subject:Re: AC Thermostat
From:Mike Collum
Date:Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:25:19 -0400

Kim Brennan wrote:
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If an AC is icing up, it is usually due to too little refrigerant. The
low pressure switches on our Vanagons should prevent that from occurring.
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Just for clarification ... the older Vanagons with dealer or port of
entry installed airconditioning don't have the low pressure cut-out
switches unless they were added later.  Neither my '84 7 passenger nor
my '85 Westy have low pressure cut-out switches.  That means that my
compressors will run even when there is NO refrigerant charge, which is
a bad thing, so I have to be mindful and careful of such a situation.

Mike