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Superheat Talk - Short 133
In this short podcast, Bryan goes over the basics of superheat and explains why it matters to us.
Superheat is the temperature increase above a substance's saturation temperature or boiling point. When a substance is superheated, that means it is 100% vapor; there is no liquid at all. We can look at our superheat to determine how much refrigerant is feeding our evaporator coil.
A lower superheat indicates that our evaporator is more full of refrigerant than a high superheat, meaning that the refrigerant is feeding the evaporator coil well. Generally, a lower superheat value will be more…
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