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Advanced Scroll Temperature Protection Overview

This document describes Advanced Scroll Temperature Protection (ASTP), an internal protection device for scroll compressors. It provides the following benefits: 1. Directly monitors internal compressor temperatures to protect against overheating from issues like fan failures, without external wires or circuitry. 2. Automatically unloads the compressor under high heat to prevent damage, while still running the motor to dissipate heat, until temperatures drop and it can restart. 3. Reliably protects against typical causes of overheating like low refrigerant flow, without needing external temperature sensors that can be inaccurate or bypassed.

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Advanced Scroll Temperature Protection Overview

This document describes Advanced Scroll Temperature Protection (ASTP), an internal protection device for scroll compressors. It provides the following benefits: 1. Directly monitors internal compressor temperatures to protect against overheating from issues like fan failures, without external wires or circuitry. 2. Automatically unloads the compressor under high heat to prevent damage, while still running the motor to dissipate heat, until temperatures drop and it can restart. 3. Reliably protects against typical causes of overheating like low refrigerant flow, without needing external temperature sensors that can be inaccurate or bypassed.

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Advanced Scroll Temperature

Protection (ASTP)
Advanced Scroll Temperature Protection (ASTP)
Goals

• Discharge temperature (overheat) protection that is:

• In-direct contact with key components


INTERNAL
• Unable to be bypassed

AUTOMATIC • No wires, relays, or circuitry to manage

• Protects against all typical causes of


RELIABLE
scroll overheating

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Advanced Scroll Temperature Protection (ASTP)
Cause of Scroll Overheating

• Typical causes of scroll overheating:

• Fan failures, loss of charge, blocked expansion


System malfunctions devices

Low suction pressures • Improper system charging (see page 8)


(no gas flow; heat not • Out of envelope operation
carried away) • Bypassed low pressure controls

• External devices inaccurate, internal temps;


Missing, bypassed, or often much higher
poorly placed external
• Temporarily bypassing devices leads to damage
protection devices (initial damage results in failures later)

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Advanced Scroll Temperature Protection (ASTP)
Internal View

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Advanced Scroll Temperature Protection (ASTP)
Bi-metal Disk Positions

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Advanced Scroll Temperature Protection (ASTP)
Operation

Bi-metal disk opens when critical internal temperature is reached (around


300°F/150°C)

Compressor “unloads” but continues to run


Motor heat builds inside No refrigerant flow to carry motor
“Balanced pressure” operation
compressor heat away

Motor protector opens


Compressor turns off, cools

Motor protector resets, compressor restarts


Bi-metal disk resets before motor protector Cycle will continue until cause of overheat is fixed

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Advanced Scroll Temperature Protection (ASTP)
What To Do?

• If a protected compressor is identified:

1 STOP THE COMPRESSOR

2 ALLOW TO COOL THOROUGHLY

3 RESTART PUMP AND CHECK FOR NORMAL OPERATION

DO NOT ASSUME A COMPRESSOR RUNNING UNLOADED


(BALANCED PRESSURES) IS A FAILURE
Presentation name (update in Slide Master) 7
Advanced Scroll Temperature Protection (ASTP)
Recommended Cool-Down Time

• The longer the compressor runs unloaded, the longer it must cool
before the bi-metal disk resets

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Advanced Scroll Temperature Protection (ASTP)
Possible Field Scenarios

• Likely situations where protection may activate:

Initial system charging (or recharging after servicing)


1
• Compressor is run with too little system charge
➢ Very common on split systems
➢ Will result in very low suction pressures (< 25 PSIG)
➢ Do not disable low pressure cutouts while charging

Field servicing (system problem causes overheating)


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➢ Technician will observe “balanced pressures”
➢ Risk of misdiagnosis as failed compressor
➢ Must stop pump, cool thoroughly and reset

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Advanced Scroll Temperature Protection (ASTP)
Availability

• ASTP is in various commercial scroll models that will be identified with


a label on the compressor

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