Yong Heng after piston replacement

[bigHUN]

I have finished my basement during vaccine hysteria, and my YH workshop got out to my garage.
I made a dedicated 30A plug for it.
Also, running a continuous water in the bucket from a garden hose. No bs radiator upgrades or ice packs, but I can see my water separator dual towers pulling an impressive moisture from the ambient air.

 

[JimD]

My YH resides in a small room off my car garage. It has a dedicated spot in the corner. The breaker box is in the same room. I used the YH and it's water pump and fans all powered by one outlet in that room via a power strip with a 15A fuse. Worked fine for several years. But the YH was broken in by the time I set this up and I think that reduced it's peak demand. After I replaced the piston, the demand was higher and the YH alone was too much for the power strip breaker. So it is plugged into an outlet on a different circuit in the nearby car garage. It works for now. I can add another outlet closer to the YH and I will if it's demand doesn't drop soon. I'm not sure if that will take a few more bottle fills or several years of use. When I decide to mess with running the wire (opening up the wall is the bigger issue) is probably the main determining factor. If I decide to work on it I will test to be sure there is still a problem and if there is, I'll fix it.

I'm mainly pleased that it doesn't struggle to get the bottle to 300 bar now. I can deal with higher electric demand.

 

[JimD]

I did a more normal fill tonight. Bottle was at 3100 and I filled it to 300 bar in about 25 minutes. That's about as good as my YH has ever done. The only issue is the temperature. The room it is in was at 27.1 C when I started and the YH was at about 65 C when I finished. I had 4 soda bottles of ice in the water for the whole time the pump was on. They still had ice in them when I shut it off. So I think I will put the ice in the water 15 minutes or so before I start next time. I'd like the temperature to stay below 60 C but I don't know if that is reasonably possible, at least until it gets better broken in. I will also try and have a couple more frozen bottles for the next run.