Advice Water Cooler Servicing

[Andrew]

Thanks for the suggestions guys.

[DanielP]

Nothing wrong with using your old one as-is. No need for the cooling portion to be working.

[Bullwinkle]

click could also be a normal relay function - shorts tend to pop breakers - gfi will blow before an internal fuse will

if you have a link to the schematics I can offer insight - if not use a voltmeter too trace out the fault.

compressors rarely short out.

[Andrew]

Mr Winkle:

Any chance you would be open to have me pay you for your time to take a look at said machine for your technical judgement? If that is something you are willing to do I can bring the machine around to wherever you suggest.

And that ain't no Bull

Andrew

[ericlp]

Do you own a refrigerator? Try a pitcher of water a bunch of 1 gallon jugs of water in the bottom shelf of the fridge. I use 4 1 gallon plastic milk jugs that work great for me. I put three on the bottom shelf, and one on the top for easy access. When it get's empty I pull a new jug from the bottom to the top and slide the other two over so I always have fresh, cold water to drink.

Water Coolers can suck down (depending one use) about half a killawatt a day. That adds up in a hurry with our power rates. That's about half of what my refrigerator uses alone.




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[Bullwinkle]

I noted you # so if you like you can remove it from the post to keep it from the search engines.

Make and model? ..... I'll see if I can find a service manual and whether it has a it has a "board" and circuitry

schematics save 99% of the work.

[Andrew]

Addi Model Addi-508ED
SN: 0508 10505 0488
Refrigerant 1,20 oz R134A
120V - 60Hz 1.2A

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[Bullwinkle]

thx - plenty to choose from - I'll do some research in the next day or two this look like the oasis version?

see diagram a-2 http://www.caitechnologies.com/images/pd...manual.pdf

[Andrew]

Not sure about Oasis. The logo on the front says Addi. Unfortunately I didn't keep the original paper work.

Edited to add: The unit in question has cooled and room temperature water delivery. It doesn't have a heated water feature.

Edited again to add photos: http://nisbet.net/cooler.htm
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[Bullwinkle]

Here is a unit much like yours and does hot water as well for $99.00 I think its really easy to spend a 100.00 on parts and shipping. Think it makes sense to replace it? In the meantime I havent been able to find addi / culligan parts or prints anywhere ....

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Primo-Hot-Cold...t_interest&action_type=title&placement_id=irs_top&strategy=PWVUB&visitor_id=77267068480&category=0%3A4044%3A90548%3A104899&client_guid=5599427a-53fc-47cc-a32b-058c6d1bea16&config_id=2&parent_item_id=29202542&guid=0a198ca7-5747-461e-aa69-7f7e170c2059&bucket_id=irsbucketdefault&findingMethod=p13n