Maintenance of ATW Heat Pumps
What should an Aquarea Panasonic heat pump inspection look like?
To properly perform a Panasonic Aquarea home heat pump inspection, the company should have special competences, including extensive service experience, the right tools, appropriate theoretical and practical knowledge, and a qualified team of service technicians.
Unfortunately, our experience and statistics show that about 80% of companies installing heat pumps do not have the appropriate training, experience, and knowledge.
Often, the investor finds out that there is no guarantee because the installation was performed by a company without the manufacturer's authorization and does not have basic knowledge and has never even been to training.
It should be remembered that one of the basic conditions of the guarantee is that the installation is performed by an authorized Panasonic company, which is then responsible for servicing the installed pump during the warranty period.
Unfortunately, it sometimes happens that the investor buys a heat pump on their own, a plumber friend installs the device and at the time of failure it turns out that there is no longer a guarantee for the device and no one wants to undertake the diagnosis
That is why choosing the right installation and service company is so important at the very beginning!
Panasonic Aquarea Home Heat Pump Inspection Scope
The Aquarea heat pump inspection is performed at least once a year.
The inspection of a home heat pump consists of a number of service activities:
- Closing the shut-off valves and draining the indoor unit (checking the operation of the air vent).
- Checking/topping up the pressure in the expansion tank (min 0.8 bar)
- Cleaning the heat pump water inlet filters
- Cleaning the evaporator in the outdoor unit
- Checking the condition of the magnesium anode in the DHW tank (enamelled tanks)
- Checking the tightness of the refrigeration system (flare connections) - split:
- Checking the patency of the condensate drainage from the unit:
- Checking the condition of vibration isolating pads in the external unit
- Checking if the fan rotates without resistance
- Filling the indoor unit and checking for water tightness
- Checking the electrical connections in the device (terminals) – enter the voltage values.
- Checking the operation of executive elements
- (3d valve, circulation pumps, mixing valves)
- Checking the water flow during operation in central heating and domestic hot water mode
- Checking dT during operation (difference in water temperature at the inlet and outlet of the device):
- Preparation of tightness control documentation for units entered into the CRO