With summer winding down, it’s a good time to look ahead to cooler weather and consider a low ambient situation. In this troubleshooting problem, you’re following up on a complaint from a restaurant manager that one of the ice machines in his high-volume establishment isn’t producing enough ice. There are two identical machines in this installation. Both are remote condenser type and are of the same age, having been installed ten years ago in the same section of the kitchen. Preventive maintenance has been performed regularly, and the remote condensers are located on the same area of the roof.
The restaurant manager reports that from the middle of the day through the afternoon, the cubes from the problem ice machine seem incomplete, although they are nearly as plentiful as the identical unit that’s operating properly.