You need to pull the refrig and pressurize with nitrogen to find leaks. Your Purge can't keep up with the air leaking in.
Did I understand you correctly, did you put a whole new purge unit on. If so, maybe the restrictor is plugged in pump-out line,or there is so much air that pumpout...
I don't really care for them to much. Once you start them up (commission), they don't give you any problems. I don't really care for that, as I make a living servicing HVAC equip.
Now ask me about York Chillers, I love them.
To calc actual flow thru a bundle we have been using this formula. ((Design GPM)X (SQRT(actual delta P/Design deltaP)))
Below is the EXCEL spreadsheet formula out of a log I use to log chillers. E204 is design GPM off of submittals
C205 is entry for actual delta P read off gages
C204 is...
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Trust me, word gets around who designs the good plants and which ones...
After working on numerous aircooled and water cooled chillers with sound blankets on compressors I can tell you they are a pain in the *** to remove and put back on. They never go back on as well as they originally did or should.
My advice from a service standpoint is to go with the wall...