What's wrong with my Chiller?

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Temp degree is jumping up and down between .2-.5 degree difference. Chiller is JBJ 1/4, do I need to replace some part?
 

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Have you tried cleaning, the coils
 

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I don’t use thermostat from the chiller I usually take it out and by pass it to a on and off plug 🔌
And use my controller to take care of it same for my heaters too, more thermostats more problems 🧐
 
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Do you not have an apex?

Also I do remember it tank being in the garage right? Well I know some chillers have a heat protection device built in. So say the air that is passing throw the radiator is hotter then 96 degrees the chiller will go into heat protection mode. The fan may still run but the Freon isn’t passing throw the compressor and radiator and not cooling the coils inside the water reservoir.
 
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Yep, it's in the garage. I have a fan blowing on it all day for airflow by the door. I'll clean it up to see how it goes this weekend.
 

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try taking it offline and setup a 5 gal bucket of water and citric acid powder pumping through it for an hour.
 

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