In a different application I used the guts salvaged from a wall mounted water
drinking fountain. It was less then a year old and cost me $25. After
I was done I got
something like $10 for my scrap dealer for the stainless steel
housing. I now wish I
had taken all five of them.
-pete
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Gary Schafer <garyschafer@comcast.net> wrote:
> If you are going to go to all that trouble to lower the boiling point why
> not just use a small air conditioning system with the evaporator as the heat
> sink.
>
> 73
> Gary K4FMX
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: amps-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces@contesting.com]
>> On Behalf Of Joe Subich, W4TV
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 11:25 AM
>> To: amps@contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: [Amps] amps with vacuum pumps
>>
>>
>> In most cases, heat pipe systems (and that's what one would have with
>> an evacuated vapor system) require a secondary heat exchanger. The
>> low pressure system moves the heat from where it's generated to a
>> heat exchanger where it is transferred to a second cooling medium that
>> can be moved a longer way to the final heat exchanger.
>>
>> The rigid pipes and initial heat exchanger might be a construction and
>> maintenance issue for amateur equipment - and probably not worth the
>> incremental performance vs. a more traditional radiator/reservoir
>> design.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> ... Joe, W4TV
>>
>>
>> On 5/2/2012 11:12 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
>> > Perhaps someone with practical experience can comment on whether it is
>> > hard to maintain a 1 PSI vacuum in a vapor system.
>> >
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