nateman_doo

a phase change is PERFECT for school, since you don't pay the electric bill ;)

JaskarnSidhu

Halo_003

That's cool! What about if I stuck a water loop in to cool it? Would that work?

What do you mean stuck a water loop in to cool it? Where are you sticking the water loop? around the water cooled condenser?

The water cooled condenser has 2 paths in it. One path is for the refrigerant to flow, where it rejects or releases the heat. The second path is where the water flows and it absorbs or picks up the heat from the refrigerant.

If you wanted a closed circuit as your water loop you could do that, but your temps would be pretty high....and you would need a lot of rads to dissipate the heat as the condenser is discharging 85F constantly. As your condensing temps rise, so does your head pressure on the high side of the system....but now we are getting deep into the function of a refrigerated system which we dont need to be.

If you have access to your school water supply and a drain near by, just use that. Fresh, cool water from the supply absorbs the heat from the refrigeration system and discharges into the drain.

Short of that, you can use a closed circuit loop similar to that of one used in a water cooled computer, but you would need many many radiators, or a few big ones at the very least.

Halo_003

Sounds pretty neat, that was exactly what I was talking about, nice find. Thanks for the info.