Condenser turns into an accumulator.

[[XC] 2long4u]

Has anyone tried this? I was thinking about using one row of condenser material for an accumulator to boil off any remaining refrigerant. :confused:

[star882]

Seems wasteful to me.
Why not just leave a section of pipe uninsulated with a drip pan under it as an evaporator to cool the case?

[DetroitAC]

boiling off extra refrigerant for no useful purpose is not an accumulator, it's a, erm...waste-o-matic

In order to be accumulator, it must accumulate.

[n00b 0f l337]

Hahahhaa and your adding alot of load ;)
Not to mention that refrigerants for cooling the compressor.

[PhilippF]

I think you could use a SLHX for the same purpose and even gain a little power.

[{.bLanK} GoD]

I think you could use a SLHX for the same purpose and even gain a little power.

You think?
Thermodynamics is not a guessing game.
Walt would slap you silly. :slap:

[SoddemFX]

I think you could use a SLHX for the same purpose and even gain a little power.

You think?
Thermodynamics is not a guessing game.
Walt would slap you silly. :slap:

I agree with what he said, he used the wrong word power instead of capacity but apart from a typo it's true and will eliminate a certain extent of liquid return.

before found this article and it's good, it assumes no pressure drop over the heat exchanger but i think this is reasonably fair for a short tube in tube exchanger like people use here some times.

http://www.irc.wisc.edu/file.php?id=49

Tom