Blinky's first Phase Change cooler

[blinky]

i just finished building a single stage cooler, ive been working on for a month or two now. it started when i found a drink chiller in back of a bar, and took it home, and ripped out the compressor and condenser, it uses a tecumseh 1hp hermetic compressor. so thats more than enough power for my purposes :)

heres how the chiller looked when i brought it home:

http://blinky.evilspork.net/files/CPUcooler/dd1.JPG


all the tools i bought to work on phase change :)

http://blinky.evilspork.net/files/CPUcooler/dd2.jpg


i practiced my brazing skills by making a high side loop to prevent harsh vibrations:

http://blinky.evilspork.net/files/CPUcooler/dd3.jpg


heres everything brazed up except the filter/drier...

http://blinky.evilspork.net/files/CPUcooler/dd4.jpg


heres everything brazed up ready to be charged :)

http://blinky.evilspork.net/files/CPUcooler/dd5.jpg


heres the propane bottle adapter i made :D

http://blinky.evilspork.net/files/CPUcooler/dd10.JPG


heres my vacuum pump, its a 5k btu rotary from an A/C that i made a semi working chiller from :(, now its doin its proper duty in life :)

http://blinky.evilspork.net/files/CPUcooler/dd11.JPG


heres the cooler being charged up and ran for the first time:

http://blinky.evilspork.net/files/CPUcooler/dd6.JPG


heres a close up of the cooler runnin:

http://blinky.evilspork.net/files/CPUcooler/dd7.JPG


heres the nice temps we got...
http://blinky.evilspork.net/files/CPUcooler/dd8.JPG
not bad for propane...
thats with -20psi suction, and 95 psi high side, its pretty undercharged but nice for low temp shots... ill tune it when i get a load to tune it on (A64 setup)


the mad scientists (blinky and sheograth):

http://blinky.evilspork.net/files/CPUcooler/dd9.JPG


im using propane right now, but soon i hope to buy r402a and use that (as soon as i get my EPA certs... :mad:)

thanks to chilly1 for helpin me out all the way with this and sendin me parts :)

im new to phase change building, but im really excited about it, and hope to build more stuff in the future, you guys have inspired me :)

[Unseen]

very nice bro :) You will have small difference between idle / load with 1hp+chillys evap.

How long is the capillary?

[Coyote]

nice job blinky, hope to see it cooling a cpu soon.

[runmc]

Nice rig blinky :D Keep it up

[JSU]

nice, i finaly get to see some of your work :D

[afireinside]

Bleh I started before you and your further than me. I better get off my ass :p:

[shadowing]

Cool! Not bad for a first attempt. :)

[Malachia]

my friend, exellent work!

we can made a change, you buy a mapp torch for me(here a lot expensives), and i can provide you all refrigerants you whant(here are free, i can get all i whant, i only need to pay :D )

[blinky]

Nice rig blinky :D Keep it up
thanks man, it means a lot coming from you :)


nice, i finaly get to see some of your work :D
me, you and afireinside are the young people into phase change, hehe


Bleh I started before you and your further than me. I better get off my ass :p:keep pushin man :)


my friend, exellent work!

we can made a change, you buy a mapp torch for me(here a lot expensives), and i can provide you all refrigerants you whant(here are free, i can get all i whant, i only need to pay :D )YGPM

[Sheograth]

:).

[JSU]

berkut is young also ;)

[gkiing]

Looks good, but a bit undercharged. Try adding more gas in through the low side till its running 4" mercury with nothing on the evap.

[blinky]

very nice bro :) You will have small difference between idle / load with 1hp+chillys evap.

How long is the capillary?93 inches....



Looks good, but a bit undercharged. Try adding more gas in through the low side till its running 4" mercury with nothing on the evap.
yah, i know ;) im waiting to fully charge it until i get a load (CPU) to tune it on

[conrad.maranan]

Great job on a first effort, regardless of your age. I'll be 30 years old in less than 3 months and I definitely do not have what it takes to do what you've accomplished. That's what I have Reggie (chilly1) for. :D

Cheers!
:toast:

[zakelwe]

The coldest I ever get is the ice in my gin and tonic so I'm pretty impressed whenever someobdy does this sort of thing.

Is it for cpu or gpu and will you post some results in the 3dmark forum for us to peer at ? Personally I'd like to see a 6600GT on phase with large volts .. 700Mhz maybe ?

Regards

Andy

[blinky]

The coldest I ever get is the ice in my gin and tonic so I'm pretty impressed whenever someobdy does this sort of thing.

Is it for cpu or gpu and will you post some results in the 3dmark forum for us to peer at ? Personally I'd like to see a 6600GT on phase with large volts .. 700Mhz maybe ?

Regards

Andy
hehe, you read my mind andy :D

yah i got 2 6600gts here, im gonna pick the best clocker, and sell the other, and while this cooler is for the CPU, im building a GPU cooler shortly :)

only thing is my cpu will be a mobile A64 3000 1mb, so while i could hit 3ghz+, i couldnt compete with gocchin's 3.28ghz fx :(, ill have to tweak reeeeeally well :)

[conrad.maranan]

I wonder if the other cards in nVIDIA's 6 series are also nit-picky when it comes to the cold. It'd be nice to see what you can pull off, though. ;)

[reject]

blinky you own! soon im going to be buildning my 1 stage with kayl to help :)
hope to see some loaded temps from you soon

[blinky]

I wonder if the other cards in nVIDIA's 6 series are also nit-picky when it comes to the cold. It'd be nice to see what you can pull off, though. ;)if theyre picky ill beat em into submission :upset:


blinky you own! soon im going to be buildning my 1 stage with kayl to help :)
hope to see some loaded temps from you soonnice!, ill look forward to seeing it, kayl is a master with the bbq propane :)