Xtreme air cooling

[(sin)morpheus]

I've been working on the closed a/c box recently. I will soon pair it with my drewmeister DDX system.

I just finished building it and doing a preliminary run with a small 120mm desk fan blowing over the evap to circulate the air inside. The best temp I got was -29.9C. This was done with a 5200btu a/c that I bought at canadian tire. Total cost of the project was under $200 canadian. I will work on it some more and get you guys some load and OC results.

Pictures are in the zip file linked below.

http://xhnet.sytes.net/project.zip

[AKURA]

Nice..I need an A/C also for my rig. It's just blistering hot atm in my room here in T.O....Keep us posted on your results. I might grab one too at Canadian Tire. :D

[Frozendeath]

Looks good sin, Thanks for sharing that.

I have heard of AC boxes but never really saw a design. I take it you need to keep the air dry to prevent the evap from icing up and limiting air flow.

Airtight + silica gel seems to be a common theme around here ;)

Sure beats insulation :)

[Special_K]

now this is interesting =]

K have just acquired a de-humidifier that unfortunately has an aluminium (sorry aluminum =p) evaporator so it has been counted out as a possible water-chiller =[

but your idea of making a closed 'cold box' has given K the idea of putting a regular watercooling radiator into a similar box to blow super cold air through the radiator =]

all that would be needed is a re-circulating windtunnel design box with the evap at the top, and the watercooling radiator below and it should recirculate indefinately - right?

[(sin)morpheus]

Looks good sin, Thanks for sharing that.

I have heard of AC boxes but never really saw a design. I take it you need to keep the air dry to prevent the evap from icing up and limiting air flow.

Airtight + silica gel seems to be a common theme around here ;)

Sure beats insulation :)

The only thing I reall need to worry about it keeping it airtight, which gets a bit hard once you start cutting cable holes and sealing them up all over the place.

[(sin)morpheus]

I just did some insulation fix ups and took a few idle screenies. System is as follows:
mp 1800 palomino @ 133x13.5 1.85v
enermax 450w
gainward 6800gt
abit kd7-e
4gig hd
xp 3200 stock heatsink

This is just my test system until my venice arrives. :D