How does oil get out of the accumulator?

[n00b 0f l337]

I was thinking bout an accumulator, (there on all my rotarys, i love them, and I just bought 2x on ebay for $2 a pop) so I was wondering, how does the oil get out of the accumulator?

[Xeon th MG Pony]

most use a U tube with a small orifice at the bottom that sucks up the oil at a rate the compressor can take in using the vapour pressure to assist

[jinu117]

venturi effect. Oil settles at bottom, the above mentioned U tube with hole has suction gas going through at high velocity. So oil do get sucked in and goes back to compressor at measured rate.

[n00b 0f l337]

Ah cool.

[Jort]

yeah pritty cool if you mix all these questions into 1 thread and not 100's

please i tought you knew better

[n00b 0f l337]

If there all in one thread people will not see them if they use the search function.

[Bergo]

search function will find a phrase within a thread as well, not only title I beleive, so, yes, it will work.

[star882]

And when liquid refrigerant enters, the amount returning to the compressor is too small to do any damage.