Morphing Air Conditioner into Autocascade System

[n00b 0f l337]

*Note to self, buy a charging scale*
Thanks again mytek, your information is incredibly helpful. Too bad its hard to find small quantities of r23 or the like, I can only find 20lbers. You seem to have so much experience that you can properly estimate (are you even estimating?) the charge and temps. But lets stay with what you have now, applying that to a 200 watt load, with the 1/2hp rotary, what sorta temps when aiming for as low as possible? Would r22 be helpful at that point? Or still r123 (or r11) then r23.

[Jack]

The phase separator is simplicity in itself. Due to the small volume of the system, I was able to use the 1st bullet strainer as a phase separator (and it still serves the original purpose of straining any particulate matter before it feeds the cap tube). Take a look closely in both the piping diagram and the first photo in the PDF file and you'll see how it's setup.

From the photo I gather that it's just a filter/drier, where the liquid will flow down to the captube and the gas will exit via the pipe at the top?

*Note to self, buy a charging scale*
Thanks again mytek, your information is incredibly helpful. Too bad its hard to find small quantities of r23 or the like, I can only find 20lbers. You seem to have so much experience that you can properly estimate (are you even estimating?) the charge and temps. But lets stay with what you have now, applying that to a 200 watt load, with the 1/2hp rotary, what sorta temps when aiming for as low as possible? Would r22 be helpful at that point? Or still r123 (or r11) then r23.

Mytek, perhaps you could design a nice unit for us... with a 1/2hp rotary and coldest temp, because I wouldn't know what lenghts of captube to use for instance.
Thanks