Quote Originally Posted by A/\/\/\C View Post
Not how it turned out in tests the air is not as cold through the condenser when its pulling
why do you suppose all air cpu coolers push air onto the cpu heatsink and not pull it away ?
and belive it or not the DSH stays nice and cool of the airflow and condenser doesn,t get warm at all but it definatly achieves more than a cool enough temprature for refigerant to condense and beacause there is a fan at the rear of the case pulling it gives nice airflow through the case and cools the compressor but as i say ive tried it the other way around when this was the final design and i found it worked better on pushing instead of pulling IMO for some its personel preference
but out of interest someone try it both ways stick a temp probe on the condenser and tell me whats coldest pushing or pulling

And regarding the shroud restriction air actualy speeds up when travelling through a smaller orifice as its compression ratio changes concentratiing colder air onto the DSH if the shroud was removed the air flow would be slower thus cooler leaving the rear of the condenser, also i wouldnt want to loose any of the DSH it acts partialy as a pre condenser but everyone to there own methods i do what works for me.

And for the temps cooling a qaud using a small r134a compressor i,d say the proof is in the pudding.




Its exactly the same size as a PC case
i did post the dimensions on page 1 of this thread
Just try it then come back to us

Putting it in front will pull MORE air through condenser, and also a lot more CFM's over your nice dsh and your compressor. If your pushing through, the air flow will not be as strong through the condenser, then you kinda wasted a lot of $ on copper int he dsh.

just try it and tell us temp difference at load/ discharge pressures

regards