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    DUal evap with a twist?

    I have come with a crazy idea and want your input. I am including a drawing to explain it a bit better (borrowed from Chilly1's drawing and edited). The green box represents a dry nitrogen sealed enclosure. Would this work and if so what size compressor would it take? What temperatures could I expect with 404 or would the electronics heat overpower the cooling?


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    You would need a mighty big compressor seing as the evaps are differant sizes and balancing the system would be a pain with a small compressor. Then again if you used a txv for both depending on the temps you wanted and the insualtion of the nitrogen boxz you might be able to get away with using a 1/2hp.

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    yah balancing the load between the evaps would be hard.

    just find a real cheap compressor and condenser and evap, and build a seperate small cheap A/C for your nitrogen box. also... if ur using nitrogen in a sealed container u dont need to chill it, no condensation will form if theres only nitrogen in the surroundings.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blinky
    yah balancing the load between the evaps would be hard.

    just find a real cheap compressor and condenser and evap, and build a seperate small cheap A/C for your nitrogen box. also... if ur using nitrogen in a sealed container u dont need to chill it, no condensation will form if theres only nitrogen in the surroundings.
    I think the container is for cooling the rest of the system, GFX (with "air cooler"), harddisks, and other things...

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    What's the second evap for? Is it designed to cool the gas inside the sealed container?
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    never seen it done before its worth the try for something fun.
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    Yes the second evap would be for cooling inside the enclosure. I may just go with a seperate unit as suggested since I have no phase change experience. I have some aluminum and lexan on order to build my own custom cube and I plan on making a nitrogen filled motherboard box. Now I just need to save up for the actual hardware that will fill the box.

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    Cool idea (excuse the pun). Would the nitrogen be compressed?
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    i think you're better off turning that second evap into a water chiller...that'd be an interesting seup DD and waterchiller in one...
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    i think this looks like the vacuumed boxed dabit came up with. you got an evap that cools some chip and you got the other "evap" that cools the surrounding ehh.. "air", too cool the system and to reduce condensation. but i could be wrong.
    if you're filling that box with dry nitrogen, that should take care of the condensation - good idea, but then i'd rather use another compressor for a chiller setup to cool gpu & nb & whatever else you like. just make sure the points where your tubing breaks the enclouser are sealed of real good. then there should be no problem with both compressors on the outside.
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    The box wans't in vacuum

    then all the other part will overheat.

    It was just an airtight box with normal air (not nitrogen) but dried with silicagel.
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    Well the second evap would need to be quite small and the enclosure would need to be sealed so no moisture ladenair can get in the case. A 1/2 hp R50-7 compressor would do the trick you would need an EPR (Evaporator Pressure Regulator) on the air coil to keep it seperate from teh block.

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    Which drawing program did you use?

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    Quote Originally Posted by MIN_Roadkill
    I have come with a crazy idea and want your input. I am includin...
    Here goez my ideea! 1 of tha manny!

    Air tightcase in wich is coming the pc case( u might want to see the atached pic first), at the front is big tube lets say 20diameter thru wich is coming dehumidificated airin the air tight case and in the pc, at the end top of the air tight is tube suking the air back to the dehumidifier. This all is in a sealed air tight loop nothing gets in like humyd air from outside!
    On the left side are 2 promie vapo cascades etc cooling the cpu and gpu eventualy the north bridge or south (amd64). Yeah i know a lot of cuting and sealing here and a lot of money in the cooling, but hell we all dream to have it super super cooled toy!
    On the right side an recycled compressor or new 1 cooling the air tight case! Can be used 2 compresor or a cascade in case the pc is so hOt!
    On the front the incomin air to the case and the cdroms(here some sealing must be done).

    Edit: the evap of this compressor or cascade can be placed in the pc case under cdrom and hdd at the botom (like some water cooling sistem atm) so that a verry cold breez is cooling the pc case

    Back the sealed holes for usb ps2 etc etc and the out put of air coming from case thru tube back to the dehumidifier!

    The evaps on the cpu and gpu no need to protect them from water, there is no water in this case, let them to be seen the cooper, to cool the case too in case that the right compresor haz too much work. No need of izolation on the motherbord.
    insde there should be enought air movement so that watervapors, humyd air is away
    In case this air tight case is too cold for psu hdd or cdrom: the psu can go outside the airtight case, the hdd can be izolated in some neopren so its heating its self to lets say 5c(u have to see how much or less neopren to use). It can be used outside the case, sata cabels are now 50cm if i know well?!?!? cdrom outside on usb or sata.

    Sorry for my bed english and quality of the pic(done in painbrush, saved as jpeg in acdsee) Some stuff are mising in the pic(fans, low side or high, dunno wich 1 is wich etc... ) but u just have to imagine them there! if its a stupid ideea im waintig for a slap otherwize if u copy my design im waithing for the
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    that look sick... hehehe...

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    it isn't very easy to buit this thing... too expensive and for sure not 24/7

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    Quote Originally Posted by Unseen
    it isn't very easy to buit this thing... too expensive and for sure not 24/7

    Eazy to build? cmon are cascades eazy to build?expensive too but at 1 point in yo life u, me maibe all of us will have some phase change cooling(if intel doesnt come with some new tech for producing the cpu, so that the cpu produces 0 heat, not soon anyway)! Ok the last 1 maybe i exagerate. About the 24/7 about the W for u guys that are investing so much in yo pcs some with small private companys y not buy a solar panel or the scandinavians wind mil etc etc i know are expensive very expensive but 1 panel like that will help a lot yo poket i mean u can use it for pc if u decide to give up the pcs in generaly than u have it for yo house...

    Sorry for going away from subject!

    Should i make a thread with my ideea????????
    Last edited by quintus; 11-07-2004 at 08:21 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sharp
    Which drawing program did you use?
    You would have to ask Chilly1 that. I just took one of his cascade drawings and did a little cut and paste in paintshop.

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    Quote Originally Posted by quintus
    Eazy to build? cmon are cascades eazy to build?expensive too but at 1 point in yo life u, me maibe all of us will have some phase change cooling(if intel doesnt come with some new tech for producing the cpu, so that the cpu produces 0 heat, not soon anyway)! Ok the last 1 maybe i exagerate. About the 24/7 about the W for u guys that are investing so much in yo pcs some with small private companys y not buy a solar panel or the scandinavians wind mil etc etc i know are expensive very expensive but 1 panel like that will help a lot yo poket i mean u can use it for pc if u decide to give up the pcs in generaly than u have it for yo house...

    Sorry for going away from subject!

    Should i make a thread with my ideea????????
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    Quote Originally Posted by sharp
    Which drawing program did you use?
    I used Auto cad to build the components and then used a screen shot and paste n photo shop

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    Thx

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    Ok back to this idea. I have scrapped the direct die for now and just want to cool the case. What length cap tube should I start with? Will the motherboard be able to handle negative temps?

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    Use 93 inches of 0.028 this will give you -40 with a 1/3 hp compressor/ Should be ok for hte compressor.

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    those stirling cryocoolers are really interesting, although accoding to the website they can only remove 22w at -173c.

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