My DIY phase change system :D

[Things]

What about it?

 

[Pontiacg5]

DUN DUN DUN!

You have been spotted elsewhere Things! How dare you!

 

[kiyoukan]

now add that to your pc case and go grab some nice 220 lines. oc to the max with a setup that large.
So whats the point for it?
What do you plan on cooling?
House or what?

 

[Things]

Water

But then, you can do anything with that water. In the summer, I can pump it thru some small radiators with fans to cool my mum and brother's bedroom. For concerts at school etc, I can use it to chill fog to keep it low on the ground. At parties you can fill it right up and use it as a drink cooler. Endless uses

I'm adding a 20x4 LCD on the top panel, which I can use to give error readouts, temps of various components, set temps etc. Then I'll have 2 or so little push buttons to set the temperature.

 

[kiyoukan]

you going to get the serial one or just the regular 11 pin one?

 

[Things]

I already have a regular one on hand.

 

[kiyoukan]

Will be nice, is it a blue backlight one?
It would kinda go with the whole "cool" theme.

 

[Things]

Yep, white on blue

 

[kiyoukan]

That is the best one.
i was never a fan of the yellow or red.
Plus its the best to read stands out the most.
Where did you get it?

 

[Things]

LCD mounted

Now to build all the circuitry

 

[Benm]

My guess is they simply upgraded to a larger unit. The fact the valves were closed and it still contained gas indicates it was removed by a professional.

As to where I found it, it really was just on the side of the road.

Perhaps it fell out of a pickup or something

I like the drink cooler idea - you can probably fill one of those inflatable pools with water and cans of beer and keep that chilled

 

[Things]

What's funny is that's actually possible

I have a inflatable spa thing that used to have a 2kW heater, so I'd think a 3.2kW cooler would get it nice and chilly

Although, I probably wouldn't leave the unit with a few guys with that much beer .. Maybe if it was a huge party or something

 

[Benm]

Something like a mega-bbq would fit the bill

 

[kiyoukan]

hey how much to send that thing to the us? my AC just broke on me and i need to rig something up my room is hitting 98 plus humidity. i have living on the second floor

 

[Things]

It'd be much cheaper to find an AC in the US, shipping this thing would be a couple hundred at least.

 

[Things]

Prototyped the circuitry on a breadboard, then transfered it to a PCB. Yes, it's a massive PCB, but more room for expansion later My aircon is going to have more circuitry than Nasa's shuttles!

Now all I gotta do is work out the delay code for the compressor, the rest of the code is done

EDIT: Figured all the code out, it's ready for testing in the unit tomorrow