Joe:
Well, considering no one ever posts here, what is the point of that?I also find it much easier to help someone when they ask me one question at a time.
You didn't understand what I meant when I said you don't need to know everything.It helps yes, but good luck finding all of that information, because you won't.I would love to have a sure fire way of making a system, but the sad truth is it takes alot of educated guesses.
Brians256:
Sorry, it sounded like you were just ribbing on him
The capillary length was just an estimate.Alot of people use around that length.I used about 5-6 feet and got nice temps, then just as a test I used 10 feet and got worse temps.
A program to calculate capillary length would be very nice.
Yeah rparts lists capillary size just for freezers or things like that.Cpu's don't put out much heat.Which is why TXV's don't work well, the smallest one is meant for about 300 watts I believe.
hydrogen:
No an air compressor will just pump air through it.There is no need to flush your compressor if your putting the same kind of oil back in.
Use refrigeration oil, I wouldn't risk being cheap.I believe refrigeration oil is meant to work at a wide range of temperatures.
The poles on your compressor are start run and common.You need to get a capacitor for it and find a schematic of the compressor.
That is one odd compressor, I don't know anything about those really.I have seen alot of them, but never "examined" one.Looks like your better of just using it as a vacuum pump and getting a good compressor for your phase change system.
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Oh look I got an immature custom title.
Thanks a bunch fellow!