Jan 12,2007 - bought AC unit and stripped it down, will need to buy the proper valves and bath casings tomorrow
Jan 13, 2007 - spent 4 hrs driving around the dam planet looking for a container to use...we don't have those nice
12 L Rubbermaid Coolers here that everyone in the USA uses...so i bought a dam acrylic fish tank !!
Also bought the TX Valve, Hot gas valve and new controls.
Got everything functional and down to -5 C
I think that about as cool as i need to go and its nice and safe on the Compressor based on the type of refrigerant
im using
Jan 14 - system has been running all night everything A-OK. Bypass kicks in at -5C System shuts off at -7C system restarts at 0C
Compressor hot gas bypass mode = 2.2 amps
Full cooling compressor mode = 2.7amps
Fan = 1.5 = amps
Full max usage = 3.5 amps
I currently have a 200GPH 4' MHH submersible pump in the bath running to see if it will freeze up or something silly like that.
Jan 15 - finished the wiring and built the cabinet ...thats it for me for the day !
Jan 16 - Cover the cabinet and added the hardware
Jan 30 - Finally i get to fire this puppy up !! what a pain... i had so many memory errors...motherboard kept giving me errors 1d and 29
I actually called EVGA support and worked with one of there techs...finnaly he said RMA the board cause the memory controller was shot...
With the new board in i tossed the CPU water block back on. fired up and
Its running at 2C idle and 14C full load on all cores....not what i was hopping for...but maybe if i use the Arctic silver this time on the cpu-block it may drop...if not i guess i can turn the chiller down to -20C...its running at -5C now.
By the way The chiller is nice and quiet thanks to the enclosure. i may even add 2" of acoustic insulation to see if that helps dampen the fan noise even more.












































