Question on AC condensors, can they be run in series? |
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Question on AC condensors, can they be run in series? |
boxsterfan |
Aug 4 2015, 09:25 PM
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914's are kewl Group: Members Posts: 1,776 Joined: 6-June 03 From: San Ramon, CA Member No.: 791 Region Association: Northern California |
Suppose a crazy person was thinking of A/C in their 914. Could such a crazy person run condensors in series behind the fog light grills?
Basically, the refrigerant (R134) would come from the compressor all the way up to the right front under the headlight, go through a condensor, come out of that condensor across the front of trunk, into a second condensor under the left head light area, and then back out to a receiver/dryer and through the rest of the system. Obviously, there are some cuts you need to make in the front area behind the fog light grills, the condensors have to be small enough to fit under the headlights when close and for good enough air flow you have to have cut holes in the front wheel well behind the condensors. I know someone on this board mounted some oil coolers in these locations (can't find the thread). 914 A/C reference from http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...=192917&hl= (thanks dlee6204). |
Dave_Darling |
Aug 5 2015, 09:20 AM
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914 Idiot Group: Members Posts: 14,991 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Silicon Valley / Kailua-Kona Member No.: 121 Region Association: Northern California |
You can run condensors in series. The 911s did that. Each one you add gets less effective at removing heat, since the earlier ones will have removed some heat already. But the later ones will have some effect.
Running them in parallel would seem, to me, to raise issues of flow balance that I'd really rather not think about. --DD |
Mike Bellis |
Aug 5 2015, 06:23 PM
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Resident Electrician Group: Members Posts: 8,345 Joined: 22-June 09 From: Midlothian TX Member No.: 10,496 Region Association: None |
Running them in parallel would seem, to me, to raise issues of flow balance that I'd really rather not think about. --DD Flow balance isn't that hard if you keep equal lengths of tubing and equal number of elbows. The tubing systems should be mirror images and meet in the middle at a T. You could fine tune from there if needed. |
76-914 |
Aug 5 2015, 06:55 PM
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Repeat Offender & Resident Subaru Antagonist Group: Members Posts: 13,508 Joined: 23-January 09 From: Temecula, CA Member No.: 9,964 Region Association: Southern California |
Running them in parallel would seem, to me, to raise issues of flow balance that I'd really rather not think about. --DD Flow balance isn't that hard if you keep equal lengths of tubing and equal number of elbows. The tubing systems should be mirror images and meet in the middle at a T. You could fine tune from there if needed. Wouldn't the catch be whether the condensers were exactly the same. We know the pipe and fittings will all be congruent but what are the odds all of those fintubes flow equally. Didn't Dlee in Houston just add AC to an air cooled teener last year? Might be some good info in his thread. |
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