I'm wanting to make a glycol chiller and I've got two air conditioning units at my disposal for that purpose. My goal is to make the compressor reach the lowest temperature so I plan on bypassing the temperature sensor.
But I'm curious which unit would work better for this. I know that r410a is able to remove more heat per cycle than r22 but my concern is that since it's a gas mixture it will behave differently at lower temperatures and im afraid it may not work at lower temperatures or that it will harm the compressor.
I have already kinda settled on using the r22 compressor because the r410a unit is more likely to leak when I **** with the lines due to the higher pressures. Does anyone have any experience building a chiller with an r410a unit? It looks like most folks are using r134a and r22 AC units to build chillers with.
Thank you.
But I'm curious which unit would work better for this. I know that r410a is able to remove more heat per cycle than r22 but my concern is that since it's a gas mixture it will behave differently at lower temperatures and im afraid it may not work at lower temperatures or that it will harm the compressor.
I have already kinda settled on using the r22 compressor because the r410a unit is more likely to leak when I **** with the lines due to the higher pressures. Does anyone have any experience building a chiller with an r410a unit? It looks like most folks are using r134a and r22 AC units to build chillers with.
Thank you.
