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Old 02-02-2019, 08:24 PM   #41 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by teoman View Post
Pvc pipe is thermally fairly non conductive
That's not an issue. The heat exchange, in this case between air and PCM, will occur across the walls of the tubes. I'm envisaging the PVC as the shell, not the tubes.

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I will measure the on time and the off time of the compressor to get a rough estimate on what it likes and design around that.
That's where I started too. I used the track timing clock on the car's CD/MP3 player - precise to the nearest second - as a stopwatch, on my regular trips.

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