Bob Rentfro wrote:
I know...I hate it. Wasn't there some young, brainiac dude that was working
on a viable replacement for this HVAC hell? I hope he is having sucess.
I dunno about brainiac, but I am young! The project is slowly coming
along... we (group senior design project) have made progress, but not
made progress.
http://www.ece.msstate.edu/courses/design/ece4532/2005_fall/climate_control/
Click on deliverables and thats what we've turned in so far. The
Approach document is due on Tuesday and that contains about 99% of the
project (and was only about 3% complete for the draft :(. I'll be
spending all day tomorrow working on it... and all of the schematics,
models, etc that need to go in it.
If you'd like to see what is the most recent version of everything take
a look at:
http://starquake.ath.cx/svn/dacc/
Its a subversion repository and contains all of the Datasheets, our
schematics, the different models that we have for how the new system
will operate, and all the documents we're working on and have turned in.
Its not looking to be super cheap, but if you order all the stuff
yourself, solder it yourself (prolly going to be hard as all surface
mount components) It will hopefully come in under $300. The vacuum
valves add about $100 to the cost of the system... they're stupidly
expensive!! When the approach doc is done you'll be able to read why it
costs what it does, and what alternative options we had to choose from,
etc.
Hopefully tomorrow will be nice and productive, and I can dump out a
schematic (and hopefully an approach doc) for all to see!
Thanks for remembering :)
John
'79 300SD
