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fridge pumps for vacuum


 

Charles

This is all just a guess

The small inlet size to these pumps will be a problem. As the vacuum gets low it takes a long time for the air molecules to move from one end of a pipe to the other. understand that there is no such thing as sucking the air out in the same fashion as sucking a fluid from one place to another.

If you were moving a fluid hooking the pumps in series would increase the lifting height / suction a great deal because you would be working with a simple pressure difference from one side of the pump to the other. With vacuum the pump can only move the molecules of air from one side of the pump to the other small pumps simply dont have enough molecules getting to the inlet side of the pump to be efficient.

Placing 2 pumps in parallel will double the amount moved adding one in series will increase the efficiency of the first 2 a small amount all together this might be enough to make the system work, however it may work better just having all of the pumps in parallel time to experiment

Keep the pipes going to the pumps as large and short as you can.

I thing these pumps require oil to make them work. in a closed system this is easy just pour in the right amount and the vapor just circulates back to the pump. when the system is open you need some way to keep the right amount of oil in the pump. Maybe just measure the amount of oil in each pump now -then drain and measure the oil from each pump to keep it the same

Any how try, it you already have the pumps so what do you have to lose?

Good luck

Ron



Charles Mitchard wrote:

Hi,
is it worth using sealed fridge motors for a vacuum chamber?
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Charles Mitchard
 

Thanks Ron, I guess I had better start looking for gauges now so we can play (again)

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I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.


 

Charles
I've had to back burner my vacuum stuff because I've decided to retire from my day job which included a 3500 sq ft shop to play in right now i'm moving stuff into storage untill I can find a home for it all. I was trying to pick up vacuum guages on e-Bay and haven't gotten anything to work yet. (Often best to just buy it new) try using? glow discharge as an indication of your vacuum if you can get to the low millitorr range the?glow should be impressive. this will give you an indication of how long it takes before you can start a diffusion pump if your looking at hours to get the pressure down than you 'll at least know the pumps you have don't work.
Ron

Charles Mitchard wrote:

Thanks Ron, I guess I had better start looking for gauges now so we can play (again)

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