GX-8 water vaporator/Legends

The GX-8 Water Vaporator was the most common type of vaporator used on the arid world of Tatooine. The vaporator was a cylindrical piece of equipment that was three to five meters tall and used a low power ion field and cooling bars to cool the air near the two. When water condensed out of the chilled air, it collected on the chilling bars and was filtered and funneled into a collection unit in the heart of the unit. Then, the collected water was purified and sent to an underground storage unit. This vaporator utilized simple sensors and a basic copputer to maintain peak performance. The GX-8 featured adjustable ion field intensity and cooling bar temperature. Like other vaporators, the GX-8 was fairly self-sufficient, requiring few power cells due to solar panels that recharged the energy cells. Components of the GX-8 included a humidity sensor, chiller bars, telemetry core, air density sensors, water pump unit, function monitors, and typically, a small ring of ground around the vaporator known as the "mushroom patch" where Tatooine mushrooms were known to grow.

However, these vaporators were difficult to hide from vagrant scavengers, Ghorfas, and Jawas. They were also susceptible to damage from sand clogging the sensors, lubricants and refrigeration elements. Also, their simple computer required a droid to translate its binary langugae. ]

Appearances

 * The Phantom Menace
 * Attack of the Clones
 * A New Hope {{1st))
 * X-wing: The Bacta War
 * Tatooine Ghost