I have tried just about every combination of methanol water and antifreeze .
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I have tried just about every combination of methanol water and antifreeze .
No...i don't have a way to ciculate it....the evap is just "chilling"..lol...it is just sitting in it...how should i go about getting the liquid ion there to constantly flow?Quote:
Originally posted by Gary Lloyd
Are you circulating the anti-freeze? It needs to be kept moving through the evaporator coils.
This is the part the where things can get confusing do to the wording but if you dig a little and read labels you will find that
gas line antifreeze = methanol
denatured alcohol = ethyl alcohol rendered poison usualy with methanol and some other goodies with similar properties
window washer fluid = methanol and water
Methyl alcohol = methanol
wood alcohol = methyl alcohol = methanol = CH3OH.
Methanol has a melting point of -97.8c
I have found that even agitated antifreeze will slush up and be unpumpable. Unless of course your using something like the water pump in your auto
With a pump?Quote:
No...i don't have a way to ciculate it....the evap is just "chilling"..lol...it is just sitting in it...how should i go about getting the liquid ion there to constantly flow?
Glycol based anti-freeze thickens when cold, making it more difficult to pump. Alcohol based anti-freeze, such as methanol, I think is better for our purposes.Quote:
I have found that even agitated antifreeze will slush up and be unpumpable.
So yea what sort of pump are we talking here .
lol= gary.
I'm pretty sure he has glycol in there.hehe
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Originally posted by Gary Lloyd
With a pump?
well right now i am simply testing the system...once i put in my pump for my water cooling system will that be sufficeint enough to circulate the water>
I only use the glycol based stuff for its anticorrosive agents and just enough to keep the flashpoint down on the methanol.
What mixture would you recommend, Jamal?
Yes, that should be sufficient.Quote:
well right now i am simply testing the system...once i put in my pump for my water cooling system will that be sufficeint enough to circulate the water>
works for me but I have just a little over 2 gallons of coolant and a 500 gph pump and a 75 gph pump. How much coolant you have by the way ?Quote:
Originally posted by Conflict
well right now i am simply testing the system...once i put in my pump for my water cooling system will that be sufficeint enough to circulate the water>
right around 60/40 methanol/water or 60/40 methanol/glycol based for the anticorrosive agent . I like 65/35 as it pumps a bit better but its more flamable.Quote:
Originally posted by Gary Lloyd
What mixture would you recommend, Jamal?
Well right now i have a Eheim 1260 pump and there is 5 gallons of fluid in there...and with my cooler and the lack of piping that is the least i can use..it JUST covers the evap.....but i set it in there for now and i can for sure see the difference...definately mixing things up...i think i am gonna leave on in there and buy another for running the water cooling lines
wow this is definately a learnign experience....i can;t believe how cold it is.
Yea a lot of fun huh? Not to difficult either. so what temp you getting ???
just so you know the least expensive way I've found to purchase methanol is in the one gallon cans sold as shallac thinner in paint departments here in the us it runs around $9.00 a gallon.
coldest thing I've experienced to date is when I put a 50 watt peltier on my cpu block chilled down to -25c. The peltier was -40c I couldn't resist the urge to lick off all that pretty frost...
I have no idea what the temps are exactly...i have no thermometer of any kind to check...all i know is i stuck a small platic cup full of water in the coolant and checked it an hour later and it was frozen solid....im guessing around -20c to -30C
I think it would be really neat if you could run down to the nearest home and garden center and grab an indoor/outdoor thermometer that goes down to -40c or so...AND GET US SOME PICS! lol. hehe.
well i can take pics of the ice and substantial amounts of frost on the lines but my capture card died after posting pics last night...
If anyone knows of a program that can be used with firewire to get video off of a digital camcorder PLEASE let me know.
I think i may shut it off and let all the ice melt over night and then start again since i have the pump in there now..i bet i could get colder
also..lmao..the way i have everything else set up is terrible...a mess..haha...all I cared about was the evap getting in that cooler!
as for the nearest home and garden center.....lol...umm...i guess im not real keen on driving an hour and a half for a thermometer..ahahaQuote:
Originally posted by jamaljaco
I think it would be really neat if you could run down to the nearest home and garden center and grab an indoor/outdoor thermometer that goes down to -40c or so...AND GET US SOME PICS! lol. hehe.
Conflict, what video editing programs do you have? I use either Microsoft Movie Maker 2.0 or WinDVD.
Well props man ! you got it in with no broken lines,I'm sure that took some creative thinking from what I saw in the pics,
So radio in yer mate with the bush plane and have him drop you one ,lol...Quote:
Originally posted by Conflict
as for the nearest home and garden center.....lol...umm...i guess im not real keen on driving an hour and a half for a thermometer..ahaha
:D
hehe guys guess what conflict did!...I managed to get my capture card back to life...for some reason i always have problems with it when using windows 2000!
Anyway, i uninstalled it..moved it to a seperate slot and now it is working!
Here come the pics!