Post Rad Chiller Concept

[Martinm210]

Hehe.

Well, I got the machining done today, now it's just a matter of finished both bases and the tops, beadblasting the interiors of the bases and starting the assembly. The only thing I'm changing is omitting the top asthetic ribs. With my mill being as small as it is, I'd have to do that in two passes and you would see the overlap...need a bigger mill for this project.

Just for fun, here is one base with one 40mm TEC option...Is 5 of them enough?

[Pete]

5 should be plenty and will cool the water nicely as well as heating it up! Really impressive work Mart

[Breezyjr]

Did I mention I have two kids that take every last bit of sanity and clear thinking out of my head...

ONLY 2 kids??!! What I wouldn't give to have only 2 kids again....

I have FOUR kids, ages 6, 4, 3, 18 months. I've lost my sanity a long, long time ago, approx 5.5 years ago.... hehe



Things are looking great though! I'm excited to see how things turn out.

breezyjr

[Martinm210]

Four!...ok I'm not worthy... Only two for me, one is 4 and the other 16 months. That's enough work as it is.....


Well....fabrication on the blocks is finally complete. I probably have 100 hours into these, so needless to say these will be two of a kind..

Here are some assembly pics:

















I put all 5 TEC's in just for testing sake, they were a 91watt variety, and I found that one TEC running at 12volts draws at most 63watts and starts dropping off as the two blocks heat up. So, hooking up three of them to the meanwell under water should draw right around 190 watts or so.

Anyhow, it's probably not worth testing in a loop until the meanwell gets here, I have a couple of smaller fabrication projects to hop over to and get done.

[Nanometer]

That is so cool. I've always thought about making something similar to this. Can't wait till it's all hooked up and urnning.

[littleowl]

hey martin next time I would try and use cermaque instead of as5. the cermaque seems to work better. at least it did on my 226w.

[Martinm210]

hey martin next time I would try and use cermaque instead of as5. the cermaque seems to work better. at least it did on my 226w.

Ok, will do. I'll probably end up taking two of the five TEC's out anyhow, and I'll look around for some sort of neoprene I can buy in a solid sheet to make nice cutouts for the three TEC's.

I just happen to have a BIG tube of AS5 lying around so that's what I went with for this first trial.

[Breezyjr]

Looking pretty sweet!

can I have it??!!

I'll give you one of my kids as payment....

I hope to be spending the day on my build.... Although I didn't get my reservoirs, I guess I can build around it for now.

Later,
breezyjr

[Nate P.]

Looks really good Martin, excellent job (as always).

[NaeKuh]

Looking pretty sweet!

can I have it??!!

I'll give you one of my kids as payment....

I hope to be spending the day on my build.... Although I didn't get my reservoirs, I guess I can build around it for now.

Later,
breezyjr

...

Sorry to you your kids are a future winning investment..

To me... well... unless it was for humaniterian reasons, i like my blocks better.

Im not ready to handle kids yet...

If i did, i couldnt be hiring martin and iandh to work on custom parts for me on my next build. My "children". :P

[Breezyjr]

Oh come on.... I'm sure you could put the 3 year old boy to work!! heh He's really good at driving you nuts... ooops, I mean cleaning and helping around the house.... yeah that's it. he's good at cleaning.

hehe

{/off topic}

breezyjr

[pak]

All the photos are loading for me 100%...wierd. But when are we going to see some results?!? I can't wait. I been wanting cooling better than water, but haven't been daring enough to play with phase.

ETA on results?

--pak

[Cupcake]

You are srsly my hero

But yeah lets see some results

[Martinm210]

Thanks!

Going to have to wait until next weekend at the earliest when I get to borrow NaeKuh's Meanwell 320. He's sending it to me this week, so I'll have it soon enough to test with. That will allow me to test with 3 TECs.

My Samlex DC variable PSU is only capable of powering one TEC, so I figured it wouldn't be worth bothering with (only 90 watts worth). If I hook two TECs together in parallel I'll peg my PSU at the 6 amp limit and only muster about 7 volts before doing so. It's a great PSU for pump testing and other small stuff, but not for TEC testing.

Need....More....POWER!!...

[Xilikon]

Need....More....POWER!!...

Why do I hear Tim Taylor's voice here ???

Great work, exactly what I have in mind. I cannot wait to see some numbers and see if it works good.

[n00b 0f l337]

Beautiful work, now to test and make some conclusions

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Excellent craftsmanship. Looking forward to the results.

[NaeKuh]

martin... hook up all 5!! That meanwell is good for 320W.

Heres the complete specs on it:
http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/samam32inpsu.html

DAYAM! im gonna need a bigger meanwell. I knew i should of picked up that 600Wer. But its freaken hugh... *sigh*

[Monkeywoman]

i'm confused, how is this going to work?

[littleowl]

i'm confused, how is this going to work?

there are 2 loops one is going to be hot and the other is cold. the cold one is going on the cpu and the hot loop is going to a rad or what ever to cool it.
That is an easy way to look it

[Bulue]

Have been watching this thread with great interest. Excellent work.
Waiting to see some results like everyone else.

[n00b 0f l337]

Actually first test will be basically...

Pump --> Rad --> This Chiller --> CPU --> Hot side of chiller --> Res ...
As far as I know!

[littleowl]

I put it that way nol so that he would understand more of the concept.

[systemviper]

I would think you would want to do 2 loops one for the chiller and cpu and another for the hot side. to take advantage of all that cooling.

[NaeKuh]

Actually first test will be basically...

Pump --> Rad --> This Chiller --> CPU --> Hot side of chiller --> Res ...
As far as I know!

actually i was going to keep the hot side and cold side seperate.

so hotside

DDC-3.2 or D-tek DB-1 pump IF it tests good.

Pump -> hotside -> MCR320 -> T-line -> Pump

Cold side would be inline right after the radiator first, and then alone.


im not going to recycle the water, would make no sense to do that.