with the blower it's gonna be easy to put a airfilter on the thing & doing that with the 4 fans EHH i'd don't know how easy that'd beOriginally Posted by [ShowMe!]
with the blower it's gonna be easy to put a airfilter on the thing & doing that with the 4 fans EHH i'd don't know how easy that'd be
Remember, the PQ curve of those individual Deltas isn't going to be anywhere near as strong as that blower (think of it like a bunch of low pressure, high flow pond pumps in parallel pitted against a couple RD-30's in series). As a result, the Deltas wouldn't be close moving 220CFM each through those GTX480's... that blower would, well, blow their socks off.
I'm doing science and I'm still alive...
Yeah that's what i was thinking !
as the reason for the build is to get cool air thru the rads instead of warm room temp air with the only power use would be the motor on the blower not some refer
Hey it's even Green sounding ! L O L
Got jacked around with the sheet metal guy
I hate that when people waste my time
SOO it was off to the industrial salvage yard to get some Goodies & found just what i need to replace the wood box ( some simple modding that all ) .. to make the airfilter mounts on the blower I also got some round metal duct (6 feet of it) leaves alot left over both for $10
the airfilters are gonna be the ones i use for Rig#1's "The WindTunnel " 250mm fans
10" pleted round sports car airfilters
Pix when Da sun comes up
Last edited by bigslappy; 05-16-2008 at 10:50 PM.
here's what i got @ the salvage yard
here's the rework of the wood box Ver#1 makes a nice guide
cut for Da blower & blower in place & fit perfectly
Last edited by bigslappy; 05-17-2008 at 01:08 PM.
blower in place & the cuts for the rads on the other end
this is gonna be a steel box with 12" X 24" X 24"
Gee I like to work with steel much better ! well after a little break then i'll post some more work !
Very happy with what i've got done
are you planing on sealing around the rads too keep the pressure up?? unless of course the box would explode b/c of the air preasure, lol.
here's where I rework how the rads will sit ,figured seeing how I lenthened the box & made the airblast longer i'll get a more even flow & not have to have as of a large baffle inside
I also need the rads to sit right next to each other as that surface is now smaller than Ver#1
also included a rad protection sheild from sharp UFO's (learned the hard way )
fab'ed up some strips to make the 2 rads a Unit & it's quite ridgid now
on to Da pix
Yeah everything will be sealed quite tight to max the air pressure to the rads
rad protection mockup looks like it's gonna work on UFO's !
here's how the rads will sit "note blower hole at bottom" last pix the rads, inside up shot of the rad from the inside to show more how they fit ..some notching to do tomorrow soo they sit lower ,then making a neopren thick seal/gasket to seall every thing up around the rads ...
all seams will be sealed with silicone & metal duct tape
the 2nd last last pix is side view of the rads & the one rad I killed with stupity
last shot was this was at the hardware store today look sharp !
GET THIS THING UP AND RUNNING!! then u should start mass producing. lol.
I wouldn't rule out the possibility of condensation completely. Like you mentioned earlier, all it takes for condensation to occur is a surface being cooler than the air around it. There's a build where some guy ran copper pipe through the ground under his property and basically used the cool ground beneath the surface as his heat exchanger. Naturally the ground temperature is lower than the air temp above ground, so condensation was a legitimate concern. It may or may not be for you, but for safety's sake I'd keep it on your mind.
P.S. This build is my current favorite project. Keep it up man : )
As long as the temp difference isn't immense and he has a decent amount of airflow through the case he should have a problem with it.
Yeah i plan at least 3 12o's mm fans
or even a pair of 250mm's fans blowing at the MoBo & drives as they run silent
WELL back to work on this ! more pix later today of what i get done
Well i got a UFO sheild up
useful
kinda over kill but i want it easy removeable & tuff
as i have to haul this thing into the crawl space without damageing the rads
here's the pix
notch work to get the rads sitting in opening well
gonna seal Rads with silicone easiet way
the way they sit on the box useing weather stripping as seals would be a PIA
Last edited by bigslappy; 05-18-2008 at 02:49 PM.
this the rad hold down single bar across the center will use screws/washers from the inside to attach futher. u will see that in later pix
here's the overkill rad protection system i used
it as all so uses the hold down bar for the rads
more detail on hold down & sheild
these shots show the inside of the rad fitting & where i'll attach the rads futher to the box this will help pull the seam tight ..then it time for silicone all the contact points
as i tested the VER#1 for flow & water temp dump & figured out the baffle AND everything worked very well
i'm not gonna test this till every thing is ready for assy .
now all i got left is mount the blower & seal up on this
I now have to do the plumbing work & build the PC
I have a test bed & will test the MobO . pull the stock cooling off ,put all EK blocks on everything but a V2 on the CPU all will be tested on the Bed then installed in Case testing agin then testing once more
all loops & blocks will get a 24 hour test all by themselves with EK res's & Iwaki pumps
then it's under the house for hook up & another round of testing
the Rad's sit flush with the surface on the steel box & sealing will be easy with silicone
the air flow after the cooler will be directed at the chimney base as it has a area that will vent the warm air produced by the cooler to the attic
back to work on this tomorrow (been working hellava O/T to get the cash up to pay down the CC)
the underfloor cooler is done just have to do the assy & seal work all but a 1/2 hour of work on the steel box cooler
, next up on the build is the External reseviors & pumps housing ,looking at constructing a (10" X 12" or what ever size i need for all the items ) black lexan box build (AL channels & angles will be the skeleton) to sit next to the PC , to mach the monolith black tower case i'm gonna use for the PC .I wanted the outside box soo i can easly sound pruff the pumps & have the pumps & psu's for them on a single switchable power
The box will house the 2 Iwaki rd30's, 2 power supplies for the pumps & the 2 EK Res400's
the EK res400's will rise from the inside back side of the box to reach the highest point on both loops to make bleeding & fillin' possiable
both res's lighted up with LED's with blue lites on a loop & red lites on the other loop
ordered the sound dampning from CyberDriud yesterday
got vibration dampners for the pumps . gonna dbb up this part as the Iwaki's will be mounted on a steel plate with dampners on the pump feet & the steel plate will mount in the box on another set of dampners
the box will also house the KazeMaster for in/out temps monitoring that will go on the front with all the switches / idiot lites
it will also have idiot lite for the blower with a single switch that turns everything on at once & then supplies A/c pwr to the PC that way the blower/pumps will be up & running when i hit the start button on the PC
comments & suggestions ARE VERY welcome
Last edited by bigslappy; 05-24-2008 at 07:54 PM.
sealed up the rads with silicone came out clean looking & was the simple way to seal the air tight
not like anyone is gonna crawl under the house to look at this part of the build
Note the end piece with rads is removeable in case i need future maint . on the thing OR to swap out for them new Rad's that Fessor's has that just hit the market !
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