Silver's Work In Progress

[silverphoenix]

Alright wow my Worklog is a mess. I'll try to keep it neater and have it more organized from now on. Anyways here goes:

1/19/08 massive update
I've been busy for most of the week due to being 1st week of school, moving back rearranging apartment etc.

I would love more space to work but this is what I have


My bed, my computer, and my "workshop"
here it is the V2000 just waiting to be modified and filled.

Although my tools were limited to basic pliers, dremel, and a jigsaw. This was on sale at Harbor Freight for $43, so I picked it up with a few clamps and a small table vise.


coming back to my place I picked up some packages, I forgot to take pictures of the 3rd package as that came in the day after.


What's in there you might say?? Why here you go

A ton of misc fittings and connectors, 2x EK250 Res, 3x Yate SH from petras, some tubing etc.

Now I had some Yate loon SH from my friend who bought a ton of them from jabtech, so I decided to compare the 3 I had to the 3 I got from petras. The Jab tech ones also have rounded hub arms, and physically are indistinguishable except the Jab ones are straight blades, which does not necessarily mean they aren't real.

so which is which?


The petra yate has sticker on both sides of the fan the jabby has only one side.


The petra yates are labeled as 710 the jabbys are 703



At full blast there is no difference at all in sound or from my limited testing equipment(my hand) in performance. But at around 7V the Jab tech makes more mechanical noise, I can't explain it any further but it does.

here is what came in the 3rd package, an extra MCR320 and a DDC3.2 with petra top. Got this at sidewinderpc, it was strange because the DDC was cheaper with petra top than from petra themselves.


I've gotta get around to sleeving these.

Ok here is the original plan that has changed. I was going to originally have the fans on the inside but decided to put them on the outside. Here is how I was doing my measuring and fitting through the PSU bracket area since I needed both side panels on. The radiators need to sit about 22mm higher than the bottom of the case. I'm still finalizing bracket design but here is rough view of one of the rads in place, albeit being held by me.




The original plan would have had the rad higher due to it sitting on top of the aluminum rail and the rad fits like a glove under the PSU then, but I'm not going that path. By having the rad on the inside I should have about a little over 1/8" clearance.


To get the tubes in between the rads I'm going to be utilizing none other than some martin elbows, I'm discussing a custom size I need for possible future push pull configs. But here I get about 2mm clearance with your standard elbow so I'm having him extend it by about 5mm more.



Now to the pretty stuff. here is a diagram of the how I originally planned on using the reservoir. The grey are 10mm male to male connectors, the yellow is a bitspower T connector and the blue is barbs



Even with the rad and gtx block hooked up the flow rate was too great and the pump was sucking in bubbles. So I flipped the resevoir, and unlike my original plan which had a tubing connecting the pump(which would be located below) this time I got rid of the fancy connections up top which added another 50mm and instead just flipped the res and connected the pump directly. It still vortexed than I had a cool idea of using the bitspower T fitting. Here



The bubbles literally just hover in a vortex above it and none get sucked in, the ones you see in the bitspower are those tiny ones that just sit there.



Now I'm still doing some measuring and working but I just had to post these. I decided to play with some of petra's dye and it only took 3 drops to dilute the entire loop.



Now the cool part, one of the side holes in the res is being used as the res return, but I have one that is just plugged. I am going to use a white LED plug in there as my dye is the clear blue dye. To test I put my led flashlight on the top hole and voila exactly what I wanted, two colors in one res gradienting into each other.

LED only



Now add 2 cold cathodes



With this res setup including the height of the pump I will have about .7cm or 7mm of space under the pumps, which I will leave free and maybe get some airflow around there as I know these DDC's need to stay cool to stay healthy.

That's all for now, mebe more stuff later or tomorrow depending on how tired I get.