Short little intro...
I have been moving my lab for the past week or so to a new room in the house, still in the basement but a larger room and one that is better suited to gallons of distilled water being spilled onto the floor. Goodbye carpet, hello lenoleum. I don't know why I didn't start the lab in this room to begin with. There I go off on another topic detour...Anyhow, the purpose of this worklog is just to give you all a view into the lab. No black magic or crazyness going on, well...I do have a lot of "incidents". Basically, I'm horrible at taking action shots of the testing.
The move from one room to the other was a nightmare, I didn't realize how much of a mess I had with all the little screws, springs, thumbnuts, o-rings and all the other bits scattered about. My wife walked in as I started organizing and kicked me out of the room. She realized it would take days for me to clean and pack the stuff away. She took mercy on me, but I still can't find a thing the way she packed it all up, serves me right I guess.
So on to the actual lab, I moved the same counters and cabinets in from the old lab. This was supposed to be a lower laundry and storage, but looks to be made for a lab.First shot is from the doorway into the lab from my office area (you'll get to see the office after I finish the lab move, its a disaster right now)...
Notice the pimpin ESD smock on the chair? There was some joke a while back that testing using all the temp sensors, meters and so on was called "white lab coat testing", so I snagged myself a white ESD smock.Shot from the door leading into the mechanical room, just out of the previous picture on the left side. And an even better shot of my pimp lab coat.
I really like the raised outlets on the wall...but it does cause a bit of a snag. In the old lab, the was a ledge that ran along one wall. Thats where I had the radiator, pump and reservoir for the test bench. I don't have that in this room...break out the 6" shelving. I'll photo that up this week, I'm bound to screw that project up somehow.
But I finally have the lab into a somewhat working order, which really means I am far from done, but just can't hold off testing any longer. Wash basin for pressure drop testing is installed and plumbed, but I have a 20" gap to the countertop, so I need to fix that soon.
The benches themselves are a few days minimum from being able to run, which means CPU block testing is done for now. Which turns out to be a blessing in disguise. This is best way to stop the endless testing of CPU blocks and release the results. More testing will come, but I just needed to have an end to these two back to back marathons. Anyhow, I'll have two bench systems with two loops each. Be very nice to balance the tests out this way. Right now I can't test radiators and be running thermals on a CPU, GPU or chipset block.
I'll keep posting photos as I go, with shots from the testing that don't belong in the reviews.
To christen the lab I decided some follow-up pump with Y fittings tests were needed. Here are a few quick shots from the testing...Please excuse the lighting, I don't have that squared away yet--meaning it sucks real bad.
EK Opposing Y test...towel was called in to sop up the puddle from changing pumps
Close up on one of the flow meters, I wanted to see how difficult it is to photograph these things...not as bad as I thought. I don't recall which loop and which pump this was with though.
Typhoon III running the Test Loop 3 in serial with the TITO config. Like my orange zipties holding the flow meter to their stand...stands are complete knock-offs of Martins and didn't turn out like I had hoped.
Like I said, I'll keep posting in this thread as I progress with getting the lab fully up and running along with misc BS and photos of my blunders (there are many). thanks for looking over my shoulder.
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Originally Posted by NaeKuh
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