Open air Resevior

neilmon2 · Jul 16, 2003

I'm thinking of creating a water cooling system where my resevior is a fountian. The fountain would be small and just sit on my desk or on a table some where. In the bottem part of the fountain I would create a resevior for with a submerable pump. The pumb would connect to the radiator in the computer then to the blocks then back to the fountain. My main concern is the water/additive combined with the open air. Any thought or ideas please share. I will post a pic later.

WejRepus · Jul 16, 2003

water wetter smells really bad... i would not like that as a fountain on my desk

neilmon2 · Jul 16, 2003

what type of additive would you use to not smell bad.

Here is a diagram of what i plan to do.

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~nhasting/fountainsystem.pdf

I know it's a little messy, but i have bad hand writting.

WejRepus · Jul 16, 2003

link doesn't work

neilmon2 · Jul 16, 2003

i see that? if you just type in the url it will work. strange, i odn't know why

WejRepus · Jul 16, 2003

the problem with the link is you typed "http://" twice...
do you know how you would regulate the fountain height?

Divine Madcat · Jul 16, 2003

U put in Http://, when u didnt need to (it adds it for you...)

wannaoc · Jul 16, 2003

Zerex will work and doesn't have a smell, it does turn the water a pink color though. Also I will say this about desk fountains as I have a had a couple just for looks.
One: They splash on anything around them, warps desktop, etc.
Two: Because they splah all over they lose alot of water. This happens really fast, like every couple days.
Three: Getting a pump that will run a w/c system and not cause the fountain to shoot 3 foot in the air would be a huge thing.

Just a couple things to think about when working on this, be sure to show us pics of it if you do it as it will look really neat.

neilmon2 · Jul 16, 2003

web.ics.purdue.edu/~nhasting/fountainsystem.pff

I hope that works better.

I would think with a powerful enouth pump i could do it. I was looking and found some for outdoor ponds and such that were between 350 and 550 gph and they were all adujusable down to 0 gph. I was thinking of riging it so you could adjust if from the outside of the foundain.

This is all just an idea right now. This would also be my first atempt at water cooling so i 'm not sure on pump power. I figure why not go full force.

neilmon2 · Jul 16, 2003

ok, i just figured out how to post a link. if you coudn't tell, i'm kind of new.

Fountain water cooling plan

sorry about all the problems

WejRepus · Jul 16, 2003

well, i am thinking that adjusting the pump to an appropriate fountain height will adversly affect your temps, and i dont think that is worth it

neilmon2 · Jul 16, 2003

What if i slowed the flow coming out of the fountain some how. I'll have to play with it and i'll post a website where i'll post my progress.

Gautam · Jul 16, 2003

That's an excellent idea. I hope you decide to carry this out, as it would be sweet. Actually, I may be wrong, but it looks like it should work perfectly without any regulation, as long as you don't get too strong of a pump; somewhere in the mid-300gph range should work well. Slowing the flow would adversely affect your temps, so this is something that you would want to avoid. I'd suggest experimenting with pumps of diffrent flow rates and seeing which one would work the best, if possible. Good luck!

rogerdugans · Jul 16, 2003

Ok, here's the thing: you will need two pumps.

Pumps pump, they don't suck

Here is someone who tried to have their pump suck

The pump that shoots the fountain up to the desired height can't be used to pump water to the water block for that reason.
Well, it may work for a while.....but it will be bad for the pump- and the velocities you use for a desktop fountain are NOT going to be enough to cool anything hotter than a Via c3

With two separate pumps it would work though: one strong pump for the water cooling system and a weak one for the fountain (which could be throttled down as much as you want.)

Then you are back to just needing additives that will prevent algae, etc.

Or you could build an enclosed water cooling system and a standalone desk fountain

Divine Madcat · Jul 16, 2003

But the fountain makes for such fun possibilites for water "additives". I mean, you would have a place to dump spare beer while LANing, a place to use the bathroom when nobody is looking, and a place to wash ur dishes!

neilmon2 · Jul 16, 2003

would it work if the pump was completely submerged all the time?

method().man · Jul 16, 2003

Err, I would be really careful with the water additive you use. I think coolant is toxic and some of the other coolants out there are pretty nasty as well. If you're gonna expose the water to open air, a lot of it is gonna get in the air and you'll end up breathing that sh*t - might not be too good for you.

method().man · Jul 16, 2003

wannaoc said:
Three: Getting a pump that will run a w/c system and not cause the fountain to shoot 3 foot in the air would be a huge thing.

Haha, if I tried this with my Iwaki pump, I'd have freaking geyser in my room

CoolRunnings · Jul 16, 2003

Divine Madcat said:
But the fountain makes for such fun possibilites for water "additives". I mean, you would have a place to dump spare beer while LANing, a place to use the bathroom when nobody is looking, and a place to wash ur dishes!

Remind me never to go to your house for dinner... LOL!

skou · Jul 16, 2003

If you are going to use 2 pumps, put in a small heat exchanger in the reservoir of the fountain. Just a loop of copper tubing. That way, you can run additives in the cooling system, and plain water in the fountain.

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