passive radiator for 30 bucks?

[FizzledFiend]

found this "thing" for lack of a better word @ a salvage warehouse the other day. It got the ole noodle to working so I snatched it up. Have had it sitting here for atleast 2 weeks and got to chatting with JFetting the other night on messenger. He urged me to set it up and test it out.

so for some background info:
AMD Barton 2500+ from 1.8 to 2.5 200X12.5
1 gig of Corsair XMS DDR 400
assloads of HDDs
Liquid cooled: RBX water block, Swiftech GPU block, Chevy Caprice heatercore, 120V blower, and a quiet one pond pump (just freakin huge)
anyways i fold 24/7 and case temps run 24 celcius and core reads 37

http://home.earthlink.net/~sbodsford/images/light.JPG

now this is how it all works right now...want more details ask away

this is what I found
http://home.earthlink.net/~sbodsford/images/passive/overall.jpg
it's length on the finned area
http://home.earthlink.net/~sbodsford/images/passive/lenght.jpg
inlet size
http://home.earthlink.net/~sbodsford/images/passive/inlet.jpg
I slapped these together for testing purposes..I would have much rather used all copper conections, but LOWES is sort of ****y with copper this size...in fact they had nothing that would work.....I was pressed for time to get supplies (borrowed pops lowes CC card ;))
http://home.earthlink.net/~sbodsford/images/passive/connectors.jpg

ok now here is the question i put towards you. I have a crawl space under my home that stays noticbly cooler than the outside temps. I had to go buy a small window AC unit to drive down temps in my small 10X10 lab this summer. I am wanting to get the HEAT out of my room so i was thinking of plumbing this baby to the outside under the house. Recon it would be worth the trouble or should i just knock out the rad and plumb this in place and se how things go for now. I mean if it don't cool worth a flip then no point in working my tail off to put under house right? Where should i start?

Before you start in on it..trust me my pump will more than handle it...has like 250 GPH @ a head of 6 foot.

[sandman001]

just try it out and see if it handles it, but I think it will. Especially if you just like put it in fron of a window or something where it'll get just alittle bit of airflow.

[Romebaby]

I'd bury that sucker.

[Soja]

DIY reserator? Looks interesting. Keep us updated.

[Korndog]

wow, i think it would work, make sure u put it with the fins perpendicular to the ground though or maybe u knew that already, lol :p

[VeiL0]

:eek: That **** is huge. Looks like a server tower if you were to keep your puter in their as well. lol Awesome stuff tho, that thing ain't moving for sure. :p

[slater3333uk]

Looks fun:) i think it should handle it. Prolly not as good as a heatercore or such but you should give it a try its got to be better than that dam reserator thing!

[Xeese]

It looks like it is from a small baseboard radiator.

[bigbadhenchman]

Originally posted by Xeese
It looks like it is from a small baseboard radiator.

That's exactly what it is. We have just had these installed for opur heating..

[PROkillernoodle]

I second the "bury it in the backyard" idea :D

[AFIsoldier]

Burry it in the crawl space; cool, damp, icky...why wouldn't you want it there?

Those things work great for cooling, my tinkering great grandpa used one of those to cool the water for his pool, burried about 3 rows of those under the house, ran the water hose through them to have a sprinkler shooting cool water into the pool.

I'm thinking about snatching them and use them for watercooling, but I am almost too lazy to do that and I plan on testing the setup I bought first, then compare.

[jamesavery22]

I appologize for reviving a dead thread but I want a baseboard heater pipe now :D

Ive been trying to think of a quiet way to cool a pretty large heat load for a "planned" system that I dont have, yet. Putting a baseboard heater pipe infront of my double windows laying down on the little ledge would be perfect, not to mention not too aesthetically distracting. I'll heat that room with it during the winter and just exhaust the air out the window in the summer.

I was wondering where to get one of these cheap. Turns out Home depot sells a 5ft one for 36$ brand new (link to homedepot's page (http://www.homedepot.com/prel80/HDUS/EN_US/diy_main/pg_diy.jsp?CNTTYPE=PROD_META&CNTKEY=Products_2%2FHeating+%26+Cooling%2FHeaters% 2FBaseboard+Heaters&MID=9876&ProductOID=529189&cm_ven=1hd.com2msn&cm_cat=shopping&cm_pla=prod&cm_ite=prod)). I was just wondering if anyone ripped one of these apart before? Pretty sure Id trash then enclosure to get maximum exposure to the actual pipe.

Anyone have any tips/suggestions?

[jamesavery22]

Hrmmm well I went to homedepot to look at that baseboard heater and its pretty crappy... From what I remember of the pics that were up here the ID of the copper pipe looked close to 1inch. The OD of the copper pipe that passes through the fins of the one that was in the store was 1/2"... It was really small. The fins werent even 2inches squared. The ones in the pics looked like 3inches squared...
The unit listed online was made by cadet, the one in the store was fahrenheit. Im guessing the pipe design is the same between both though =( Anyone know of where to get a much larger baseboard heater pipe???

[Diggrr]

grainger.com, hydronic element HERE (http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/productdetail.jsp?xi=xi&ItemId=1611779157&ccitem=)

They aren't cheap, but they got what you want.

[jamesavery22]

grainger.com, hydronic element HERE (http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/productdetail.jsp?xi=xi&ItemId=1611779157&ccitem=)

They aren't cheap, but they got what you want.

Thats tight thank you