My water chiller adventure

[fuzzba11]

I read the instructions on how to build an air chiller at hardwareOC, a few weeks ago, and thought 'why not water?' At the time a watercooling rig was only in my wildest dreams, but now my equipment *should* be arriving tomorrow! So, I went down to Radioshack, and bought myself two cheap aluminum HSFs, a pelt, and a indoor/outdoor thermometer.

Today I'm doing testing, this is my test setup, and I'm pretty pleased with these temps! Right now water temp is 18.2 C and 28.0 C Ambient.

[fuzzba11]

The test setup:

[fuzzba11]

My temp settled at about 17.2, not incredible, but hopefully if the water is being heated(by the CPU) the chiller will help the water temp stay nice and cool.

Anyone have any ideas on this? Should I put the chiller in the resevoir with the pump or make a seperate part for it?

[Eil Atan]

looking great fuzz!!! you the master!! :D

[Naeleros]

Not sure if anyone has tried these before.. but.. you might want to use the chiller that bars use in their CO2 systems. Basically its a waterblock that is inline with their fountain sodas and they just drop it in the bottom of a sink (large piece of aluminum.. probably 8x12") and cover it with ice.

Ice would be a pain.. but.. I would think it would lend itself to about 6 or 8 peltiers.. heh. Just think of that little cooling station :).

James

[Mac42]

During winter around here it rarely gets above freezing, so I'm hooking up about 40ft of copper tubing to my dual window fan and seeing how it goes. I know that sounds odd, but I'm using a small cardboard box to seal it off from the room, so I can have one fan blow in and the other out and just circulate the air through the coils. Hopefully I'll get the water close to freezing.

[Goa^uld]

make sure you insulate your lines so that the ambient air (which is warmer than the water) does not heat it up :)
other than that, well done.