Refrigeration Water Cooling?

[JKrepps]

Not sure where this belongs, so putting it here. If it should go in the cooling section, please relocate. Thanks

Browsing at work, came across: http://www.surpluscenter.com/item.asp?UID=2005041805361400&item=1-1302&catname=electric

Was wondering what you all thought about possibly using this as a "Reservoir" or possibly to take the need for a radiator out of the system.

Thoughts, comments, suggestions?

[blt111]

you need to be careful with this stuff. i dont know what 200BTU is in terms of watts but if it doesn't have the ability to remove more heat than your watercooling loop produces then it gradually turns into a nice insulator to keep your loop nice and toasty rather than cold since you'd have greater heat flow into the cooler than out

[Diggrr]

I remember some of the guys over in the Extreme Cooling section were buying them as parts for a homemade chiller unit, but I don't get over there much and don't know how they came out.
Ask a mod "pretty please" and he'll move this over there for ya, and you can search the term "Soda Fountain" in the extreme cooling section to see if there's some hits. ;)

IMHO, a great deal if it works on the up to date heaters..er..processors. This is still in my bookmarks from a year or two ago. The shipping will raise the price some cause it's 44 pounds.

[evowatercooling]

Using that unit as is to chill water would be deadly. It only has a 1/12 hp motor, and most people would recommend having atleast 1/4 to 1/3 hp motors. It would be a great unit for modificatinos though. It already has a huge resovior and is in a tidy little package.

[firebat45]

200 BTU cooling capacity - that is tiny, nowhere near enough to keep a processor cool, i dont even think thats enough for a vidcard or a north bridge

ok did some googling, it would appear that 200 BTU is rougly 60 watts. (3.4 btu per watt/hour)

although a BIX III is rated for 9702 BTU per hour, or 2850 watts or so. There is no way that a computer can put out that much heat, so why is a part designed for a computer rated for that? I have the suspicion that the conversion i got was incorrect, or doesnt apply to this situtation.

lets assume a BIX III can handle 1000 watts (which is a ton, prolly an over estimate)

that makes your 200 BTU cooler able to handle roughly 21 watts. Not very useful.

[evowatercooling]

You are correct with that 3.4 btu per watt. We are talking something that was sopposed to cool pop by about 10-20 deg F.

[firebat45]

but then why does a BIX III need to be able to cool 2850 watts? Thats enough for nearly 20 a64 processors!! (@ stock)

( i mean, the standard wall outlet is on a 15 amp breaker, so thats 1800 watts maximum anyway)

[nealric]

You might be able to run two in tandem. That might be a bit big though :eek:

[evowatercooling]

The reason that the BIX III is rated for 2850 watts is because it can, at maximum efficiancy, get rid of that many watts. Obviously there is not a personal computer out there that will dump 2850 watts into a cooling loop, so it is really there as window dressing. It just helps to compare it to other radiators.

And running two in tandum would use a tremendous amount of power and only 120 watts. That is barely enough to cool an overclocked prescott, let alone anything else.

[JKrepps]

Well, good information to have. Will keep looking for the next unique mod ;)