Random water cooling thought

[Krusty]

I just finished reading an article from overclockers.com talking about cooling with a fountain and had a thought I am not sure has been mentioned here before.

For those of you who are using evaporative cooling, you need a large reservior to hold enough water to last you a while. For good cooling, you need a massive reservoir. My idea is instead of having a massive reservoir, just use a small reservoir and have it attached to a water supply. You could use a setup just like the reservoir in your toilet. When the water supply gets low, the bobber thing sinks and triggers the water to start to fill up again.

The only problem I could see with this is that, since the water isn't depleting as fast as a flushing toilet, the water may be running almost constantly. The solution to this is to find a way to set it up so it is triggered at a low level and then fills up to a much higher level. Perhaps using two bobber thingies to trigger the on and off of the water.

Just a random thought that may prove useful:D

[nihili]

Hmmm, interesting idea. A toilet ball should work fine, it's pretty easy to adjust them. The main question is whether it's worth putting in the plumbing just to avoid adding water periodically. I guess that depends how often you have to add it.

nihili

[Christoph]

I think that I'll use some variation of the "bobber thingy" (as you so eloquently put it) to fill my bong from a large res. If you used plumbing, you'd have to filter out all the funk in the water so it wouldn't kill your water block. I know such thinks exist, but I wonder how easy they'd be to adapt.

[Krusty]

Originally posted by IdeaMagnate
I think that I'll use some variation of the "bobber thingy" (as you so eloquently put it) to fill my bong from a large res. If you used plumbing, you'd have to filter out all the funk in the water so it wouldn't kill your water block. I know such thinks exist, but I wonder how easy they'd be to adapt.

I know just the thing. Use the stuff you need to put tap water coming out of your refrigerator. It hooks directly to your faucet and has a plastic tube that runs to the refrigerator. The best part of all...it has an in-line filter too!

I'm poor, so I can't do this now, so someone else gets to do it. Go find yourself an old toilet to tear apart. It already comes with a pretty porceline reservoir:) . Go get yourself a kit to hook up the water and ice machine and start screwing around!

[sneakyfart]

i use an electric bottled water cooler like you would see in an office with a 5 gallon water bottle stuck in it and lil cups hangin on the side... the difference with mine is there is no 5-gallon water jug, just a pump sittin in the reservoir pumping very cold distilled water through my cpu. no ugly white stuff growing in there either. very little evaporation keeps my T-bird @30-35c and in the heat of the summer its nice n cool in the room :D

[The Overclocker]

good idea, might try it. then again i dont have a bong

[mw521]

Instead of the toilet bobber thingy how bout this. Make your own bobber thingy with a small stick and attach a float (Fishing bobber will do) hinge and place in the resevoir. To that attach a mercury switch that can cut on a replenishing pump. cuts it off too.
This will at least bypass the toilet plumbing part.;)