*spazzed*
11-10-01, 09:00 PM
No I didn't use my machine, but i used a CD player instead, so I don't have heat transfer resuts.....
I used my cheap RCA cd player with power coming from the AC/DC converter. The cd motor/laser assembly i mounted away from the water using extensions on all my cables and cable ribbons. I used a small aquarium pump that pumped around 25GPH(i said small). I only used about 5 litres of fluid for each trial run. I attatched a drawing of how my system worked....
First i tried using tap water.....that didn't work too nicely.....even with batteries in a sealed chamer that i made, it wouldn't play.
So i let it dry off and tried de-ionized water. That worked great. i left my cd player running constantly, with the pump pumping away. After 11 days the LCD, which was also in the water, started to act funny. This is where I thought that anything sensitive to electric currents would get damaged, so this is where this run ended. The cd still played fine though.
I let it dry off once again and this time I used synthetic motor oil, 0w30. I can say that that wasn't very nice on the pump, since it was small, it strained constantly, making very fine grinding noises :) The pump heated up and i hoped that it wouldn't go on me, which it didn't......
It ran for a good 20 days, that's when i saw that the LCD screen acted funny....
My conclusion is that if you do try to use liquids for cooling, flush your systems out frequently, about every 9 days for de-ionized water and 18 for oil, at least for the first few runs....I haven't tried my expiriment for a long period of time, but i will test it with an old pentium as soon as i can :) As for the transfering properties, well i have no results for that :( but I know that using liquids for cooling will work :)
I used my cheap RCA cd player with power coming from the AC/DC converter. The cd motor/laser assembly i mounted away from the water using extensions on all my cables and cable ribbons. I used a small aquarium pump that pumped around 25GPH(i said small). I only used about 5 litres of fluid for each trial run. I attatched a drawing of how my system worked....
First i tried using tap water.....that didn't work too nicely.....even with batteries in a sealed chamer that i made, it wouldn't play.
So i let it dry off and tried de-ionized water. That worked great. i left my cd player running constantly, with the pump pumping away. After 11 days the LCD, which was also in the water, started to act funny. This is where I thought that anything sensitive to electric currents would get damaged, so this is where this run ended. The cd still played fine though.
I let it dry off once again and this time I used synthetic motor oil, 0w30. I can say that that wasn't very nice on the pump, since it was small, it strained constantly, making very fine grinding noises :) The pump heated up and i hoped that it wouldn't go on me, which it didn't......
It ran for a good 20 days, that's when i saw that the LCD screen acted funny....
My conclusion is that if you do try to use liquids for cooling, flush your systems out frequently, about every 9 days for de-ionized water and 18 for oil, at least for the first few runs....I haven't tried my expiriment for a long period of time, but i will test it with an old pentium as soon as i can :) As for the transfering properties, well i have no results for that :( but I know that using liquids for cooling will work :)