[Ebonyks]

Just wondering, who does have the biggest bong here? I measured mine the other day, and it came out to 6'11" without the elbow on top.

Anyone got any bigger bongs here?

[Greedy Guido]

Size isn't everything. My cooling tower gets to within one degree of the wet bulb. You would be hard pressed to find a commercial cooling tower that got this close to the wet bulb temp.

I am a proud father!

[Colin]

While it's retired for now, mine is 69".

[JFettig]

LOL thats huge!!! what were the water temps like??

[Colin]

9C over ambient but that was with dual 120 watt pelts and a Bird putting out 128 watts. The six gallon reservoir was necessary due to the amount of heat the bong had to deal with. Running at full load it used close to five gallons per 24 hours.

[Bender]

Colin did you ever think of using a dehumidifier to return water back to the bong? With that and some connection to your houses water system to top it off you wouldn't have to worry about filling the system. If you had a radiator before the bong you might be able to keep temps and water loss down even more. I would at least try a bong but I need to be able to move and ship my computer. My 226 watt pelt puts out to much heat for any single radiator so I'm using strait water. I'm sticking with mATX water cooling for now.

[Colin]

I thought quite a bit about water recovery. The best solution I could come up with was to use a small reservoir with an auto fill system. The cold water from the houses plumbing should contribute to the cooling. Unfortunately I bought all the parts but never put it together. Perhaps I will try it with my next venture into pelts.