My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower

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nateman_doo
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2010/01/17 00:04:59
Since a few have been *ahem*  asking me for it, finally got up off my dead behind and took some pictures!


As far as performance goes it keeps my i7 920 @ 16C idle temps, and load temps are 38C (with linX).  (there is also a single 295 connected with the CPU block in parallel connections)  The CPU block is a special block that I will post pictures of in the near future-once it has been fully tested.

Yes the room is a MESS, and that 1KW antec is running nothing but those 2 fans for the bong cooler.  I will probably type more tomorrow, its 3 am and I am beat.  The bucket that the cooler is sitting in is just an insurance policy.  That other do-hicky to the left of the bong, is 1 of my chillers.  Its the one that gets super cold.

post edited by nateman_doo - 2010/01/27 20:08:25
wb488641
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Re:My 7' tall BONG COOLER 2010/01/17 00:07:52
Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Towerat first I thought ( WTH ) it was a sewer drain in the middle of the room!!

ya, tomorrow if you can post more close up photo that would be cool!!!

and details on how it worked!!

WB
ShockTheMonky
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/17 00:08:59
Cool. One question tho. Where's the bowl?
Demonik5150
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/17 00:12:11
ShockTheMonky

Cool. One question tho. Where's the bowl?


i would like to know as well
nateman_doo
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/17 00:25:21
man, don't you guys sleep?!  The bottom is full of water, almost up to the fans.  I guess you could call that the bowl.
Q56_Monster
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/17 09:10:04
They were trying to be funny ala cheech and chong....

Man, you sure do work it , Nate...Great Job! 
nateman_doo
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/17 10:00:11
I lost all the pictures to make a how-to guide including all the picture of individual parts from a corrupt SD card.  I wish I knew how to get those pictures back
owcraftsman
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/17 10:01:35
As per usual Nateman you never fail to impress Thanks for sharing
reggiesanchez
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/17 11:43:56
awsome and inspiring I saw in one of your posts a while back that you have a humidity monitor how much has that gone up. What sort of pump do you have running that monster??
Halo_003
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/17 13:50:07
Nice! How loud is it?
pdxmark
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/17 14:22:00
This is cool and everything, but it's not a bong until you can get it to make coffee!
nateman_doo
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/17 17:57:14
Halo_003

Nice! How loud is it?


VERY loud.  like rain forest loud (without all the tropical birds)
gomnadz
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/17 18:25:59
DANG!!!!!!!!!!! now thats a BONG!
 
looks good Nate.......
 
+1 for more pictures!
 
fanboy
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/17 19:13:37
VERY loud.  like rain forest loud (without all the tropical birds)


That is one reason they still use cast iron and the other being the fire rating.. you could make that out of copper if you knew how to work it and they still make brass dwv fittings..
 
Also are you pushing air in or pulling out? is the top open for air to rise and vent off the heat?
post edited by fanboy - 2010/01/17 19:22:02
lehpron
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/17 21:24:05
I'll admit, I've heard about these for years, but not for one second did I figure out how these work...

Now though it seems pretty straight forward:  The nozzle up top functions like a radiator, thinning out the water so heat can escape easier, similar to the effect of an atomizer.  In fact, the smaller the droplet, the the closer to ambient the water gets (but puts pressure on the pump to maintain head), and the length of the bong can be shorter.  Downside is of course the evaporation rate goes up versus a relatively closed loop LCS, resulting in a humid room.  I suppose fully optimized, you won't need the fans; this has the potential of being a passive silent LCS.

Good job on implimentation nateman_doo, I'm kinda of curious about it now (if it can be made silent).
nateman_doo
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/17 21:56:20
thanks gents.  What would help would be one of those low water shower heads that mist the water, but that requires a much heavier duty pump.  Traditional shower heads make the water more of a stream, and while the water is falling it sorta breaks up into droplets.  With the mist happening immediately up towards the top, it would cool much more when it got towards the bottom.  the fans are blowing into the core, and vent out the top.  There is so much air flow from the fans, that it slows the  flow of the liquid flowing. 



As you can see I just made removable fans that just slide in there so I can add liquid quickly.  You can see the water leve in the opening.  The pump is a tiny 350 gph pond pump.  It is garbage.  the swiftech MCP 655 pump ate it for lunch and launches the water through the ENTIRE system, AND the 7 foot tall cooler.  I plan on getting a much more powerful pump for this project and perhaps a much more fine mist shower head or even garden hose attachment?

as for making that out of copper, do you have any idea how much a 6" by 7 foot tall copper pipe would cost?!
heh... more then the computer probably. 

you really don't have to have a humid room at all, as you can vent the top of the tube outside the house, and to further decrease temps, I could port air from outside into the fans with dryer duct.  If I insulate the pipe, it would probably be much quiter, but then it would more then double the cost of the project. 

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nateman_doo
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/17 22:18:45
Here is a view of the crappy pump.  But I hope this helps to see how ridiculously easy this project is to do.  I kind of went overboard with the glue, but I have had WAY to many leaks/spills with my chiller so I also put the entire thing into a small plastic tub thingy.  This is all with 6" pipe. 


ShockTheMonky
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/17 23:10:49
Looks good nate. Tell me what you think of this design.
 

 
My idea is that sense there was a problem with evaporation which thene foems into condesation, why not close off the only real avenue it has which is out the top. Set up a cross over to another pipe which has a fan blowing down the pipe. This way any water evaporating will channel to the other pipe, get cooled bay the fan, then be recycled back down to the resevoir. The midst from the shower head going down the main pipe will of course be cooled by the fans positioned close to the shower head and also close to the bottom like yours but also by the fan at the top of the second pipe as it sends its air down the pipe with cooled condesated water.
 
I know it sounds crazy but looks to me to be very functional in it's design and purpose. So what you think?
nateman_doo
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/17 23:25:53
I really like the idea of recycling the evaporated liquid!  I am having difficulty seeing what each fan is doing, as in blowing into the tube, or pulling out.

post edited by NordicJedi - 2011/08/03 00:31:52
ShockTheMonky
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Re:My 7' tall BONG COOLER 2010/01/17 23:46:03
All fans blow in. Top fan main pipe hits water as it first comes out of shower head. As it falls any water that may evaporate at top will be pulled by vacume created by fan at top of second pipe which is blowing down the pipe causing the air preasure above the fan to be lower than the air preasure blow the fan. This is where the vacume occurs pulling the evaporated water through. As it hits the air blown in by the fan it then condesates and is pushed down the pipe where it meets in with the first pipe. You can place it's entry above the second fan of the main pipe or below. By placing it above the second fan you will allow both the water from the second pipe as well as the main pipe to recieve a second level of cooling before re-entering the resevoir. By placing it's entry below the second fan then it will simply drop to the resevoir. Either way condesation is not caused simply recycled.
 
As for noise, any noise produced will be dampened by the loop at the top so most of the sound will move down and be dampened by the water in the resevoir.
Fiius
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/17 23:52:50
Err, Shock - I thought the point of the bong cooler was evaporative cooling.
Wouldnt this screw up the cooling?

~Fus
ShockTheMonky
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/17 23:59:06
Fiius

Err, Shock - I thought the point of the bong cooler was evaporative cooling.
Wouldnt this screw up the cooling?

~Fus


Acually no. Evaporation is allowed to occur but rather than it going out the top and condesating in the room or where ever, you are redirecting the evaporated water to another channel where it is then allowed to condesate to which it is then simply directed back to the main resevoir where it then can do the same thing all over again.
RBIEZE
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/18 09:34:18
Er um hate to poke anyone with a stick but fius is right.

An evaporative cooler depends upon the liquid to increase its volume (evaporate) by absorbing the heat.
Then as the heat is radiated (Cooled) the liquid re condenses.
Without that critical phase ,you only have a very large water cooler.

This is the exact same principal as refrigeration ,though using H20 as the refrigerant ,and the waterpump as the compressor...

You will never reach Sub ambient temps with out the critical step of MASS evaporation open to the atmosphere.

Not to say your bong wont cool ,just not as well as it could.

Google "Cooling Towers" for more info
ShockTheMonky
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/18 10:47:13
So. Explain to me how if the evaporation process is allowed to occur but instead of allowing the evaporated water to escape to the atmophere and condesate some where else when it cools, how does pulling the evaporated water into a seperate chamber, allowing it to condensate and then recycling the cooled evaporated water back into the loop, cause the concept to be broken. Evaporation is allowed to occur. Isn't that the whole theory behind this. As long as evaporation is allowed to occur, what is done with the evaporated water after it is vented out has no affect on the rest of the process.
nateman_doo
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/18 10:50:21
I have been staring at your design all morning and I think it could work.  If the "collector" pipe we can call it, (the one on the right) is open at the bottom, and allows the air to escape, but collects the water in the bottom pool, there is no reason it wont work. 
ShockTheMonky
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/18 11:01:58
That would work also. If you drop the collector pipe straight down into the res but not all the way into the water itself, then the air will be allowed to escape relieving any possible air pressure building up, but allowing the already condesated water to drop into the res. Simply have the cover on the res slightly ventalated to allow air to move out also.
lehpron
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/18 12:46:31
ShockTheMonky
All fans blow in. 
In a seal volume, getting circulation from all fans blowing in is impossible; otherwise you're just increasing the pressure inside, but the fans aren't that powerful.
 
There may need to be a heat exchanger type setup with multiple cavities, such that an outflow of air can exist but not interacting with evaporated water-air mixture.  If perfectly sealed with no circulation, the warm water droplets from the shower wouldn't loose heat as it travels to the bottom, except only via the bong tube itself.  To condense the evaporated air -- like a really large heatpipe -- there would need to be a soruce of cool.  Imagine a large bong loop, where one of the bing tubes ran outside or underground, to dissipate that heat.
 
The pump prior to the shower head should be closest to it, so the shower recieves the highest water pressure and isn't fighting gravity tot get it up there.  That way you can get a shower head with a finer mist.
Fiius
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/18 13:00:29
I didnt mean to stir the s*** stick.

If anyone wanted to give this a try, I would be interested in the results.

~Fus
nateman_doo
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/18 13:25:35
there is no $hit stick?  Just throwing ideas at each other.  I like the idea, but great pains must be taken to recycle the water, when I could just turn the tap on and fill it up every so often. 

My particular problem with this cooler is my pressure,  I don't get droplets at all.  It seems like a column of water coming down the pipe.  so the water has less surface area (being a single stream vs many droplets) to cool by. 

I will say 16°C on a waterblock that is also buried under over an inch of insulation on all sides of it, isn't bad at all.  Also, I have the north bridge, vregs, southbridge, and a 295 in the line as well.  But there are 2 triple rads, and a double rad all in this mix as well. 

I am re-building my double bay res, because the 2 pumps were a bit much pressure then the box was designed for.  the seam split and water was spewing at rather far.  The top of the res is always (for me) the hardest to seal, because as I am building it, I can get the glue on both sides of each joint for all panels, except the final panel. 
Spunkie
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/18 13:30:25
Ok so If I under stand this right, the actual evaporation is causes by the fans at the bottom forcing air UP the bong going against the flow of the droplets an causing some of it to evaporate, thus cool?

If I understand that correctly there would be some problems with ShockTheMonkeys design mainly being that with the placements of the top fan and the side collector pipe stopping the needed upwards airflow. But that only if I understand how a normal bong cooler works.
reggiesanchez
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/18 13:42:56
It would be pretty easy to set up a dehumidifier and plumb it right into the res. It would fill up pretty quick if the bong was running all the time and cut down on room humidity however you would be back to the loud fan sound. Should stepes be taken to prevent water build up on blocks from condensation for this build. Off to home depot to see what I can find be back in a few.
nateman_doo
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/18 14:28:26
reggiesanchez

It would be pretty easy to set up a dehumidifier and plumb it right into the res.


good idea, but it would defeat the purpose of it being a low cost operation.  might as well have an air conditioner running.  Better off piping the top outside the window with dryer duct.  Also if you pipe the inlets to the outside as well, you get nice COLD winder air which should bring your liquid temps below freezing. 
Spunkie
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/18 14:53:40
My post got buried on the first page. 
nateman_doo
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/18 15:24:48
Spunkie

Ok so If I under stand this right, the actual evaporation is causes by the fans at the bottom forcing air UP the bong going against the flow of the droplets an causing some of it to evaporate, thus cool?

If I understand that correctly there would be some problems with ShockTheMonkeys design mainly being that with the placements of the top fan and the side collector pipe stopping the needed upwards airflow. But that only if I understand how a normal bong cooler works.


I don't think the direction of the air matters so much as long as air is flowing.  By the fan being at the bottom and the water on top, the water experiences air rushing over each droplet through its entire length of the drop.   You could probably have a fan on top, pulling air up the shoot, rather then pushing. 
lehpron
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/18 16:03:43
Spunkie
Ok so If I under stand this right, the actual evaporation is causes by the fans at the bottom forcing air UP the bong going against the flow of the droplets an causing some of it to evaporate, thus cool?
You know how it would take less time to heat/cool a pot of water versus a few ounces?  Same idea, that by taking the heated water from a LCS loop and forcing it through the shower head to result in tiny water droplets, it is easier and quicker to cool.  The putpose of the fan is to force cooler air around what is actually a rather large water droplet coming from the shower head, seeing how there are many of them.
 
If instead you imagine putting hot water into those spray bottles that normally have window cleaner in it, as soon as you squeeze the atomizer, the water mistifies and cools suddenly almost near ambient.  Why?  The droplets are tiny and cools quicky, just like in a regular radiator, water is being spread into thin slits to expand their surface area to cool.  Ultilmately, if the droplets in a Bong cooler were small enough, there would be no need for active fan circulation -- but to compensate I think there needs to be a powerful pump behind a special nozzle to make the water into mist.  I guess it may not be as silient as I had hoped.
reggiesanchez
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/18 16:29:17
What about condensation I might prep my mobo alittle just to be safe should I just follow the thread in the stickies not really getting sub zero but same principles apply right. Oh yea just got a hose nozzle with a mist setting I would really like to see how that works I am considering doing two 3 inch towers instead of one four if the myst can fall far enough without hitting the pipe. I think I am also going to use a cooler as the res/stand any thoughts on that. I am kind of at a stand still because now I am waiting for a chipset block and still deciding on a pump I might just build it and use my spare pump just to se how it functions before I put it in my loop. I read a while ago its a bad idea to mix metals in your loop is there anything that would help with that. I think I am on the wrong end of the curve here so any feed back from nate or lephron would be appreciated.
nateman_doo
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/18 16:57:42
As for mixed metals the princials are as such:  water flowing across the dissimilar metals creates a very minute charge, and what you get is electrolysis.  eventually is electrolysis.  It will eventually corrode the alum, not the copper.   What you need to get out of that is to use copper by itself. 

OR

if you are diligent enough to check your loop every few months, you could clean out your stuff, and you will be just fine.  To be safe, it is just said to stay away from dissimilar metals. 

Hey leph, I just had an idea, if you could get the water to cascade down the sides of the pipe, your noise would get cut down considerably, but loosing some of the water surface area. 
reggiesanchez
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/18 17:13:33
Im pretty sure you would lose quite a bit of performance that way the water would bunch up and evaporate less??? I think
nateman_doo
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/18 17:17:15
I just tested my own idea, and it worked!

I just picked up a different shower head at Lowes for FIVE DOLLARS. 


It is designed for low pressure, and for some reason it has a very wide dispersion, and it goes down the sides of the pipe, and the noise is SOOOOO much less!  I only have it just sitting in the pipe, so its not lined up perfectly centered, but it works.  MUCH quieter.  No more rain forest, now more like aquarium.  Perhaps getting it centered will help more. 

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reggiesanchez
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/18 17:19:10
what happend to the temps
nateman_doo
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/18 17:20:18
reggiesanchez

Im pretty sure you would lose quite a bit of performance that way the water would bunch up and evaporate less??? I think


Nope, works.  still 16°C  and the room is around 19-20°C. 

I can only do short bursts because my bay res is leaking with all the added pressure.  I am building new ones now...
reggiesanchez
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/18 17:31:22
nice the hose I just picked up should work awsome then. What are you doing about condensation
nateman_doo
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/18 17:38:15
condensation on my equipment?  not needed, but my chip is, because that is gonna go to uber cold. (from the chiller when I wanna do evil things to it)
reggiesanchez
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/18 17:43:33
So are you saying I shouldnt prep my board I might do it anyways cant hurt right. I will follow the guide expet for the pj sound good or a waste of time.
nateman_doo
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/18 18:15:34
I dunno if I would do it, at least not yet, see how it runs by itself.  if you see condensation forming, then prep it.  Unless you plan on drawing in outside air for the bong...
nateman_doo
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/18 19:48:24
ok, finished building new double bay reservoirs.  Going to let them dry overnight, then I can have some more fun with the bong cooler tomorrow afternoon! 
reggiesanchez
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/18 20:23:25
cool going to pick up pvc tomorrow
ty_ger07
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/18 20:49:50
nateman_doo

As for mixed metals the princials are as such:  water flowing across the dissimilar metals creates a very minute charge ...

 
Not with pure water. 
 
Pure water is also non-conductive.
 
Life would be so much easier if water could remain pure.
 
With standard water, it is contaminated and full of ions.  It essentially acts as an electrolyte.  The dissimilar metals have different charges due to atomic structure and will give and receive electrons through the electrolyte (coolant).  The material giving up the electrons is called the anode while the one receiving the electrons is called the cathode.  The anode will be eaten away while the cathode will slowly "grow" as material from the anode attaches to it.
 

 
Mixed metal loops usually contain aluminum and copper.  Some also contain steel (hardware).  Aluminum and steel will erode and deposit themselves on the copper.
 
If you have a copper water block and see material build up on it over time, take a look elsewhere.  Many radiators are aluminum with brass ends; the aluminum can deteriorate to the point that the radiator starts to leak.  The process takes a very long time though with quality coolant.  For cars, the radiator usually lasts at least 10 years.
 
Keeping the dissilar metal apart by a relative distance greatly retards the process (don't have disimilar metals touching eachother).  If you use a quality coolant, keep them at a relative distance from eachother, and keep disimilar metals at the same electrical potential (both grounded to the computer case in some way), the rate of galvanic electrolytic corrosion will be very slow.
post edited by ty_ger07 - 2010/01/18 20:55:02
Drazhar
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/19 05:00:06
Hey nateman, why don't you get some type of substrate in that there bong, or put some ping pong balls in there to increase the surface area for evaporation? I've read over 50 pages on bong coolers lately, that seems to help a lot and also reduce on the noise levels.
merc.man87
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/19 05:32:30
This is very interesting, and could also cut down on my operation cost (Currently using direct AC)

Just wanted to add, i know that there are fans acting as an air intake, what about air contaminants reaching the fluid? Is that a big issue?
post edited by merc.man87 - 2010/01/19 05:44:32
nateman_doo
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/19 13:18:27
I guess if you keep your room clean its not, but for slobs like me, a simple fuel filter will work.
reggiesanchez
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/19 13:28:32
hey nate did you load that sucker up with your new res???? how much can she take
seth89
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/19 15:07:08
It would be cool if you painted it, maybe some LED lights in that tub/reservoir part at the base.

Think about it.
 
 
(Hey what is stopping you form watering down some antifreeze with distilled water?)
post edited by seth89 - 2010/01/19 15:09:41
nateman_doo
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/19 17:06:36
new res's worked like a charm.  15°C is current idle temp

gomnadz
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/20 12:39:19
nateman_doo

new res's worked like a charm.  15°C is current idle temp


how about when it's on a load?
nateman_doo
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/20 14:28:44
36°C load  as of last night
merc.man87
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/20 16:10:02
@ Nateman_doo, just got back from the local plumbing shop, price some parts, a 4 way wye adapter is 35.00, 10 feet of 4" pipe is 11.00, and the attachment for the bottom and the plug was only 11.00. Do you think that a bigger pipe in diamater like 8" or 10" would work better? or would it just benefit from a higer height? Also, dual intakes? or just a single intake with a 3 way wye adapter? Also plan on adding 1 quad rad, using one swiftech pump, probably the best one that they offer. Not sure on the shower head as of yet, i want to find something that mist the best, or an atomizer which would be rediculios, i am talking about the omega atomizer. I am going to purchase these products tomorrow, or do you think i should go check out lowes first? Do they carry bigger diamater than 4"?
nateman_doo
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/20 17:17:23
dude... if u have any idea how much I spent at lowes...  you'd have bought the pipe already.  Mine is 4" height is the only benefit, not diameter.  the longer the water droplets travel through the moving air, the cooler they get.   
gomnadz
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/21 01:07:13
nateman_doo

36°C load  as of last night


Nice temps there Nate
merc.man87
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Re:My 7' Tall Evaporative Water Cooling Tower 2010/01/21 05:28:26
Okay, then i will just get it from my local plumbing shop, would rather support them as they are a local owned business and seem to have respectable prices. Could i still benefit from using a radiator in the loop? Maybe like one quad rad?
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