WEBVTT 00:00:00.199 --> 00:00:08.639 so we're back on the site of personal rig update 2015 now some of you pointed 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:14.480 out that putting all this computer equipment into a closet could lead to 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:17.400 overheating issues and while this room 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:22.359 actually is technically an exterior room this is an insulated wall right here and 00:00:20.080 --> 00:00:27.119 through this Gap is direct access to the outside and through that Gap is direct 00:00:24.400 --> 00:00:31.720 access to the attic it's only passively ventilated and in practice we've gone 00:00:29.759 --> 00:00:36.879 from being pretty close to outdoor temperature to it being about 13° C 00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:42.760 putting this equipment in initially to it being about 18° C on a warm day here 00:00:39.879 --> 00:00:50.239 in April so from past experience I'm expecting it to go as high as 35 to 40° 00:00:45.680 --> 00:00:51.760 C In the Heat of the midsummer obviously 00:00:50.239 --> 00:00:56.359 that's not acceptable so we're going to have to put a contingency plan into 00:00:54.199 --> 00:01:01.120 action welcome to personal rig update 2015 part whatever the crap this is and 00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:05.359 yes I know it's not 2015 anymore ventilating the 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:18.479 room the Arya headphones from Phoenix come complete with a cardioid clip mic 00:01:16.759 --> 00:01:22.240 and acoustic Chambers constructed entirely of Japanese Pinewood check out 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:27.680 the link in the video description to learn more now as a number of you have noted 00:01:25.520 --> 00:01:32.680 on at least several occasions I'm not particularly handy and when it comes to 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:35.360 knock walking out walls and installing 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:40.360 ventilation fans I am not going to be anyone's First Choice as a general 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:44.880 contractor so I have brought in my crack 00:01:40.360 --> 00:01:47.520 team Mark and Praxis who are going to be 00:01:44.880 --> 00:01:51.520 well helping me with basically doing it for me but before they can do that 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:55.479 there's some stuff I need to do because I've already started using this room as 00:01:53.560 --> 00:02:00.880 storage again and I've been informed that all this yes even this that I 00:01:58.600 --> 00:02:04.759 worked so hard to put in here has to come out I guess we'll start by 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:08.920 shutting everything down I'm going to have no internet today or 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:14.319 tomorrow how will I live it's like a fish with no internet or water well here 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:19.800 we go I'm just going to have to haul this out of 00:02:16.480 --> 00:02:23.560 here my ceiling mounted access 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:26.560 point there we go such winers o we don't 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:28.680 have power o we're running on battery I 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:33.280 don't actually have power in this room so this is a power car that runs through 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:37.360 the wall to uh an outlet and then everything else here is also just kind 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:41.159 of running through that same hole which is just a hole I made in the drywall is 00:02:39.319 --> 00:02:44.480 there perhaps while we're redoing these walls is there perhaps a more elegant 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:47.879 way to achieve this well I could actually put outlets on this wall 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:54.720 something I should have done 6 years ago basically yeah yeah yeah okay suggestion 00:02:51.040 --> 00:02:57.560 for your lighting LED pot light oh neat 00:02:54.720 --> 00:03:02.920 low voltage wow those are really small so the Transformer it only uses 12 WS Al 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:07.319 I'm not going to have like the the incandescent page thing hanging off the 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:13.440 yeah yeah that's it just what you don't like this not really oh well I think I 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:16.760 actually did even put this in myself now that I think about it yeah it was broken 00:03:14.799 --> 00:03:25.640 in this room I put this in did I do okay no 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:28.680 oh so I mean this is bizarre I I told 00:03:25.640 --> 00:03:31.239 Mark I still had some more of this like 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:35.720 uh particle board with like a primed side stuff and he and I was like yeah 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:41.000 you can you can totally have that we you can put more of it in there he's like 00:03:38.519 --> 00:03:45.360 you um so we are going to be ripping all of that out as opposed to just doing the 00:03:43.200 --> 00:03:48.720 parts we need to access and drywalling it you can see it's really sturdily 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:52.439 constructed I mean it's not like he's taking it apart with his hands that's 00:03:51.200 --> 00:04:00.239 totally not a thing that's happening let's see if I can pull it off with my hands never oh wow yeah that is not very 00:03:57.760 --> 00:04:05.200 good I feel like He-Man just ripping walls apart fun fact never actually seen 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:09.599 an episode of He-Man I don't even know if He-Man is the name of the show He-Man 00:04:07.519 --> 00:04:13.159 might just be like a guy on some other show you know what amazing I told Mark I 00:04:11.879 --> 00:04:20.680 was going to be here to help today he still brought a helper I can't figure out why inexplicable I took an 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:20.680 electrical course in high 00:04:21.479 --> 00:04:29.440 school thank you so uh I'm equipped with 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:31.039 my manly purple mask and my light I'm 00:04:29.440 --> 00:04:37.600 going to go find out where those damn Cat 5 cables go to I think it's possible 00:04:34.400 --> 00:04:40.800 that they actually go to the uh to the 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:43.160 garage like I think the house was kind 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:48.440 of wired for Ethernet but like not properly so if they go around the front 00:04:45.840 --> 00:04:52.280 and across that way then that will be what they were for but it doesn't 00:04:50.080 --> 00:04:58.199 actually look like they do one of them goes this way where are you going and 00:04:55.039 --> 00:05:01.039 why are you going there e cobwebs ass 00:04:58.199 --> 00:05:07.120 sper what the hell I figured out what it is okay they're using it as speaker wire 00:05:04.039 --> 00:05:09.600 this is for the um it's for the ceiling 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:14.160 mounted speakers in the living room I don't understand why they're using C 5 00:05:11.880 --> 00:05:19.720 for that maybe there's some reason but that explains it okay so that means that 00:05:17.479 --> 00:05:26.120 this how the heck did they manage to do a drop unless 00:05:22.919 --> 00:05:28.479 oh this goes straight down into that 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:34.039 wall oh that's cool that means if I wanted to run anything else in that wall 00:05:30.440 --> 00:05:38.600 than I could and that is also how 00:05:34.039 --> 00:05:41.720 they're getting coax in there I think 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:43.680 okay now I get it so now that we've got 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:48.080 everything torn out we've got a clear look at what we're working with and I 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:52.120 can outline exactly what the plan is we're going to pull off of this light 00:05:50.440 --> 00:05:55.280 switch box right here and we're going to put an outlet in this room rather than 00:05:53.919 --> 00:06:00.840 having me run a power bar through the wall because I'm sure that the fire department would freak out if they saw 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:09.160 that next we're going to install this low voltage uh LED lighting Dad we have 00:06:05.280 --> 00:06:10.759 an inline 190 CFM fan which we'll use to 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:15.440 pump air into the room we need to control that with a cooling thermostat 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:21.919 and this is a low voltage connection and this is 120 volt so we need to use a 00:06:19.440 --> 00:06:25.520 relay to have this tell the relay what to do in order to tell the fan what to 00:06:23.639 --> 00:06:29.960 do okay so basically we're going to climb down into the sopit area down 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:35.280 there where conveniently there are already some ventilation duct things 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:39.160 that are for keeping this uh this insulation up here ventilated and we're 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:43.520 going to put like a service panel in here and just have it create a positive 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:47.240 air pressure situation in this room and then for ventilation out of the room 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:53.599 what we're thinking is we're just going to leave like maybe 6 to 8 in of free 00:06:51.280 --> 00:06:59.800 space here in the drywall on the ceiling so that it can just passively exhaust 00:06:55.919 --> 00:07:01.720 into the attic just like that so uh we 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:06.000 have a plan it's exactly the plan I would have come up with on my own 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:10.879 too so they're making me vacuum the rodent 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:12.759 poop guess I get that sort of my rodent 00:07:10.879 --> 00:07:17.400 poop not theirs so the first step which you can 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:20.879 see practice working on here is using a combination of the included mounting 00:07:18.960 --> 00:07:26.440 hardware and a little bit of Fabrication in the sofits to create a mounting point 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:31.319 for the intake fan that's going to cool the room the fan itself uh is free 00:07:29.080 --> 00:07:34.800 flowed with with air um so we need to put a damper in so that when you don't 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:40.160 want air flowing in there say in the winter when it's cold you want this 00:07:37.960 --> 00:07:46.319 to stop the air flow cool now the last step to make all 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:48.479 of this even have a point at all is to 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:53.199 insulate the ceiling because that is where the heat is coming from from the 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:57.879 Sun hitting the shake roof and basically conducting heat directly into this room 00:07:56.240 --> 00:08:01.720 now fortunately this is relatively straightforward because we've already 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:04.919 got strapping right here so we're still going to have enough air flow through 00:08:02.960 --> 00:08:09.280 here to keep the wood from rotting but we are going to have to fill it with 00:08:06.280 --> 00:08:11.319 insulation and cover it with drywall in 00:08:09.280 --> 00:08:15.960 order to make this room effectively part of the house rather than part of the 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:22.319 outside so phase one of the electrical work is actually pretty much done so 00:08:19.639 --> 00:08:27.080 we've borrowed 120 volt power from the old incandescent pulley chain light that 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:32.399 used to be up here and we have brought it into this box right here so this is 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:37.519 where the light switch for our new LED light is actually going to go this guy 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:41.880 is going to contain this relay right here as well as this Transformer which 00:08:39.640 --> 00:08:46.560 is going to take the 120 volt in and turn it into 24v power that our cooling 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:51.880 thermostat can handle without frying itself whenever the fan engages so 00:08:49.480 --> 00:08:55.760 basically what should happen is when the temperature reaches a certain threshold 00:08:53.360 --> 00:09:00.680 when it gets too warm it'll connect the circuit and in theory that'll turn on 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:04.880 the fan which as you guys can probably hear is 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:08.839 working just dandy 00:09:06.640 --> 00:09:13.440 exciting so for the next stage in the project we're working on putting that 00:09:10.680 --> 00:09:17.160 electrical Jack in as well as a better pass through into the room over here the 00:09:15.079 --> 00:09:20.560 other update here is that the ducting is now installed so it's pretty 00:09:18.760 --> 00:09:26.160 straightforward stuff we've just got some little metal accordion style 00:09:23.640 --> 00:09:30.240 ducting here and then some foil tape affixing one duct to the fan on this 00:09:28.839 --> 00:09:34.200 side so that that's where the exhaust is going to come into the room and then on 00:09:31.959 --> 00:09:37.480 the other end we've got another piece of duct that's going right down to the sfet 00:09:36.399 --> 00:09:41.600 where we're going to have to cut a ho for it outside now the clever among you 00:09:39.640 --> 00:09:46.640 have probably realized at this point that that is just going to draw air not 00:09:44.800 --> 00:09:51.000 only from the outside but also from the rest of the attic where we haven't 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:54.920 insulated and it's going to be quite hot no not so because we're going to jam 00:09:53.000 --> 00:10:00.720 some insulation around the edges of it so that it can only draw air from the 00:09:57.160 --> 00:10:04.040 outside okay so with the p over most of 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:06.880 the insulation in the walls now and the 00:10:04.040 --> 00:10:11.880 drywall mostly well sort of maybe about half up we're ready to do an update 00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:16.320 because once this wall is drywalled in this LED light is going to be 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:18.320 permanently mounted so it locks into the 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:23.600 connector a little something like that then we are going to simulate the 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:27.959 switch by joining these wires and there you 00:10:25.040 --> 00:10:30.640 go it's an LED light and Brandon's going to have to adjust his exposure oh he's 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:37.519 is going to have to do it again oh he's going to have to do it one more time oh no oh no l is is live with the 00:10:34.160 --> 00:10:40.120 light so that's going to go on the 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:44.800 wall so this is a quick status update more than anything else I realized that 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:48.920 the fan is a little on the loud side it's actually audible even through the 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:53.600 wall so what we're going to add is just a simple dimmer switch and we're just 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:56.760 going to tape it up box it inside here and close it away because it's not the 00:10:55.160 --> 00:11:00.200 kind of thing that you would adjust very often and the other things that we can 00:10:58.560 --> 00:11:04.600 have a look at that have changed since last time is that the fan has been 00:11:02.680 --> 00:11:11.560 completely insulated around now so we are getting nice cool air like that is 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:13.800 Frosty air from outside and finally this 00:11:11.560 --> 00:11:19.519 puppy has been reframed for a nice big access panel if in the future I want to 00:11:16.880 --> 00:11:25.200 run oh I don't know more you know foone lines or coax lines or even power from 00:11:23.040 --> 00:11:29.959 my garage or to anywhere else in the house because from here I can access the 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:34.120 entire upstairs and over to the garage now I don't have to 00:11:32.120 --> 00:11:40.920 crawl through like I did the other day see much easier so we are pretty much at 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:43.079 the end the room is drywalled and mudded 00:11:40.920 --> 00:11:48.040 the access hatch has been mostly created it just needs a bit of a handle on the 00:11:44.560 --> 00:11:50.959 outside and check this out this dimmer 00:11:48.040 --> 00:11:56.519 switch has been wired in it's kind of a getaway of doing it I know in a perfect 00:11:53.519 --> 00:11:59.279 world you know the uh RPM of the fan 00:11:56.519 --> 00:12:03.680 would be modulated by temperature as opposed to just by manually doing this 00:12:02.040 --> 00:12:08.360 but this is functional since it's the kind of thing that I'm only going to have to set probably once a season 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:14.079 anyway so here's how it works we've got the fan on auto the system is set to 00:12:10.360 --> 00:12:16.560 cool and if we turn the threshold down 00:12:14.079 --> 00:12:21.600 the cooling fan kicks in but if I kind of go oh gee that's 00:12:19.240 --> 00:12:27.440 really loud all I've got to do is before I close up this little access panel turn 00:12:24.800 --> 00:12:32.480 that dimmer switch down and we can find the perfect balance between acoustic and 00:12:29.639 --> 00:12:37.199 temperatures so finally the last step before benchmarking we've got to put a 00:12:34.320 --> 00:12:42.320 grill on the outside air intake which is under the S here preferably one that is 00:12:39.760 --> 00:12:47.600 B proof you know so that I don't have bees in my attic thank you for thinking 00:12:43.920 --> 00:12:50.320 of that um and then we can Benchmark it 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:53.399 and find out just how well the system works yay 00:12:54.160 --> 00:12:58.440 Wheels okay down 00:13:03.199 --> 00:13:09.880 so all that's left now is the final 00:13:07.399 --> 00:13:14.279 Benchmark so in order to evaluate whether this was a success or failure 00:13:11.560 --> 00:13:19.800 because I don't want to just wait around for the summer and for the computers to 00:13:16.079 --> 00:13:22.440 all overheat to find out is to look at 00:13:19.800 --> 00:13:28.440 what the CPU temperature is under a heavy load relative to the outside 00:13:25.720 --> 00:13:33.680 temperature when we're running intensive applications so I'm going to run heaven 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:40.079 in a window as opposed to full screen oops as well as Ida 64 CPU Benchmark in 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:48.839 order to evaluate what it will be like in a worst case scenario with the door 00:13:44.880 --> 00:13:51.440 closed with our new cooling system off 00:13:48.839 --> 00:13:58.199 and then with the new cooling system engaged and so here you have it guys 00:13:54.320 --> 00:14:00.880 this is the result operation cool this 00:13:58.199 --> 00:14:06.160 room appears for now to have been a success bringing in cool air from the 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:11.800 outside is going to help a lot to keep this room cool and at the rate that that 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:14.839 fan moves air we are circulating all of 00:14:11.800 --> 00:14:17.440 the air in this room like every minute 00:14:14.839 --> 00:14:22.680 or so not really giving the systems any time to heat up more than they normally 00:14:20.040 --> 00:14:28.320 would well that was fun watching me get burned by the contractor among other 00:14:25.880 --> 00:14:32.079 things but you don't have to get burned if you switch over to Ting the mobile 00:14:30.279 --> 00:14:37.560 carrier that is focused on customer service and satisfaction first when you 00:14:35.160 --> 00:14:41.639 call them this is crazy I actually tried it because I didn't actually quite 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:45.160 believe it when you call them you do not speak to a robot you get put through 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