be proud about it man what is this what
wait what okay wait this is this is this
is Donal
poeland this is the whole room water cooling
project this is crazy why
not typical lest Media Group Style
with the original plan powering the fans on the radiators was actually going to
be pretty straightforward because they were going to be relatively close to the
window opening but with the new plan putting them down on a little roof
overhang getting power to them was actually going to be a bit of a
challenge so I came up with an idea we were going to use part of the original
plan which was swifttech eight Port uh fan Splitters and then we were going to
use one of those handy little wall power to four pin Molex connectors and and
mount it down there in a way that it would be safe from the weather and then silicone over all the connections and
all that so that they don't corrode so we needed a new plan and I came up with
something that I thought was going to work we actually had one of those um
like wall power to to 2 amp 12vt power supplies and I was like okay well it
wasn't until the next morning that I grabbed that adapter and realized it's
only 2 amps I wonder if that's even going to be enough to power all the fans
so I ran inside checked the spec on the box for the fans and realized that each
fan is1 amps that means that with 20
fans on five quadruple radiators we need
exactly two amps going through our Splitters and out to the fans so my
bacon got saved there it's just barely
enough all right Luke's dad was here till 4:00 a.m.
getting all the copper piping installed we got the radiator Mount finished the
night before uh all the systems are pretty much built they just need some
more quick disconnects so this is the day that it all has to come together
because Nick Luke and Brandon are all leaving at the end of the work dat like
there's no stay late and they're going to PA to do show coverage there so
coming into the office in the morning we set out some goals okay we want to have
the radiator on the roof by noon um we want to have the room cleaned up and the
desks rearranged we need to run
water through the copper piping and get the soldering flux out of there and uh
we need to have all the systems tubing connected by the end of the day ready to
show it off I guess so one of my
interview questions were how do you feel about going up on the roof which I
didn't know I was doing so I don't know as far as I had
understood considering it's on the fascia boards we were putting a ladder
against the side of the house and I wasn't the one doing it those two things
were pretty key even we could even take the screen out of the window and
probably just lean out and do it that way but apparently we're going on the
roof so hopefully I'm able to check in
in a little while from now considering I'll be hanging off the side of a roof
trying to install a radiator on a facial board which makes no sense I have no
idea where the idea that Luke was going on the roof came from he wouldn't even
be able to install the radiators from there that's just stupid we're going to
use a ladder from the ground I found out
about this same time as everyone else did oh
neat I have a wood holder not really what it's for totally
legit now watch your head terrifying
that is extremely terrifying maybe the water draining
we'll make it slightly lighter the
radiator assembly ended up being incred heavy and there wasn't much we could do
in terms of pre-installation because we hadn't
actually been up there yet before we cut all of the wood and figured out how we
were going to mount it so I had to go up the ladder first with building materials
like you know drill and 2x4s find somewhere to put those which ended up
being like a little lip for uh for rainwater being redirected and then I
had to carry that entire radiator setup
up the ladder which was extremely difficult I was actually on the top of
the ladder thinking that I was stuck for quite a while because both of my hands
were on the radiator and I didn't have enough leverage to bring it up onto the
roof without putting too much strain on the ladder so that it would move to the
side and it was only by having someone hold the ladder really securely at the
bottom and creeping my hand out that I was able to bring it up onto the roof
because it was enough on there that for
me to bring it down would have been a huge momentum swing this way and for me to bring it up would
have moved the ladder so it was uh it was pretty scary getting it up there but
once it was there I was actually able to rest it on the roof and aside from
needing someone to hand me tools from the window above cuz I I could I had
nowhere to store everything um it was pretty straightforward from there you
need boards huh okay
the next step is
to secure this to
that oh my battery is uh is no
bueno let's find out if my eyeballing worked
oh yes it did we sent David for lumber um and then
I don't remember whose suggestion it was but we realized that having it mounted
out there insects could potentially be a
huge problem so we uh we sent him to go get some mesh that we could glue onto
the intake on the radiator so that we could hopefully keep bugs out of it now
I in my wisdom thinking that we had an entire roll of this mesh used the mesh
that I had already cut to size to wipe off this extremely goopy adhesive not
realizing that a that was all the mesh we had and B Home Depot was out of stock
that was the last one that they had so when we sent David back to the store to
buy more mesh they didn't even have any that was an appropriate size and they're
out of stock for 2 weeks so I'm just going to drill here I was
like you want a stud finder he's like no no one would put a plank up there I was
like okay where he go oh my
God I would uh I would be upset except
that it's exactly the same decision but I made exactly the same number of
times is the pump powerful enough I
don't know you tell
me so not so sure at this point me
neither I'm try to sound sure I know
is it on full is there any settings I no
it's full always
full super nasty that is um not a bad
flu rate we're getting a yeah we were getting a lot of bubbles we're still
getting a lot of bubbles I guess that's what happens when
you have that
much this one
swifttech was a great choice for us for this project because they have some of
the parts that we need that are pretty unique so they have all of the quick
disconnect fittings that we need very high quality they have the compression
fittings we need they have the water blocks that we need they've got their
latest Apple gxl they also have their kodo NV Le which is what we're using to
liquid cool all the Titans and finally
and this is really important they have their radiator Reservoir combo unit that
we're using using to avoid installing one additional component a reservoir
inside each of the systems so that will allow us to detach the systems from the
whole room liquid cooling Loop and then run them on their own either if for some
reason we need to do maintenance on the loop or if in the winter instead of
removing the heat from the room we want to kick the heat from the systems into
the room to actually warm it up a little I'm going to put it on top of
here how many cut do we need 10 and then this is going to
go straight up I'll cut it at some point
clamp it to the wall and then if there's an overflow it'll go up here and
everything will be okay instead of it flowing
out you have to put it on then press it
oh calibrates there okay
I have literally always guessed that that look from
lus it's okay I had to hang a painting of his sweating for his wife live that
down
lus the longest one
uh well it needs to cycle a bit I
think huh
yeah who there it goes what are you
leaving no no water is just uh like it it's going now did you just turn the
pump off no pump is still on for sure
okay good give it some more
water more
water be ready again okay okay
okay judging by how fast it goes out of that fill tube like it's pushing
okay uh are we do we need to top up the uh the tube one more time like can I
come down or what's up we can maybe give it a really short shot okay water okay
stop okay down I
come are you just power cycling yeah can
I see so I mean like it's it's pushing
water okay you just can't really tell with the
c one wait are we out of water uh in the
fill tube yeah but if you let
go I'm pretty sure there's still water in the
r okay what just happened that has
literally never happened
before I don't think water's making it all the way through yeah maybe not
it must have an air bubble stuck in it or something there's a ton of bubbles
like coming out yeah they stopped for a while now they're starting again there's
a lot of them DP over here there's a drip over here apparently there's a
where from the
copper really yeah where what part uh from the te
right by the door on the hot hot
side that be I'll be back in a
second oh it's dripping green too it's
the antifreeze oh need a
bucket the rest of it looks
okay where is
it hello it's right up there in that corner okay get the shirter something we
can't just leave it here where is the shirt in the in
there I take it up
I don't see any solder on that
one do you see me
no yeah I didn't see any
solder that was one of the last joints you did so that was at like 3:30 or
something probably
okay yes not fed um I'll I'll go up
there kind of feels like a movie yeah or
a documentary yeah one of those one off
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