all right so on Friday while we were shooting Channel Super Fun um there was
a bit of a disaster and all the computers needed to be Rec combobulated
on their own Loops instead of flushing so we're going to do some diagnosis
here this is the whole room water cooling
project detec this is
crazy um I think one thing that we need
to do is get that second pump in here
because I'm having trouble bleeding all the
systems so here's our big boy second
pump and uh I have some tubing scraps so
we're just going to hook this baby
up um okay where's my thing we're going
from this Outlet to this Inlet to the rest of the room I got to
go I got to go hook up a system before we start this though otherwise it's just
going to go no
so we're going to put you back on the whole room Loop then we're going to go
turn on the pumps for the whole room
Loop wow your system runs toasty when it's just got to dual rad too many
bubbles though so first the first pump because we don't want either of them to
run
dry boom then the second pump
all right let's see if we're getting better flow rates with all that extra
pressure actually that does look quite a bit
better ah I'm watering the bathtub yeah
not bad pressure o looks like we're actually
getting more Gunk cut of your system that's
interesting so let's go have a look maybe it's uh
that not I did not expect that we already flushed the systems how are
temps they're okay not great well right
now your system has a 5x quad
radiator just for itself so it makes
sense that it's doing all right that's weird turning off your pump
made absolutely zero
difference to the sound in this computer
what is making so much noise wait what did I just un
plug oh wasn't your pump what was it I
don't know let's just not worry too much about that okay oh no there it goes dead
silent now okay so this one's
purged hold on a second
though oh that's a
problem bad bad bad
oh we ran dry absolutely terrible worst thing
ever oh boy that was not not what we were trying
to do
okay that might explain why it was so
quiet now aside from needing to replace
the pump I also need to replace the power supply for the fans on the roof
because we were so close to the 2 amp limit of the power supply we were using
originally that the fans just don't start up unless I start half of them and
even then sometimes not but first see
the these marks right at the tip of my finger those are growth how about the
down here oh those might be growth too I didn't see those probably bubbles though
uh that means that block performance is definitely affected by the growth in our
Loop even on the furthest system from the pumps but since we haven't seen
block performance affected negatively yet um what I'm hoping is we can at
least run it until we move and uh once
we've added some some kind of a biocal agent like iodine to the loop um we
should hopefully kill that stuff and inhibit the rest of its growth so do we
have to clean those blocks the blocks will need to be disassembled for
cleaning what about the RADS do they have to be replaced um right now it
looks like that would be our best bet yes or we could just irresponsibly not
do it and uh put in a biocal agent put
an inline filter in and just kind of go yep good enough and not clean anything
that is another option everything's fine out here I wonder if the fans are still
running cannot tell from here but what I
can tell from here is that I have the uh
I have the soldering gear that I need to make my new power supply so I guess why
don't we do
that so I have never used this soldering kit
before this is a new one
oh terrible terrible
news I forgot my wire strippers I guess I'll have to use my
teeth or a knife probably teeth it's a
nice Smartwatch you have there oh thank you uh it was recommended by uh guy that
I know he sounds like a dick I think this is supposed to go in
here here but I'm going to go see if I have wire
strippers I definitely don't have flux
though I'm here I found one in the uh in
the closet it's from one of the power supplies for one of these systems so
it's all sort of part of the same inventory for this project
okay so that's on wait a minute I not
only have no flux I I have no solder I I do have to go to Home Depot D so my
computer just started making you know a bit of an awful noise uh it sounded like
the screams of a thousand dying babies and here it comes
again I don't know you don't know what dying babies sound like especially not a
thousand we need to get everyone's but
bural system off the whole room Loop you
just put mine on the loop and now you're putting it off well it's a diagnostic
process why not M again because we want
all the pressure going to your Loop to force bubbles out of it cuz you're uh
you're at the very end so you're you kind of got the Loop
spot all of this seems like an excellent
idea I'm trying to loosen bubbles I'm
not going to tip it planting you probably will okay I'm going to tip it
if I get hit in the head with a hard drive I'll be upset not as upset as the
hard drive but okay I'll put it on the ground you shouldn't drop hard drives
like that said the guy who tipped the system and dropped the hard drive before
okay well the bad news is that two pumps is still not enough to bleed all the
systems at once but is definitely enough to properly bleed one system at once
when before with only one pump it was like barely enough enough
cool okay so I've got everything I need here for soldering I've got my soldering
station I've got my soldering iron I've
got my sponge I've got my solder I've
got my flux pen um cuz I couldn't find
my other thing of flux so I'll just use a pen whatever okay right and I have my
sacrificial Molex connector that I'll be using to put onto the end of this and
then some electrical tape to go ahead and seal the whole thing up oh and turns
out I do have wire strippers here at the office so I I guess let's get started so
first thing we'll need to do is cut this connector
off and Boop you're done so let's find
out if this
works I don't have much hope actually it'll be fine okay
and bippity B 14 volts all
right
12 okay I you worried that the rain's
going to get to that
thing there's no explanation quick go before he realizes
that I'm back okay up we
go oh it's okay that seems
good oh it's raining right now
actually okay uh you may have to go up there now
I kind of have to pee Oh nobody's
watching um no hold on oh oh
what okay we have one of these powered
over over
SATA oh in fact there are three leads
for the three Splitters which means we need to split
this to two Mox and then split it again
to oh I could have just see I could have
just soldered it to that entire harness but instead I just left one connector I
thought that was all we needed wait you're leaving that there
seems safe oh okay I guess I could take it out of the
r there
what are you looking for nothing I hate
you do we have any Molex y
Splitters probably yeah that's what I
thought why you no
reason cuz I soldered the wrong connector to the end of shut up
so the proper solution would have definitely been to resolder this especially cuz I did such a poor job of
soldering it in the first place but this is what we'll be
doing Molex to SATA to quad
SATA okay so we wire these
up Bippity bity Boop
no fans are
spinning it's all good um hm let's try
one oh there's s so we have
oh we only did up one of the grounds and
it's the wrong one back down we
go oh I can't even
a yeah I'll meet you back at the soldering
iron if you could grab a Seda harness from the closet in front of burl or
behind him or whatever they're in a bag on the shelf right inside the door all
right should just pretend none of that ever
happened got it on the first try yeah
right now because we have SATA connectors on the uh fan power Splitters
up there we'll be using a SATA modular
power supply harness as our sacrificial lamb today and we will be attaching
pretty much the entirety of it giving us a total of four connectors cuz if we had
just done one connector of completely the wrong type that would have been
silly if you have any tips for soldering don't be afraid to let us know in the
comments no
trolling just kidding don't do that that's for 9 volts not soldering
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hot which makes sense this could almost be its own
entire episode The Comedy of Errors that is
line is trying to create this adapter let's put that is a long
wire it's about one line is height in
height
Boop a I still haven't gone PE it
definitely doesn't go
away okay take that
suckers nope
nope just come back out
what did I have this clip to must have been
tubing there we go okay that's pretty much it all fans
except one spinning why is there one not spinning what is going on here what is
this what is this what are
okay next time on West Coast hle room
okay so I ordered a couple of filters and hopefully these
will filter what whatever's going on in our system oh my God it's moving