Whole Room Water Cooling Project Day 3 - Radiator Mounting and Panic...
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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be proud about it man what is this what
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wait what okay wait this is this is this
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is Donal
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poeland this is the whole room water cooling
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project this is crazy why
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not typical lest Media Group Style
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with the original plan powering the fans on the radiators was actually going to
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be pretty straightforward because they were going to be relatively close to the
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window opening but with the new plan putting them down on a little roof
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overhang getting power to them was actually going to be a bit of a
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challenge so I came up with an idea we were going to use part of the original
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plan which was swifttech eight Port uh fan Splitters and then we were going to
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use one of those handy little wall power to four pin Molex connectors and and
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mount it down there in a way that it would be safe from the weather and then silicone over all the connections and
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all that so that they don't corrode so we needed a new plan and I came up with
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something that I thought was going to work we actually had one of those um
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like wall power to to 2 amp 12vt power supplies and I was like okay well it
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wasn't until the next morning that I grabbed that adapter and realized it's
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only 2 amps I wonder if that's even going to be enough to power all the fans
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so I ran inside checked the spec on the box for the fans and realized that each
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fan is1 amps that means that with 20
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fans on five quadruple radiators we need
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exactly two amps going through our Splitters and out to the fans so my
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bacon got saved there it's just barely
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enough all right Luke's dad was here till 4:00 a.m.
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getting all the copper piping installed we got the radiator Mount finished the
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night before uh all the systems are pretty much built they just need some
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more quick disconnects so this is the day that it all has to come together
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because Nick Luke and Brandon are all leaving at the end of the work dat like
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there's no stay late and they're going to PA to do show coverage there so
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coming into the office in the morning we set out some goals okay we want to have
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the radiator on the roof by noon um we want to have the room cleaned up and the
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desks rearranged we need to run
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water through the copper piping and get the soldering flux out of there and uh
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we need to have all the systems tubing connected by the end of the day ready to
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show it off I guess so one of my
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interview questions were how do you feel about going up on the roof which I
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didn't know I was doing so I don't know as far as I had
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understood considering it's on the fascia boards we were putting a ladder
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against the side of the house and I wasn't the one doing it those two things
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were pretty key even we could even take the screen out of the window and
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probably just lean out and do it that way but apparently we're going on the
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roof so hopefully I'm able to check in
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in a little while from now considering I'll be hanging off the side of a roof
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trying to install a radiator on a facial board which makes no sense I have no
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idea where the idea that Luke was going on the roof came from he wouldn't even
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be able to install the radiators from there that's just stupid we're going to
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use a ladder from the ground I found out
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about this same time as everyone else did oh
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neat I have a wood holder not really what it's for totally
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legit now watch your head terrifying
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that is extremely terrifying maybe the water draining
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we'll make it slightly lighter the
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radiator assembly ended up being incred heavy and there wasn't much we could do
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in terms of pre-installation because we hadn't
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actually been up there yet before we cut all of the wood and figured out how we
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were going to mount it so I had to go up the ladder first with building materials
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like you know drill and 2x4s find somewhere to put those which ended up
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being like a little lip for uh for rainwater being redirected and then I
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had to carry that entire radiator setup
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up the ladder which was extremely difficult I was actually on the top of
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the ladder thinking that I was stuck for quite a while because both of my hands
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were on the radiator and I didn't have enough leverage to bring it up onto the
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roof without putting too much strain on the ladder so that it would move to the
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side and it was only by having someone hold the ladder really securely at the
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bottom and creeping my hand out that I was able to bring it up onto the roof
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because it was enough on there that for
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me to bring it down would have been a huge momentum swing this way and for me to bring it up would
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have moved the ladder so it was uh it was pretty scary getting it up there but
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once it was there I was actually able to rest it on the roof and aside from
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needing someone to hand me tools from the window above cuz I I could I had
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nowhere to store everything um it was pretty straightforward from there you
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need boards huh okay
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the next step is
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to secure this to
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that oh my battery is uh is no
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bueno let's find out if my eyeballing worked
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oh yes it did we sent David for lumber um and then
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I don't remember whose suggestion it was but we realized that having it mounted
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out there insects could potentially be a
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huge problem so we uh we sent him to go get some mesh that we could glue onto
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the intake on the radiator so that we could hopefully keep bugs out of it now
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I in my wisdom thinking that we had an entire roll of this mesh used the mesh
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that I had already cut to size to wipe off this extremely goopy adhesive not
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realizing that a that was all the mesh we had and B Home Depot was out of stock
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that was the last one that they had so when we sent David back to the store to
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buy more mesh they didn't even have any that was an appropriate size and they're
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out of stock for 2 weeks so I'm just going to drill here I was
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like you want a stud finder he's like no no one would put a plank up there I was
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like okay where he go oh my
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God I would uh I would be upset except
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that it's exactly the same decision but I made exactly the same number of
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times is the pump powerful enough I
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don't know you tell
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me so not so sure at this point me
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neither I'm try to sound sure I know
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is it on full is there any settings I no
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it's full always
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full super nasty that is um not a bad
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flu rate we're getting a yeah we were getting a lot of bubbles we're still
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getting a lot of bubbles I guess that's what happens when
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you have that
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much this one
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swifttech was a great choice for us for this project because they have some of
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the parts that we need that are pretty unique so they have all of the quick
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disconnect fittings that we need very high quality they have the compression
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fittings we need they have the water blocks that we need they've got their
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latest Apple gxl they also have their kodo NV Le which is what we're using to
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liquid cool all the Titans and finally
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and this is really important they have their radiator Reservoir combo unit that
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we're using using to avoid installing one additional component a reservoir
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inside each of the systems so that will allow us to detach the systems from the
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whole room liquid cooling Loop and then run them on their own either if for some
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reason we need to do maintenance on the loop or if in the winter instead of
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removing the heat from the room we want to kick the heat from the systems into
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the room to actually warm it up a little I'm going to put it on top of
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here how many cut do we need 10 and then this is going to
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go straight up I'll cut it at some point
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clamp it to the wall and then if there's an overflow it'll go up here and
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everything will be okay instead of it flowing
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out you have to put it on then press it
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oh calibrates there okay
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I have literally always guessed that that look from
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lus it's okay I had to hang a painting of his sweating for his wife live that
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down
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lus the longest one
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uh well it needs to cycle a bit I
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think huh
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yeah who there it goes what are you
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leaving no no water is just uh like it it's going now did you just turn the
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pump off no pump is still on for sure
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okay good give it some more
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water more
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water be ready again okay okay
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okay judging by how fast it goes out of that fill tube like it's pushing
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okay uh are we do we need to top up the uh the tube one more time like can I
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come down or what's up we can maybe give it a really short shot okay water okay
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stop okay down I
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come are you just power cycling yeah can
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I see so I mean like it's it's pushing
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water okay you just can't really tell with the
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c one wait are we out of water uh in the
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fill tube yeah but if you let
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go I'm pretty sure there's still water in the
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r okay what just happened that has
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literally never happened
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before I don't think water's making it all the way through yeah maybe not
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it must have an air bubble stuck in it or something there's a ton of bubbles
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like coming out yeah they stopped for a while now they're starting again there's
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a lot of them DP over here there's a drip over here apparently there's a
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where from the
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copper really yeah where what part uh from the te
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right by the door on the hot hot
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side that be I'll be back in a
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second oh it's dripping green too it's
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the antifreeze oh need a
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bucket the rest of it looks
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okay where is
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it hello it's right up there in that corner okay get the shirter something we
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can't just leave it here where is the shirt in the in
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there I take it up
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I don't see any solder on that
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one do you see me
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no yeah I didn't see any
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solder that was one of the last joints you did so that was at like 3:30 or
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something probably
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okay yes not fed um I'll I'll go up
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there kind of feels like a movie yeah or
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a documentary yeah one of those one off
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more took too no wonder we crashed and you threw
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all the parts away you left me searching I'm not over