Chunky_Chimp

All right, I gotta ask... where's the airflow with this design? It's great and innovative and everything, but it just looks like a wooden silicon oven to me.

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kevinb70

Right CC. I only briefly mentioned air flow in my first post - The bottom sits 1" to 2" above the floor. I will cut holes in the bottom for component fans. Cool air gets sucked up from the floor - exhausted out the top. Exhaust and intake don't get mixed up... so the unit won't wind up sucking in hot air.

Flow is thru the bottom, up thru the huge hole where the LCD lid is (and top side vents). Top side vents are semi-hidden by the overlapping table top. These vents provide exhaust when the unit is closed but PCs still running. Hot air rises and I'm basically using that in my bottom-to-top airflow.

The bonneville heater core I'm using for h2o cooling will be face down on the bottom corner, with two 120mm or 140mm fans mounted on top of the heater core will be pulling air from the bottom up - the core itself will have about a 6"x9" intake hole.

Power supplies will have their air 'suction side' facing downward, pulling air from below.

I'm going to have window screen stapled underneath to act as a pre-filter.

I'll test with just the 2 power supplies and the fans from the heater core to see if I get enough positive ventilation, if not, I simply cut a hole in the bottom and mount a fan. I'll likely be adding more 140mm fans. I'll be going with these big fans to cut down on noise.

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This weekend I worked on the legs in Sketchup - cutting the grooves where the side panels will sit. Not sure if I updated the online project - I did fix the physics on the lids so they should work properly. Also added foldout speakers to the sides of the LCDs. The online project should be updated so the lids work, but I don't think I pushed out the version with the speakers added.


Still have no plan for the keyboards. Any IDEAS? lot of modders here one of the main reasons I posted here - feedback and suggestions.

I won't be wireless on keyboard/trackballs so I need to figure out how to get the keyboards out with minimal fuss and not have to reconnect it everytime.

Right now I am thinking a door in the top (like the LCDs) where the keyboards/trackballs are attached to the lid. Lid rotates out and acts as keyboard tray. Will probably push the H2O cooling to the far right side to give room to stow the keyboards. Or the lid could simply lift up, revealing a box where I store the keyboards, and close back.

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http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehou...b550c70369dbbd

cooling

two 120mm fans on the heater core. air goes up wood chimney and out side exhaust vent.

120mm or 140mm fans for VGA slots. only doing this for two PCs. This will help cool even with watercooling setup, and could possibly work for air cooled GPUs.

both sides and rear of the table will have vents in the top, just below the table top. a shroud connected to 120mm or 140mm fans will allow the fans to force air out thru the vents, increasing circulation. If all else fails, the back side flips down revealing an 8 pack of 120mm exhaust fans

cutout for each power supply.


ill make the top vent mod later, and show how it can provide venting even with the LCDs folded down.

will take some shaping to avoid having whistling as flow is diverted thru channels and vents.

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