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Naja002 · 3 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by RaBidRaBit

Yeah, that is pretty cool. I hadn't seen this thread before. Don't know how I missed it.

Thanks for bumping it, guy.

Nice work OP!!

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Originally Posted by Rampage Jackson

Good stuff Naja. I'm about to attempt your Volenti Cooler at some point soon...

Cool. If you want any thoughts...just let me know. What I did was just an experiment, so use your imagination! nub built one and is very happy with it...not sure of the details of it though....

Nub....you need to document it!

**ira-k** · 3 Weeks Ago

You do some really nice work, I'm a chronic long term cooling nut and your builds make me drool and give me the warm fuzzies...

...Temps and flow, I can loose sleep over either one if they aren't where I think they should be.

Plain old fashioned over-kill is such a beautiful thing...

Naja002 · 3 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by ira-k

You do some really nice work, I'm a chronic long term cooling nut and your builds make me drool and give me the warm fuzzies...

...Temps and flow, I can loose sleep over either one if they aren't where I think they should be.

Plain old fashioned over-kill is such a beautiful thing...

I'll tell ya: I really like this chiller setup. Temps are stable 24/7, no need to worry about ambient, humidity or anything else. It just does it's thing 24/7/365....set it and forget it.

I just got done hooking up my plateHX chiller in here. So, I'll be able to conserve the heat this winter and maintain stable chilled temps all yr round. I'll leave the outside chiller hooked up, plugged in and ready to go. Whenever it's a bit warm in here....I'll just turn this indoor chiller off and then the outdoor chiller will take over and pump the heat outside. When it starts cooling down in here....just turn the indoor chiller on...and it will start pumping the heat inside again. This is the long-term future for me. I love it!

Overkill? With 4 quads and 6 Gpus OCed and crunching full bore 24/7/365....there's really not much overkill here...

**ira-k** · 3 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by Naja002

I'll tell ya: I really like this chiller setup. Temps are stable 24/7, no need to worry about ambient, humidity or anything else. It just does it's thing 24/7/365....set it and forget it.

I just got done hooking up my plateHX chiller in here. So, I'll be able to conserve the heat this winter and maintain stable chilled temps all yr round. I'll leave the outside chiller hooked up, plugged in and ready to go. Whenever it's a bit warm in here....I'll just turn this indoor chiller off and then the outdoor chiller will take over and pump the heat outside. When it starts cooling down in here....just turn the indoor chiller on...and it will start pumping the heat inside again. This is the long-term future for me. I love it!

Overkill? With 4 quads and 6 Gpus OCed and crunching full bore 24/7/365....there's really not much overkill here...

HaHa...

..It's one of the classiest chiller builds I've ever seen, very nice! But me I'd have to take it as low as it would go!

And you even have it plumbed for HVAC! Well done!

Thanks for documenting all your builds so well, I know it's a pain to stop and take pic's, upload and all that...

...It's a great example of what a person can do with some ingenuity, time and just plain old fashioned "Want To" power!

Naja002 · 1 Week Ago

Just wanted to update this:

As many of you know, I try to conserve energy by pumping the heat from my rigs outside during the warmer months, and pumping it inside during the colder months. In the past I did this with indoor/outdoor rads. Early this last summer I did the ghetto chiller that this thread has been about (above). Well, during this last summer I converted a 5K BTU AC to a plateHX chiller. Winter is here, so now I'm wanting to pump the heat inside again, but I really don't want to give up the chilled water. So, I've connected the plateHX chiller to my manifold for indoor/outdoor chillers!

When it's too warm in here I turn off the indoor chiller and the outdoor chiller automatically takes over. When it's cool in here I just reach over and push the On button for the indoor chiller....and it starts pumping the heat inside here. At first it was like: Holy Cow that's Loud!

But now I barely even notice it.

It does not bother me while I'm sleeping, but I sleep like a rock anyway, so......

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First a quick rehash of the plateHX chiller:

I took a standard 5K BTU AC:

Yanked the Evap and installed a plateHX:

And put it back together again:

Naja002 · 1 Week Ago

Then I ordered another Ranco controller like above and got it wired up and ready to go:

Covered the probe with 2 layers of super-duper heat shrink and got it installed into a pvc tee and ready to be connected up:

Added some plumbing to my manifold, since I was short 1 connection:

Set the chiller up where I wanted it and ran the tubing:

Added some filter material:

At a 75F ambient in here the unit uses ~ 500w after the compressor warms up. It runs at the current heat load: 41mins on, 19mins off. So, it's on ~16hrs/day which equals ~$20.74/month at my current electric cost. That's a loss during the warmer months, but not during the colder months....helps keep me from paying to run the main heater, and supplements it when I do.

So, it's a done deal! Works great! With the single push of a button I can direct the heat where I want it to go. Since it's fall right now the days are often warm enough that I don't want to be adding any more heat inside. But the nights are definitely getting cool. I've not turned on my main heating unit for the year yet.

And best of all, I get to maintain constant stable temps all yr round. No messing with overclocks, turning valves, going outside to turn a pump on or off.

Nothing. Just push a frickin' Button!

Oh, Happy Days!

**ira-k** · 1 Week Ago

Well your styling now, fancy push button guy that you are..

..Thats pretty slick, I really like that..

How expensive are the HX plates? They really do make a cleaner looking rig then a slush-box. I bet you loose a lot less cold with one to. $20 a month is great for all that! I run around $30 a month on TEC or just single stage, and that's just for one chip!

I wish I didn't braze like a drunk chimp, it looks like fun...

...Keep those updates coming as you do them, were loving it!

Naja002 · 1 Week Ago

For the type of stuff we do a 10 plate HX is all that would ever be needed. The best place to get one is from DudaDesiel on ebay. You won't find a better shipped price ($45 shipped) or seller. He's very well known for these....

I had never done any brazing or welding before converting that. I got a lot of very expensive and nifty tools that I can now do all kinds of nifty stuff with!

Yeah, personally, I think $20/month is very cheap for what I get. And, Again, that's a loss during the warmer months, but a "gain" during the cooler months!

Not sure what I'm going to be doing next or when....been thinking about a farm-size chillbox for a long time now. But I've been upgrading the GPU aspect of my crunching farm. Picked up 3x 5850s and 1x 5870. Still need to get water blocks. And GpuGrid is going ATI finally (!), so I'm going to need a family pack of Win7.

Needless to say, poverty is knocking on the door!

I'm hiding, I'm hiding! But they're coming to get me!