Dryadsoul

I can't vouche for Triples, but I've been running stacked dual bonnie HC's for over 2yrs; proving that stacked rads can perform rather well.

The heater cores are stacked, with no spacers, 2 handmade alli shrouds w/4x 110CFM Pana's in push/pull, and rest horizontally on a plexi shelf above a vertical flow A/C.
The pic is the original setup feeding the Stinger D/O only. It currently feeds a Stinger D-Max/Q6600 and a D-Tek Fuzion/E7200 with the fans in Pull only(proves to be optimal).
On a good day with the A/C on my cores run @ 0-4ºC idle. At the moment with no A/C and ambients @ room 23ºC, source 21ºC, water 24.9ºC, the cores idle @ 27/28ºC.

In the second pic, Everest shows the Quad temps from 4 days ago. With A/C on Idle = Minimum and Full Load @ 8.50 minutes = Maximum.

So, I say go for it man.

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ira-k

......I've always liked that...I've got a 10,000BTU blowing across my mobo, I need to find a way to hang my rad in front of it next time I break it down for cleaning...Maybe just box it into the front and have all the air pull through my rad....

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leakyfaucet

This has got to be one of the worst ideas I've heard in a while. But having fun is all that matters!

Bindusar

Dryadsoul...the Folgers res is PRICELESS!!

If I understand this correctly each rad is getting a different circuit so each will be diffusing a separate heat source unlike yours Dryadsoul which is doubling the rad dwell tie allowing for more heat extraction, and with the warmest water in the final rad (exhaust to room) so the performance doesn't get hit.

I understand wanting to have separate loops for each component but the stacking of the rads so that exhaust from one is entering the next I feel is a bad idea and will limit the overall abilitity to diffuse the heat unless you are pulling chilled air directly from an AC unit.

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Dryadsoul

Hey, I'm a second generation American born Scotsman, so being Frugal is a design fault. But I agree, unless the stacked rads are cooled by A/C or Tec, they're fairly useless.

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flclisgreat

care to say why? i trust martin more than you, and he says its a ok idea. and i'm pretty sure he doesn't get it anyway

and what no one seams to get now is i AM NOT stacking them together, whatsoever. they will be apart.

leakyfaucet

You're not literally stacking them, just placing one in front of the other, no?

flclisgreat

sorta. they will be separated with no form of ducting and the fans will be blowing in opposite directions.

leakyfaucet

Huh? That's not what your drawing shows.

Edit: I see, your NEW drawing shows that. It's still a bad idea, you will have horrible airflow, and heat from one radiator is still likely to bleed to another.

Show me a single production vehicle designed on this principle and I will bow to your genius.

flclisgreat

did you read the thread, or just the first post

this isn't a vehicle. its a pc

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