underdog1425

As the water moves through the air in the tube, the movement of air over the water cools the water. Simple idea...its why water cooling works.

Bong coolers expand on this my maximizing the surface area of the water, as it moves through the air. Enter some atomizer, in this case a shower head. The droplets have greater surface area than scattered water.

Yes, the water will collect itself into droplets if you let it fall long enough.....but this needs to fit in a house...so you force droplets to form from the beginning.

My idea here is to expand on this further and use a spritzer like window cleaner nozzle style atomizer on a much smaller scale than duck has...like 1 or 2 feet tall or so....hm.

Still need to work this one out though.

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nub

Sub ambient does not mean automatic condensation. That is the dew point, which will vary depending on the relative humidity of the air and the temperature. As far as I know, it is not possible for a bong to ever reach the dew point.

A smaller bong is certainly possible. One of the links DirtyDuck posted earlier in this thread was to a guide that showed an evaporative cooler design that used synthetic scouring pads sandwiched in between loops of a home made coil (with holes in it) instead of a shower head. The writer of that post said his temps were the same as a tower style evaporative cooler. I'd go copy and paste here but I'm feeling lazy this morning.

side note. system has no leaks and over 24 hours. 24 more to go til i feel safe

edit: here is an easy to use dew point calculator:
http://einstein.atmos.colostate.edu/.../Humidity.html

edit: here is another how to guide. including pics / info on the short tower with the scouring pads/coil instead of shower head
http://www.overclockers.com/index.ph...ontent&id=4096

DIRTYDUCK

stop being paranoid nub just put it in and fire it up already lol

as for condensation...there is very little chance of reaching due point inside your house....if you put your tower outside you could do it no problem. If you are worried just go to the extreme cooling threads and read through the posts on insulating your MB. It is cheap and pretty easy to do if you ever want to go TEC. A bong chiller would be great for a TEC/pelter set up.

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Thats wicked

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Ok, so I put it all together and went to fire it up - nothing. I have a dfi lanparty dark mb. on the led on the board it read C1. I looked it up in the manual and it said memory detection error. I tried using known good memory in it but got the same result. 2 more attempts different memory, same result! The bottom line is I suspect I've got a bad mb. Here is the kicker. Per documentation that came with the board, DFI wont take it back without the socket protector. I can not find it. Tearing my place apart and can not find it anywhere. grrrrrrrrrrrr.....
So unless somebody happens to have a dfi socket protector for socket 775 lying around, I am out 170 bucks

Other than that everything looked good. No leaks at all.

underdog1425

Dude that is some baaaad news! Post this in the wanted section maybe?

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nub

hmmph. I can't post a new thread in the wanted section. Evidently I am too new to the forums. would be obliged if somebody could post there about this for me.

nub

My current temperatures.
room ambient 21.2C
water in resevoir 17C.
I am going to have to get some accurate probes and mount them to my cpu block I think. I don't like relying on the temp sensors on the mb and in the cpu.

DIRTYDUCK

Nice its working!

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underdog1425

Congrats!

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