[wowza]

Update, I cut the hole for the lines between the evap and the compressor, took me a good 30min to do. My wepon of mass distruction was a box cutter. Tommrow I will cut the holes for the inlet and oulet tubes for the waterlines.

The measurements on that is 1 3/4" down and 1" across

 

[bigvaL]

Looking good so far man! Thats the best cooler for a chiller I've ever seen lol.

 

[wowza]

Update
to start, I enlarged the hole in my cooler, to accompany the size of my copper lines running from the accumulator to the evap. I used a hack saw on that one, works much faster than using a box cutter. Next, I got the evap and the copper lines as close as possible so I could fit it in the cooler. It eventually worked without any major problems. The evap fit perfectly into the 12 can cooler

just as planned. Next, I need to work on drilling the holes for the clearflex tubing for my water loop. Also, I need to buy some Prestone De-Icer which can be a PITA to find where I live. I'll give you some updates on how the drilling goes.

 

[wowza]

Update: I drilled the holes for the supply and return lines for my loop, I used a 3/4" forstner bit, cut through that stuff like butter, but leaves a nice little mess behind. (stupid static electricity and insulation stuff

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tommrow, I am going to start to insulate my waterblock..

 

[Roxter]

hey man lookin great, i'm still trying to find copper to build my waterblock. where you cut there will be some gaps between the evap lines and the cooler, maybe you could fill that with expandable foam. possibly the fast expanding stuff, this will greatly increase the insulation and you wont lose any heat. BTW what kind of pump are you using because i really need one but i'm not sure what one to get. possibly a link if its on the internet somewhere.

 

[hvacgaspiping]

Hi Wowza,

`Been checking your build progress and noticed that you`re using a slim cooler. Looking down inside it, you may not have enough water volume in it to allow your 5100 BTU unit to run long enough between cycles. If it short cycles that will be hard on your compressor. Since you got this far into your build, your best option is to move enough water to maybe offset the above condition. Will your pump move 2 gpm with the restriction of the your water block? Also, try to discharge the warmest water into the bottom of the cooler, and draw the returned cooler water from a level about half way up from the top of the cooler tank. If you have more flow that you need (lol), you can put a balancing valve on the leaving side of the pump. This type of valve restricts flow in such a way so as not to create turbulence in the flow. `Chances are that you won`t need one, and only if your pump delivers way too much flow. Just remember that this unit is a chiller, and not something capable of temps. much below freezing. I wouldn`t run the water temp. below 25 F. You won`t need too concentrated a glycol mix for that, which will be better for heat transfer and easier on your pump. Anything colder that this setup would be comparable with a phase change unit.

 

[tuchan]

This is looking very promising, talk about a very good clean compact design!! Good work mate, you could even build some sort of box to house this set-up in.
I hope this works out very well, good luck mate!

Keep up the great work.

 

[Roxter]

sorry to ask again, but do you have the pump yet, and what kind is it? i really need one for my system but am not sure which one to get and not really willing to pay much money.

 

[wowza]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Roxter sorry to ask again, but do you have the pump yet, and what kind is it? i really need one for my system but am not sure which one to get and not really willing to pay much money.

I'm getting a Mag 5 pump (build by Danner). I payed 30 shipped for it, used and will do the trick just fine. No worries about the Q's, my thread is open to all Q's people may have on my build

Anyways, moving on. Over the weekend I bought some De-Icer and some Redline water wetter. I was supprised to find that De-Icer in California, but I did. Tommrow, I am going to start to insualte my tubing

 

[tuchan]

Did you get a hold of any insulation yet?
This is looking good mate, cheers for the pics

 

[wowza]

Quote:

Originally Posted by tuchan Did you get a hold of any insulation yet? This is looking good mate, cheers for the pics

The pipe wrap will do the trick.. We will see, it's more or less a trial and error, since this is my first build. I will have a ton of pics tommrow

 

[thehybridpyro]

im looking forward to the pics

on a scale of 1 to 10, how hard is this?
im proficent with most power tools, and have a knack for putting thihgs together

 

[wowza]

Quote:

Originally Posted by thehybridpyro im looking forward to the pics on a scale of 1 to 10, how hard is this? im proficent with most power tools, and have a knack for putting thihgs together

Humm, it's actually fairly easy. I just takes a little of creation and some patience at times. Depending on your scale it really isn't much harder than building a computer. I mean, It's basically like having a perminatly frozen item in your water bay chilling the water. Sometimes it's tedious work, othertimes it's more or less fun. The hardest part about this is insulation. It takes a ton of insulation around the CPU block, and you also have to insulate the tubing, motherboard, pump, basically everywhere the water flows. If your done with the insulation, everything else is a breeze.

 

[timsvpr]

so how is this going to hook up to your computer. I think thats the bottom line question.

 

[tuchan]

Quote:

Originally Posted by timsvpr so how is this going to hook up to your computer. I think thats the bottom line question.

The cool liquid just pumps through the water block.

 

[hvacgaspiping]

Hey Wowza,

I noticed the green windshield wash in the pic. Here in Oklahoma the Wal-Mart in my hometown has three colors of windshield wash; red, blue and green. Maybe they have it where you live?

 

[thehybridpyro]

Quote:

Originally Posted by wowza The pipe wrap will do the trick.. We will see, it's more or less a trial and error, since this is my first build. I will have a ton of pics tommrow

hey man

i dont see ne pic

or did you post them on an earlier page?

 

[tuchan]

How is this going mate, everything still gong to plan? Any more updates on ya progress?

 

[wowza]

@ Hybrid - check the 1st page and on for continueous updates, most of the info is in the 1st post.

@ HVAC - I bought that Green stuff at a "speciality" auto parts store. I am very suprised to find it where I live for a few reasons, one being the main ingrediant is Alcohol that is super flammable and is potentially harmful to the enviorment and 2 being, it won't get below 0 where I live, heck, won't get anywhere near that, and yet they sell -30F De-icer. I know for shure most of the other colors are banned from sale in Cal due to the alcohol levels.

@ Tuchan - So far nothing has gone wrong, I am passed the hard part of fitting the chiller in the 12 can cooler, all the insulation work is more or less busy work.

Update
Ok, tonight I started with insulating my motherboard. First, I removed my Northbridge fan so I could better insualte the area around that. I used my mom's clear nail polish to coat around the CPU socket and near the northbridge. After that, I used white cork tape on the motherboard's surface to stick and protect the circuits ect. from condensation. It is very sticky, feels a lot like gum, I wish however I would have got the black cork tape and not the white, since my board is black. One last note on the cork tape, DONT compleatly cover the chips (see last pic), expecially the MOSFET chips and the clock frequency chips, otherwise we would have some major problems with overheating and other bad things.

Next up, I need to spread some silicone around the capacitatiors to provent from condenstation build-up and corrosion (needs to be air tight!) and I also need to gap off the memory slots so no air / water will seep under their causing any more problems. Later, I will build up the dielectric grease around the CPU socket so I can have an air tight seal around the processor. Tommrow, I am going to get a custom heater like this for a vapo LS kit to help me around the backside of the motherboard so I have to do less insulation work, also, this is another form of security against the condensation.

 

[Roxter]

great stuff, keep making posts or i might go into withdrawal. lol