New evaporative cooler setup

[Volenti]

The goal was to achieve similar results to "traditional" bong's without the bulk and especially noise that they have.

this is the assembly almost ready to go;

The water enters via the short pipe at far right, and is distributed to all the pipes and overflows out the top of each pipe. Since the water flow is shared among so many pipes, (27) it doesn't exactly gush out, a feeble trickle is as much as any one pipe manages to achieve, this is where the next step comes in;


I have used a synthetic chamios, cut up and wrapped around each pipe, this ensures that the water completly surrounds each pipe and also increases the surface area exposed to air (I intended to cover the bottom feed pipes too but ran out of zip ties, job for later)

This is an over view of it in action (yes ghetto I know), the 6 8cm fans are low speed panaflows, and are pretty quiet even at 12v.

closer look;


currently averaging 3 degrees below ambient temp, one day I'll get around to putting all this lot into a case

[Jester1]

thats bloody awsome , you bringing that to next lan ?

[Les]

Like it.
Looks an improvement,especially with the chamois lagging, on my leaky radiator.
With the availability of pre-tinned T- juncions,maybe my limited soldering skills could strertch to the construction.

[PsyKo-Billy]

Nice idea. You have too much spare time on your hands...

How about bunging the whole shebang into a perspex case. You might be able to guide the airflow around the pipes a bit better.

[Volenti]

Originally posted by Les
Like it.
Looks an improvement,especially with the chamois lagging, on my leaky radiator.
With the availability of pre-tinned T- juncions,maybe my limited soldering skills could strertch to the construction.

yea, you could do something very similar with no drilling needed, I didn't simply because of cost, there's $50 worth of copper bits/pipe there alone, 27x 3/4-1/2 tees on top of that would have well and truely blown the budget.

I got hard drawn pipe too which is dearer, but worth it since it's already "straight", and I don't have to root around trying to get soft copper straight, which just ends in pain most of the time.

I can get back to my custom fibreglass case now that this appears to work satisfactorally, I won't have it "under glass" since that would be just asking for algae and muck to grow on it, like what eventually happened to my "water fall" case's water feature.

And yes hopefully I'll get it all done in time for the next local lan

[Xe0n]

Holy shit haha Make me one

Cheers,
Xe0n

[Stoodoo]

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Nice performance

[SiCo]

very nice

[pippin88]

It may work better with 2 x 120mm fans blowing through it?

[FreeFrag]

That is bloody impressive! How long did it take you to build?

[Volenti]

Originally posted by FreeFrag
That is bloody impressive! How long did it take you to build?

most of the day, around 8 hours I suppose, on and off, I wasn't keeping track really...

[-Totenkopf-]

very nice job.
just a thought but for even water flow wouldn't it be better if you put the inlet in the middle of the whole thing?
what water block are you using?
and if you put water wetter in it there will be no alge

[Volenti]

Originally posted by -Totenkopf-
very nice job.
just a thought but for even water flow wouldn't it be better if you put the inlet in the middle of the whole thing?
what water block are you using?
and if you put water wetter in it there will be no alge

the only pipe that has more flow than any other is the one closest to the inlet, that would still happen with a centre inlet. It's mainly the small height differences in the pipes that affect the water flow out of each, there's barely 20L/H flowing out of any one pipe.

I don't like adding additives to the water that I'll eventually end up breathing

[Jester1]

Originally posted by Volenti
I don't like adding additives to the water that I'll eventually end up breathing

hah yea esactly way i feel ... ive thought of using car antifreeze stuff but thinking it over the water evaporates in the air so the antifreeze probaly would to and if it didnt it would leave some yucky sediment left in water that pumps gota pump around :P

cheers , Jester

[Vaempyr]

Originally posted by Volenti


I don't like adding additives to the water that I'll eventually end up breathing

Use alcohol then