Recent content by Zarathustra

...and I apologize for the silence, there will be some updates in the not too distant future. This is a busy time of year between work end of year deadlines and holiday family obligations....

I guess the point is, I have invested heavily in radiator capacity. I want to be radiator capacity limited, not flow limited. If the temps in the loop start climbing, not because there is insufficient radiator capacity, but because there is insufficient flow to fully take advantage of the...

Sorry, Can't see it 😅 Between my pihole, my VPN and LIbrefox, I have never been able to see anything on Instagram or TikTok, and for the last year or so, reddit is now off limits as well. I guess I'll just do without them. No content is worth being tracked. :p

You have to separate heat flow from coolant flow and temperature. Think of it this way. Imagine pushing a theoretical very low flow rate through the radiators top the point where the dwell time of any given slice of coolant in the radiators is so long that it is guaranteed to be exposed to the...

Well, what I am talking about is related to mixing ratios. If we had the coolant coming in from the radiator at 0.8GPM at ambient (lets make it easy and say 20C) and the coolant coming in warmed up from the blocks lets say at the same flow rate at lets say 26C, this would be a 50:50 mixing...

In a traditional loop that exits the radiator and goes straight into the block, that would be accurate*, but since I have decoupled the hot sides and the cold sides of my loop, they can operate at different flow rates, so ambient at too low in the "mixing chamber" can be a lot worse than above...

The cooling effectiveness winds up being a combination of the flow rate through the radiator and the temperature when exiting the radiator. Higher flow rate results in higher exiting temperatures (less of a temperature decrease across the radiator) but there is also much more coolant at that...

Yeah, it winds up being a set of differential equations. The flow may be faster across the blocks, but that means that each cycle of water also heats up less, so it isn't a big problem. This is a rather unique way of looking at things due to my approach of breaking up the loop and using the...

Thank you sir! It still feels a little bit messy to me, but once I get the medusas hair of wires inside the flexible conduit, I think I will be much happier with it :)

Oh, and I forgot to mention, the little boiled black Noctua fans actually help keep the DDC pumps quite cool. The heat sink feels cold to the touch even after running at full speed for 24 hours. I understand these normally can get quite warm, and some have suggested this might shorten their...

Alrighty, Way too long between updates again, but such is life. I was able to make some progress this weekend, and got the fittings bends and tubing installed for the Radiator side of the loop installed, and test filled (with just distilled water) to test for leaks. Here is the top reservoir...

Thais is awesome! Thank you! Wow! I didn't know anyone actually still used light modes on computers! 😅

I hate it when I'm right :(

Touché. 😅

My thought process is that from upstairs it will just look like a regular HVAC vent. I'd probably install it "kickstand heater" style in the dead space under a kitchen cabinet. In the server closet, well, that's a closed "non-public" space anyway, so who cares if it looks a little "ghetto" 😅