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Originally Posted by Volenti
Something you may need to keep in mind, is that commmercial evaporative air conditioners are primairily designed to cool the air, and not necessiarly the water.
Though presumably you could have a 2 stage system, with one evaporative cooling setup in a seperate loop that used a large radiator to "pre-cool" the intake air for the other evaporative setup on the pc it's self, but that's getting pretty complicated and rapidly reaching diminishing returns...
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Yeah that's what I was saying toward the start of this - the water being in a closed loop simply can't evaporate into open air as with an evaporative cooling tower, it has to dump it's thermal energy into the copper. That's why I want to cool the copper as much as possible.
I have gotten loads of stuff in, but still no acrylic pipe!
I finally contacted them and turns out they couldn’t ship the length I needed and so.... just didn't send it period!
Oh well, I think we got it straight.
No word on the finned tubing yet, I ordered 50 pieces 24" long. I started putting it in 3d to have some scale / material ideas, here's an early render with just basically part of the heat exchanger. It is to scale though the measurements aren't on it.
The green tubing is for air and water passage, the round copper end tanks will be sealed to hold the closed loop water. The tubes would also be finned.
The block looking thing is a 120mm fan to scale inside the 4" tube. I will finish the drawing this week, and since I don't have the parts for the heat exchanger yet, I have another idea for pulling heat out of the water w/o losing so much to atmosphere. Let's just say it involves an extra zalman 7000cu I have sitting around.
I also bought web space today to document all the upcoming experiments and stuff lol.
Let's hope it can work so we can make those rad guys jealous!
~Robert