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Originally Posted by AngryAlpaca
Nice. Very nice. I hadn't thought about the higher flow. Haha. This testing would be extremely helpful for pushing forth custom setups, gives me some credibility. I don't think, for this purpose, that we should use a D4 or a 120.3, as they aren't really favourites. Double heater core and a Mag 3 (obviously we'd fix this before sending)? Using really high end, expensive parts won't help in the least as people'd see the massive price tag and say, "Screw it, I'm going to go with an Aquagate and save me $150"
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AA, you need to consider a few things:
1) Volume Pricing
2) Quality components - I don't subscribe to the naff budget pump approach - maybe I'm weird, but if with volume discounts we can get reasonable quality pumps into people's systems, then that should be done. The experience should not be wrought with a high pump failure return rate with people asking "Why is my system beeping at me?"
3) Nice looking components - a skanky looking heater-core that looks like it just got ripped from a car wreck just isn't going to cut it.
With volume pricing, and packaged in a neat external case with a knob to turn the fans down in volume, we should be easily talking about a $200 price-point with those components.
Have the radiator and pump in an external case, where users can easily see it and see what the radiator is doing with respect to dust buildup on the external face of the radiator, should be good enough for most to get the hint to vacuum the radiator each time they vacuum their floors.