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Originally Posted by Ozymand
You, sir, must have been reading my mind.  I've been trying to figure out a way of making a more vertically-oriented radiator setup (compared to most of the horizontal box setups).. originally entertained the idea of making a semi-passive setup similar to Xine cooler system (rather than one continuous loop but tank to tank parallel tube system) utilizing a "cross-flow fan" and was struggling with the idea of having to solder all those tubes. I also saw the radiator setups from another company but they wanted obscene amounts of cash for their passive radiator setups.. Now you show this.. After seeing your work, now I'm inspired to build one.
Question for you... the interior of the radiators, is there a mechanism (ie - like blades or vanes) inside the radiator to increase turbulence inside and get more of the water in contact with the radiator surface? It's not much, but I think it's one of those "last 5%" type of modifications to get the most performance out of it.
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The inside is finned. Its almost like the fins from the outside protrude inside. Course the cylinder part is all one chunk of aluminum. The fins alternated between two heights. Big was about half an inch and little was about a quarter of an inch. Would have liked the internal fins to be larger but as its been stated before this isnt made to cool water.
Im curious to see what the interior of the dual pass ones look like... Might be a lot more intricate. Course it might be a lot worse too =)