[pHaestus]

First of all I have to say that performing cooler testing and reviewing for enthusiast websites is a hobby that I have had for about 7 years now and I do not see myself making a permanent split from them. But at the moment it is true that I am not doing anything with my equipment, and that some of it was purchased with money donated by Procooling readers or was donated directly by Procooling readers.

So anyway, Joe has found someone else who I do not know who has offered to take up all Procooling test duties but would need my equipment. Would you guys want me to send him the equipment purchased or donated by the readers? There is good and bad with this.

The potential good is you may see testing done before I return to that hobby. This person might be outstanding and a huge positive influence on Procooling and the wcing community.

The bad is that I am not at all convinced that anyone else will be able to make my cobbled together system work well, that person may also quit testing pretty quickly, and his quality as a tester is pretty much an unknown quantity. Oh also you are guaranteeing that I will NOT be able to return to testing at any time in the near future because all my equipment would have to be repurchased.


For what it's worth, my preference would be to provide this new person with some of my older equipment not in regular usage any more (GPI flowmeter, digitec thermometers, lots of YSI probes, etc) and let them prove themselves capable. Since they want to do die sim testing, it would at that point be complimentary data to my bare die A64 system and not competing (a good thing). Since my older gear is all owned by me, I could probably recoup a little money and put it towards the last pieces of equipment that I still need. But again I am not promising that I'll have a review up in the next week or anything so don't hold your breath on that.

So anyway, I encourage our readers to comment here on this idea. Especially welcome are comments from our donors, as it's really your stuff after all.