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Niatross · 04-23-2003, 10:52 PM

I have a chance to get hold of a drinking fountain for free. It cools the water by soldering the coiled copper water line to the coiled copper evaporator line. The one problem I forsee is that the drinking fountain cycles when it's doing what it was originally designed to do, (provide a short drink of water) so that you get a shot of cold water when you get a drink and then it kicks on when it needs to cool the fresh incoming water. Now in it's proposed new job it will have a fresh supply of warm water from the computer which I assume will prevent it from ever kicking off.

I was wondering if anyone had any experiance with a drinking fountains ability to withstand this abuse of constant running

And if it would be better to pass the Computers water through the fountains original water line or let the evaporator chill a res and pass my computers water through the res via a separate rad or copper coil.

Or am I barking up the wrong tree here and just forget the whole thing?

04-23-2003, 10:52 PM	#1
Niatross Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Pawnee IL Posts: 16	drinking fountain I have a chance to get hold of a drinking fountain for free. It cools the water by soldering the coiled copper water line to the coiled copper evaporator line. The one problem I forsee is that the drinking fountain cycles when it's doing what it was originally designed to do, (provide a short drink of water) so that you get a shot of cold water when you get a drink and then it kicks on when it needs to cool the fresh incoming water. Now in it's proposed new job it will have a fresh supply of warm water from the computer which I assume will prevent it from ever kicking off. I was wondering if anyone had any experiance with a drinking fountains ability to withstand this abuse of constant running And if it would be better to pass the Computers water through the fountains original water line or let the evaporator chill a res and pass my computers water through the res via a separate rad or copper coil. Or am I barking up the wrong tree here and just forget the whole thing?