ThermoChill announce PA120 Release

[Marci]

[Duplicate of Press Release - 13/9/05]

Thermochill's history has been a success story since its inception. Thermochill was born in Winter 2002, releasing it's first radiators in February of 2003,when two UK companies joined forces to remedy a situation of severe stock shortages of PC Watercooling focused radiators in the UK market. Thermochill was thereby created to build radiators in the UK, for the UK Market, and thus the HE series of radiators was conceived and released.

The HE Series was legendary in it’s day… reviews heralded it as the King of Watercooling, and it brought with it the birth of the Triple-120mm radiator, a standard now adopted as a commonly available size by nearly all radiator manufacturers. ThermoChill's star was shining due to our product performance guarantees and high build quality which drove the high demand and popularity of quality manufactured PC water-cooling radiators that all serious enthusiasts insisted on. Over time though competitive forces meant that Thermochill could not rest on its laurels and in keeping with Thermochill's quest to provide quality and high performance radiators it was finally time to consider updating the successful HE radiator line-up.

In March 2005, ThermoChill’s Technical Manager (Marci) struck up a working relationship with well-known Aussie Block Producer Little-River (aka Cathar) in what was thought to be a one time venture, the outcome of which was the PA160.1 radiator… a radical step in a different direction, designing a radiator optimised for maximum performance from a single silent fan. Now many out there have asked “Why isn’t there a PA160.2?”. The answer was always the same, it wasn’t necessary and no case on the market would accommodate it, making it an unviable solution for mass retail. The success of the PA160.1's design approach, and the demand for increased single-radiator performance led to the logical conclusion that the HE series of radiators could perhaps benefit from being updated using the same design principles as found in the PA160.1, to produce a new series of compact and higher-performance radiators.

Continuing the relationship between ThermoChill and LittleRiver, Marci and Cathar set to work to realise the discoveries of the PA160’s performance in a new 120mm series of radiators.

In August 2005 this collaborative effort bore fruit. After 5 months of research, many revisions of prototypes experimenting with various theories, and a pile of engineering time, we’re proud to announce the 3rd Radiator Series from ThermoChill: introducing the PA120 Series of PC-Watercooling radiators.

The PA120 radiator series features a dual-row dual-pass 120mm form factor, available in single, double and triple sizes, optimised for the fans of today and putting into practice everything learned about watercooling efficiency and performance over the past 3 years. The PA Series boasts from 10-40% better performance over the HE Series. 10% for the high / noisy airflow end of the fan market, and up to 40% for the low airflow / silence end of the market.

What does this mean to you as an end-user? You can retain the same performance for even less noise, or better performance for the same noise over your current radiator. If at the end of the day performance is all that matters to you and noise is of no concern, the new PA Series still offers significant improvements over the HE series. Alternately if silence is the goal, you can now have that too, but with more cooling performance than ever before!

This new product line will be available for retail purchase in the week commencing 26th September. We expect the series to be available from ThermoChill International Resellers by mid-October. We at ThermoChill recognise that we may not offer the cheapest radiator solutions, but ThermoChill's mission as always is to provide the highest performance and highest quality radiators on the market. Correspondingly we believe that the new PA120 Series is the best performing 120mm format series of radiators currently available, thus enabling Thermochill to retain the crown – “King of Cool”.

[Hansfragger]

Sounds promising. Any sneak peeks?

[Hansfragger]

Hello Marci. After reading the Rad discussion thread about how important it is for true innovative designers such as yourself to sell the first round of new product to recoup as much of the initial R+D outlay as possible before the low-life copy cats try to steal your work and put out their own cheaper version, I withdraw my request for any pre-release info and/or especially photos. I imagine it must be hard not being able to share the fruits of all your work until the official release. Good luck with the launch!

[Long Haired Git]

Me want photo.
Me want PQ and CW graphs for my approximator.

[mashie]

It's the 26th, any more info avalable yet?

[Marci]

Sorry, just got back into the office after spending the weekend swiping the British Championship.... will have a run round and see what I can find out...

[mashie]

Originally Posted by Marci

Sorry, just got back into the office after spending the weekend swiping the British Championship.... will have a run round and see what I can find out...

Congrats on the Championship!

When the hangover start to clear up from the celebration you are welcome to update the website/this thread.

[Marci]

Fabrication delays on the cores... moved to new tooling for the PA cores and all is not well at the mo... working on it... if needs be drop back to original PA core tooling... Friday at latest we reckon...

[Bundles]

Congrats on the championship Marci, now save those pennies and buy yourself a REAL sidecar

In fact, scrap that, I'm going to build a minimoto sidecar and come and chase you

I was reading the site linked in your sig, I was amazed to see the Hanks' and the Bells are involved, both are families of IOM TT sidecar winners.

Well, that's my winter project sorted, gotta build an outfit

[mashie]

Originally Posted by Marci

Friday at latest we reckon...

Any luck with the tooling?

[Marci]

Aye, tooling sorted - s'just a case of getting em done now... sods law now that tooling is fixed half the staff have holidays booked so we're now down on numbers. Tooling cockup basically shoved the whole production schedule outta whack...

[mashie]

When do you think I will be able to order a PA120.3? Also, any ETA for the Storm?

[Marci]

Well, seeing as I foo.lishly gave an eta date on the Press Release and therefore cursed all likelihood of em being ready for that date, I'm gonna hold off sticking my neck out and putting a final date on em but say that production have assured me Wednesday at the latest, so probably Thursday... Working on the Storm - waiting for our supplier to get their stocks in, but soon as they do we get em from them on a same-day service...

[Marci]

K, that's a 98% definite fer Thursday... Have got the first batch done the old fashioned way - manually... should hopefully have tooling issues resolved for the next batches after that... I h8 havin to retool... s'costing stupid amounts Such is life...!

[mashie]

Cool, any pricing information yet btw?

[Marci]

Equiv HE price + £5 should result in change afaik... still waiting on final complete tooling costs which need to be accomodated and absorbed into PA series price based on estimated 'X' Units produced over 'Z' years. Also projecting product lifespan etc so as not to overshoot on the estimates... I hate doing stats too..!

[mjassbong]

When do you think it will be available for order in the U.S.?

[Marci]

Well, you can order direct from ThermoChill.com if it's urgent and we'll ship to US, or give it a week or two and US Stores will start to have them on the shelves.

[Marci]

Sorry guys - another tooling prob - endtanks misaligning every 11th tank...

[shadowing]

Originally Posted by Marci

Sorry guys - another tooling prob - endtanks misaligning every 11th tank...

NOO!! Err.. is there any chance you can specify dimensions? I was planning on getting one of these babies to use in my rig.

[mashie]

Originally Posted by shadowing

NOO!! Err.. is there any chance you can specify dimensions? I was planning on getting one of these babies to use in my rig.

It is said to be the same as the HE series in size.


Oh and the tooling problems suck.

[Blackeagle]

Originally Posted by Marci

Sorry guys - another tooling prob - endtanks misaligning every 11th tank...

Next post by Marci will show his head in his av to be blading from pulling his hair out due to misaligning tanks prob.

Hope the last probs work out quickly man.

[Marci]

Just means another step that has to be done by hand for this first batch to get em done whilst appropriate tooling is sorted... andy's backburnered his entire workload to devote all his time to joining in with the rest of the production line doing it by hand.

[Marci]

PA120.3 WILL be available from Monday 10th October
PA120.2 & PA120.1 will be available from Thursday 13th October

Your patience has been appreciated...

[shadowing]

Originally Posted by Marci

PA120.3 WILL be available from Monday 10th October
PA120.2 & PA120.1 will be available from Thursday 13th October

Your patience has been appreciated...

Any chance, you can specify the pricing on these items?