how to water cool.... without water?

Grimgoth

Grimgoth

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Well, looks like my output is going to drop a bit- i didn't realise one of my machines was constantly restarting (the evils of not checking your KVM), because my zalman reserator is almost bone dry (the evils of running your hoses under the bed, so you can't see anything)- it was full at the beginning of winter, wonders where all the water has gone!
not running till i lug home some de-ionised water, a couple of litres at a time...
(the joys of not having a car)
 
Wow!

Where did the water go? Is it a completely closed loop?

You should perhaps monitor your machines more often :)
 
will check for leaks when I fill her up later today. The room is actually incredibly dry, I've just invested in a ultrasonic water evaporator to combat this, maybe thats aggravated the water loss.
edit: its a pretty closed loop, as its only cooling the cpu.
 
A dry room wouldn't make the leak worse, just make it harder to spot as the liquid evaporates quicker.

I am not sure how you would spot the leak unless you scrutinized every centimetre of the loop while it was running.
 
well, I have filled her up, and yeah, you're right, there's a leak- i think. The flow indicator unit on it gets a bit moist when its running- very strange as its not where the tubes connect, but rather the things what screw the tubes down which get moist- no obvious sign. going to bring home some parafilm (scientific equivalent to plumbers tape I guess), to wind round bits of that flow indicator to see if i can stop this or figure out if it is the whole of the indicator, or just one side. must have given it a bit of a knock or something when I moved flat.
 
is it one of the in line flow indicators - with the flapping flag (technical term)
There was a common fault with the res1 rev1 model. Just remove it from the loop (it's not as if you checked it anyway :))
 
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