Project Leviathan - Fully Immersed PC Build Project Log

[cavemanoc]

Super accurate and dead straight?

Out of interest, how are you planning on configuring this? Are you going to such the fluid out of the tank/case and run it through the rads? How are you going to make sure you get a good through flow and cool all of the fluid? Do you have a mock up of the final design (struggling to visualise it)?

 

[Mcnumpty2323]

^ good questions
Am also curious
Assuming it's not some sort of submerged pump
I would probably go through the panel
Into the other chamber using bulkhead fittings
At the bottom of the chamber
And have pump,res,radiators in the other chamber
So gravity/weight of fluid pushes the coolant through to the pump
In the other chamber
How the heat/all the coolant circulates
May depend whereabouts the main heat is produced
Since hot coolant will rise/displace colder coolant
Or they might just run tubing up and over into the other chamber

 

[TrojanWhore]

Or they might just run tubing up and over into the other chamber

That's how I'd do it - hose from tank to rads just near the top, the other all the way to the bottom. Not sure if there's anything you could do to keep it mixing around rather than having some fluid stuck around the bottom of the tank, I suppose with enough flow that wouldn't be much of an issue.

 

[Mcnumpty2323]

That's how I'd do it - hose from tank to rads just near the top, the other all the way to the bottom. Not sure if there's anything you could do to keep it mixing around rather than having some fluid stuck around the bottom of the tank, I suppose with enough flow that wouldn't be much of an issue.

I guess would depend where the heat sources are
Since rising hot coolant would help "mix" it
So there wasn't one particular bit of coolant didn't circulate
Not sure it even matters if there's a "dead zone"
Where coolant just sits there in the tank
It will still heat up through conduction with the other coolant
And eventually rise

Since its non conductive
You could even have the pump sitting in
the bottom of the coolant i guess
This isn't mineral oil
Pretty sure it's lower viscosity so shouldn't be an issue to
Pump it

It's all interesting
Does make you wonder if the op has
A definitive plan
Or if some of it will be try this see what happens
And adapt from different results with different placements

 

[kindai]

The largest and most complex panel is all ready for machining now.

Hopefully it will be ready next week

 

[Threepwood]

I'm really looking forward to the finished result!

 

[moppy89]

Super accurate and dead straight?

Figured that was the case but wasn't sure if I was missing anything else, thanks

 

[Cenedd]

Figured that was the case but wasn't sure if I was missing anything else, thanks

That and a couple of other things: how clean the cut is - the powder coat hasn't chipped - how thin the kerf is at 0.5mm (maybe slightly less). The wire doesn't have to take any cutting force (like say a hacksaw would) so it doesn't need to be wide enough not to snap. How accurate? 10 to 20 microns should be quite easy, maybe single digit microns.

 

[kindai]

So the front panel prototyping has come back all good, and sent off for machining of the acrylic panel. That should be here in a couple of weeks.

In the meantime, the fan brackets for the radiators simply had too much metal on them. While great for 120mm fans, a huge section was simply blocked up for 140mm ones.

So popped them onto the cutter and cleared off that excess material.

Before:



After:

 

[Gepetto]

That's an eye for detail.

I wouldn't have thought the slots for the 120mm fans would have created much resistance to the airflow, and would have ignored it.

I imagine having the right tools for the job does help. Nicely done.