spot where my radiator is ( you will never guess )

chalfontcrew · 5 Apr 2015 at 00:19

Bryan Kortez said:
Very nice idea Would be handy for the summer as my room gets hot with my PC running and the heat being exhausted into my room.

That's a good point there the room doesn't heat up at all in fact it probably cools a bit as the cold water is running in those cold pipes behind the desk.
When I first built the system 7 years ago I did install a temp sensor in the water butt to see if the water warmed at all but I never saw an increase in temps at all even when I had been playing crysis 1 for hours on end.

chalfontcrew · 5 Apr 2015 at 00:21

flame696 said:
Brilliant and original idea! Now wheres my drill im going to start drilling so holes in the wall

Thanks for your kind remarks . you new a 20mm drill and you have to drill 2 holes one for flow and one for return. :-)

1uke · 5 Apr 2015 at 20:50

I love this. Yes it looks a little untidy but I agree *Tidy* is so last year! Especially when you have accomplished something like this and got over so many hurdles which could have cost you a small fortune. Also love your temps which are much better than my watercooled build which cost a small fortune compared to yours.

chalfontcrew · 5 Apr 2015 at 21:26

1uke said:
I love this. Yes it looks a little untidy but I agree *Tidy* is so last year! Especially when you have accomplished something like this and got over so many hurdles which could have cost you a small fortune. Also love your temps which are much better than my watercooled build which cost a small fortune compared to yours.

Thanks for the kind remarks

Bryan Kortez · 6 Apr 2015 at 15:20

chalfontcrew said:
That's a good point there the room doesn't heat up at all in fact it probably cools a bit as the cold water is running in those cold pipes behind the desk.
When I first built the system 7 years ago I did install a temp sensor in the water butt to see if the water warmed at all but I never saw an increase in temps at all even when I had been playing crysis 1 for hours on end.

When I move house, I will probably do something similar to this, but have an external rad box instead of the water butt. Makes for a very interesting project though

mattyg · 6 Apr 2015 at 15:50

So has anyone ever thought of using one of these
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Maxi-310-...573?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item27fcb763a5

Mynight · 7 Apr 2015 at 02:02

Ha very nice!

Must admit I'm surprised the internal run is enough to bring it up to temp.

You've clearly spent some time planning this. Impressed.

chalfontcrew · 7 Apr 2015 at 07:27

Mynight said:
Ha very nice!

Must admit I'm surprised the internal run is enough to bring it up to temp.

You've clearly spent some time planning this. Impressed.

The internal run is about 12 Meters long and is in 22mm bore copper tubing and if you do the calculations 22mm internal bore pipe holds .31 litres per Meter so that's .31 x 12 = 3.72 litres of coolant in those pipes alone and if the speed of the pump is say 300 litres per hour that's 5 litres a minute which means it is spending 45 seconds in the pipe just to warm the water up 5 degrees or so. Anyway it does seem to work well and has for many years. Thanks for your interest and kind remarks.