R.a.c.h.a.l.
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2003 11:34 pm
This room is always the nicest one in the house Page 1 of 1
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2003 11:37 pm
LOL i don't have 3 AMD systems in the family room to heat up the outside This room is always the nicest one in the house
This room is always the nicest one in the house Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 12:32 am
why not take it a step further and hook that to a central vacuume system?
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 1:03 am
no kiddin' would keep the dust bunny's out of your case too
Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2003 6:34 pm
lol that thing looks funny hehe. 
Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2003 9:06 pm
I dunno if I'd trust that thing tho, pumping hot, moist air into a wall can't be to good, and the heat eventually has to go somewhere, right?
I made something similar a year ago or so. Landlord had to replace the flue and ducting in my townhome's furnace, and when the guy came to do mine I asked him if I could keep the leftovers. About 10 feet of ducting and 3-4 feet of straight aluminum piping.
Had it sitting in the office for a few weeks, read an article on cooling a PC, thought, hrmm.
I live in Wisconsin, it gets cold here, and this idea spawned on a cold November night.
Took a piece of plywood, and closed the window down on top of it. Plywood had 2 holes drilled in, an input and output duct. I ran to the local Home Depot and picked up a couple of(special, youll see in a few) Y joints and some other duct supplies, then started out on a bored, cold, November day.
Affixed the 2 ducts on the plywood, running each into it's own Y joint. THen I attached a length of pipe to what I called the "input" side, and modded my case to accept it into the front. (duct was like 4" in diameter or so). From the back, I did a similar thing that the RACHAL does, and hooked it up to it's Y joint, then out to the window.
Now these Y joints each had a "gate" of sorts in them. Lever one way, one part of the way is open, other is closed, lever the other way, vice versa.
So I rummaged in the junk file cabinet (yeah I know, most people have junk drawers, not a 3 drawer legal file cabinet, but you see the weird ass projects I do when bored. Well, anyway) pulled out a couple of little RC motors, ran down to Rat Shack, picked up some pieces, busted out my soldering iron and built a temerature controlled relay.
If the outside temp was below 60 degrees, one of the motors on the input side would fire up and pull open my Y joint, allowing the cooler air into the system. Eventually, I added on, more about that in a bit.
If the INDOOR temperature was below 70 degrees, a second motor would kick in and close the gate on the output side, venting the heated air from the PC into the office. If it was above 70, it flipped the gate open and vented it outside.
So I looked at it, and it was ugly, so I was happy I did a good job, and powered it up. Temperatures inside the PC climbed about 30 degrees above normal, so I knew this wasnt good. So I grabbed some 120 and 80mm fans, and started throwing em all over the system, testing the temps each time. After I had a fan about every foot or so on both the input and output sides, it actually worked pretty good, keeping the temp inside the case anywhere from 10 to 30 degrees cooler then the room temp.
It was noisy, complicated, ugly, and lasted about 2 months, but for awhile I really loved it. Even went so far as to seal the case to see how that worked, etc.
Sure it was a neat system, and I was proud of the automated cooling setup I had, but the bottom line was that it took so many fans to push enough air into and out of the system it just wasn't worth it.
If I had to buy everything to rebuild it from scratch, it probably would of cost me close to 150$ or so, including power supplies, high output fans, etc needed for the system.
So I think Ill just keep my PC the way it is now, and forego the formalities hehe.
I made something similar a year ago or so. Landlord had to replace the flue and ducting in my townhome's furnace, and when the guy came to do mine I asked him if I could keep the leftovers. About 10 feet of ducting and 3-4 feet of straight aluminum piping.
Had it sitting in the office for a few weeks, read an article on cooling a PC, thought, hrmm.
I live in Wisconsin, it gets cold here, and this idea spawned on a cold November night.
Took a piece of plywood, and closed the window down on top of it. Plywood had 2 holes drilled in, an input and output duct. I ran to the local Home Depot and picked up a couple of(special, youll see in a few) Y joints and some other duct supplies, then started out on a bored, cold, November day.
Affixed the 2 ducts on the plywood, running each into it's own Y joint. THen I attached a length of pipe to what I called the "input" side, and modded my case to accept it into the front. (duct was like 4" in diameter or so). From the back, I did a similar thing that the RACHAL does, and hooked it up to it's Y joint, then out to the window.
Now these Y joints each had a "gate" of sorts in them. Lever one way, one part of the way is open, other is closed, lever the other way, vice versa.
So I rummaged in the junk file cabinet (yeah I know, most people have junk drawers, not a 3 drawer legal file cabinet, but you see the weird ass projects I do when bored. Well, anyway) pulled out a couple of little RC motors, ran down to Rat Shack, picked up some pieces, busted out my soldering iron and built a temerature controlled relay.
If the outside temp was below 60 degrees, one of the motors on the input side would fire up and pull open my Y joint, allowing the cooler air into the system. Eventually, I added on, more about that in a bit.
If the INDOOR temperature was below 70 degrees, a second motor would kick in and close the gate on the output side, venting the heated air from the PC into the office. If it was above 70, it flipped the gate open and vented it outside.
So I looked at it, and it was ugly, so I was happy I did a good job, and powered it up. Temperatures inside the PC climbed about 30 degrees above normal, so I knew this wasnt good. So I grabbed some 120 and 80mm fans, and started throwing em all over the system, testing the temps each time. After I had a fan about every foot or so on both the input and output sides, it actually worked pretty good, keeping the temp inside the case anywhere from 10 to 30 degrees cooler then the room temp.
It was noisy, complicated, ugly, and lasted about 2 months, but for awhile I really loved it. Even went so far as to seal the case to see how that worked, etc.
Sure it was a neat system, and I was proud of the automated cooling setup I had, but the bottom line was that it took so many fans to push enough air into and out of the system it just wasn't worth it.
If I had to buy everything to rebuild it from scratch, it probably would of cost me close to 150$ or so, including power supplies, high output fans, etc needed for the system.
So I think Ill just keep my PC the way it is now, and forego the formalities hehe.
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 12:52 am
I agree. Pumping it into the wall is self-defeating. You're heating up your insulation barrier. The heat will still leach into your home (or office) just be disipitated more that's all.
If you only have one computer that's fine. If you have a hundred then you're not accomplishing anything.
It would be better to vent it OUTSIDE.
If you only have one computer that's fine. If you have a hundred then you're not accomplishing anything.
It would be better to vent it OUTSIDE.