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Liquid Cooling
« on: Friday, November 19, 2010, 04:22:06 AM »
This query is open to everyone but I'm mostly asking Knight since I would think he has the most "read" knowledge on the subject. I've been thinking about reclaiming some heat from our pellet stove exhaust pipe. They make reclaimers for regular stoves but you have to actually cut out a section and install this ugly device. I'm wondering about running maybe 1/4" copper pipe along the length (floor to ceiling) to extract some heat and then run it through a basic computer water cooling setup to get a little extra heat. Since it will run significantly hotter than a computer, I'm wondering if cheap pumps break down with heat quickly or if there's a heat limit for the plastic tubing... I could probably look this up but I'm just asking for opinions/views. The only problem I see is that I'll have to rig up a computer power supply and that the radiator might not expel all the heat (which is fine, it's not like I'm overclocking and will get a BSOD from heat :P) fast enough. I figure maybe under $100 and I could have a mock-up device that could tell me what to do next...
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Re: Liquid Cooling
« Reply #1 on: Friday, November 19, 2010, 05:27:44 AM »
All of the heat you would get out of a copper tube setup around the exhaust pipe will be lost in the pipe to the radiator. Since you won't have direct contact with the copper pipe to the exhaust pipe -and even if you do its not going to be contacting much- you aren't going to get enough heat out of it to make it worth it. I don't think there is a way to really do this efficiently and cost effectively with out cutting into the exhaust pipe. For under a few hundred dollars I don't think there is a way to get a water cooling-like set up going that would be worth it. I will keep thinking on it and see if I could come up with some thing that would work well. Take pictures of the area in question if you wouldn't mind and I'm sure we can come up with some thing that will give you extra heat for little to no money. 
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Re: Liquid Cooling
« Reply #2 on: Friday, November 19, 2010, 11:55:27 AM »
Yea, I know I won't get a ton of heat but I was kind of thinking using maybe 5-6 hoseclamps to secure the copper pipe to the stovepipe (I thought of AS5 or Thermal Tape but it might just burn up or melt all over). Maybe I don't want a lot of heat transfer since CPU heat is considerably less than that of a burning stove and having too much may overwhelm the radiator or wear out the pump. I think the second thing to think about is that I would probably start off with 2 sections of copper pipe and that would probably approach 15ft of tubing total... I've not seen many computers with 15ft of water cooling tubing.

I'd really hate to cut into the exhaust tubing, that means I'd have to get some high-temp silicone and that would probably break any fire code rules. Not to mention make it harder to clean the inside of the pipe.

Maybe this is just a pipe dream :)

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Re: Liquid Cooling
« Reply #3 on: Saturday, November 20, 2010, 03:31:23 AM »
unless course u knew how to weld

... and had the equipment to do so.
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Re: Liquid Cooling
« Reply #4 on: Saturday, November 20, 2010, 04:05:10 AM »
I actually have the equipment :D



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Re: Liquid Cooling
« Reply #5 on: Saturday, November 20, 2010, 04:07:57 AM »
I admit, I'd like to have a welder. I'd like to at least learn emergency welding with a rod and car battery.
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Re: Liquid Cooling
« Reply #6 on: Sunday, November 21, 2010, 05:38:04 AM »
I have an arc welder but no idea how to use it, grandpa cant teach me cos of his pacemaker.

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Re: Liquid Cooling
« Reply #7 on: Sunday, November 21, 2010, 13:56:41 PM »
dealing with that kind of voltage, no thanks.

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Re: Liquid Cooling
« Reply #8 on: Monday, November 22, 2010, 01:46:26 AM »
Don't be grounded. Unless you find that exciting.



 

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