Monday, May 18, 2009
Chiller reservoir
Today we continued to work on the chiller reservoir. We made very good progress today with his new coolermaster Xeon copper heatsinks and finally decided which container to use as a reservoir. We'll be using my PolyPropylene container since it fits the heatsinks very nicely. The heatsinks look to be of very good quality but the fins are not skived but soldered on. Nevertheless shouldn't affect performance too much.The whole assembly was mocked up and we got to fix on the high-power Minebea fan and look at it in operation. Very good progress today even though nothing was actually fabricated yet.
A single cooling tower with a copper heatsink base and 4-heatpipe HSF assembly.
Reservoir mock-up
Temperature sensor and display
Fitting the cooling towers into the PP reservoir
Testing the Minebea-fan cooling tower assembly.
