[Witchdoctor]

Kmart

32 quart cooler

Add 4/120 radiator ....... insert 30 lbs. of ice on top of it

turn on system and comence benching FTW .............

[MaadDaawg]

Originally Posted by Witchdoctor

Kmart

32 quart cooler

Add 4/120 radiator ....... insert 30 lbs. of ice on top of it

turn on system and comence benching FTW .............

I have one of those big beer chest coolers with a collapsable handle in which I've wound 50ft of 1/2 copper tubing connected to a 300gph fish tank pump, with a little resv to fill and monitor it. It's hooked to about 10ft of hose on each side. Fits 60lbs of wet ice. I've used it before to great effect, I think my VRs were down in the 7C range and the GPUs were about 14C. May break that out again but again condensation is a worry

[Mr.Scott]

you would have to introduce a glycol solution / AKA antifreeze

Gets too thick that cold. Windshield juice.

[Witchdoctor]

Originally Posted by Mr.Scott

Gets too thick that cold. Windshield juice.

Great idea, didn'6t even think of that .............

[MaadDaawg]

With the wet ice chiller water works cause you never get below freezing

[Mr.Scott]

Originally Posted by MaadDaawg

With the wet ice chiller water works cause you never get below freezing

Salt your ice. Your loop will go below freezing. Just like making ice cream.

[MaadDaawg]

Originally Posted by Mr.Scott

Salt your ice. Your loop will go below freezing. Just like making ice cream.

Awesome idea Scotty So cold out today and had the window open I didn't really need anything more than the quad

[punx223]

Originally Posted by Mr.Scott

Salt your ice. Your loop will go below freezing. Just like making ice cream.

sorry didnt read this but Awesome idea and it will work too.

[punx223]

the problem here MD is thermal wattage.... the unit will actually overload trying to keep the loop cool pending you have a large enough surface area contacting the loop where you can avoid freezing or slushing the coolant which will inevitably kill the pump also.

the idea is cool in theory but first the Evap would have to be mounted onto a decent sized plate with enough copper tube coverage to allow coolant to flow and be chilled without icing over....

Worst case scenario: loop freezes no flow...

other scenario: loop slushes = low flow and pump gets shit kicked outta it.

[MaadDaawg]

jee whiz, you always ruin my fun :

hadn't thought about the pump though, not even close to worth screwing with.. oh well, I've had stupid ideas before, and, will hopefully have more in the future

Originally Posted by punx223

the problem here MD is thermal wattage.... the unit will actually overload trying to keep the loop cool pending you have a large enough surface area contacting the loop where you can avoid freezing or slushing the coolant which will inevitably kill the pump also.

the idea is cool in theory but first the Evap would have to be mounted onto a decent sized plate with enough copper tube coverage to allow coolant to flow and be chilled without icing over....

Worst case scenario: loop freezes no flow...

other scenario: loop slushes = low flow and pump gets shit kicked outta it.