I can’t believe this worked - Pool Water Cooling (janky)

For years, I've dreamed of

cooling

my gaming PC with

water

with my

pool

, and today, that dream BECOME A REALITY! It's heavy! Oh no, he's drowning! Obviously, that's not how we're going to do it. This

pool

was designed from the ground up to act as a giant thermal mast and heat sink for the interior space. All we have to do is figure out how to get the heat from there to here. Oh, it stinks! Which is no small thing. I like

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The spinning potions inside the chest react to your health and mana in real time, and all you have to do is click the link from the description to learn more and enter the giveaway today. The original plan was to take these tubes that go to the server room and, instead of running them to the radiator of this car, connect them to buried tubes that would go to the pool. Unfortunately, the contractors being contractors, there were supposed to be four lines buried. Two for this, two for the solar panels and we only ended up with two. So that's only enough for solar power and we need a new plan for the server room.

One option we consider is to continue doing what we are doing, but better. Bringing hot

water

from the server to a radiator and pumping it back inside. The problem is that on a hot day, like today, this ends up acting against the air conditioning in the house, heating the room. And I don't want something where I have to micromanage or set up a ton of automations. I want this to be set and forgotten. That's where the pool shed comes into play. Remember when I used that high-tech gadget to find PVC pipes that were buried in my backyard?

Well, that goes from the server room to here. Since then, we cap them and pressure test them, which means they are ready to carry water. Which means all we had to do was dig a trench from the pool house to this box where we can connect to the lines that run along the entire bottom of the pool. Unlimited

cooling

capacity. Look at everything. Hey, don't splash my shoes. Oh I'm sorry. Just a little problem. I have to take the water from here to where the pool circuit comes out and from my computers, which are over here, to these pipes that are in the corner here.

Fortunately, I have a perfect plan for this. Or rather four of them and increasing madness. How much do you know about plumbing? Yesterday I watched four videos on YouTube. Because you requested this be done, as professional plumbers, we have a bunch of PEX tubing here that we can use to get to the server. That should be pretty simple. Adapting everything to each other may not be so simple. Remember how you said you wanted this done right and I said we'd have to buy specialized tools and all that and it would be expensive? Oh God. Do you want to know how much all the specialized tools and bits cost?

How much does it cost? $950. Thank you for your approval. That? Yesterday you said $300. I meant $300 for the curling iron and curling irons. Did you really buy another pack of Teflon tape? No. That's from last time. The good news is that we have a lot more than we need because everything comes in lengths of about 250 feet. So we can do this many times. We should find out which of these is uncovered. Without stop? Yes, one of them has no lid and is full of water and looks very unpleasant. Three and four are labeled. Not so much one, two and five.

Did you know? How about this? I go to the other end and just blow on them and see if the water moves. Wow, that was easy. Oh, and that water is draining now. Uh oh. I sincerely hope that water is not draining into this room. No, the answer is no. Well. Everything's fine. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Here we go. Wow, they're all disgusting. Excellent. These caps

worked

great. And boy, this is going to suck. Oh yeah. I'm not sure if that did anything. I guess that's whatever Linus just blew up. Stinks. In that one I think I heard water splashing.

Ah, but I think I have a camera operator. Yes, good job, Glen. So which one did you just blow on? What do you mean by simply? I broke in two. First one, then another. Yeah, it doesn't really matter. They both dumped really disgusting smelling water all over the place, so. It's good, awesome. So first there were eight and then it was one. Three one. Perfect. I understand. Yes, we know we have fun here. We need to do something with that water. We purge it with that water. In fact, these are threaded. Do we have anything that includes them?

Do we have anything that includes them? We are planning to use them for the entire video. I have more plumbing supplies than I would ever like to have. Perfect. Okay, let's go with number three. Alright. Are you connected? Yes. You know what? Wait. That's the network pressure. This particular hose bib works like the city pressure. Well, it's before down pressure, whatever for home use. So it goes. Linus, when I turn this on, do you want to come out? Let me know when. What if when I turn this on you want to get out? I've already smelled how bad it is.

You can do that. Are you excited to pour a bunch of swampy water into your freshly cleaned pool? Oh no, he's not going to the pool. How difficult do you expect this to be? Wow, hello. Is working? Wow, that's really dirty. Yes, it's really disgusting. Oh, I just realized. Oh, that's wet. It still hurts? No, I still see things coming out of there. Alright. Are you giving him all the pressure? Oh yeah, it's maxed out right now. We probably should have added a filter to this somewhere. That would have been smart. That will be the final deployment.

Maybe go ahead and cut and we'll let it run for a few minutes and then. Yes. What I'm currently trying to figure out is how do we connect from those hoses to the server itself, or I guess to the computer. My plan was to use this guy right here. And with the magic of JB Weld, it stays there forever. Ah OK. Well, that works. But that still doesn't answer the question of what we are executing with this. Oh, that goes for the pecs. Oh, sure. And we just crimp it here? Alex, I noticed you brought flex tape.

You're not really planning on using this, are you? We don't plan to use it. Okay, how many of these do you want? Two. Okay, I can do that. Oh God. I can't remember the last time I used a tube of epoxy that wasn't completely crusty. So I pushed a little harder than necessary. This one is new. I'm going to try to move pretty quickly here. Wow, it's already getting ready. If that is all. That's all the time you have. Holy idiots. And it's gelatin. Well, that's good. As announced. Do you have a step ladder? Stepladder? Yes.

Are you sure you wouldn't rather have my biological ladder? That? Or as I call him, stepfather. Do you want to get on it? Now we need to do a tutorial on the pec tubes while doing it for the first time. Step one, unwrap. Luke's dad will be watching this like, oh. Luke informed me that he could help me with this after he had already purchased everything and the plan was completely concrete. How much is this? $130. Oh, sick. Comes with a pass and fail indicator. So if this continues, you're fine. If this continues, when you want to turn it a little, it means that you liked it.

Cut it to size with the wonderful Castrator 9000. Wow, it really works great for this. Yeah. Everything else we've tried to use this thing for has been kind of a disaster. We insert this. Here we go. Well. Can we go up suspended and then cross? Well. Well. Well, conveniently we can use this piece. Alright. This goes here right? And then, in theory, that's changing. Now we just have to add more. It occurs to me that our plan today is just to connect one system. So we don't exactly have a payoff if we remove the entire chassis or whatever, but what we can show is that with that giant thermal mass, we should be able to get better results for our CPU and GPU temperatures.

Of course, to prove it, I have to start a stress test while we're still running the radiator that's right at the back of the rack. So I'm going to do that. Alex, do you want the CPU to be running too? Hit it all. Hit it all. Well. Do you know what I just realized, Linus? Yes. We need a bomb. Oh shoot. Yes. We talked about this before. The bomb is supposed to go there and it's supposed to be from there. Yes. That's the plan. We forgot about that though. We just cut this tube here. This one is too long anyway, so, hey, look, it's parallel.

He goes to the bomb and then comes back. I mean, I don't have a better idea. Cool. I swear, the final rollout of this will be like... Is everything going according to plan? Oh yeah. This is beautiful. I'm pretty sure you did it correctly. The pump is in the right direction. Well. I mean, after not having any bomb, surely we wouldn't make a mistake like putting the bomb in the wrong direction. Well. There is our anti-vibration mat. And then how does it get back to the bucket? I'm going to run another PEX pipe up here and then gently.

Well. Temporary. I'm sure plumbers are wincing at their computer screens right now, but while we may be using JB Weld and have too many right angles in our setup, I think we're pretty close to having at least this functional. . Which direction does the coolant flow in each of these? This one comes out, above. This one here is inside. Alright. So this one here says like this. That way. The plumbing looks great. Hopefully, none of that leaks out. Now, one thing I have learned from going to plumbing supply stores is that you should check the things they give you.

I was supposed to have four of these. I have one of these and three of these for reasons. Everything will be fine, but we have to go out and enjoy the external connections of the water that cools your house and steal a lot of things from male to male. Can't we rob these guys right here? We can, but we have water right above your server. No, no, no, no, we have this. Look, I found a bucket. Well. I'm just going to go out and do it. Well. We'll see who tries it out first. Come on. She took the gags.

You can not do that. Oh, Jake, what are you doing, buddy? I almost fall. Alright. Are you kidding me? I'm trying to do something right now. That? I'm trying to do something right now. Yes, too much. I'm filming a video. I'm recording a video too! I'm filming a video. Stop, please. God, animals. Do you want to tell Alex that I already have these accessories? If he could give me the grips, these bad boys are dripping. There is foamy water all over the floor. Uh, it doesn't look so bad. I don't think there is anything. Oh, wow.

The entire side of the grate is wet. Although I think everything is still working. Oops. Unfortunately, this isn't exactly what we need because these hoses fit NPT, which means we can't use the PEX tubing outside. We don't have the right connections. Hopefully that's out of the way now. Now, you know what we can use outside because this right here ends at NPT right there? The pipe we already have. The soft tube? Yes, the soft tube. That's really not ideal. Nothing is ideal. I mean, there is something that is ideal. It's just not that. Yes. Let's do it.

This side should be relatively simple. Just PVC glue, PVC pipe, doo, doo, doo, doo, boop, boop, boop. You're done. But? No, that's it. That's all you do. The other side. Well, our PVC glue is hardened. Medium body gray. It looks more like a thick-bodied gray. Is this going to work? Yes, good. Maybe a little less enthusiasm. We will know very soon. Well. In theory, that forms a chemical bond that is as strong as if it were one piece. I don't know what the anime has to do with all this, but there you have it. In fact, it seems to be pretty good here.

I think we could have gotten away with it here. The connection on this side is going to be absolutely disgusting. So the plan was to just use this fitting here, which goes from this tube to this tube and that's it. That's all you need, but I don't have any way to get from this tube to the soft tube that we're using now, which means I need to use this for this tube, for this fitting for this thing. And then we are there. Surely none of this will leak. One thing I hadn't thought about until now is that this tube shouldn't be full of junk, but it could be.

We will find out. Bye bye. It smells like glycol. That's good. It occurs to me that I have no idea which of these goes in and which comes out. But in theory, it shouldn't matter, since it's just a big loop on the floor of the pool. So whether we enter from this side of this side or from this side of this side, it really makes no difference. How are you? Absolutely fantastic. Actually? Yes. Actually? Yes, good. Look, now we're getting to the truth. Well. Actually? Yes. It's fantastic. Remember when I said there were four plans? Yes.

This is the fourth. You have the adapter to the adapter to the other adapter to the more different adapter to the hose. Yes. Can you crimp this one? Not precisely. No. Flexible tape? That was my plan for that. You're going crazy. Can I make asuggestion? Yes. What if we put a little silicone first? Yes, that's probably a good idea. In fact, we are using flexible tape. Yes. I thought it was just a meme. It is both a meme and a product. And if it leaks here today, I guess it's a bunch of lying memes. Well, I mean, you really didn't apply it very well.

Okay, but have you seen the commercials? They're like, boop, and then it works. My God. We are ready to try this disaster. I flipped the one that goes into the system, so the idea is that we'll just fill the loop and then we can just put a cube under it and take it out, connect the system and then that's it. Because that is the highest point of the circuit. Well. We are ready? Sure. Pump working? I don't know. I can not say it. But give me water. Yes. Yes. Water water. Go! Go! Go. Is the bomb gone?

Yes. The pump is definitely working. Wait. We need to get out. We need to know what he's doing. Alex, can you see that from there? Eh yes. Well. Then you are in the matter. Is it... is the pump on? I can't, I can't say what's going on right now. Although this one seems to be empty. And this one is full. Somehow the flexible tape is still not leaking. This is truly remarkable. How much tube is there? I don't even remember it. I think so, I think we have footage of it before. Hey, hey, hey, here it is, here it is.

Uh oh, it's a little dirty. Uh, it's a little dirty. It's actually, oh, that's a rock. There is a rock. There is a stone in it. There is a rock in my water cooling circuit. We're going to need a filter on this. Oh. Well, flexible tape doesn't work. However, the way it is leaked is very strange. And this, uh, this adaptation that I asked Alex about, he said it's definitely correct, it's definitely not correct. Did you know? None of this prevents us from discovering what the results of cooling are like. Let's go in. I heard you have a leaky connection.

Do you know how many fixtures I have that leak? All of them? Well, both flex tapes are leaking and that hose I asked you about is definitely leaking. That's not supposed to spin like that. Yes, the only thing I have leaking here is also the connection to the soft tube. So that seems to be a theme. Did you put Teflon tape on it backwards? Is that why it leaks? Could be. As strange as it may seem, the only thing that matters is the results. And right now, in our preliminary testing, we're seeing 73 degrees on our CPU, 53 on our GPU.

I think we can beat that or at least equal it without generating heat in this room. It's intolerable right now. This is one of the worst things we've done in a long time. And like we did very recently with the heater core and this is definitely worse. Oh, the heater core was fine. By the way, for those of you who are concerned about pool equipment, all of this is completely weatherproof and designed to be outdoors. Then it's okay. The flexible tape is great. Sure. But it's not for this. Why does this keep being sprayed? I don't know.

Are we sure the pump is off? Yes. Can I help with this? I have gloves. Yes. You may need a little helper for this. Well. Has this ever happened to you? Your boss says, oh, you have half a day to plan something. And you think it's not enough time. It's going to go wrong. And then they say everything is going wrong. Why didn't you think about it? That's like, well, yeah, we saw that coming. You thought about it. You just had to get the most expensive crimp. Although I would have been quite upset to spend $500 on a PEX crimp that I will never touch again.

Do you want to see if we have more worm gears? Jake had a good suggestion: put two worm gears in each one. We're surprisingly close considering all the wacky solutions we've tried today. We are down to about one drop every 30 seconds on the high pressure side. And what we're going to try is another worm drive clamp running in the other orientation to see if we can close it. What do you think is going to happen when the friend who installed all your pool stuff and still needs to come back every day or two shows up tomorrow and sees this?

What do you think he's going to think? I mean, I hope it says I have the right tool. Let me fix this. Yes. That would be an ideal solution. Let's hope so. Is it still leaking? Not really? Curse. Oh, I thought the hose clamp wouldn't fit. Alright. Alright. Alright. Alright. Take it easy. Wait, why doesn't Fermark work anymore? Whatever. We have the before before. I think it was 53 and 74 on the GPU and CPU. The idea here is that we're going to let this little bit of the top of the loop drain over here. Then we can connect our accessories to the system and we are ready to test it.

That's a lot of water. Yes. It's a lot more water than I expected. Yes, good. Alright. Alright. Well. We're ok? I was just a little worried. Oh, it's a good thing there aren't computers everywhere. Yes. Is there a reason we are doing this or did it just start leaking again? Yes. He just started doing it. Is this the right type of tube for those fittings? Could be. That would be very convenient because then we could just run these tubes up there. It is. It is correct. Well. So this is out, which means that this one, G a quarter, it's not really designed for these types of pressures, but hey, it'll try.

I was talking to the CEO of AlphaCool at Computex and I said, yeah, some of his fixtures failed when we put them under the pressure of a pump and he said, oh, those are rated for about seven APSI. What were you doing? I was like, uh, the pump holds a hundred. He said, yes, they will fail. Well. We need to activate this. Oh yeah. The system has no pump or rad. Well. Wait. Wait. Did you just turn it on? Yes. Holy cow. It wasn't quite ready yet. No no. Are you OK. Are you OK. Are you OK.

Are you OK. Are you OK. Well. Turn it on. Well. Wait. What is our set temperature? Alex, get ready to hit him. Well. Hit him now. We are 95. Let's go. Come on. Come on. Well. Let's take a second to settle in here. However, the CPU dies on average. It looks like we are about 15 degrees lower than where we started. How is our GPU? Well, the GPU will need some time. Not really. Normally you would have to wait for the loop to equalize before you can take a read. This circuit will never change temperature. So whatever we get now is what we will get.

I have the calculations on how long it will take for this loop to saturate the pool. First, your pool is large enough that it takes 118 kilowatt hours to increase it by a single degree Celsius. That's the entire battery of a Model And there are losses. There are losses. Big losses. Heating a pool requires a lot of energy. Our GPU is at 38 running a firm arc load and is rock solid. My God. Alex, you said you took this with a thermal camera. Not recently. My God. Well wait, you can't heat it that much from the computer. Wait.

Maybe not, it's not. Yes it is. It's the hot side. I mean, it's only like one or two degrees. Yes, How much it costs? There are four degrees. Actually? This is a lot. That makes no sense. That makes no sense. That must be the pool side. Wait, no, that doesn't make any sense. How hot is your pool? What the hell is going on? It should be set to 30. Oh no, I don't know what it's set to. This is one hundred percent the good side of this. That's the good side of the server. We're taking the heat out of here.

That's a lot of heat. You're going to put in a long-term heat exchanger, right? No. I spoke to Alex outside the heat exchanger. We are going to put a filter on it. Yes. The filter should be fine. So stupid. However, one thing we are going to do is create a manifold that mounts to the back of the frame with latches so that we can stop individual systems, but keep the entire system, the main pump running for maintenance. And like quick disconnects on everything. My God. Is working. You've done a lot of stupid things and had a lot of stupid ideas.

This one is actually pretty low on the stupid meter for me. I don't know. First of all, getting a pool is pretty dumb. Yes. Yes. Well, but if you have one, there are actually public pools in Europe that use exactly this concept. I don't know if it occurred to me first. Probably not, but real public infrastructure is built like this in the medium term until we have all these systems built, water cooled and ready to connect to the system. It would probably make more sense for me to just plug into that radiator over there and use the pool to cool the room's air-cooled systems, but it's working.

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