From: "Doc Shipley" <doc at
mdrconsult.com>
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 11/21/2005 at 12:55 PM Eric J Korpela wrote:
The drawbacks of this system are that you need to
prime it, and that a bad
enough leak will disrupt the coolant flow, so you need to monitor the flow
rate or have a decent thermal shutdown mechanism. You need that in case of
pump failure, anyway.
Why not simply use a standard sump pump? Most such pumps can push a 15 or
20 foot head and don't need to be primed.
I think that putting the computer higher than the pump can push is
the point. If the computer's on the low-pressure side of the circuit,
(the pump is *pulling* water through instead of *pushing* ) it would
Hi
Not actually pulling. It would still be pushing but the
top part of the system would be siphoning. This means it has
negative pressure relative to the air.
Dwight
take a very large leak to get the system wet.
It'll pull air into the
water lines, instead of pushing water out into the electronics.
Doc