Submersion Test, haha I might do this
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I've owned the fish tank they use in the video. It's a one piece bowl. Never had a problem with it for the 10 years it sat on my desk.
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Server Immersion cooling
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It is a neat idea, and it looks cool. Been seeing this for a while. I think that you'd really only do this as a novelty.
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I think it would definitely be a novelty build, you can't put fish in Mineral Oil (they won't last long if you did)
The cooling capabilities do seem reasonable though. But even on that site I linked, they say don't do this for extreme heat systems...
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The problem that I imagine is that the mineral oil is designed to hold the heat like a giant sink, but there is nothing to cool the mineral oil. So the system needs to be off regularly to let the oil cool down, right? If I used it here, where the air temp never drops below 90, it seems like it would heat up, hold the heat and not work.
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Well in the build they have their on their site, they have a massive heat sink, with a bunch of fans to cool the unit down.
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@DustinB3403 said:
Well in the build they have their on their site, they have a massive heat sink, with a bunch of fans to cool the unit down.
Oh okay, which just makes it air cooled really
I mean at the end of the day, everything is air cooled. But having to blow air on the unit, have another heat sink and have fans running really defeats the purpose, I think. -
Now a Raspberry Pi like this.... sure. So little heat.
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I wonder if part of the process is that mineral oil transfers heat better and 'cleaner' than air. So there is no dust to fret over.
Now, you would still have to filter air when the oil is exposed so that it does not pick up those particles. and there is still the issue of the heat exchanger needing to be cooled... -
@gjacobse said:
I wonder if part of the process is that mineral oil transfers heat better and 'cleaner' than air. So there is no dust to fret over.
Now, you would still have to filter air when the oil is exposed so that it does not pick up those particles. and there is still the issue of the heat exchanger needing to be cooled...That's what existing water cooler systems do, too. But they are closed systems so tend to do this much better.
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@scottalanmiller Indeed quite true,.. and I expect there are systems that do not use water. As water is conductive, and if the system were to leak could cause catastrophic failure.
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Water being conductive by it's self would be catastrophic.
You can't put a toaster in the bathtub with it plugged in and not expect it to spark, same thing with a computer.
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@gjacobse said:
@scottalanmiller Indeed quite true,.. and I expect there are systems that do not use water. As water is conductive, and if the system were to leak could cause catastrophic failure.
Some use liquid metal.
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YES YES YES DO IT
Do it and film the process so I can learn from it.
I have an incredible number of electronic widgets that would be MOAR awesome under liquid cooling.
