Projects

Cryogenics, only not.

Intro

I should have been writing this as I went, instead this is turning into more of a bad scientific journal where Im having to look back for all my data and reinvent half the problems that were already overcame.

Origionaly the plan was to have a custom rack/shelving unit for the machine similer to the current V3 oil rig. Only since the insides will be pulled down to sub 0 (hopefully) temps, it would need to be a tank inside of a tank situation, wheather it be a custom build or otherwise.

This would of course require a slight vaccume inbetween the two tanks and a light coating of that wonderful anti frost stuff for cars (planes) on both the ouitside of the in anothner box and the inside of the outter box so that views of the system wouldn't be hindered.

Recently I saw a wine cooler that would do wonderfully for the entire case. I could remove the existing peltier system it has, rack the computer components inside, run my pipes through the back (now bottom) and add some connector so the compressor and hot coils have attached support. This will probably become the new v1 due to the severe lack of extra hand building required. And of course it has a prefabricated front galss door, and a digital thermometer read out. This is pretty much everything I could want and already pre made for me.

Then the creative juices got going one rainy night in the corner of a resturante and this project got scrapped for even crazier ideas.

Version 0.5 - March '09 Proving theory

The Computer

Processor: Intel P4 3.2ghz
Ram: 1.25gb DDR1 generic
Motherboard: MSI 915GM
Graphics: EVGA 7800gt
Hdd: Seagate 7200rpm 80gb
PSU: OCZ 700w

This was actually the first oil computer, I got a little over zellouse one night and kinda jumped the gun on well everything. Remember when v1.0 of oil was just built and then he next version was a completly different rig, theres reasons for that. I took the hot/cold coils and all related components out of a minifridge, no small task by itself by the way, and ran the cold coils into the oil of my existing passivly cooled oil test rig.

SUCCESS!! until I bumped the compressor with my knee standing up. Yes, one of the other hundred things I did wrong was I didn't want to move the oil rig, so I did the tests where it sat in my bedroom on the carpeted floor. For some reason, night of the event none of this seemd to abnormal. So my knee bumps a compressor and a cold pipe snaps immedeatly and that was the end of that.
However I did seal it well, and I did successfully bring the whole tank down to 50F before disaster occured. This prooved it worked and I was hapy for weeks despite the financial and testing ability setbacks.

For very independent reasons that specific P4 has since passed away, I cant tell for sure, but soemthing about the motherboard has finally given out, RIP wonderful test mobo.

I'm not sure what the V1 rig will be at this juncture.

Version 1.0 - Tenetively August 2010

Already scrapped

I mooved and no projcts have been progressed and the August deadline was blown


The Computer

Processor: ?ghz
Ram: ?
Motherboard: ?
Graphics: ?
Hdd: ?
PSU: OCZ 700w
Wine cooler case.