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Watercooled powersupplies?

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whitewale

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In my spare time I work in a facility that uses carbon fiber. Carbon fiber has two very bad properties when it comes to computers - it's conductive and it's all over the place. As a result we go through power supplies by the case.
Now, I can cool a whole system with water and have it be hermatically sealed against the fibers - but I haven't found a watercooled power supply. And those are the parts that get fried first, and, in the process, love to take out the rest of the machine (I had a good one where the only part I could reuse was the CPU and memory, everything else was toast).
I would realy appreciate any ideas how to solve this.
 
its been done before but it involves having a PSU that has the heatsinks that arent part of the electricity part (wow that sounded retarded, i need sleep). anyway its possible just maybe a little more difficult.
 
If you can machine your own blocks, jsut make a stright thru block to mount in place of the IC heatsinks in your PSU. If the heatsinks in there have power going to them try to run it without (this is a trick to increase efficiency in cheap metals such as steel, commonly used in server equipment).

I've been thinking of doing this for some time now, I just have to find a place to do it...since my place of work got assimilated by a bigger company, and we moved to a new site, I lost my nifty access to the tools & place to work in the development lab :(

(sucks living in an apt wher everyone gets all antsy over hearing a drill....)
 
water + 120V = problem waiting to happen...

im sure a leak isnt that likely but i wouldnt want to be around when it happened, and i sure as shit wouldnt want that to happen to my system if it did.
 
yeah, I was thinking of putting some type of insulating grease on the heatsink on the FET Ics. Then just placing any old water block on it. I dont know the conductive properties of antifreeze, but distilled water itself is not a good conductor, although it still will conduct despite being distilled. I beleive that koolerman makes thermally conductive but electrically insulated pads for their hard drive coolers (its bundled with the 2nd hard drive option). Using that, I think it could be done. Im thinking about getting the Kingwin AWC 1 all in one watercooling kit, and just adding the video cooler on the PSU. Im not ocing, I just want a quiet box.
 
If your powersupply is set to blow air out of the case, it really doesn't make any sense to watercool it(especially if your radiator is internal and setup so that air is pulled into the case through the radiator), imho, unless it is a really noisy powersupply. If it was that noisy, I'd just get a new ps. :)
 
My idea here is to have nothing blow in and out of my case, basically being able to put the whole thing in a NEMA enclosure. And thanks to that link I'm a big step towards that idea.
 
The coolcurrent can also be had at www.aqua-computer.de. Those guys make them.

And you can always go for a passively cooled PSU. In fact, the coolcurrent is nothing more than a passively cooled PSU with a waterblock instead of a huge block of aluminium.
 
Mr. D. said:
The coolcurrent can also be had at www.aqua-computer.de. Those guys make them.

And you can always go for a passively cooled PSU. In fact, the coolcurrent is nothing more than a passively cooled PSU with a waterblock instead of a huge block of aluminium.
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SNT systems imports aqua computer products, so you don't have to pay for shipping from Germany :)
 
whitewhale
serious ? (as in have the $ to do it)
put it in a box, cool the box w/heat pipes - see Noren
 
acascianelli said:
water + 120V = problem waiting to happen...

im sure a leak isnt that likely but i wouldnt want to be around when it happened, and i sure as shit wouldnt want that to happen to my system if it did.
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That can be dealt with by using copper tubing sindie, soldered to the blocks, and have your fittings outside of the supply, where a leak won't get in.

there's always a design fix for anything.
 
i have currently 2 h2o cooled enemax 465W PS . I did a detailed write up, only to have the forum upgrade eat it. :( looks like a better rewrite it :D

EDIT: one of them is for my HTPC, which i am going to seal it of as well. Everything in it is WC, and what heat is generated is removed with a h2o cooled peltier "air chiller"....

pic of h2o enermax...........

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