Hi, i saw somebody installed a PC cooling system on his Yong Heng Compressor. Comments and suggestions are appreciated. These are the specs:
I bought all the parts to do that with two radiators but then found a little ice does a better job. The Yong Hengs are not made to be run for very long anyway as the water only cools the second stage cylinder and head.
I think this is a bit too exotic. My Yong Heng rig uses a higher throughput pump off of Amazon and an Igloo cooler from Costco. The cooler is one of those tote about models they always carry during the summer. It doubles as a storage container for the Yong Heng once it is dried out. I never worry about ice by letting it drain and adding more water.
Aren't to two bottom fans being starved for air since they are almost right up against the YH cover?
FyI: Overclocked computers can reach up to 100C and these cooling systems seems to do an effective job.
FyI: Overclocked computers can reach up to 100C and these cooling systems seems to do an effective job.
Completing the rest of your sentence -- "seems to do an effective job" for clearly defined TDP and a surface area the size of a quarter or smaller, usually dime sized, for both CPU, North Bridge, South Bridge, and GPUs.
I do not believe the closed loop system pictured above will be effective. Not only are the fans low CFM, but they are obstructed, and the entropy exchange between that radiator and the delta t will favor delta t resulting in thermal build-up.
What if instead of spending more cash for a cooling source you just hook the water intake into a hose or faucet and the exit line into a sink or in the yard?
CPU temperature is normally measured on die, for example, for giggles here's my laptop happily doing it's best at compressing random entropy data:
~190F on the die and it's nothing more than a heat pipe to a heat sink to a squirrel cage fan for cooling. Trying to cool a Yong Heng with the setup pictured above is like trying to cool a pot of boiling water, with the burner on high, by throwing a cup of ice and expecting it not to scald your hand if you dip it in.
I've used those PC radiators to cool TIG torches that are several thousand degrees F. But, as LMNOP pointed out in their previous comparison, that too is a much smaller volume to cool than a compressor head, so he does have a valid point.
However, in my experience with building cooling systems, I believe that it would be quite effective on a compressor such as this.
We can do math and give examples all day, but there is really only one way for us to find out: Use thermocouples to monitor inlet and outlet temps of the coolant during operation to see if the temps will stabilize at an acceptable level.
I don't have a YH, otherwise I would have already tested this.