Need a BIgger Reservoir?

[Spectre]

Stole this from a post I saw on the [H]

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ebuehl/pool_cooling/

[madmat]

With the chemicals used for pools I'd be very leery of doing that. Now, with a fluid to fluid heat exchanger so that the PC's are on a closed loop getting the heat exchanged with pool water without the two mingling I'd consider it. Plus there's the usual nasties in pool water, algae, black algae and others that I wouldn't want reproducing in my water blocks.

[XBarbarian]

the point is not having pool water in your cooling, I think madmat..it would be better to use it like a nuclear reactor... the primary coolant is a closed loop, it routes out to the pool, and back, never mixes....the heat exchange occurs when the hot lines containing the closed system primary coolant reside in the cooler pool, and they release the heat into the pool..

[madmat]

He's plumbing the pool water directly into the water blocks...he even addresses concerns about that at the beginning of that post.

Corrosion:
All of the materials; PVC, ABS, other hard plastics, stainless steel on the pump housing, copper on the manifold and waterblocks, and gold plating on the waterblocks will all likely react with the chlorine to some extent - but not to any degree that will cause problems in the near future. These materials are all prevalent in swimming pool equipment already.

Which if it was a closed loop system as I outlined with a fluid to fluid heat exchanger there'd be no chlorine coming into contact with the water blocks

[XBarbarian]

ack... sorry madmat.. I assumed...and we all see what happens when we do that!

*nods*

[madmat]

No problem, I had to read it through twice before I could believe he'd be crazy enough to do that. It took a lot to wrap my head around it.