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Laing D4 pump with optional Polar Flo chrome front and Criticool water plant using 1/2" barbs. Inside the Criticool reservoir can be seen the added temperature probe from the T-Balancer. This was fitted by myself by drilling the bottom of the res' and Araldite in the sensor. Worked a treat..
The coolant used in the rig was an early version of Fluid XP with a small amount of powder dye and 2 drops of Petras Tech PTNuke to 1l of fluid (just on, one litre in the whole loop).
This was about 80% of the eventual amount of wiring inside the breakout box. The steel pin switches can be seen at the ends of the red cables that became the main lighting controls on the front of the box. On the side of the breakout box can be seen the mounts for the UV inverters which had sensitivity adjusters and microphones that allowed the UV's to be sound reactive.
Sadly I have no video of this working but the cathodes when adjusted correctly, reacted beautifully to deep base sounds such as gunfire in FPS games and at times turned the whole room into a virtual stroboscope. The USB plug inside the breakout box had to be dissected by hand, lengthened and re-soldered down to the USB header on the motherboard. This was the data link to the Abit uGuru display which was to be later modded into the face of the breakout.
Splined propeller shaft emerges from the nose case of an Allison V-1710 on display at the Castle Air Museum in Atwater, California.
The Allison V-1710 was a liquid-cooled V-12 aircraft engine with a displacement of 1710 cubic inches. It was installed in a number of important American aircraft of World War Ii.
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Allison V-1710 (Wikipedia):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_V-1710
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Castle Air Museum:
Top view showing radiator and Akasa lit fans, controlled by the T-Balancer unit explained in a previous image.
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4790K Haswell Devil's Canyon
GPUs: 2x Sli Nvidia Galax/KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 Hall of Fame (HOF)
RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance Pro 2400MHz DDR3 (4x4gb)
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G45 Gaming
PSU: SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 1300W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Luxe Full Tower Case - Black
Cabling: Custom cabling ordered to fit the red/white theme.
Watercooling loop:
Coolant: Mayhems Pastel Ice White
CPU Cooler: EK Water Blocks EK-Supremacy EVO
GPU Blocks by Diamond Cooling - White Acetal
14/10mm Acrylic Tubing
Barrows Black compression fittings
420mm Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator GT Stealth 420 (Push+Pull)
360mm Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator GTX 360 (Push+Pull)
Pumps: I am using two different pumps because I already own them and taking them off my existing loop
Pump 1: Swiftech MCP35X Industrial Pump 12 Volts
Pump 2: Swiftech MCP655-B Water Pump 12 Volts (EK-XTOP D5 Pump Top)
Radiator Fans:
420mm Rad: Push/Pull - 6x 140mm Akasa AK-FN063 Viper Fan High Performance S-FLOW Blade Quiet Fan - 3.12 mm/H2O
360mm Rad: Push - 3x 120mm Corsair SP120 High Performance Edition High Static Pressure Fan - 3.1 mm/H20
Pull - 2x 120mm Phobya G-Silent 1500rpm + 1x 120mm Cooler Master Fan
Having selected the C3 acrylic case from the states as the main box I set about making some custom internal body parts. This is the first thing I built which was a clear sheet of acrylic heat formed to make a box across the whole base width of the case. The object of this box was purely to house a million metres of cable that were to be installed in the coming months. You can see the first ones in this pic which are the ATX header switch cables. They travelled in their own shower hose directly to the headers and a small adaptor plate was made to keep it in the correct position. The four other holes were to fix another 4 shower hoses to carry cables to other various locations later on. The shower hoses fitted very nicely to the glands shown which are made by Kopex (Part no GAM0404).
The whole box was then clad in chrome sheet and fixed into the main case by 4xM6 hex cap machine screws.
The handbuilt breakout control box was fabricated from what started life as a removable CD holder designed to fit in 3 spare drive bays. 3 spare drive bays was never going to happen and frankly it was a waste of space. So I mounted it as the breakout control box and held nicely in place by 2 flexible microphone goosenecks. These were rigid enough to hold the box in position and flexible enough to reposition as required during use or to position the PC at different angles. The main power feed can be seen inside the box having come through the Gooseneck. The hole in the top of the breakout box was to allow a small case fan to be fitted in extraction orientation to take heat off of the cathode inverters which were to be housed inside the box.