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It’s starting to seem like cooling a bunch of Gaming PCs with your swimming pool might be a little high-maintenance. The corrosion problem is solved, but now something smells pretty funky in the pool-based PC cooling system. It’s all hands on deck as we pull apart the LAN Center PCs and try to eliminate whatever is growing in the cooling loops once and for all.
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
2:07 Assemble!
2:22 Several ounces of prevention.
4:28 What’s going on in there?
11:52 Bring on the Death Ray!
15:02 Uh oh
17:17 Did it work?
18:26 No, really.. did it work?
21:42 Credits
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Dude techtips. Not pool guy tips.
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I wonder if an Powered Anode Rod – that is typically used in water heaters – is something that would help.
4:13 and im leaving to play L4D2 now
You should have bought some soluble silver. Having something dropped in like a coin in the reservoir, especially this big, will not help much.
Use a hygrometer to test your coolant efficiency and get tortuous path filters
Damn, at current prices, Linus just chucked about 100$ of silver into some chemicals like it's nothing.
It's the old "CSTR vs plug flow reactor" game
Using drop-in UV C lamps won't work as well as inline modules. The inline modules disinfect all the water passing through them, so you can ensure the water is disinfected as it leaves the reservoir, ensuring no microbial action in your water blocks.
The drop in modules also will disinfect all the water passing through them, but they're discharging right back into the reservoir. Depending on residence time the tank may remain very grody — don't forget, as soon as the water leaves the lamp it can be re-inoculated with microorganisms.
Me watching the gross part while eating like Meh
Там зарождается инопланетная жизнь))
I miss the banter from Jake in videos about Linus house problems
Thank you for the video. This video confirms my concerns about water-cooled systems. Water-cooled systems have very high maintenance requirements. I still think that an air-cooled server room with a separate air conditioning system is more reasonable. If a water-cooled system is to be used, it might be better to design water-cooled products from the beginning.
You can't have microbes if your coolant is mercury.
Linus, you can say kill, dead, and death on YouTube, don't fall into that same crowd saying "unalive" because they're scared…
Great video my favorite hard R enjoyer 😆
4:12 thanks editor, you a real one
Working on cars I typically use a small pick to go between the fitting and hose and it often helps to break the seal the hose has
Did the One that was in there look significantly dirtier than the one that you put in? Okay then Any of that dirt that's on it has been removed from the system therefore filtering it from the system… 😅
Fabric is one very old kind of filter that we have used for basically as long as society has existed. It might not be the best filter of all time but it certainly works and it might be the best for water I don't know.
Can you get legionnaires from grody water blocks while draining/cleaning?
Or you could just simply order silver bars that are really thin or silver sheets silver sheets would be best because that would be best surface area availability per unit of silver
Yeah that's your fault for not having a water filter built into it but also that water filter would filter out chlorine which you do need for the pool so it is a catch 22 no matter what… 😅
8:36 I was actually planning such a config Linus so thanks. My plan was to use server heat to heat my room in the winter. Kinda like your old place.
So LTT fired all the presenters that we knew and loved, and replaced them all with knock-offs? Probably to fund the new CEO's salary? Weird.
I really advise getting rid of those tanks and switch over to a (slightly) pressurised system with an expansion tank (like a hydronic heating system)
The current setup might get oxygenated because its open to air and those tanks are not oxygen diffusion proof.
Temperature and thus pressure changes suck in air into the tanks and oxygenates the coolant.
Also maxe sure your coolant isn't too diluted, this causes all sorts of bacterial and corrosion issues.
Also automotive coolant usually doesn't have any anti bacterial additions, coolant from eg Corsair does have those additions.
Leak detection can be realised with a pressure sensor.
If you want to go nuts you can add pressure sensors before and after your filter to monitor how well it's performing.
Lafiucy please.
just take a meter of your red pipe out, replace it with a transparent acrylic pipe or so, buy a industrial uv c lamp, build an enclosure around that 1 meter of pipe, make the inside reflective, put the lamp in there. that works. you have to always "cover"" the whole stream with uv light
I'm sure there will be no negative consequences to adding a new type of metal to the soup, whose interactions with every other component are completely untested.
That reminds me the whole room watercooling ! Didn't that happened to you back in the day 😀 !?
Copper sulphate. Simple!
None of this happens in a regular home. All this tech is absolutely excessive. I love technology, I hate excess. You are excessive.
Linus the communist, gotta go. haven't watched any of your content since the melt down. hope your loyal workers stayed and the capitalists went to gamers nexus.
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Why do you use Fuelline-Hose, it could be that it is those Fuelline-Hises that make that smelling stuff in your system
So we had that problem for 15 years straight in our CNC spindle cooling. We ran two spindles and the coolant never reached the temperature to kill the fungus.
We changed the coolant sometimes 4 times a year. Flushed everything with citric acid, special treatment and stuff but it didn't change anything. Tried the UV lamps. No change.
We upgraded to a special cooling system like a fridge and now it is gone and works flawless.
Unfortunately, that is not the correct filter for that unit. That Filter cartridge is a 2.5in diameter filter, which should be a 4.5in filter, for that housing.
Try ether:
Pentek DGD-5005 Big Blue Water Filter, 10-Inch Whole House Sediment Filter Cartridge Replacement, Dual-Gradient Density Spun Polypropylene, 10" x 4.5", 5 Micron
or
Pentek DGD-2501 Big Blue Water Filter, 10-Inch Whole House Sediment Filter Cartridge Replacement, Dual-Gradient Density Spun Polypropylene, 10" x 4.5", 1 Micron.
Also, use a bit of Dialectic grease (you can get it at a Automotive store) on the rubber gasket, before you re-assemble the filter housing.
"HELP!" LOL Hey Linus, I bought my ASUS ROG GD30CI new back in the day & it's been great all these years its always run quick & played all my games great. Now I have a issue with it running slow, I did a fresh install a few times & didn't fix my issue. I checked my ram & drives checked ok, but my GTX 1060 will not run the current Nvidia drivers, when I install any of them it will black screen my and i won't boot unless I restart in safe mode and reinstall a old video driver. My video card runs fine with the old driver. My OS is on the 512g SSD. I don't have the funds to buy a new one, I'm disabled & can't work as a Nurse anymore. Can I ship this beast to you so you can possibly fix it? Can you possibly help me? Thaks man I'm a big fan of your channel its A++!
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2:42 Don't buy silver on Amazon. 😂
Not only is it dramatically overpriced, you also run a very high risk of getting a fake.
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Did Linus sterlize any of those components before he put it back together? Lol. Not my problem, let's just say that.
Don't be a block, just get a new block,
Please please please note that especially UV C but in theory any UV light is dangerous for your skin and eyes. Your eyes are soft tissues, that's how you can focus them and so on, UV light "hardens/cures" your eyes so your eyes will get less and less soft which can even lead to blindness.
I'm not sure that these fillers are a good choice for that kind of filtering. I have similar ones for my drinking water (I think aqua whatever is even the same brand). I have two of them plus a coal filter and one more filter (not sure what it does) and the system completely gunked up in 5 months– there was zero water flow (that's just drinking water for 3 people). That's despite me technically receiving treated drinkable water. All my filters have to remove is a bit of rust and other metal bits from moderately old pipes. So, unless you're checking your waterflow regularly, you might be screwed really quickly.
Its amazing how much youve allways maintained that buying watercoolong coolant isnt worth it, if you just use destilled water with whatever, its fine. But you allways seem to get growth in your loops.