50 feet of 3/4" copper burried in the ground is my new "radiator."

[klah]

http://www.hardocp.com/

HardNews 9th Edition Tuesday December 02, 2003

Homebrew H20:
You guys have got to check out this guys homebrew H20 setup. What makes it newsworthy? He took 50 feet of copper tubing and buried it in his backyard using the ground to cool the fluid as it moves through the pipe. You gotta see this. Thanks to Chris Reinhardt for the linkage.

 

[pelikan]

Originally posted by: klah
http://www.hardocp.com/

HardNews 9th Edition Tuesday December 02, 2003

Homebrew H20:
You guys have got to check out this guys homebrew H20 setup. What makes it newsworthy? He took 50 feet of copper tubing and buried it in his backyard using the ground to cool the fluid as it moves through the pipe. You gotta see this. Thanks to Chris Reinhardt for the linkage.

Thanks for pointing that out. I wondered where the email was coming from, lol.

 

[MDE]

Simply amazing...
Awesome idea.

 

[mastertech01]

Cool.. I thought of doing something like this in the crawl space under the house. Dig a sump hole and put a steel kettle in it, like an old pressure cooker pot for a liner and drop a coil in it and fill with water. Would be out of the weather and not to hot in summer or too cold in winter. You could drop a chiller coil in it with a thermostatic control. Then just cover it well. Biggest bennie is to get the noise out of the main house.

 

[pelikan]

Originally posted by: mastertech01
Cool.. I thought of doing something like this in the crawl space under the house. Dig a sump hole and put a steel kettle in it, like an old pressure cooker pot for a liner and drop a coil in it and fill with water. Would be out of the weather and not to hot in summer or too cold in winter. You could drop a chiller coil in it with a thermostatic control. Then just cover it well. Biggest bennie is to get the noise out of the main house.

A guy at overclockers did just that, minus the chiller. He put a 50' coil of copper tubing in a 50 gal drum with water that was burried in his basement. He got great temps. I think he said the water was 12C when he first turned on the system in the morning. If he left it on 24/7 the water would eventually heat up, but he was used to turning it off at night anyway.

 

[Texun]

Originally posted by: Rage187
Someone did this a few years back.
Even used a backhoe to dig the trench.
Let me see if I can find some pics.

I think I saw the same one, or one close to it but I don't have a clue now as to where the link is. Someone took an old water heater tank (30 gallon?) and buried it in the ground. There is a fine line between obsession and perfection. May these two never meet.

Found it.......

It's not a tank from a water heater but you'll get the picture. Scroll down to "What Others Have Done"

 

[pelikan]

That's Bladerunner's project. He also makes some pretty amazing waterblocks. Here's his website.