Water Cooling Site

ding · 7th June 2001, 03:53 AM

Just stumbled across this site. Thought some of you might be interested.

http://www.printedelectronics.com/pe/gomain.htm

Dan

ding · 7th June 2001, 05:45 AM

You have to go to "papers" then "class A project".
Sorry about that.

Dan

GRollins · 7th June 2001, 04:46 PM

Dan,
On a purely philosophical note--I find it curious that there are so few water cooled amps out there; at least judging from the number of web sites pertaining to same. Yes, they're unwieldy in a sense, and you could easily say that one would have to be a fanatic to try such a thing, but...
The world of audio is chock-full of fanatics.
People put up with cables as thick as your wrist every day of the week. What's a dinky 5/8" hose compared to those monstrosities?
The fellow at that site mentions that in one version of his system the water was audible. Once I got mine purged of air, it became completely silent (it's the bubbles of air you hear, not the water). Purging the air took all of about a minute. The pump, of course, makes noise, but that's in another room and isn't a problem in my listening room. I keep threatening that I might go back to an air-cooled heat sink system for the Alephs, but then I feel the output devices and they're just barely hot to the touch...can't get that with an air-cooled class A circuit for any reasonable amount of money. So far, I'm still water-cooled.

Grey

grataku · 7th June 2001, 05:26 PM

Grey,
the way I would like to do H2O cooling is very similar to the way the AKSA dude did it. My way would be better of course! For a long time I dreamed of banks of IRF240 functioning in class A, all lined up and bolted to small aluminum blocks in small enclosures producing beautiful sounding music. As soon as time permits I will start working on it.

GRollins · 7th June 2001, 09:04 PM

grataku,
In one of the earlier threads where we were talking about water-cooled stuff, someone located a site where the guy milled out metal blocks and ran water through them. He had pictures of the process & diagrams. Looked pretty tidy.

Grey

7th June 2001, 03:53 AM	#1
ding diyAudio Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Brisbane Australia	Water Cooling Class A Just stumbled across this site. Thought some of you might be interested. http://www.printedelectronics.com/pe/gomain.htm Dan

7th June 2001, 05:45 AM	#2
ding diyAudio Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Brisbane Australia	Update You have to go to "papers" then "class A project". Sorry about that. Dan

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7th June 2001, 04:46 PM	#3
GRollins diyAudio Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Columbia, SC	Dan, On a purely philosophical note--I find it curious that there are so few water cooled amps out there; at least judging from the number of web sites pertaining to same. Yes, they're unwieldy in a sense, and you could easily say that one would have to be a fanatic to try such a thing, but... The world of audio is chock-full of fanatics. People put up with cables as thick as your wrist every day of the week. What's a dinky 5/8" hose compared to those monstrosities? The fellow at that site mentions that in one version of his system the water was audible. Once I got mine purged of air, it became completely silent (it's the bubbles of air you hear, not the water). Purging the air took all of about a minute. The pump, of course, makes noise, but that's in another room and isn't a problem in my listening room. I keep threatening that I might go back to an air-cooled heat sink system for the Alephs, but then I feel the output devices and they're just barely hot to the touch...can't get that with an air-cooled class A circuit for any reasonable amount of money. So far, I'm still water-cooled. Grey

7th June 2001, 05:26 PM	#4
grataku diyAudio Member Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: -	Grey, the way I would like to do H2O cooling is very similar to the way the AKSA dude did it. My way would be better of course! For a long time I dreamed of banks of IRF240 functioning in class A, all lined up and bolted to small aluminum blocks in small enclosures producing beautiful sounding music. As soon as time permits I will start working on it.

7th June 2001, 09:04 PM	#5
GRollins diyAudio Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Columbia, SC	grataku, In one of the earlier threads where we were talking about water-cooled stuff, someone located a site where the guy milled out metal blocks and ran water through them. He had pictures of the process & diagrams. Looked pretty tidy. Grey