[ale] fried innards -- final report

[Scott Castaline]

You could just call this device a tap-a-keg-puter-ator. Now to figure
out how to add a pizza oven.


On 08/09/2013 07:51 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Other than condensation issues I like where you're going! Beer and Linux
> go together like beer and , um, pretty much anything else I can think of.
> 
> On Aug 8, 2013 10:31 PM, "Scott Castaline" <skotchman at gmail.com
> <mailto:skotchman at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Aww heck just get a refrigerator. You have plenty of room to setup more
>     than 12 MoBos, PSUs, HDDs. You don't really need fans as refrigerators
>     have their own fans/blowers to circulate the air inside. Now you can
>     even go hog wild and put a keg in the veggie bin, run a tap out the
>     door. Now you will want a unit that gives outside access to the ice made
>     by the ice maker. Now you have the ultimate Tap 'A' Keg computer.
> 
> 
> 
>     On 08/08/2013 06:23 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>     > AH! You need to rethink the "fan as case" model and go straight to the
>     > "AC duct as case" model.
>     >
>     > Take a 15k BTU window unit. Add some sheet metal to the cold air
>     output
>     > to run it right over all the cpus you have. Add a second bit of sheet
>     > metal to join the big front AC return to the hot side of the
>     PC/ductwork
>     > monolith.
>     >
>     > With some decent measuring and placement of ribs, you can mount 8-12
>     > motherboards in a decent size chunk of rigid duct. Add some cutout to
>     > place the back panel shield and some fancy power supply work and
>     you've
>     > got your own cluster!
>     >
>     > Then the spouse finds out what's making all the noise...
>     >
>     >
>     > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Alex Carver
>     <agcarver+ale at acarver.net <mailto:agcarver%2Bale at acarver.net>
>     > <mailto:agcarver+ale at acarver.net
>     <mailto:agcarver%2Bale at acarver.net>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     On 8/8/2013 13:37, Jim Kinney wrote:
>     >
>     >         computer cases are made of fans and cable ties :-)
>     >
>     >
>     >     Ohhhhh!  Then I have tons of those. :)
>     >
>     >     I gave up on cases once I decided I'd be using 100-200mm fans for
>     >     cooling to keep noise under control.  :)  Next step is a central
>     >     exhaust system for the heat.  I'm close, already have all the fans
>     >     and ductwork, just need to piece it together.
>     >
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