classy_barbarian

I thought that people here might want to hear about this. I read this because the F@H servers are currently down due to the big influx of new users from coronavirus, and I was reading the announcement. The server down announcement is here: https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=32424 The storage thing is mentioned in a comment from the same mod: Re: Temporary server outages by bruce » Sun Mar 15, 2020 12:04 am By the way we're now anticipating the possibility of running out of space. luckily we literally just setup two new 100TB servers Many of the older server are only 15T We plan to offload stuff to the cloud as soon as something can be set up but some preliminary analysis will be required before it's useful to other organizations. bruce Considering they've only got 200TB of storage and a few old servers, I thought maybe some people here would know a way to help them with that, or maybe even dare I say LMG group themselves

I actually found a 1000 dollar battery with AC outlets, puts out 1200 watts. So turns out these do actually exist. https://www.goalzero.com/shop/power-stations/goal-zero-yeti-1250-portable-power-station/

Where can I even buy a 500 watt, 110v battery? Do they make those? Or, with the car batteries, I was under the impression that car batteries aren't good at putting out high wattage for a sustained period of time.

Oh k, so you're saying since their phase wouldn't be synced up it wouldn't work.

Hey this might seem like a crazy question... but I'm hoping to run two (or possibly more) of these types of battery packs in parallel. If you're wondering, the purpose is to replace an electrical generator in situations where using one isn't possible (no ventilation, noise, etc) Now I think I'm understanding this correctly but I'm really not sure. Say I was to take male-to-male power chords, and run all the battery packs into a regular power strip. At this point, I think I'd have to take 2 short regular extension cables, cut them both in half and solder the female ends together to make a female-to-female power cable (because I can't for the life of me find one to buy anywhere). Now, the end of the power bar which normally plugs into the wall has been converted into a female socket and runs in reverse. All the batteries connected this way will now run in parallel, giving me a steady 110v output, but I can increase total wattage as I add battery packs. So does this idea actually work? Or is this total nonsense? If I mapped this out right, all the negatives would be connected to the other negatives, and the positives with the positives, thus creating a parallel setup.

Yeah I was thinking exactly like that video. The water cooler would do basically the same thing, but for 30 bucks instead of 400.

So I've been thinking about ways to add a simple phase change into my liquid cooling system, by spending 50 bucks on an old appliance (max budget preferably). Something like modifying an old air conditioner to have the evaporator submerged in the reservoir (like Linus did in his "10 year old -20 threadripper" video. Then I had the idea to use a water cooler, like the type offices have. I thought maybe I could very easily just convert the water cooler to use the internal tank as the reservoir, running the pipes into it. And I could probably house the thing in a much smaller box, which wouldn't look too shabby. Would this be overall easier to execute and as effective as using an air conditioner? From what I can tell watching videos, a water cooler has the evaporator part running around the outside of a metal water tank. I think maybe this wouldn't work as well as having it submerged, so it might require modifying to do that somehow.