It WAS my fault… maybe

[Other James]

One of my custom cooled gaming machines decided to leak. So what caused this water damage? Was it my fault? And how can I stop this from happening again?

 

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[DivusJulius]

Jake at some point mentioned modifying the script to send data to home assistant. Using a custom component for that is totally overkill and a lot more work than necessary. 

 

Just use mqtt. Modifying the script to send the data to a mqtt broker is quite easy and home assistant directly supports it. That way you can send anything you want to home assistant without modifying it. 

[manikyath]

protip for people interested in having a monitoring system somewhere in the house for something random like whole room watercooling:

there's a board called "WT32-ETH1" that works with ESPHome, and has ethernet to talk to homeassistant without wifi.

 

 

on the note of spamming the pulseway API:

you can adjust the script on the pi to keep the previously sent value, and only send again if the value has changed, or on a 'keepalive' of 5 minutes or so. this way you can hugely decrease traffic, without giving up accuracy/speed in the moments you need it.

(i mention the keepalive, because you dont want to find out pulseway isnt receiving data *after* you get a leak, so you can make pulseway alarm on a lack of received data for let's say 20 minutes)

[OwenBurnett]

THIS WILL NOT HELP!

 

It is very likely that the potential difference you got is not from bad isolation but from captive coupling, and a isolation transformer will not help there.

[Slipping Jimmy]

This is what happens when you cheap out and build it janky/

[Zephyrmoth]

40 minutes ago, Slipping Jimmy said:

This is what happens when you cheap out and build it janky/

The jank is the point, it's a virtuous cycle of content generation from weird DIY upgrades being implemented and failing and Linus double dipping on employees being used as contractors.

[manikyath]

1 hour ago, Zephyrmoth said:

The jank is the point, it's a virtuous cycle of content generation from weird DIY upgrades being implemented and failing and Linus double dipping on employees being used as contractors.

or.. in the age old saying "if it breaks, it'll make for a great video."

 

you dont even need to be a content creator for that.. among friends i have a running saying "if it sucks, at least it'll be a great story". doing things the jank way is fun, and it's fun to watch.

 

case in point, the window AC chiller videos are IMO a lot more fun to watch than "hey we got this industrial chiller, it makes PC go cold."

 

and while i *could* just have an electrician put philips hue lights in my house front to back, i'm DIY'ing that shit, because it's fun... and it's fun to skirt around regulations by making all my lights run at 49.5 volts.

[slayvict]

What terminal emulator does Jake uses at 14:36?

[dogwitch]

everything being said,the cheap out by manf on plumbing been a issue for awhile now

[Artanner]

I called it, just saying... jk 

[cybercakos]

For 24/7 operation with water block on GPU, CPU is not safe as things will eventually break, leak and create a lot of damage.

Personally, I would use air cooling combined with chiller. The chiller is set to adjust according to ambient temperature to limit chance of condensation.

The whole setup must be thought out taking into account it's gonna leak or condensed at some point in time.

I found the system to help keep my system cool (including HDDs, HBAs, Tesla P4)

 

 

My server case (45Drives) is mounted vertically, from bottom to top:

- Radiator with IN/OUT from Chiller

- Fans

- HDD

- motherboard, CPU, GPU.

Chilled air goes up with fans in push configuration, also helps to keep cabinet closed at all times.

If any leak or condensation it will drop on a drip tray with water sensor to shutdown server with home assistant.

After shutdown, even if continues to leak, there are no electrical devices that will be affected.

 

Maybe in Linus' case with a full rack, he could have a row of radiators at the back of the rack to collect the heat from the rack with the tubing going outside (pool or chiller) just like he as now.

The radiators should be mounted in such way that any water leak is directed to the floor (drip tray).

 

I use water blocks and cooling loop only on my gaming PCs, not for 24/7.

 

[shugen]

I want to know : Did they move the Shut Off function to HA after camera ?

[YellowJersey]

I've been watching LTT for *checks watch* about a decade now. Lessons I've learned.

1) Never water cool.
2) Avoid smart home crap at all costs