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What would be nice, is if you could have a liquid that changes
colour at the two stages of heating and cooling in a computer
liquid cooling system.
It would make for some very nice visuals.
Plus is an interesting indicator of general cooling
performance.
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WIBNI ... (tends to lead to mfd) |
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Although this starts with the WIBNI text I don't think it falls into mfd territory. Thermochromic fluids exist. And if they don't, take hundreds of those stick-on colour-changing thermometers and shred them into bits, and have some colour-changing glitter in your coolant. |
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It might be easier though to just have red and blue LEDs inside the waterblocks, so the inlet looks blue and the outlet looks red. |
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//take hundreds of those stick-on colour-changing thermometers and shred them into bits// makes no sense. Thermochromic compounds exist and they make up those things you want to shred (which, incidentally, is a great idea for the Mirror Mulch idea). |
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Anyhoo, back to the idea. There is a serious trade-off between accuracy and aesthetics in thermochromic compounds. So you can have some thing that is accurate but not pretty or something that is pretty but not accurate. |
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What, like a female accountant...? |
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Have you tried thiotimoline? |
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That's endochronic, not thermochromic. |
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But it might be worth a try. Don't use the resublimated stuff, though, it's much more expensive and it dosen't taste the slightest bit different. |
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Another idea I didn't post first because I thought it was not
interesting/novel enough to be worth posting. But someone
else posting it confirms to me that it's a good idea. |
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Neat idea, but the first paragraph is an mfd magnet. |
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I wanted to do this about 10 years ago. I built a clear box
and fitted the bare bones of a PC into it before filling the
whole thing with some transformer oil that a neighbor had
laying about. I was looking for an oil soluble substance that
changed color at the 40-60C range, right about then I
discovered that oil likes to creep up electrical cables, and I
had a big mess to clean up. So I stopped. |
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