iamjanco

First, why muffler bearings? ...because I was going around in circles for quite some time and finally decided what I really want to do. That's not really why though, just a simple statement of fact. If you like, think of it in terms of the following equation: C = 2ϖr, the circumference of a circle. A little bit about me: Age-wise, I am older guy, but not the oldest. I spent 20 years in the U.S. Air Force as a technician, during which my my job title went from Search & Weather Radar/Airborne Navigation Systems, to Communications & Navigation Systems, to Jack of All Trades and Master of Some. During that time, I worked both the flight-line and in-shop, finely honing what was then state of the art equipment, as well as some of the most ancient tube (valve, if you will; you know, as in Half Life) based relics. I've worked on (in order of timeline) C141s, C130s, C124s (old shaky), KC-135s, F4Cs, F4Es, F101s, A10s, and RF4Es and their respective kits, troubleshooting and repairing those systems and their LRUs (line replaceable units) both onboard and in the shop on the bench, all over the western world, but mostly in Europe (Spain, Holland, the UK, Germany, Turkey and Italy). After I retired from the military in 1992, I picked up some extra tricks (far more than I ever did in the military) working for a small, private company staffed by what I can only call geniuses, which specialized in developing and manufacturing custom multiprocessor-platforms geared toward testing air- and ship-borne electronic warfare control system receivers. They called me a systems integration tech/field service engineer, and I eventually added "trainer" to that hat. That training was some of the toughest work I ever did because it was geared toward not only how to keep those systems up and running, but also how to develop and implement effective EW software-based scenarios (gamers probably would have loved that). My mix of students being international and in places as far off as Ankara, Turkey, I of course came across all kinds whose understanding of what they were doing ranged from great, to the rather mediocre, to the downright piss poor (pardon my French); hence, the challenge, and also the reason why I would spend many a class night on the phone back to the states debugging scenarios on the fly. Creating them was tough noogies. Anyway, I eventually moved into technical writing, as I became a father who wanted to be a father, and just couldn't afford to continue "seeing the world." There's more to my bio of course, buy let's leave it at that for now. Now for Muffler Bearings... First, see this. You don't have to read everything at that link, but whatever you do read should give you an inkling of what muffler bearings are all about. My goal is to create a platform I can use to test just about anything associated with consumer and professional grade pcs and their associated components, and help breach the gap between "I don't have a clue about what I'm doing" and "oh, I see now, thumbs up" , at least for those who feel faced with such. Anyway, I'll leave it there for now, as my order of elbow grease has arrived and it's time to get things up and running. The prototype control panel mounted: The control panel today: You can view a short video of the initial fan test here:

The Manhattan Project is a combination of a cooling tower/control panel called Muffler Bearings, a multi-purpose test bench, and Nights in White Satin (a white CaseLabs SMA8 build which can be hooked up to the cooling tower/control panel combo). Both the test bench itself and Nights in White Satin can be hooked up to the cooling tower by way of Koolance quick disconnects. Anyway, I actually got the idea forThe Manhattan Project one day going back and forth with J7SC in the ban thread over on OCN, followed up by a series of PMs between the two of us. Muffler Bearings' main platform consists of a control panel that is used to manage temps as well as monitor just about anything within the realm of feasible possibility (and then some), as well as conduct experiments and component level testing. The control panel is attached to a frame built to house two Watercool MORA3 radiators, 4x Watercool D5 vario pumps (2x2; dual loops), and two Heatkiller 200 reservoirs. Quick disconnects for both cooling fluid and electrical connections (e.g., signals; psus for the sub-platforms will be unique) will allow for relatively easy connection of the control panel to either the extruded aluminum test platform containing the motherboard or the Caselabs SMA8. Since I have just about every conceivable module that I wanted and was available via Caselabs for the SMA8 on hand, there will be no real need to add anything but fans for airflow to the SMA8, and perhaps aux radiator cooling between components in the same loop This will be a work in progress. dedicated to my dad, hewasbenco.

you know our rules about self shock videos. looking forward to it (hey, look, they even got a pookie emoji! :misc_newyear: ). ban old men :old:

85? i said old, not ancient (though i might get away with running for office, eh?). let's say i had to start paying for medicare this month. let's also say that your dad and i coulda shared the same mom considering how closely spaced his and my birthdays are. that is of course if your dad's mom and dad subscribed to the annual plan. i think that was a thing way back when. til radium glows. bant.

let's just say i can actually legally get away with asking for senior citizen discounts now. got one for me? bant.

bant coz i got a hint ? ion, in three daze (or is that threes dazes?) i'll officially be old. btw, if you get a chance to watch a new Russian movie called Sputnik, i highly recommend it. it's closed captioned, but a very well made film and an interesting twist on alien.

bant coz ah the good ole days, when there was one phone in the house, usually hung on a wall next to the kitchen table, and when you wanted to block someone, you just left the receiver off the hook.

bant coz what's wrong with the past? Made a custom fully shielded y usb cable for the pair of Quadros in muffler bearings to allow for firmware updates of the Quadros. Also made four foot long Aquabus cables for the dual mps400s at the base of the tower (a y cable that connects to the AQ6XT at the top of the control panel), and will make a similar y USB cable for the mps400s as well. Interesting note about the Aquabus cables Aquacomputer ships with their parts: while those 4 wire cables do have a simple shield, the shielding isn't connected at either end of the cable essentially negating effective use of that shielding. I imagine it likely wasn't a concern for them. Anyway, just tried to upload pix, but it looks like I'm not allowed to upload jpgs to the server. What's everyone using to host pix? In any event, you can view the latest for this build over on the other site at this link. Build log coming to extremehw soon (if that's ok with you, E). P.S. I'm guessing 486 is fish man. Hi fish man.

Always nice to see life being breathed back into old stuff using the tools available today. :thumbs_thumbsupup: A bit of ingenuity there as well (though I might have attached the same under a microscope geared toward the purpose, especially given my ancient eyes). Nice work (three thumbs up and two big toes).

ah, the Orca, always great to see builds like these :thumbs_thumbup: One might even agree that it does lend meaning to the notion of Extreme Hardware (if I do say so myself) :happy_biggrin:

You're more than welcome, E--glad I could help

but he just got here banned for banning bant coz you never wave at me like that. at least not on OCN

bant coz it's 2:13AM here and this is my day job.

Banned coz I've done web dev for almost 25 years now. Paid for two heart transplants, bought a house in the Hollywood hills, and owned half the cars Leno does. 'Course I employed 4,000+ in New Delhi and Mumbai doing it Now I'm just getting ready to milk goats the low tech way.

Thanks, That's actually just a subtle twist on the first thing you read when you start playing the first episode of Zork. Best done on any monitor, using any gpu. You come across grues later in the game.

Not set up for pfsense yet, been researching my build for it. Figured I'd share one of the more detailed resources I've come across with respect to thin mini-itx boards, which the op started the end of 2015 and has continued to update since: Thin Mini-ITX Motherboard Overview Thin Mini-ITX Motherboard Overview [updated Aug 2019]

Hi folks, Don’t know what happened, but I was standing in an open field west of a white house with a boarded front door, and now all I see is a small mailbox here. I checked it, but it appears to be empty. Glad to be here though