I think painting your favourite non-pink case might well be the best answer. Obviously, you'd want to do it before building the system, with the lights and buttons removed or protected with masking tape. Painting the fronts of the optical and floppy drives would be a bit of a challenge, but certainl...

Ah, right. I don't think we need pictures of the tank then. Thankyou!

(Incidentally, what is the waterblock/heatsink like?)

I think it wouldn't be too hard to make something the same size that's better and cheaper but less cool-and-funky-looking.

P.S. Please, please use the [url=http://www.somewhere/blah]text[/url] BBCode tags for long links! Having to scroll sideways is so annoying.

Well, yes. It depends on how soon people want them, and how much how many would benefit from the extra features.

I've always felt that one of the most important things is the ability to load new firmware, since if you have that then anything can follow.

You were being limited by the code size limit of the free version of the Kiel compiler. Until I read that you were using C, I would have assumed that assembler was the only way to program something like this. Have you seen the free open-source Small Devices C Compiler? http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/ A...

Is the tank made of copper?

How big are those oil coolers, herosformula?

It looks as though they're held touching each other and touching the side of the case. Is that right? So no air is flowing through them horizontally?

1. From what I've read, I believe that having all the same materials is not much of an issue. Corrosion can be a problem, but I'm not convinced that mixing metals makes it significantly worse. If the different metals are not connected electrically, then there's no way it can matter that they're not ...

I've heard a Minijet making lots of rattling and buzzing noises, but there might have been something wrong with it.

Any opinions on the mod I suggested a couple of posts back?
Good idea? Problems with it?

No bootloader thing for changing the board's firmware once installed, then?

For those of you who are into water cooling:
what pumps have you used, and what do you think of them?
How loud are they, and are they louder when in-line or submersed?

Of course, if you do that then you'll need to consider the cooling of the various components that aren't water cooled. Normally they have some air flowing over them due to the PSU acting as an exhaust fan.

The 1700 T-bred, at 49 watts, is probably the coolest running. A 2100 T-Bred B puts out 62.1 Watts. Your 1800 Paly puts out 66 watts. If you get the 2100+ but underclock it to run like a 1700+ then the power consumption would be near or identical to that of the 1700+, but you have the option of run...

The Super Silencer 400W ought to be quieter than the Super Tornado 300W, but sometimes it isn't. In MiceC's reviews of them, at low powers the Tornado was quieter, but at 150W and 300W the Silencer was quieter than the Tornado. This makes me think that with better fan speed control, the Silencer cou...

Filters have been discussed a time or two before. I think it was in the Cases section rather than Fans, but the search function should help you anyway. Filters should have as large an area as possible to give minimum flow resistance and last a long time before needing cleaning or replacement. Consid...

How urgently is everyone wanting the controllers?
Is it worth delaying the shipment a bit if it means that we all get firmware that can be upgraded through the serial port?

You forgot to multiply by 60. Your calculation gives 235.33Hz, not 235.33 rpm. 235.33Hz is 14120 rpm. Fancontrol has tested the ADM chip and found that it can measure fan speeds reliably as low as 85rpm, or 1.417Hz. I have been wondering how it does this. Obviously, it does not rely on having a PWM ...

Can anyone guess how the ADM chip does its fan-speed sensing? Fancontrol said that it can measure reliably down to 85rpm (or lower if you lie to it about the number of pulses per revolution). The PWM frequency can be varied between 11Hz and 88Hz. 85rpm is 1.4Hz. How does it detect speeds that are an...

Back when Spajky made that post, I went to look but the "Electronics" link just lead to a picture of a cat or something. Just now I tried to look again but the site no longer exists at all. Anyway, does anyone have any idea what Spajky might have meant? I don't see what good a diode in series with t...

I've just seen the circuit! I like it! Clever... So long as the fan's tach pulses are short, the fan speed will be a function of the control voltage applied at the circuit's input, and will not depend on the fan's characteristics (except the number of pulses per revolution) until very near full spee...

What pump is it?

I do not know if I can show the picture of the circuit because of potential copyright as well as a desire to support the struggling magazine. Perfectly understandable. I doubt I could find a copy over here though... http://www.nutsvolts.com/nutsdist.htm doesn't list anywhere in the U.K. That's a ta...

I know you don't need to, but you might want to for monitoring purposes. Essentially the switch would set the board read-only or read-write.

That's what Inexplicable was doing in the first place. Inexplicable's first post here said:

Smooth, but will still only respond at a limited slew rate to fast large changes in temperature. It's a matter of preference really. Note that pwm will only vary between PWM_MIN+TOLERANCE and PWM_MAX-TOLERANCE, so you'll need to move those min and max values wider apart. Of course, you could also ap...

Perhaps I could achieve the same by simply averaging the temperature over a longer period. Right. It should be an improvement. (Use a smaller "smoothing factor", i.e. a bigger TEMP_SMOOTH.) I'll bet there are well known control algorithms that can do better and I look forward to learning them. Well...

I just thought of another little extra feature that some people would welcome. The settings on the controller can be updated through its connection to the PC. Therefore if some malicious person halfway across the world gains control of your internet-connected computer, that person can turn the fans ...

I just thought of another little extra feature that some people would welcome. The settings and software on the controller can be updated through its connection to the PC. Therefore if some malicious person halfway across the world gains control of your internet-connected computer, that person can t...

Usually if I hear "thrumming" from an optical disc drive I assume it's due to an unbalanced disc. Let us know how you get on with a few others?