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It's not about flow direction. Basically, air bubbles always find their way into the highest point of the system. Many of these systems, with manufacturing variation, can have up to 10% air in the closed loop - which may even slightly increase over long periods of time (under severe...

I'm not a fan of water cooling either but I was reading/researching to learn more about it and it was interesting to see that a lot of systems are installed wrong - allowing air bubbles into the pump area. Even the manufacturers show it installed wrong in some of their documentation.

Hey @Tea - This may interest you if you want to apply to get some hardware and improve it. https://arlotestportal.centercode.com/key/DouglasHP Happy New Year!

Here is an issue with solar I never really thought of. Thoughts? https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/05/23/if-solar-panels-are-so-clean-why-do-they-produce-so-much-toxic-waste/#9624443121cc

Howdy Doug. How long have you had it installed? Have you been able to estimate if you are on-track for at 5 year ROI? I know it will be hard to determine what winter will bring but just wondering what your overall impression is. If you don't have batteries, is the AC fed directly to your...

I am loving my 1TB Inland Premium NVMe drive for $107 in my new Ryzen 3700x build. More info here: https://hardforum.com/threads/hot-inland-1tb-nvme-premium-107-99-microcenter.1978390/page-32#post-1044327560

There is another T-Mobile RT-AC68U for sale at Hardforum if Piyono or anyone else is interested in using it in flashing it to Merlina and using it in a AIMesh setup. https://hardforum.com/threads/fs-t-mobile-asus-ac1900-wifi-hotspot-router-one-plus-3t-64gb-unlocked-gskill-8gb-ddr.1985727/

If I remember right, he hosted a server for a little while.

I know this is late, but in case anyone is interested in a fan, I looked at a ton of them before I settled on replacing my bathroom fan (that was a rattle trap and died) with this Panasonic model. I'm really happy with it. Much much better than the Broan fan that it replaced...

I just had a flashback to our CS days, Piyono...just pay for shipping and you can have it for free if you decide to try the AI Mesh route. I would like to know how well it works as I have never tried it. :cool:

Here is some good info: https://www.bayareatechpros.com/ac1900-to-ac68u/ and here: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/asuswrt-merlin-on-converted-tm-ac1900-problems-upgrade-path-to-384-6.246293/ I even tried installing the latest Asus firmware and then installing the latest Merlin (a...

Actually...I just remembered, I still have one I am no longer using if you want to buy it. $50 + shipping from Sterling Heights, MI. :). The 2nd one is at my Mom & Dad's house.

Yes I did that w/o any issues to two of them and running the latest Merlin on them as well..

You can get a couple of RT-AC68U routers and run Merlin's latest firmware on them with AI Mesh enabled. I have not tried it but it seems like it would be a pretty low cost solution. I run Merlin on my RT-AC86U and have an Orbi system I got for free (from beta testing). Note: the 68U is a...

Howdy Doug- IIRC you live out East and get a fair amount of snow. I'm in Michigan and I have a couple large portions of my roof facing directly south. How much efficiency is lost to snow covering the panels? I am kind of interested in looking at solar but assumed it would not be cost...