I SUPERCHARGED My Custom Loop…… Literally

[Music] who's ready for some fun so in front of me is an assortment of parts that i'm hoping will go together to become a functional supercharger and functional in the sense that it'll move it'll move air it's not really going to compress air like an actual supercharge would be but it should look like one and work as a fan this video is brought to you by deepcool and their new ls series all-in-one liquid coolers deepcool's ls aios are offered in 120 240 and 360 millimeter variants delivering outstanding cooling performance with spectacular argb lighting deepcool's 4th generation pump design offers maximum performance with increased power while maintaining low operational noise helping to keep those operational noises low and those performance numbers high are the deepcool fc-120 dynamic bearing pwm fans these fans can be daisy chained together to simplify rgb and pwm signals into one single wire helping to improve the cable management of your next build the ls series pump cover 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fuel dragster blowers or superchargers and i was like no i need to make something like that so this is what i came up with i started with the housing now i knew that i wanted the supercharger to cool a 120mm radiator so that kind of drove the whole design of the the supercharger itself so i made it essentially made the bottom 120 millimeters to cover the radiator also i figured a radiator on the bottom of this would be perfect because in real life you normally have a heat exchanger or an intercooler underneath there that takes the heat out of the the compressed air before it enters the engine in our case it's going to hopefully the supercharger air will hopefully cool our radiator but it'll it'll give that aesthetic that we're going for now the next thing i tackled were the the rotors now there was two choices i wanted to i had i was either going to be roots or twin screw and i decided to go with roots because it kind of looked more like the picture and as you can see i went with straight lobes versus twisted lobes mostly because it was just easier to design them and the print was super easy for this this style rotor now that being said if you want me to you know design maybe a twin screw or some twinned or twin it there are some twisted roots rotors just let me know um i'd be more than happy to do it if it's something you want to see and we can we can see which one actually does better in this little setup we got if you know if it works now to mount these rotors in this housing i'm just using some eight millimeter vented pull out dials i'm using vented essentially as a keyway in this case it's it's going to maybe interlock better with the rotor so it doesn't kind of want to spin around it and then to you know let everything ride as smoothly as possible i'm just using 8 by 22 by 7 ball bearings that are mounted in the back of the case here but now that i had most of the functional parts sorted i needed a way to i needed some gears and gears are always fun to design but pro tip if you're designing something never really never designed something you can just download so i headed over to mcmaster carr and i looked for some worm gears that i thought would work i downloaded them made some modifications printed them out and they came out perfectly so there you go mcmaster car is a great place to find parts you need it also it has 30 models that sometimes come in very handy for stuff like this now driving this whole abomination i knew the a12x25 wasn't gonna cut it we know it doesn't have the torque to it but luckily for me i just happened to have this motor that i purchased on amazon pretty cheaply a while back now the input shaft of this motor only spins at 1000 rpm but it has an integrated gearbox so it's going to have all the torque we need to hopefully spin this thing i'm hoping that a thousand rpm is going to be enough to get some air moving through there to show that this thing is functioning at least but this should do it now coupling this motor to one of the rotors to drive and then essentially drive the other one i decided to use a spline coupling mostly because it made mounting this motor easier and it was really easy to print and that's pretty much it that's that's the functional thing obviously i have the the end cap to seal everything off it's also got the motor mount and those bearings we were talking about this is where the motor is going to go drive that um powered rotor or the the one rotor which then will drive the other one with the gear set and just to make it look more like a top field dragster i added this little intake that's going to go on top mostly just because it looks cool that's that's essentially it and to seal everything up as much as possible because i don't think we're going to be pushing a lot of air through here especially only a thousand rpm i did my i did the classic print some gaskets with a tpu and then after i got all this done i remembered uh yeah the radiator part this at the time wouldn't connect to the radiator so i had to and i had to build this little plate so this is an adapter plate that will mount to the radiator and then the supercharger will be mounted to it like this with the gasket and as you can see i've already went through and uh put a bunch of inserts in here and i printed all this out of petg normally i just do place it's super easy to work with but i figured petg would give us a little more strength for this thing if we ever want to want to kick it up a notch or you know just in case just just give it the best chance of success so let's put this all together and see if it functions so on the rotor i've put in the dowel almost all the way as you can see that only enough that's sticking out that it's going to interface with the bearing i don't want it poking too far through the bearing because this is the side that's on the backside of the housing here and i wanted to ride it on the bearings but not touch the back so as you can see that's how they're going to go they seem to spin pretty good the clearances aren't super tight they're about as tight as i can get them while making sure i don't cause any rubbing uh so we'll see how well it jumps but it seems like they they mesh together quite well i think we'll put them in the the cap side first with the bearings and the gears and then insert that in there because getting them aligned as we install them is going to be key to making sure it operates as well as it can okay oh yeah oh yeah so this is why i made the coupler the size that it is because it could slide right in there like that and just need a screw long enough to reach that dowel and pull it out a little bit okay the motor just like that before we put in the housing let's let's see if it can turn it as is before we worry about installing the rest of this stuff 12 volts okay i was way louder i thought so this side's not supported so it kind of flaps all the way around okay it should work let's put it in here so it's more supported it's actually not as loud as i thought it would be okay let's pull this bolt this thing together this is exciting so just to visualize air movement if there is any i think i feel something but before we go all crazy with this let's just see if it's pushing enough to move these pieces of paper it's working it's working let's put the rest of the stuff on wow wow wow i i was hopeful this thing was going to work but it works so much better than i thought it would with this this little thousand rpm motor on there and it's so much quieter than i thought it would be we've had a lot of gear fans on the channel over the years and it's and those are really loud and i figured two gears plus you got intermeshing rotors that weren't going to be perfect so they might touch each other a little bit but it really doesn't seem to be the case they're almost i almost can't feel it all any any touch between the two so it's not it's just wow i'm just amazed so since you know the fan showdown's a big thing on the channel i think it's only fair that we should put this thing through all the fan showdown tests to see kind of where it would stack up you guys are all familiar with the fan showdown so the numbers this thing generates will give you a good idea of how well it's actually doing [Music] [Music] good news it has survived all the testing the thing is still still works it's fascinating so i did uh we already discussed how loud this thing is so i went and took a db db measurement of the fan and it is very loud 85 dba around 85. [Applause] when it was on the wind tunnel the feet per minute of airflow put out for this thing was 376 would which would have put this in 34th place if this was something somebody would have submitted but i'm sure all of you want to know how well this actually cools a radiator because something like this kind of looks like it was uh well i guess it was designed for a radiator but how how well does this do so what i did is i was going to use my 120 millimeter ek radar radiator for this thing got everything mounted up filled up with water and it just leaked all the way through it at some point unbeknownst to me i had screwed some uh evidently some fan screws a little too far in there puncturing the the water lines great design choice and yeah i didn't notice that until it started raining so instead i had to use a 240 millimeter radiator with just this mount on one side and for comparison i ran that same radiator same setup with an a12 x25 and i ended up mounting this i ran the water cooling test on my old school test bench with the 7700k at 4.9 gigahertz but i had this mounted on a case that was side panel open on top so essentially the the compressor blew air down into the case and it's open to the void there was no fan underneath and i ran the a12 x25 and this root style blower fan the same way for about 30 or so minutes and the a12 x25 had an average temperature of 75.8 and this thing managed 81.8 so yeah this thing did lose but it didn't throttle so given the fact that it didn't thermal throttle i think that's amazing and the the motor on this thing is only a thousand rpm if we had something more this thing's been sitting back there for a long time so this i forgot i had this this is my traxxas traxxas rustler i've had this thing for like almost like 10 years at this point i've used this thing quite quite a lot over the years and it's been kind of sitting back there in disarray just chilling i might have to put it back together to test it out but as you see i've replaced a lot of parts of the years that i've just broken one of the things i replaced on this thing that i broke was the motor and i now have a castle mamba old school brushless motor that i think might have the torques why do i keep saying that torque enough to spin this and spin it very very quickly if it still works uh it'll be it'd be interesting to know if i have a battery that's been around this long and still works but for the time being i can set this to 3s voltages okay we'll see if this thing actually powers up if it still powers up we're about to have some fun we're going to test this thing to failure so the esc fan works it does make noise it's flashing yellow light i don't know if that's good uh i don't know how to make this thing go i don't know i gotta see if i can find the controller one second [Music] and the biggest smooth bearing move i've ever made i kept this thing this broken rc car but at some point over the last five six years i threw away the controller because that makes so much sense so i don't have a way to make this motor function i don't have i tried to bind it to my dx6 but the spectrum and tracks is not not really compatible what i did find was amazon has an esc tester or servo tester that will give us functionality over this motor to see if it works and they said they can deliver today so we just got to kind of wait until that shows up it's here so now we'll see if this weight was worth it hello darkness my old friend hey welcome to the next day as you can see that didn't really work uh as attendant it did make the motor spin but it just wasn't full speed so the new controller's here let's break something i got my osha approved set up here and we'll just see what uh how it goes [Applause] oh no we're slipping [Applause] that's terrifying the motor mount cracked but that was full speed i'm gonna back up a little bit are we bound up a little bit oh this is getting ready to just go flying bad idea bad idea well out of every possible way this could have failed i didn't think that it would just be the motor came off no i i pulled this off uh because i thought that the motor had burned off so i just ripped it off since we saw this crack but this thing still works completely fine the only thing that happened is it was so crooked and off center that it was just buying it up when i was trying to spin the supercharger fully functional doesn't sound like anything came loose or cracked or rubbing it actually it almost sounds like it sounds better like it wore itself in and it was running full speed for just a split second before my little crappy mount gave way so i think if we put a new mount on here that was more robust for this motor we could rip this thing along full power and see what kind of airflow it generated let me know if that's something you guys want to see for the time being it is it is dead but it has proven that it does function all the models for this design will be on my thingiverse so you can go over there download them mess around with them do whatever you want for that maybe i'll fix my rc car now that i have a new controller that was a lot of fun i'm glad i have this motor if you can think of anything else you want me to do with this or with this make sure to leave me a comment down below thank you all for watching i'll see you in the next one

Channel: Major Hardware

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Id: BL9AxCI-fnE

Length: 15min 54sec (954 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 26 2022