liquid wiring

[intergalacticman]

ok guys me and my friends were working on the sr-71 case, and we were theorizing innovative mods. is not water an excelent conductor of electricity?
what if, your wires were minute pipes of water??????? the pros would be slim,
and if there was, a leak in your system would short it out, and rust or change into oxygen and hydrogen.
but seriously? it would be cool

[NamesAreUseless]

water itself isnt a good conductor so u might need to ad some salt to make it work.

[Slug Toy]

yes you would need to add stuff to the water to make it conductive. the only thing i can think of that is a down side is the fact that running electricity through something like salt water will do strange things to the ions... chlorine gas may form in the "wires". if you electroplate things, you run into the same problem. i like coating pennies in silver and stuff... you usually get the chlorine gas, and as that comes out of the water, you start getting sodium hydroxide, which WILL conduct, but may have some negative effects on electrodes (eating away at them).

[DaveW]

There are other liquids that can conduct, but i see where you're going with this. It's an innovative idea just waiting for someone crazy enough to try it.

-Dave

[tybrenis]

That's a pretty neat idea. As Slug pointed out, there are obviously some problems with ionized water, but another liquid could make for some sweet mods... glowing "cables" that are actually UV dyed fluid.

[Omega]

Hmm...

You all are giving me ideas...


hehe...



Anywho, yeah, the base idea is great. Thin-diamater tubing with really ionized liquid (salt water or otherwise) would be cool, but not ideal. Of course, spending hundreds of dollars on the aesthetics of computers is cool and not ideal...


Gentlemen, start your dremels.

[AKA_RA]

they had this really nice conductive "ink" or something like that in the days of old athlon overclocking. you literally had you paint your processor to short the L2 briges and get the sucker unlocked. before the ink, no joke, we only needed pencils. lol

[Zephik]

This sounds pretty cool, but I think it wouldn't be worth your trouble in the end. I would guess it would take months to years to "perfect" it and even then it most likely won't work as well as wires.

Just stick with UV reactive coated wires and save yourself a whole bunch of trouble and, most likely, disappointment. But it really was a great innovative idea! Cheers for that much!

before the ink, no joke, we only needed pencils.

HA! My old youth pastor knew how to do that pencil stuff. I wasn't really paying attention at the time though. Does anyone know of that in more detail? Where, How, Why, etc?

-SnowFire

[Maz]

all you need for good electron conductivity is a weak acid .05 molar HCl would be a good bet. then find something that can take the corrosion for a good period of time.

[Omega]

all you need for good electron conductivity is a weak acid .05 molar HCl would be a good bet. then find something that can take the corrosion for a good period of time.

Well something like lemon juice might work, perhaps.

but yeah, some sort of actual, concentrated acid would work better. as for metals that can take corrosion, i have no idea. but hey, that's thinking a bit far into the future -- we don't even have liquid wires yet.