Gadgetory

so this entire project actually came about when I was joking around with Brandon in between shots because the thing is is that out of the box a red 8k camera so this is one of their DSM c2 platform cameras or whatever it's got their helium 8k sensor on it out of the box they're super compact to the point where like it's kind of a miracle that they managed to keep the things cool because data moving through them but the thing is by the time you rig them up with your external display your big old lens your couple battery packs your quick release your what's this thing called your your top handle whatever else like they're so bulky that it wouldn't be that much of a stretch then to like clip a radiator to it we're kind of joking about this and laughing and then all of a sudden not serious why don't we water cool a camera well I couldn't think of a reason not to so here we are and this video is brought to you by antlion antlions new mod mic Wireless features a low latency high quality sample rate LED status indicators up to 12 hours of battery life and more check it out at the link in the video description so here's the thing I'm not sure if anybody's ever done anything like this before even just tearing it down like when I search for red camera disassembly I get like a a manual from rocket rentals something about a Leica M camera now there's our red epic x5k camera teardown but extreme tech didn't actually do it they just grabbed some photos of the fcc's teardown where they made sure it complied with all the rules and regulations and stuff it would appear that after a cursory google search anyway we are in uncharted waters here waters get it I have no instructions all I have is this camera body and this iFixit kit and this my phone because I'm gonna be taking a lot of pictures as I go here to hopefully make sure that I don't screw this up too badly so there's a few things that we do know we can see that our main cooling heatsink is right by this vent here so there's our intake I believe no that looks like our exhaust and then here's our intake yeah it says intake fans right there and so it's blowing through the body this way and out that way so the cooling seems to take place at the back so maybe we could start back you know what that's let's start through the body they're going going bottom up you know I feel like I need one of those project mats here we go just make myself a head okay no well let's did I give up forget it yeah sure this is gonna be a system that will work great because holding the threads like that we will definitely be able to see how long the screw is oh okay so this is their monitor attachment and then this is David what's this one do okay I don't know but what that means is that there could be delicate ribbon cables behind any pieces that we remove we're kind of working blind here and we don't want to pull too hard on things bloody hell so this is loose but this is not completely loose yeah we're gonna need to loosen that alright well the next thing we can pull off is a mag holder oh okay oh wow this actually looks like it might be simpler than I thought so this is the the mag reader right here and it just uses a simple pushing connector that goes right there and then that actually gives us access to this ribbon I think it's this ribbon damnit it's not that really now some of you watching from home including even ones that work at red digital cinema are probably wondering why would you water cool a camera what could you possibly hope to achieve I mean I'm not expecting any better performance pooling it more while it could have the potential to increase its longevity is not gonna get us more resolution or more FPS or anything like that so I guess if I was gonna set out a success or fail bar for this project it would be if we managed to make the camera cooler and/or quieter then I would consider it to be a massive success because as some of you will know especially if you've worked with Reds in an on location environment or in a setting that's that's quite hot in between shots they'll actually ramp up their fans quite a lot in order to keep the internals cool like they turn it off while you're shooting which is good because you can't have a bunch of Stan knows while you're trying to record audio but in between though they'll ramp them up quite high so if we could find a way to eliminate that behavior that would be pretty cool too and aside from what exactly it is that we hope to accomplish there are actually a lot of other things that we don't know yet either including whether or not this is even possible or if we are just barking up a completely empty pointless tree I mean red wouldn't tell us anything so the only way for us to find out if the camera can even have it spooling changed is to open it up and see for ourselves I'm starting to get a little nervous though this is not quite as simple as just pop off one side and be able to see oh well there's that warranty void if removed wait what the hell how did this come off okay there's our button oh wow this is not going to be easy there's a cooling block here that looks like it's dealing with the bottom side of this what looks like it should be a PCB but it seems to be then there's what appears to be a second one right here and it's interfacing with whatever this chip is right here then there are heat pipes that run down under this PCB on the side here into this heatsink right here which is much larger than I anticipated like this is a serious machine that is a significant amount of heat that they're trying to move away from it so as far as I can tell the next step is to remove this PCB and give ourselves a better look at the heatsink so we've got a Xilinx x7 a second here what you do I'm not even gonna try to guess right now sweating quite literally sweating right now so this opens to reveal not scream but some kind of antenna connector okay so this internal connector is actually or something to do with oh wait hey Brandon does the red have any wireless functionality does it okay say this presumably is our Wi-Fi chipset okay so I was kind of worried about jumping the gun on removing the sensor housing because I don't want to get any dust on it or anything I'm not exactly working in a clean room but it appears as though I have just freedom Oh what the hell this is all one big thing man the housing for the sensor here at the front it's come free when I remove the screw from the PCB here but it's taking the heatsink with it do that but the heatsink can't get out there's a separate heat sink back there oh man why are we doing this this is a really stupid project oh you bastard what now so there's a problem grommet that the heat pipes pass through can you see that there must be a thermal reason for doing it maybe it's just a control airflow to make sure that they don't lose any leakage it all laps in tight oh man this has a wrench freaking head on it all wait you've got to be kidding me it's tightening up pull the crap that's turning the socket under it that's bad as long as I can rotate this a little bit I can access the one on the other side oh my god where did this plug into on the other end I don't remember we're leaving two ends of this well you know about this project already what huh you didn't know that we're getting started on it yet I don't oh yo is this the red it's what remains of a red so this guy goes on like this you can tell from the blue on here and on here and how I ripped it off and then this guy has it's kind of like a GPU I think where there's like a big chip and then some small chips around it that I'll have thermal goop on them so that's that can you kind of envision it now picture them all vertically align them yeah yeah okay so there's another couple components here the idea is basically just have like this and I'd like to our Brad oh yeah the bad comes outside so like where the air cooling exhaust is we would just like put a couple friggin holes in it would we even have space for fittings and the blocks no so we just have to like solder to spray it on possibly but remember these heat sinks go away yeah true right so if we and then these ribbons have a little bit of play so we can make ourselves a little bit more room between these without giving up necessary space here because all these heat sinks go away yeah like this one this one not too hard I'm concerned about this one yeah me too and that also seems to be the one that needs too much cool yes that's the one with the heat pipes this was a really bad idea yeah but also like a good one how are you going to mount on it here is it just thermal paste it on oh my god no it screwed in from the top look at these gaps in the fins these are not an accident it's not gonna work why not give me one reason one out so you don't have enough clearance I might not quite working yeah I think we need to get a super skinny driver yeah that's gonna be a custom order part ok so I've got these three screws off now I hope it's far worse than I thought there are no fewer than 10 elements that need to be cooled on this one red doesn't subscribe to the less-is-more philosophy y-l I have never seen anything like that is that the chip as far as I can tell but it has two screw holes through it they make a quarter block but that happens look why do you think I brought you over here this is pointless project so I guess what you're saying is don't hold your breath for part two Oh coming to you 2020 well no we can finish it yeah like we're gonna be on it but like holy Shh it's a victim not a patient this thing is so full of a six like no wonder the things so damn expensive I wonder if someone from where at PGA well what is this thing oh hold on a second no it's not $5,000 hold on a second it's 28 nanometer though like that's not yeah pretty like bit tier stuff how much are they is hard to say this is a tentative price $1600 for one and that's that's just this chip not like anything else we are so I mean if we just have to like cobble the thing together and like kind of you know lean on it to close it let's yeah like I think that if it's water-cooled and then zip tied together no one's going to complain yes this is just where we say goodbye and everyone hopes that we have another ones in yeah and we also say this video is brought to you by Skillshare Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of classes and design business technology and more and Premium Membership gives you unlimited access to high-quality classes on must know topics so you can improve your skills unlock new opportunities and do the work that you love one of our editors Taran has been using Skillshare a bunch including going through courses on logo design and mastering Adobe Illustrator and After Effects it's more affordable than most learning platforms with an annual subscription at less than $10 a month and the first 500 people to use the promo link in the video description will 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