- May 2, 2012
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I asked a question a while ago about what people have done to use the peltier effect to cool their pc's and i didn't get too many answers because my question was fairly dead end.
But it still lingres in my brain on different ideas to incorperate a basic peltier into water cooling and then one night i conjured this up. I'd like to apologise beforehand if this is another dead end idea because my science isnt too flash but in my head this seemed like it could work? please comment if you can see any loose ends in the idea, i'd like to see if this is possible or even worth it. ok well lets get to the idea.
Ok so ill set the scene, im going to base this off what ill have in my own case (minus the peltier mechanism of course)
We'll start with a single loop, so you'll have the pump going into the radiator mounted to the roof of the case then from there going straight down into the Cpu block and back up to the res to start again.
With the peltier mechanism, I was thinking it would go from the pump, to the rad, then coming from the rad you'd have a copper pipe, (like what you'd see in house water systems) then that would come out horizontally across your case wall with a barb fitting on the end of it to continue the cycle but on this copper pipe is a peltier mechanism that is activated with a switch controlled by maybe a rechargable battery or direct to your PSU. this switch would have a power regulator so you could amp it up if you want it to work stronger or tone it down for less power. so you have the bitsmuth and copper outer layer of this copper pipe coming from your rad, with wires attatched, so that when you want to cool down your water inside the loop you could activate the power and cool down the pipe it travels through, therefore regulating the temp of your water? So its not going to be as extreme as cooling a cpu therefore you probably wont need any insulation otherwise maybe just a small layer to keep too much hot air escaping into your case.
As i said im not the brightest so this idea could have multiple flaws in it but would it be a plausible idea for a cooling solution?
Crest
Edit:
the idea is pretty much add a low powered TEC to a pipe coming from the radiator to further cool the water that has been cooled by the radiator, a tec that wont require much power and can be easily switched on and off so the user can regulate the water temp. although i haven't actually seen a tec that isnt a flat surface yet. maybe have two small TEC's on either side attatched to the pipe to cool either side evenly. Or the pipe coming from the Rad could easily be flattened a bit to make the mounting easier.
But it still lingres in my brain on different ideas to incorperate a basic peltier into water cooling and then one night i conjured this up. I'd like to apologise beforehand if this is another dead end idea because my science isnt too flash but in my head this seemed like it could work? please comment if you can see any loose ends in the idea, i'd like to see if this is possible or even worth it. ok well lets get to the idea.
Ok so ill set the scene, im going to base this off what ill have in my own case (minus the peltier mechanism of course)
We'll start with a single loop, so you'll have the pump going into the radiator mounted to the roof of the case then from there going straight down into the Cpu block and back up to the res to start again.
With the peltier mechanism, I was thinking it would go from the pump, to the rad, then coming from the rad you'd have a copper pipe, (like what you'd see in house water systems) then that would come out horizontally across your case wall with a barb fitting on the end of it to continue the cycle but on this copper pipe is a peltier mechanism that is activated with a switch controlled by maybe a rechargable battery or direct to your PSU. this switch would have a power regulator so you could amp it up if you want it to work stronger or tone it down for less power. so you have the bitsmuth and copper outer layer of this copper pipe coming from your rad, with wires attatched, so that when you want to cool down your water inside the loop you could activate the power and cool down the pipe it travels through, therefore regulating the temp of your water? So its not going to be as extreme as cooling a cpu therefore you probably wont need any insulation otherwise maybe just a small layer to keep too much hot air escaping into your case.
As i said im not the brightest so this idea could have multiple flaws in it but would it be a plausible idea for a cooling solution?
Crest
Edit:
the idea is pretty much add a low powered TEC to a pipe coming from the radiator to further cool the water that has been cooled by the radiator, a tec that wont require much power and can be easily switched on and off so the user can regulate the water temp. although i haven't actually seen a tec that isnt a flat surface yet. maybe have two small TEC's on either side attatched to the pipe to cool either side evenly. Or the pipe coming from the Rad could easily be flattened a bit to make the mounting easier.
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