The ultimate cooling solution

[Schmide]

Which returns to the original argument they produce more heat than they cool. Or to put it another way, the hot side makes more heat than is pumped from the cold side. This is most likely from the amount of power needed to produce the effect of pulling heat from one side to another.

Schmide

There is always a tangent off any circular argument.

 

[FatBurger]

Stealing those FatBurger link posts really helps.

ROFL
Is that what I'm known for now? I went from "one of the most knowledgeable and unbiased people on these boards" to The Link Poster™
Hmm...

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[Guest]

All "cooling" devices produce more heat then they remove. second law of thermodynamics (or is it the first can never remember)

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[Schmide]

You can buy them from a camping store, or anywhere they sell portable coolers, power sources (transformers) that are designed to run with Thermal Electric Portable Coolers. The kind you put drinks in. Brand names are Coleman and Igloo. They don’t have the quality of power output to run chips but their perfect for TECs (peltiers).

Schmide

Its just a bitch to turn your computer on, but that’s what power strips are for.

<A HREF="http://www.coleman.com/coleman/ColemanCom/prod_Detail.asp?Product_id=5232E640T&CategoryID=8570&SourcePage=PROD_CATEGORY_MAIN.ASP&SubmittingPage=Prod_subcategory.asp" target="_new">Coleman example</A>
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[Schmide]

I think it’s that conservation of energy thingy.

Schmide

I live in California and no one seems believe in it.

 

[Guest]

i'm actually more interested in how they work... with AC transformers when you increase the voltage you decrease the number of amps and vice verse. the way i understand DC transformers is that they convert DC current into AC, transform it, then go back to DC. so i still don't understand how a 5.5A transformer would be able to to get a TEC running at 18V and 11A.

perhaps you're not talking about transformers at all and there is a mix up in communication, but then it still leaves to be desired getting both 18V and 11A.

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[Schmide]

I think your best known for showing up a few seconds after your handle is mentioned.

Schmide

Your knowledge comes in 3rd I guess.

 

[Guest]

P.S.

i think if you use 150W or below peltiers the power supply problem is a lot less drastic and there are many affordable power supplies. however with how hot the new Athlons and P4's run i think 150s are absolute minimums to achieve better cooling then standard water cooling.

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[Schmide]

That’s definitely bad electronics on my part. As I understand key component in a Cernter-Tapped Full-Wave Rectifier, is a Transformer. I guess I need to improve my vocabulary and stop identifying things by how they look.

Schmide

Repeating in my mind for the next hour Transformers are Not Power Sources.

 

[lhgpoobaa]

i thought LIQUID HELIUM was the ultimate cooling solution!
and... if you use enough there may well be the chance of superconductivity! *grins*

Religious wars are 2 groups of people fighting over who has the best imaginary friend.

 

[FatBurger]

So what's second?
And BTW, Yahiko and Raystonn are better at showing up after their name is mentioned.

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[Yahiko81]

You rang?

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[Schmide]

1. Generating links
2. Showing up on time
3. knowledge
4. forgetting 1 and 2

Schmide

I’m learning this razzing thing. It takes time.

 

[FatBurger]

See? Yahiko beat me by two minutes! I think that's a new record, too.

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[Yahiko81]

I also think it has to do with the site. There is a lot of times that the site is super slow and I'm not able to check things right away.

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[Matisaro]

i HAVE noticed that as well. Does anyone else get sql errors.

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[FatBurger]

Yeah, the server errors are back, and the site is really slow late afternoon my time (10am right now).

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