[CUBE] Installed Fan in my cube

Richard Clark mawgadog at tin.it
Sun Jan 5 14:17:39 PST 2003


those are piezo electric ribbon fans those are neat too but don't move 
much air
On Sunday, Jan 5, 2003, at 23:09 Europe/Rome, Richard Rodman wrote:

> Peltier is a kind of reverse-thermocouple that takes like 5 amps at 1 
> volt. I think a radiator is needed for the "hot side".  I thought 
> piezo-electric was some kind of exotic high-frequency fan.
>
> On Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 01:01 PM, Bill Fox wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 11:09 AM, Richard Clark wrote:
>>
>>> processors get a lot hotter than beer.
>>
>> That was my point.
>>
>>> Bill i still have my peltier cooler that i took apart to make a 
>>> cooler for my pc but it was a no go because of the temps made by 
>>> processor you have to have a hell of a heatsink on the hot side or 
>>> combine it with water cooling
>>
>> I realize the T-E cooler is a heat pump that needs a radiator but I 
>> still don't see where a condensation problem comes in unless the T-E 
>> cooler is improperly engineered so it gets colder than ambient 
>> temperature on the cold side. Water and mercury in tubes also need a 
>> radiator, no? If the same amount of heat is to dissipated per unit 
>> time and the radiators are the same wouldn't they have to be the same 
>> size?
>>
>>> On Sunday, Jan 5, 2003, at 16:57 Europe/Rome, Bill Fox wrote:
>>>
>>>> Maybe so in general but there is very little condensation to none 
>>>> in my beer cooler. I can't imagine that being a problem when 
>>>> properly engineered and applied on a hot CPU or GPU. But sucking a 
>>>> lot of juice could be a problem for a Cube.
>>>>
>>>> Bill
>>>>
>>>> On Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 10:36 AM, Richard Clark wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> peltier effect coolers have one but there is always problems with 
>>>>> condensation and they drink a lot of juice.
>>>>> On Sunday, Jan 5, 2003, at 16:31 Europe/Rome, Bill Fox wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> No Frankenstein--I've seen them (called thermo-electric) coolers 
>>>>>> at Frys. My 6-pack beer cooler, also piezo-electric, works great.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bill
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 08:34 AM, Richard Clark wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> hmmmm ionized air gap sparks bill cool reminds me of 
>>>>>>> frankenstein.
>>>>>>> On Sunday, Jan 5, 2003, at 14:32 Europe/Rome, Bill Fox wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Saturday, January 4, 2003, at 07:40 PM, phoenix wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> but... has anyone out there decided against both convection and
>>>>>>>>> fan-force, and hooked up some kind of liquid cooling on the 
>>>>>>>>> Cube?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>         I've seen enough car audio systems do this to displace 
>>>>>>>>> heat, so I
>>>>>>>>> thought I'd ask.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ..or piezo-electric?
>>
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