[joemac]

While I was planning my new water-cooling setup an idea came to me. It was one of those ideas that many people would tend to dismiss as a waste of time or just a case of too much free time. What is it that I did? I decided to test my T.E.C block setup to see what would be the lowest temperature reached by the T.E.C plate before the temperature would start to rise again (measured by a compunurse dual) . Using a 50 Watt T.E.C powered at 16 volts 10 amps the lowest temperature reached was 47.9 F on the cold side while the hot side was at 178.1 F. That’s a temperature difference of 130.2 F! I did this several time using the same set up and came up similar results. On one occasion I let the hot side reach (according to compunurse dual) 205.3 F while the cold side was at 71.2 F a difference of 134.1 F. I was going to let it go till the T.E.C fried but the lady of the house freaked. I took one picture (that came out cleared) to show here and wondered has any one done this before? If so what were the results and test condition?