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Originally Posted by Bertz_maru
why dont you try cooling the water with the pump on but with the computer off? see how cold your water gets like that.. and then if its cold enough turn on your comp.... just a thought...
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heh, Yeah i tried this with the chiller at 6 degrees C. and the pump off. No go. It would be interesting to try a reduction in the flow rate. As is I don't think it would make much difference.
Ph - this is a TEC chiller so it has no comp. I was likely dreaming when I thought it would get near zero temps. It is rated to reduce the temp of 40 gallons of water by 10 degrees C. It consists of a 24 volt power source and a tec that consumes something close to 200 wats of power. This said I was hoping it would be able to cool the water like a TEC place on the chip. ( of course with less effective results) I picked it up for 180 bones and will simply put it back on the ebay for sale. It will likely work much better for an aquarium application.
I am going to try out an Aqua Logic unit similer to this one here.
www.aquastealth.com If you search through that site you will see that they sell a modified version of it for about 30 bucks more. If I can figure out how they mod it and duplicate it I should be able to hit something close to zero. I am betting it was a simple mod involving a reduction in the minimum temp the unit operates at. At a minimum I am betting that I could simply trick the temp sensor into being 5 to 10 degrees above the actual temp. Then monitor the actual temp using an external sensor. Thanks to everyone for their imput as this has been a learning experiance.