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Originally Posted by snowwie
i played around with a water cooler before
the evaporator is usually a copper tube coil, surrounding the tub underneath the water tank (with jelly/grease facilitating thermal cunduction between the coil and the tank)
the easiest thing to do is just put the copper coil in a resevior. unfortunately, with ~100 watts loaded into the loop, the stock config probably wont cut it
how much work you willing to put into it?
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Thats actually exactly what I was thinking. Yeah the coil wraps a plastic tub. Not very good heat transfer. The coil is painted too. That doesn't help. But yeah placing it in water would be best I think too. I will put whatever work in neccessary into it as long as the end result is that it will work...but i guess for the sake of learning it would be worth it too. I have a watercooling setup now but I am less than satisfied with it. It works fine but I want it to work better!
Would that compressor even stand up to continuous use?
I was thinking of maybe a closed loop system running a rad in the res or just open loop but then I have to worrry about evaporation of my coolant as well as bacteria and stuff being able to get inside of my cooling devices. I had one fight already with something green and I would prefer to not have to wage that fight again. But an open loop would eliminate another heat transfer point.
Oh and I was also thinking that if this thing works and works well. There has to be a thermostat on it somewhere...adjusting it or replacing it could control my temps from the cooling standpoint to keep temps where I want them.