Passive cooled pelts?
I'd like to introduce a water chiller into my watercooling setup. I was given a water-chiller off an aircraft. This is a custom built cylinder which contains 8 TECs in series which supposidly ran from 36V (unknown current). The TECs are the smaller type (like 3cm x 3cm) and I hooked 1 up and at 2V it drew 10A. At 12V the entire system was drawing 15A (maximum of my linear supply) and the 4 large heatsinks were finger burning hot. Even at this wattage water was not being chilled. I imagine that there was insufficient cooling of the heatsinks. I eventually toasted at least 1 of the TECs. They have 100C thermal resistors linking them.
My question is has anybody achieved a water chiller without fans? (since this is my aim of watercooling). I'm not looking for super-low temps just a little active cooling to further bring down my reservior water temperature.
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A7N8X Deluxe
AMD 2600+
512MB Corsair XMS DDR333
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