my personal take on chillers...not using it because i had leaks from sloppy cutting...it'll be round 2 some time next week.
and from the top
with this setup i was going for 2 things. the first is a counter to the problem of most chillers: the water doesn't stay around longenough to lose its heat. hence the stackedplate rad. then i used my old mc2001 from swiftech and lopped it into 2 peices. with an 80w pelt sandwiched between. then i was worried about the water not being moved around inside the container, so i added a tiny rio 40gph pump that "draws" through the pins of the inside hs, and "blows" out onto the radiator. then i filled the whole shebang up with a mix of water wetter/antifreeze/water and fired it up. the temps inside reached about 10c in under 2mins with no load. never got the chance to hook it to my system because the damn thing leaked. but it shows it works! it was about 2 mins into it that the damn thing started leaking so i am not sure how low it would have gone.
its possible with enough tecs and a large enough containerthat you could dump a larger rad into it and get rid of the air cooled rad altogether. but i think it would be a bad idea. and be really inefficient...the whole goal of this was just to reduce the coolant temp by around 5-10c.