Blauhung
10-30-2007, 08:35 PM
So I was just in Texas for a maintenance class for the new litho toolset i'm working with, and it has a pretty fancy Peltier based water chiller.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b104/blauhung/download.jpg
As a result I'm thinking i want to make my own. More or less as a crazy project for me to actually use all the general chemical engineering crap i got in school that doesn't get taxed working for Intel.
My basic goal is to create a system for water cooling that i don't need to worry about prepping my board for condensation, but it maintains the lowest possible temps without that extra precaution. So I can have all sorts of fun working out a process control system for a feedback loop between temps and pelt voltages. Tack on the fact that I have a friend who has a home made computer controlled milling machine and I also can play around with making my own heat exchange assembly.
So the final question all boils down to... will this idea just end up being inefficient and unnecessary? I love the idea of the project, but if i'd be better off just putting a pelt straight on the CPU, it'd probably just be easier to do it that way.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b104/blauhung/download.jpg
As a result I'm thinking i want to make my own. More or less as a crazy project for me to actually use all the general chemical engineering crap i got in school that doesn't get taxed working for Intel.
My basic goal is to create a system for water cooling that i don't need to worry about prepping my board for condensation, but it maintains the lowest possible temps without that extra precaution. So I can have all sorts of fun working out a process control system for a feedback loop between temps and pelt voltages. Tack on the fact that I have a friend who has a home made computer controlled milling machine and I also can play around with making my own heat exchange assembly.
So the final question all boils down to... will this idea just end up being inefficient and unnecessary? I love the idea of the project, but if i'd be better off just putting a pelt straight on the CPU, it'd probably just be easier to do it that way.