My TEC sweats

[mikead_99]

I'm considering going with pelts/w/c on gpu and cpu, 2 seperate cooling loops. I'm not so concerned with handling the heat, I'll take care of that. My main issues preventing me from moving forward with this are safeguards. I want to avoid reducing my machine to anything less than 24/7, but to do that there are a few hurdles I need to clear. I can deal with preventing pelt start-up without water with a relay add-on, but some other scenarios bother me. They are:

1) Power outage. Running all of this stuff on a UPS wouldn't last long with the pelt psu(s) in circuit. I could deal with shutting down if there was an outage, but I need ideas as to how I could, a)shut-down PC b)kill pelt psu(s) or psu output (c) after 5 min delay to remove residual pelt heat, kill pumps.

2) Pump failure. In this event I could have the pc shutdown at a certain temp, that's no problem, but I have no safeguard for the gpu loop. Also, I can't think of a good way to detect this and kill the pelts.


Any ideas on either of these? I know I didn't mention pelt failure, but again, the pc would shutdown at a set temp limit, leaving my pumps running, and that's fine with me. Only a problem if the gpu pelt fails, but as long as I didn't load it before I realized a problem it would probably be ok.

[sandman]

Do you have a Digidoc5 or anything?

if I recall rigt, you can program some temp monitors to shut down at a certain probe temp.

My thought is put one on the back of the gpu, and when it gets too hot, it shuts down all of it including the realy.

You don't need to remove pelt heat once you shut down, it's not oing to hurt anything so I wouldn't bother.

[mikead_99]

Originally posted by sandman
Do you have a Digidoc5 or anything?

if I recall rigt, you can program some temp monitors to shut down at a certain probe temp.

My thought is put one on the back of the gpu, and when it gets too hot, it shuts down all of it including the realy.

You don't need to remove pelt heat once you shut down, it's not oing to hurt anything so I wouldn't bother.

I've actually got a Digidoc sitting in the closet now, replaced by an AerogateII. Neither can do that for me though AFAIK. It's good to know I don't need to worry about removing the residual heat after shutdown though. Makes this a little simpler.