Great idea involving a dehumidifier! (cooling + extra stuff)

[blackjackel]

Yes, i know people are already using dehumidifiers to chill their water, but i just came up with another idea, maybe people have thought of this before, maybe not....

People JUST modify it to JUST chill their water, and then they have to seal their stuff to prevent condensation...

Condensation is the result of humidity in the air....

Does the Bell sound yet? Any lightbulbs over anyones head yet?



Thats right folks!!! Why not combine it within your case!!! Use 3/4 of the coils to chill the water and 1/4 of the coils to dehumidify the JUST inside of the case so you dont have to insulate everything for condensation.

I think you will need VERY LITTLE coils to dehumidify ONLY the inside of the case.... so you can probably use even less than 1/4 of the total surface area...


Of course the ONLY air intake would have to go through the coils to suck the humidity out of the air before it proceeds inside the case, and the coils SHOULD BE much much cooler than the tubes and waterblock, so it should condense on the cold coils first.

Then there is the plus of the air being cooled by the 1/4 coils of the dehumidifier, so you will have cold air going through your case, which means you will need less airflow.




Man it sounds like a ingenious idea to me!! I just know that there might be one stupid problem somewhere wrong with my idea that might invalidate the whole thing.... =/


What do you guys think?

[miggzeh]

Or you could seal your case and stick aload of silica gel behind the mobo.

[Como]

or you could get it going the way you like, pray the whole thing down in latex, and just submerge it in water.

actually i did think of this once, but at that point i thought a dehumidifyer was too large a mod...i dont even use water cooling.

i figured use half the coils to cool the water, half to dehumidify+cool the air, and let the water from the coils drip into the resivoar. (i asume thats what yiou ment as wekll, but you diddnt say it.

i also thought to close off hte outside air and resurculate the air through the case, but right now i use air cooling and theres way too much heat coming out of it t do that...(at the point i thought of it my pentum 133 was my main system...)
besides, who can afford a dehumidifyer to spare?

[blackjackel]

Originally posted by Como
or you could get it going the way you like, pray the whole thing down in latex, and just submerge it in water.

actually i did think of this once, but at that point i thought a dehumidifyer was too large a mod...i dont even use water cooling.

i figured use half the coils to cool the water, half to dehumidify+cool the air, and let the water from the coils drip into the resivoar. (i asume thats what yiou ment as wekll, but you diddnt say it.

i also thought to close off hte outside air and resurculate the air through the case, but right now i use air cooling and theres way too much heat coming out of it t do that...(at the point i thought of it my pentum 133 was my main system...)
besides, who can afford a dehumidifyer to spare?


Exactly.

I'm glad someone mentioned it, after posting what i put, i thought hmmmm humidifier might be overloaded if air keeps going into the case to be duhimidified, so i'd have to recycle the air in the case, and since the cold coils cool it it would be ok....

And as for the dripping into the reservoir, good idea, must say didnt think of it myself, but if it does drip into the res wouldnt i have to drain it once in a while.... thats gona suck =P well not if i recycle the air.

Dunno this is just an idea, so far nobody else put their input on it so not sure if it can be done in the first place

[squeakygeek]

Originally posted by blackjackel
Yes, i know people are already using dehumidifiers to chill their water, but i just came up with another idea, maybe people have thought of this before, maybe not....

People JUST modify it to JUST chill their water, and then they have to seal their stuff to prevent condensation...

Condensation is the result of humidity in the air....

Does the Bell sound yet? Any lightbulbs over anyones head yet?



Thats right folks!!! Why not combine it within your case!!! Use 3/4 of the coils to chill the water and 1/4 of the coils to dehumidify the JUST inside of the case so you dont have to insulate everything for condensation.

I think you will need VERY LITTLE coils to dehumidify ONLY the inside of the case.... so you can probably use even less than 1/4 of the total surface area...


Of course the ONLY air intake would have to go through the coils to suck the humidity out of the air before it proceeds inside the case, and the coils SHOULD BE much much cooler than the tubes and waterblock, so it should condense on the cold coils first.

Then there is the plus of the air being cooled by the 1/4 coils of the dehumidifier, so you will have cold air going through your case, which means you will need less airflow.




Man it sounds like a ingenious idea to me!! I just know that there might be one stupid problem somewhere wrong with my idea that might invalidate the whole thing.... =/


What do you guys think?

The question would be the numbers... how much cooling capacity would you need to sacrifice to dehumidifying? I wouldn't want to sacrifice any... I would want to use 100% of my cooling power to cool what needs to be cooled. I'd say, even if you came up with the correct numbers, and set it up properly, it wouldn't be foolproof (and I mention again the decreased cooling capacity).

But really, what's wrong with insulating?

[Como]

actually i was pointing out that the processor, NB, hard drives, SB, and video may create too much heat for the dehumidifyer to counter for. i dont know how they work, but they might blow if heated too much, AND if not than you might end up heating the dehumidifyer more than you cool the parts. these processors create a-lot of heat...

[lclark2074]

Originally posted by Como
actually i was pointing out that the processor, NB, hard drives, SB, and video may create too much heat for the dehumidifyer to counter for. i dont know how they work, but they might blow if heated too much, AND if not than you might end up heating the dehumidifyer more than you cool the parts. these processors create a-lot of heat...

The only thing shoud be motherboard and its cards in it. The PSU HDD and CD-ROM will nead to be on the outside it. and there still neads to be big compressor to do it.

Unless its going to be a cascade system for the CPU i cant see what the big avantage.

[blackjackel]

why will the hdd psu and powersupply need to be outside of it?

Its not humid air, its just cold air, so i dont see what the deal is...

[lclark2074]

HDD doint like sub 0 temps
the PSU will mske too much heat for the dehumidifier to work right