Crazy question

[Neco]

I seem to be good at these..


This is probably not feasible or something like that...


but ok I see how some folks are putting copper tubes through fridges as use for radiators - etc... or just using the coldplate itself..


Well I am not very hands on when it comes to crap I know absolutely nothing about (nor have the tools to deal with or money for said tools).


I was thinking...we bought a minifridge for our new house, since ours hadn't come yet.. well on max setting this fridge could freeze the likes of milk and all that...


I was curious... would is be feasible to say set up quite a bit of copper tubing in a bucket of water - turn the fridge all the way down so it freezes the water around the copper tube. and then use that to cool the water/anti-freeze mix that will run through the copper tubes ?


I know there is the whole "water freezing in the tube" arguement as well. but I was thinking if I used two pumps (say one pulling the water from the fridge and one in the PC case as normal) and the right mix of very hard to freeze, anti-freeze that maybe it would work ? I figure two pumps would keep the water going as well as the antifreeze helping.


I doubt I will ever have the money to test this soon but I always like to have ideas in my head for later

[ajrettke]

yeah that would work....but don';t use water in the firdgfe either..use water and antifreeze. see when water freezes it doesn't get much colder it stays around 0 C, even if ambient is -10C. So with antifreeze you'll be able to have it cooler, and also it will cause minor(very minor) induction current in the bucket having the water and will allow cool liquid to constantly be touching the copper pipe. I very mild solution of antifreeze will acomplish this since you'll be dissipating a lot of heat into teh fridge, thus increasing it's ambient temps to where it probably wouldn't freeze milk but it would still stay pretty chilly.