igloo koolmate 40

[FizzledFiend]

I was in a SAM's club warehouse the other week and found this igloo koolmate 40 that normally sales for 125$ for 14.95$ the fan wasn't working. So for 15 bucks I snatched it up..seems the fans power wire popped of the conector..Anyways i bring it home set up a 1 gallon resivior and plumbed the cooler with a rio 180 submersiable pump thru a copper coil submerged in a gallon of water inside the cooler. so resivor of 1 gallon of water on the oustside pumping water thru a coil on the inside of the cooler wich is submerged in a gallon of water (to hold the cold directly against the coils)

ok now the website http://www.igloocoolers.com/products.asp?c=1 states "cools to 44-46*F" I wasn't getting anything like that in fact in a 72 room i was hitting 52 so some exploration was in order
after disassymbly of the cooling unit I found of course a peltier #OTE-12706 and 09/15/02/
obviously the second set of numbers is a date but the first set i can't find jack didly about on the net. currently i have it powerd by a 400 watt power supply and the cold side forms plenty of ice and the hotside is mounted to the AL heatsink it was mounted to before with a 120 fan on it just gets noticebly warm

I am wondering if I could use this to cool my CPu and cool the hot side with my current swiftech water cooling setup

 

[nealric]

Probably the wattage on the TECs are too low to keep up with proc heat output- most of those tec fridges are too weak. You could try it with an old proc i suppose.

 

[FizzledFiend]

what if i tried to cool the water its self? like place the fins of this huge AL heatink into the resivior?

 

[nunez1980]

what if i tried to cool the water its self? like place the fins of this huge AL heatink into the resivior?

this have been try already, I haven't seen many good results

 

[FizzledFiend]

recon this baby would work on a northbridge chipset..namely the nforce 400 fsb jobs?

curious about the uber bios 1005, but I don't want to kill the mobo,,just yet anyways maybe this on the northbridge..maybe for chits and giggels?

 

[johnnyw]

yep , maybe to cool down the northy , nut it is not worth, as you´lñl have to make a separate reservoir for t...