420 watt load 10 degrees C raise in temp cooling setup, no chillers.

[wildfrogman]

http://www.thermacore.com/pr_harris.htm
All i can say is wow, wonder how a peltier set would perform with that keeping the hot side well....not hot. The cooler is a design of this http://www.thermacore.com/thermaloop.htm
Thoughts?

 

[NeoMoses]

thoughts? Sounds cool (pun intended) but expensive. One very important concept we can take away from this is:

Thermacore's new heat exchanger has specially designed airflow channels that prevent hot air from coming in contact with cold air.

That sounds a lot like "you need good case ventilation" to me. Many times this is overlooked.

 

[[EG]~NaTz~]

looks cool...

 

[safemode]

it's a fricken heat pipe. The they thing made for the military doesn't seem to be on the website anywhere. The cool thing about that device is that it's made in such a way that air only flows one way with no moving parts (from what the artical suggests). Otherwise they're all just heatpipes, nothing special.

 

[wildfrogman]

It is heatpipes, and the heat exchanger tubing is heatpipe also. But Just think about it, no need for pumps and i think the setup the military was using was based on this

High Heat Flux Electronics 0.6 m Ammonia
-40 to 80°C SS Nickel,
Titanium 500 W 100 W/cm² 35 K

on this page http://www.thermacore.com/thermaloop.htm
Somthing that can take a 100 W/cm2 with a 500 watt capacity would be amazing. You could even run pelts and get around the same temps if nont better results as with a large waterchiller setup. Yeah, it looks like it would be really expensive but should drop in price somday. And when it does, will be very interesting.