Beyond water cooling. (Was Re: Peltier devices for cooling)

[harrybissell at prodigy.net]

Hey Batz...

Go right ahead... no problem.

1) don't turn it too far down... keep above the dew point and there is no condensation...

2) The normal source of moisture/frost is air enterning when the door is open (don't open the door) and "heads of lettice... pizza etc..." that can give up moisture to what is essentially a very low humidity environment. Don't put your lunch in there and you're fine.

3) Add a reusable dessicant like "Drierite" (silica gel and cobalt chloride as an indicator...) Its blue... whan it turns pink... take it out ana bake to remove moisture.

Yery good Idea Batz.

H^)


 ---- On Feb  9 "Batz Goodfortune" <batzman at all-electric.com> wrote: 
> Y-ellow Y'all.
> 	Ok I'm out on a limb here but this is something I've been thinking about
> doing for a long time. There is a big hurdle to overcome but I'll get to that.
> 
> I saw as a joke, on some site or other, about a guy who stole his
> neighbor's fridge to run his over-clocked machine in. Ok Har har very funny
> etc.
> 
> But then I got thinking. A mate of mine had this little bar fridge. It was
> quite quiet. Certainly a lot quieter than my server with 2 main fans, CPU
> fans, A bunch of Hard drives etc.
> 
> So I got to thinking. These little bar fridges are about the right height
> for a server case. In fact you could probably fit 2 servers side by side.
> Maybe on little slide-out runners etc. And the added advantage is that even
> if the fans were running inside, it pretty much dampens the sound with all
> that insulation round it. You could go so far as to mount all the drives in
> the door of the thing. Or cut holes so they can poke through.
> 
> And of course, over-clock to your heart's content. :)
> 
> The only problem is that of Frost. I don't know enough about refrigeration
> to know how to re-design a small fridge so that moisture didn't accumulate
> and do damage. But you get the idea. You could keep the computer's
> environment on ice as it were. And of course the fridge would only have to
> be on while the computer(s) were on. 
> 
> My figuring is this. Find a cheap second hand bar fridge (but a quiet one)
> and then cut holes in it or what ever it takes to keep it from frosting up.
> Then bolt the computers inside it some how and shove it in the corner where
> the server would have stood anyway. It's the kind of idea that sounds less
> and less silly the more you think about it.
> 
> Anyone known anything about refrigeration?
> 
> Be absolutely Icebox.
> 
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