Air-Tec #1

I did this little test as my debut to Tec chilling. I had an idea, and I had seen the Cool-IT Boreas, so I tryed copy and improve stuff. What I learned was that air-cooling a TEC chiller is a hard job. I dont like to admit that I failed, but I will admit that I will never try to air-cool tecs anymore.

The project was fun anyway.

1) Building the house for the chiller-blocks. I build it with normal house ventilation materials.

2) Next was to collect the chiller blocks, 4 of them to be more exact

3) Now to collect the chiller blocks and the housing

4) The to build some testing facility

5) Time for some testing

4 x 5,5v

Testing and the results?

Ambient temperature in livingroom was around 26C, which is high, but normal in my apartment.

With all 8 TECs at 5,5V - 17C

With all 8 TECs at 12,2V - 21C

These results made it obvious that my hotside, wasnt cooled properly. Applying high voltage, went heat go crasy on the hotside, and even if the delta raised, the aircoolers wasnt able to keep up.

Not need to do any further investigation on this. I builded a heat-canon, but a not a cooling device!

Look at Water Tec #2, to see further progress.