DIY Drink Cooler; Using PC parts??

[_Rapid]

basically i put a peltier cooler attach a big aftermarket cpu heatsink to it shove that into a jerry can to decipate *coldness* into the liquid and use a stock intel cooler to decipate *heat* away from it (heat rises) then have a tube connected to a pipe which connects to drink (shitty diagram incoming - im not joking)

 

should i try it and could it work?

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[Guest]

Won't work, since normal cooler can't cool something under room temperature.

Tip: You have a fridge

Edit: Didn't see the peltier in the diagram

[Thinkfreely]

That might work and if it does please link pics. But few things to worry about. First out seals, I mean that looks like a water balloon ready to pop. Also condensation can build up if the materials the system are made of are porous, or if there is a high amount of liquid evaporating, so if your doing this on a junk rig that you don't care about, time to play Frankenstein.

[_Rapid]

1 minute ago, FTL said:

Won't work, since normal cooler can't cool something under room temperature.

Tip: You have a fridge

 

That's what the peltier is for.

 

The peltier generates heat on one side, and cools another using electricity.

 

[dany_boy]

2 minutes ago, FTL said:

Won't work, since normal cooler can't cool something under room temperature.

Tip: You have a fridge

That is where the peltier comes in

[Pkillerjd]

if you use a big  radiator it can be ALIVE  

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, _Rapid said:

That's what the peltier is for.

 

The peltier generates heat on one side, and cools another using electricity.

 

That's not even nearly enough. Those stuff are pretty inefficient and generate more heat than they can cool. A normal stock cooler won't even keep up (from my knowledge). 

Sorry, but the diagram confused me.

[dany_boy]

1 minute ago, _Rapid said:

That's what the peltier is for.

 

The peltier generates heat on one side, and cools another using electricity.

 

A peltier does not "generate" heat on one side and colds the other, it transfers the heat from one side to another, it is a heat-pump which happnes to use the seebeck effect. @_Rapid you will get better cooling by putting the bigger heatsink on the hot side of the peltier.

[_Rapid]

1 minute ago, dany_boy said:

A peltier does not "generate" heat on one side and colds the other, it transfers the heat from one side to another, it is a heat-pump which happnes to use the seebeck effect. @_Rapid you will get better cooling by putting the bigger heatsink on the hot side of the peltier.

 

I was using that to describe how it works in an easier way to understand, and the whole point is to cool the liquid so removing that heatsink would make cooling alot slower and more unbalanced. I could always use a big heatsink on both sides too.

2 minutes ago, FTL said:

That's not even nearly enough. Those stuff are pretty inefficient and generate more heat than they can cool. A normal stock cooler won't even keep up (from my knowledge). 

 

From looking at reviews on 50W~ units they are enough to get around 0 in a mini-fridge with the correct cooling, and my unit is 95W so im sure it would suffice.

[Windows7ge]

If the cooler is in direct contact with the liquid you want to drink I wouldn't do it. Even if the heatsink contains no Lead I wouldn't trust the other metals to be food grade. Not to mention the manufacturers may coat the metal in something as a corrosion inhibitor or scratch resistant. If you're building some type of fridge where the cooler isn't in contact with the liquid you're drinking then I think it's worth a shot.

[NumLock21]

Save the time and just get a usb fridge.