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Default Anyone using a "heat pipe" to cool fermenter? How about a peltier driven heatpipe?


"Bill Velek" > wrote in message
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> I've been kicking an idea around for awhile and did a google-search but
> couldn't find anything directly on point. A recent post about peltier
> devices made me think about this again. What about coupling a peltier
> with a heatpipe?


I think the idea has a lot of merit.
My question is, the influence of ambient temperature. Like most
refrigeration, the colder you can keep the hot side, in this case the top of
the pipe, the colder the cold side runs (the bottom of the pipe). I could
see it (in theory) working in my winter but not in summer.
Adding a peltier device has the same consequences as you are now using two
refrigeration devices. The colder the hot side runs the colder the cold side
runs. In other words forget about how low the temperature can go but work
instead on how much lower than ambient can the device cool, and thats tough
and would involve a lot of math.
Steve W (in Aus).

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