To me this is product is like the conical bullet in 19 century or faster than light travel in the 23rd. To be able to cool anything with electricity at a such a small scale with power and no pressure/gasses needed is a miracle that should be further developed. I’ve bought this as an aquarium water cooler and was able to power it with a solar generator and a liquid cooling pad for my sleeping bag during the day and heated water during the cold nights. For someone that lives in a humid climate, I find this tech revolutionary. Would love to invest in making commercially available water cooling/heating systems for all applications.
One use is for CPU cooling but that would end up radiating to the rest of the computer. I'm glad you said about heat transfer creating electronic flow.
Timecodes 0:43 Applying thermal paste. 1:10 First test, making some ice. 2:12 Measuring temperature 3:49 Making electricity from heat, and powering DC motor. 4:27 Measuring voltage and amperage that device generates. 5:00 Powering LEDs using electricity that device generates.
Great video, thanks for posting! can you please drop me an email at jlwang@ntu.edu.sg, I would like to use this video in an online course I am teaching at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and would need your permission. Junling
Hello, yes, you can use it, permission granted! If you're going to download it and show it offline, please add the link to my channel so people could find it: ru-vid.com
Thanks for the video. Enjoyed. These disks seem to have become plentiful recently, mostly manufactured in China. Not sure what the manufacturer has planned. Despite their relative inefficiency, there seems little reason why they cannot be used in a number of applications. These are considerably more practical than a compressor.
Great video I did this experiment a while back when I got one of these out of thrown away chewing tobacco refrigerator. I was able to freeze drops of water on it almost instantly.
Couple it with fresnel lens and make a solar panel out of it and generate some electricity with high heat from focused sunlight. Use the cold part to cool food and house.
Xeno Bardock I think there’s a limit to how much heat it could absorb which leads to the question could it provide enough energy to run household components off of sunlight and a fresnel lense? He used fire that only gave him .5 volts you couldn’t run your house clock with that.
@@Mega6501 It will need to be improved first. There's a lot of room for improvement in thermoelectric technologies. There's even a Thermoelectric CPU Cooler on Amazon and video on youtube now.
Xeno Bardock Interesting I worked on wind turbines before and those towers have almost all electrical components known to man interesting enough I haven’t seen any thermoelectric parts, I need to look into this part as of now I only know they are used primarily on refrigeration I don’t know how this thermoelectric device can cool a cpu when the opposite end is producing heat but then again I don’t know the maximum heat temperature it would raise at.
Xeno Bardock Thanx for post I had a look, I never doubted it was possible, I actually came to understand on my own how you could cool the opposite end of thermoelectric component it’s actually pretty basic by using the cooling end to cool the hot end it will decrease the temperature by half and thereby creating a safe temperature for use, but I’m not concluding this is the practice applied on the transistors but it seems to me applicable.
Several years ago my junk-friend gave me a dorm fridge the had 2 fan-heatsink units. I hooked them up and was amazed that the cold side in 5 minutes was frosted and my digital thermometer got down to -8 degrees after 15 minutes it was frosted solid.
Thanks Nicolas. I got the fridge for the cabinet to make a food drier thinking the internal fans blowing though small heat elements top and bottom would work well. But like a lot of things, as I got older, it went back to the junk yard full of other junk. I have no used for the cooling units, so they will go on e-Bay. Keith L. @Nicolas Broszky
Hi Johnny. You can't really "hook up" the heat sinks, they're just to dissipate the heat. And they have muffin fan bolted to them. The part that got -8 and frosted over was the aluminum Cold sink that penetrated to the inside of the box which had 2 smaller muffin fans to move cold air. I had both Peltier and the large fan hooked to 12V, and the heat sink was really doing it's job and was very warn. @Johnny Buoy
Increíble un generador termodinamico y que puede ser calentado también por la luz del Sol y al mismo tiempo puede reemplazar a un Freezer de una nevera
What could also be interesting is using those pads in a water cooling setup within a PC for both the CPU and GPU so it could boost the heat transfer rate between the chips and water while also allowing both to run at higher clock speeds! :)
this has been done alot over the years (first in 2007 i think). you can even get a cpu fan/heatsink combo right now, it just sadly isnt great for PC cooling (or cooling over all). imagine a tec as an old light bulb (the brighter it was the more heat it made) the more "cooling" or the colder one side is the hotter the other side gets. and it also cost alot to run it (seen it taking 400 watts in one pc. just to cool the cpu)
We used to be the guys in the mid 90’s that places like HardOCP and Tom’s Hardware wrote articles about. We build some of the world’s fastest machines outside a special lab. Using these Peltier coolers with custom water blocks, transfer places and custom water cooling setups. We were able to get our cpu temps down to near Zero and take the 233MMX pentium to 299.8 MHZ using back then the Abit TX5 jumperless (worlds first) back then. We did so many custom projects since then. This is nothing new.
With ice on the one hand and heat (heating or chimney) on the other, even more volts are generated .. I've seen some great projects .. If you order something like this, it is best to order several at the same time.. ;D
THANKS!!! Thanks for the education!!!!!! Question: if I mount one of these....Peltier Device to the back of solar panels, to harness the waste heat (and try to cool down panel), does that mean I have more energy from the system? How large can a Peltier Device be?
Hi, Good question. I also have thought about this... I am not an expert on this, but I think yes, you will get more energy. It doesn't matter how large Peltier Device can be, because you can connect them sequentially (as many as you want). But it probably will be very expensive and not worth it. I guess you will get an additional 1% or 3 % of energy... but it is just my guess.
Idea: short circut it to heat up the hot side so it can produce more heat, which in turn produces more electricity which makes the short circut worse and heats it up more etc
Actually Teg's are even more functional than that. it you cool one side and heat the other you can create power. There are many more uses than making Ice that can be more beneficial that wind or solar.
@kevin paul halliday Get the bigger ones and create a larger plate with them and send through step-up transformer. I think you can create larger amounts if you run them in the right way.
It's a pity the Hot and Cold sides are sooo close. It defeats the purpose to a large extent. Even if they were 6" or so apart, you could do heaps more with it.
@@tomohomi4209 Ok then according to your words we can say that law of universal gravitation and Avagadro’s Law and Ohm's Law and Coulomb’s Law and Pascal’s Law and every physics law ever existed is related to the 'vise versa' energy transformation he is talking about (which is governed by the law of conservation of energy and thermodynamics BTW) , why ? "BeCaUsE ThE WhOlE WoRlD Is GoVeRnED By ThOsE LaWs" . You two seem to be 5th graders.
Great explanation of what this can, and can't do. I was hoping to use this to chill the water in an evaporative cooler, but it generates as much heat as it cools, which a fridge does as well. ;0) Did you measure how much heat it produces? Also can you regulate the heat/cold by regulating the voltage? Or is it only on or off?
"Can this be used as a CPU cooler?" you ask. *yes, but* is my answer. Yes, but you then need an even beefier heat sink and fan on the hot side of the peltier effect device to remove all that extra heat which it grabs away from the CPU. Yes, but you'll possibly need to replace your computer's power supply with a larger one so that it can supply the extra current needed by the peltier effect device (close enough to 5 amps for a 55W device at 12V). Yes, but it probably won't provide any significant performance increase when compared to existing cooling systems designed for overclocking your CPU. Yes, but it might not be able to grab enough heat from your CPU fast enough when compared to a simple heat sink, leading to your CPU overheating anyway. There are good reasons why it's not already done that way.
You can do this in reverse and have the hot and cold side generate electricity instead. If it gets hot and cold really fast it uses electricity a lot. Likewise on the flipside, it takes a lot of temp difference to create electricity. So you can convert heat back into minor electricity by directing heat out of a PC case to a radiator, and have one side get hot from that, and get cooled by the other, and connecting the wires in opposite polarity so it turns temp into energy.
It should theoretically make electricity if you use the cold side to put it on ice as well you might try that and see what your results are that was one of my ideas
Find a way to submerge the cold side into the water to see how much ice you can make. Enclose the hot side not just to a heat sink but to some process that will use that heat to do more work. After all if your gonna use DC to run it, you might as well get your money's worth. How about finding a way to use several of these in a Loop! The heat can make the voltage to run the other side and Poof, instant self generating cold and heat source.
Can this be implemented in clothing? I’m looking to design the next generation of clothing that is introducing technology. Is it possible to make this inside a jacket where a switch determines if the jacket gets cool or warm suitable for the right environment?
There are tests with this kind of TEC and is unable to create ice because it freezes very slow and is limited in temperature difference between both sides. That's why in video is using water (surely very cold water) and the termometer is not hotting the TEC. Also don't works as CPU cooler by the same problem, is unable to freeze fast enougth and becomes hotter than put just the cooler. Just put a beer and you'll see what I mean...
It's tap water, I think at the start the water was about 15C, but because the device creates a lot of heat the water became very warm, I think it became about 30C... Well, water cooling is not necessary, you can just use a big heatsink. It should easily freeze drops of water, but you will not be able to freeze big amount of water. It is not possible to freeze a glass of water with this method. It is not about freezing speed it is about power... your fridge can freeze water, but you still can't freeze a lake with it, no matter how much time you spend. It is absolutely possible to make a fridge with a lot of these devices, but such fridge will consume 10 times more energy compared to a regular fridge.
That piltier produced electricity when you apply heat maybe you can create a solar pannel using multiple piltiers and connect them into parallel do you think it will works?😅😅
I bought an ice chest that uses those to heat or cool depending on how you plug it in. It drains a car battery QUICK even when the engine runs. Turn off the engine and there's not enough power to turn over the engine one time.
If I take TEC1-12706 peltier module and I gave to it 12volt,6amp at room temperature 35 degree Celsius then after 1hour what will be the min temperature at cold side and max temperature at hot side
Hi，im a student from Macao and doing a study of this plate. I am wondering is it necessary to dissipate heat on the hot side if I want the cold side start frosting
wanedewo you really need to dissipate the heat on hot side to get lower temp on cold side. The lower the temperature on the hot side, the lower the temperature on the cold side
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