Re: Idea: Bringing Computer Cooling into the Automotive world
Hi, Jeff!
TEC's are basically 2 wafers of material - one that removes heat, and quickly too, & the other side releases it. Kinda cool (no pun intended). You would have to mount them on the rear of the intercooler (assuming this is what Gator is talkin' about) otherwise the heat being removed would blow right back into the cooler again.
There are problems: like most TEC's aren't big, they're just little dudes that are usually used to cool CPU's (like Gator mentioned) so size would be an issue. You'd probably have to glue a bunch of them all over the place to make a difference. Electronics are not my strong point so I would have no idea how you would power a whole crapful of them on the IC.
Interesting idea though & not bogus like Maverick (whatever happened to that guy anyways?) & his electric supercharger!