Sounds like phase change cooling. I wanted to use this method, but there isn’t enough space. Very cool idea though.
None taken, since you go down the water way, there's a ton of nifty water cooling gear for gaming pc.
Build that beast in 2014 for my daughter, still running
Build that beast in 2014 for my daughter, still running
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If you have a pump, hot water moves down, sideways etc... a natural flow will not be sufficient if you want to keep the mechanism reasonably sized.
Also, water is not the best liquid to conduct heat.
I'm still looking into PC CPU coolers. cooling the heat sinks is easy as those coolers are designed to sit right on a flat area.... what I find more difficult is the amp cavity cooler. That requires an active "reverse heat sink" in the cavity to pick up the heat out of the air. It could turn out to be a radiant chiller design, with an external cooler that chills a large plate that sits inside, or on top of a sealed amplifier cavity.
If you have a pump, hot water moves down, sideways etc... a natural flow will not be sufficient if you want to keep the mechanism reasonably sized.
Also, water is not the best liquid to conduct heat.
I'm still looking into PC CPU coolers. cooling the heat sinks is easy as those coolers are designed to sit right on a flat area.... what I find more difficult is the amp cavity cooler. That requires an active "reverse heat sink" in the cavity to pick up the heat out of the air. It could turn out to be a radiant chiller design, with an external cooler that chills a large plate that sits inside, or on top of a sealed amplifier cavity.
My daughter has one of those in her gaming PC, but it is not as quiet as I want my amp cooler.
Ive never heard cpu coolers mentioned for using in amplifiers. They are plentyfull in scrap but maybe a passive one cant even cool a small amp?
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If an amp dissipates 250 watts.... how many watts does an i9 core burn?
Hint: think of the power supplies... 700++ watt power supplies...
Turns out a multi core i9 can burn a very significant amount of power!
When running a fully multithreaded test, such as Cinebench R20, the fact that every core hit 5.0 GHz was easy to detect. With the advent of features such as Speed Shift, Intel aims to get the CPU from idle to 5.0 GHz as quickly as possible. During a sustained CB20 run, which is possible through the command line, we were able to observe a peak power consumption of the system at 600W, which indicates that at 5.0 GHz this CPU is pulling an extra 334 W over idle – this power naturally being split mostly to the cores but some will be for the mesh and some will be in the efficiency of the power delivery. At full speed, the mesh will rise up to 2.4 GHz.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14980/the-intel-core-i9-9990xe-review/8
That means that at idle the core chip burns 266 watts ( 600 - 334 ). The cooling set up needs to support the peak number unless the processor system is design to be heat aware and throttles the clock accordingly ( which likely does at the expense of performance ).
Then you got the GPUs and large NAND storage devices.
Audio amps don't use CPU style cooling because they don't need it.
Hint: think of the power supplies... 700++ watt power supplies...
Turns out a multi core i9 can burn a very significant amount of power!
When running a fully multithreaded test, such as Cinebench R20, the fact that every core hit 5.0 GHz was easy to detect. With the advent of features such as Speed Shift, Intel aims to get the CPU from idle to 5.0 GHz as quickly as possible. During a sustained CB20 run, which is possible through the command line, we were able to observe a peak power consumption of the system at 600W, which indicates that at 5.0 GHz this CPU is pulling an extra 334 W over idle – this power naturally being split mostly to the cores but some will be for the mesh and some will be in the efficiency of the power delivery. At full speed, the mesh will rise up to 2.4 GHz.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14980/the-intel-core-i9-9990xe-review/8
That means that at idle the core chip burns 266 watts ( 600 - 334 ). The cooling set up needs to support the peak number unless the processor system is design to be heat aware and throttles the clock accordingly ( which likely does at the expense of performance ).
Then you got the GPUs and large NAND storage devices.
Audio amps don't use CPU style cooling because they don't need it.
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Raspberry with a hat with a pair of remote heat sensors and an IO interface. Perhaps a touch screen?
Blue LEDs when running normal, Red LEDs if overheating... Green LED in programming mode.
Life is too short to do it without a multi core controller.
But, how about making a cooling wind tunnel? Take out outer sinks. Make heat sinks with vents going flat, not vertical. place them inside the chassis facing inside with top and bottom covers joining them into a closed square cross section... a right parallelepiped.... place it lengthwise, intake fan behind the front cover, exhaust fan shooting through the rear cover. Mount devices on the heat sinks as normal. The air will flow though the tunnel very efficiently. The sides of the chassis can be perforated too for even better airflow.
Thinking outside the box by going inside the box... huh?
Blue LEDs when running normal, Red LEDs if overheating... Green LED in programming mode.
Life is too short to do it without a multi core controller.
But, how about making a cooling wind tunnel? Take out outer sinks. Make heat sinks with vents going flat, not vertical. place them inside the chassis facing inside with top and bottom covers joining them into a closed square cross section... a right parallelepiped.... place it lengthwise, intake fan behind the front cover, exhaust fan shooting through the rear cover. Mount devices on the heat sinks as normal. The air will flow though the tunnel very efficiently. The sides of the chassis can be perforated too for even better airflow.
Thinking outside the box by going inside the box... huh?
Correct, power amps do not need water cooling. A proper static heatsink is adequate in almost all cases.
But this amp will certainly need water cooling in order to look … cool.
I deal with the electrical control end of coolant loops in my secular work, so it’s fun to apply it to an amp.
Love it.
Yeah it is well known water cooling not
necessary.
.......But it has passed my mind many times
just to do it. listen to people freak out LOL.
Far as visual , only other thing is maybe ton
of shiny copper stuff for cooling.
Needed or not, because = shiny
Yeah it is well known water cooling not
necessary.
.......But it has passed my mind many times
just to do it. listen to people freak out LOL.
Far as visual , only other thing is maybe ton
of shiny copper stuff for cooling.
Needed or not, because = shiny