Electric Liquid Chiller For Intercooler/Aftercooler

[1jt]

Found this inter cooler chiller on e-bay. State's it will lower air temps up to 70 degrees below ambient.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...spagename=WDVW

[Madferraristi]

Good idea, only trade-off I see is a 30 or 60 amp load on the Alternator.

[garver72]

I don't see how it would be possible to drop 30 degrees below ambient temp. without the use of some type of refrigeration system ( such as a compresser or even a ice for that matter) . Depending what type of climate you live in, if you were to mist it it water you may be able to get a drop of a few degrees below ambient.

[Madferraristi]

I suspect that it IS a small refregeration system, that's why it draws so much power.

[Tazz]

Just what I was thinking Mad. Lookinging aat the copper tubing and seening that it draws that much it has to be a refer system.
Tazz

[1jt]

Here is some more info

http://www.killerchiller.com/

[bgstew6]

something similiar to what they were going to put on the 500hp Lightning?

[dermaestro]

Originally posted by bgstew6
something similiar to what they were going to put on the 500hp Lightning?

I think that was supposed to work off the AC unit? Not sure.

[garver72]

I read the theory of operation. It say that it uses solid state relays and high powered thermal eletric coolers. I am in the refrigeration bussiness and I have never heard of such a thing. Solid state relays are great at making heat. I would be very suprised if this thing does what they say. but I have been wrong before.

[Tazz]

Guess that it can't be a refrigerant compressor like I thought. States:
Tazz

[Tazz]

The 2 black things on top of the unit look like fans?

[bgstew6]

Probably a setup similiar to a minnie swamp cooler. All you military guys know what I am talking about.

Never mind jsut looked at the pic,

large cooling fins and most likely two highspeed fans. Wonder where it is pulling the fluid from, probably have to tap the radiator lines.

[jpanchalk]

Looks like a liquid-cooled CPU rig, but bigger. Just a heat sink fan on your computer's CPU with the coolant lines running through it. But this looks way more obtrusive, and uglier, than JLP's.

[bgstew6]

Yeap

[1jt]

Here is some more info in thermal cooling and how its done

http://www.inbthermoelectric.com/index.html