Thermoelectric Cooler - Device That Makes Ice and Electricity

[@ElectricalPro]

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.

[@junlingwang3407]

Great video, thanks for posting! can you please drop me an email at [e-mail], 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

[@ElectricalPro]

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: kzbin.info

[@pardeepchauhan5829]

Your shop address please boss

[@alhyzalombos9413]

I would like to ask how much the price of a peltier cooler set abd where is to buy

[@norikhwan2914]

Where can i buy it?or you just made it by yourself?

[@edgdeal76]

Doctor.." so how did you burn and freeze your fingers at the same time?

[@DevOpsGuy0]

So how can you put the same finger on both the side at the same time..

[@theandroidguy6032]

@@DevOpsGuy0 He said Fingers Not Finger

[@111-s8g]

You are not just teaching on how to make an air conditioner, but you teach us more to make electricity. thumb up!

[@RAH_Holdings]

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.

[@jhebertdelacruz5437]

Now I can make an emergency cooler using just a drinking glass, that thing, and my dad's solar panel.

[@CanadianSnxw]

You don't know how much of a help this is to me!!! Thanks a lot!

[@grumpyhale821]

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.

[@m.jamalsaleem9324]

Yeah heat can be dumped to create electricity

[@mdexterc2894]

I remember some air coolers used a peltier diode. Using one of these would definitely require a high airflow case

[@matchlesmage0260]

These devices work great as a fireplace heat distributor

[@vardaraj5835]

What's the name of this divice

[@aretard7995]

@@vardaraj5835 Peltier a.k.a. Thermo-Electric Cooler (t.e.c.)

[@PacoOtis]

Dude! We owe you a beer! Thanks for the video!

[@Yonatan-jv8mv]

It's almost like magic, seeing how fast it worked

[@mattym6749]

This should be attached to a CPU controlled voltage obviously...

[@tanvinrayhan]

Ikr

[@raider7790]

@Adam Adam use it in a desktop

[@Shedding]

This has been done since the 90s. This was one of the original reasons for the Peltier unit.

[@raider7790]

@@Shedding i never saw it in use why ?

[@Shedding]

@@raider7790 I thought he meant using a Peltier Unit to cool down a cpu.

[@DBeMeNLV]

Overclockers were using these over 20 years ago.

[@minutesagoedited9761]

my pentium 200mhz

[@DBeMeNLV]

@@minutesagoedited9761 I thought I was so badass back in those days. I had a MASSIVE 32mb of ram. 😁😁

[@minutesagoedited9761]

@@DBeMeNLV myself..and a 2 gig hd..wheeeew laudy

[@DBeMeNLV]

@@minutesagoedited9761 👌👍😂😂😂

[@flack3]

@Alex Frideres You realize 20 years ago is 1999 and Pentium III was launched? The golden age of overclocking.

[@techinfotahir7912]

very nice and deferential vedio.i ilike to much that is amazing anad interesting ....💡✔

[@spacial2]

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.

[@drcoolautofix]

Can I get a bigger thermoelectric with larger diaphragm?

[@Xeno_Bardock]

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.

[@Mega6501]

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.

[@Xeno_Bardock]

@@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.

[@Mega6501]

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]

@@Mega6501 Check this video on Thermoelectric CPU Cooler. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bn3HaGx-bLqFmdk

[@Mega6501]

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.

[@peterxyz3541]

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?

[@ElectricalPro]

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.

[@marshmellominiapple]

if you watercooled the hot side (the side that dissipates heat) im sure that you could get something useful

[@rajayeruva2361]

@@ElectricalPro how much time does it take to make ice

[@harchan6274]

@@ElectricalPro how much does it cost?

[@beryl5739]

Do overclocking community already applied this method other else than ln2?

[@blueflames722]

What would happen if you reversed the polarity? Would the cold side become hot and vice versa?

[@ElectricalPro]

Hello, yes, the cold side become hot and vice versa

[@matchem9178]

Is Seebeck's effect at 4:10? Thanks for the video!

[@rominhawk3949]

Liked it very much. Very nice demonstrations and presentation. Thank you.

[@machiii7394]

Your voltage and current tests were highly alternating in both time and heat actually applied.

[@elmejoranime8061]

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

[@Techno-Universal]

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! :)

[@dakotaxd3727]

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)

[@Techno-Universal]

@@dakotaxd3727 It would probably also only make sense for server CPUs that run a lot hotter than consumer CPUs.

[@MostlyMacrosResearch]

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.

[@michaelsamputon7737]

What is device called?

[@Drxxx]

i tested also peltier.. great component!!!

[@asifhossain2088]

i really like Peltier , it helps me a lot for small projects with low cost

[@Engineerboy100]

Very cool, I'm gonna take a small electric refrigerator apart and play with the plate lol

[@farabielec]

Thank you. I have one but cold side only min 13deg c. What do you think is problem?

[@kalmanroland]

What if you change the red and the black wire? will the warm and cold sides change?

[@ElectricalPro]

Yes

[@shillout7270]

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.

[@keithlincicum3691]

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.

[@keithlincicum3691]

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

[@keithlincicum3691]

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

[@keithlincicum3691]

Hi Johnny . The muffin fan draws very little, maybe 1/2 amp and the Peltier I believe draws 5 amps, most are 50-72 watt. KL@Johnny Buoy

[@വർക്കലകാരൻ-ഝ2ദ]

Dude can we put the cold side down in the water to mke water cold

[@swabianscience]

Of course, but without really good cooling it will overheat very soon

[@leonardoferrario9573]

Did you need the heat sink when you hear the cold face to create electricity? Or you could doit whiteout?

[@chrisliddiard725]

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?

[@saurabhkatarey6818]

This can revolutionize refrigeration system if improvised further. No need of complicated and bulky reefer gas circuit with compressor.

[@GameSteals]

The reason why compressors are used instead of the peltier modules is becuase peltier modules are highly inefficient. Seach on google.

[@michaelwalker4416]

But how do you smoke it?

[@ThatOneWeeb420]

Does it work the other way? Like making the heating side cold, to generate electricity?

[@MisterBones223]

It does generate electricity with a heat difference. Look into the peltier effect

[@ThatOneWeeb420]

@@MisterBones223 ok?

[@mole5k1]

@@ThatOneWeeb420 That was a yes ;)

[@ThatOneWeeb420]

@@mole5k1 alright, thanks

[@ChrisAyan]

I just want to ask you, why my peltier get hot both side when connected to battery?

[@ElectricalPro]

Maybe peltier is fake, I don't know. Many people complained about this issue.

[@lewishooke5125]

Sorry, I just want to ask. What is the function of heatsink? I already read in google, but still don't understand.

[@purekhankirchala3907]

can you make a video how its work with sequence theory.

[@rsmolkin]

Is it possible to maybe flip it upside down and somehow freeze all the water in the tub? I'm trying to find a way to freeze ice in a cooler

[@masoudhasany6284]

Thank you. What is the temp sensor and the interface to show the temperature?

[@ChrisLichowicz]

Didn't we use these as cpu coolers about 20, 25 years ago and the kept frying parts because they were making condensation inside the case?

[@solutionrevolution7221]

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.

[@solutionrevolution7221]

@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.

[@bobgrob4]

certainly you can use this deal for these mini ac units. Could be a mini heater too.

[@ahhhhhhhhhhhh6742]

What is this dark magic lol! I'm loving it.

[@ghislainriou9560]

Did you try use it on a CPU to see the prolong use of it?????????

[@mrkcmahapatra]

Great, what is the practical application of this device??

[@Thran69]

Wine refrigerators use this principal. In HVAC industry

[@michaeltodd2923]

High school science class.

[@fuzzywzhe]

You'll find them in small coolers. They aren't as efficient as using a compressor, but they are entirely silent.

[@fuzzywzhe]

@kevin paul halliday You can't generate much power from small heat differentials.

[@ashwinsnmv]

Mainly used in lasers to avoid wavelength drifting. It's still its place in other fields.

[@sclsgia5993]

That’s very cool, no pun intended

[@rovinbhisam3911]

Is it possible to actually cool water without refrigerator air?

[@micheal0773]

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?😅😅

[@willschnack]

Better to use a parabolic dish or Fresnel lens, but I am curious too. You may find the solar-powered Stirling engine to be of interest, as well.

[@aoikemono6414]

Using a lighter to power a light is so mind blowing.

[@Sam-gf1eb]

If you give it less power, does it lower the cooling effect or just not work?

[@yugrajprajapat]

Can use as CPU cooler Where i buy this

[@akashsrivastava6761]

h

[@pactube8833]

You need water for the hot side

[@tommyhallum3020]

You don't need water it just works better if you have it. You can just use a larger heat sink.

[@Nine-Signs]

If you use it as a cpu cooler make sure you have a proper seal between the CPU and the cold side. Don't overload the thermal paste but do make sure you've no gaps, otherwise if you live in a place that gets high humidity you could end up condensing water vapour onto your chip which will not end well, also it should be powered off the CPU fan connector on the board which will feed it voltage as needed depending on the CPU temperature rather than having it on 100% all of the time which could also bork your CPU.

[@KETANRAMTEKE]

Yes, nowadays gaming mobile phones use it as a external cooler.

[@syth-1]

But what if you had two of them, stuck to each other, so the side that produces heat will link to another to produce electricity?

[@user-uw1wq9rj8g]

I do think so.

[@EchoBuildsThings]

You’ll get electricity and heat, but you put 12 volts in and get 1.6 out.

[@syth-1]

Avaxar I understand the principle of energy and you cannot create it from nothing, my point was as we're making so much heat energy that we need a heat sink - maybe we can harness that waste, so let's say 12 volt goes in and 80% is waste (abouts 10v as heat) and we can get back 20% of that (2v return) so that means if we add it back to the system we're only drawing 10v cause we're turning partial excess heat back into electricity, Or, is that not how it works?

[@cia9315]

Conservation of energy my dude

[@RedOwl07]

N-ninja the efficiency is 4.5% for seebeck effect. What ever energy you send in you only get 4.5% out of it.

[@arronnunez7230]

does it need to have contact with water for the water to cool?

[@debabratasahoo6771]

Very cool device I never heard about this amazing

[@debabratasahoo6771]

🖕

[@philipholman1713]

How could you insulate the hot from the cool side , also you use 12 volts but what's the amperage of the source?

[@Wanedewo]

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

[@jethroadante6436]

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

[@Wanedewo]

@@jethroadante6436 thank you very much！

[@abdulrehman7681]

Bcz there is a heat flow in this device. Heat flows from cold side to hot side and cold side has less energy so low temperature

[@tsura-]

this comment might be too late but how do you control the temperature? im planing on making a phone cooler with a tec. should i attach a potentiometer?

[@tokyowarfare6729]

Why right after disconnect it gets hot that quick?

[@TheAlamadis]

Does this work to light up a room or house? Or this us just experimenting?

[@mike9500]

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.

[@ThemisTheotokatos]

what happens if you cool the other side like putting an ice, will the other side generate heat?

[@marvinmarvini8629]

Fixing hot plate at 50 degrees and the heat sink, which thermoelectric module would produce more power: TEC1-12702, TEC1-12706 or TEC1-12710?

[@repairlife4542]

What is the details of thermoelectric you are using? Ampere rating.

[@jaringnelayan3829]

Does the thermal paste contribute so much to the temp difference?

[@mjshaheed]

I have used a similar setup to heat up my homemade egg incubator(2ft by 1.5ft). I used a heat sink fan to spread the heat evenly inside the box.

[@repairlife4542]

What did you do with the cool side. Is it just cooling?

[@naimgorgani953]

What happens if we connect a bare peltier? (without heat sinks on neither side)

[@Kristoffshim]

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?

[@gopinathk5979]

how much voltage did you give to the peletier model

[@mw10259]

1:48 WHAT DID YOU SAY ???? I WONDER WHAT WOULD HAPPEN ,,,,,?

[@pickachublast8]

"I wonder what would happen if you touched it with your tongue"

[@shubhshukla2281]

No problem, you will need a doctor and could only drink juice for 2 weeks .LOL

[@Custom3dPrinting4U]

What Voltmeter model are you using

[@haripache]

Can we use this application IN-BETWEEN a cpu Proccesor and a CPU Fan??

[@dubsmashdirector5232]

of course

[@marshmellominiapple]

it uses like 55 watts he said, so yes, it would get your cpu very cool. But at a cost of power.

[@00000005547]

I've tried this, it works, but not like one might think. It cools it down, at one point I got to -12C while idling, but when the CPU begins to warm up, it loses a lot of efficiency and temperatures spike, higher than it would be without the module. To make it work properly, you would need more of them, I would say at least 3, in parallel to ensure sufficient heat transfer, then connect them to a heat exchanger and then to a water block on the CPU.

[@ElectricalPro]

Hi, I think it is not worth doing. This device is not energy efficient, moreover, sides of the device are made from ceramics which is worse heat conductor than metal.

[@Cyber.kuproy]

How Ampere power supply you use bro?

[@sararajpoot8329]

Great Information 👌👌

[@shameerkk9974]

Thanks for introduced a new component for me. Liked and subscribed.

[@DINU_R]

Can't we mod this and use for CPU cooling?

[@rjay6535]

Would it be possible to put a fan on the hot side with the heat sink to create a small heater that could be used for defrosting a windshield during the winter months? What kind of amperage to these typically require?

[@kenneth6731]

Excellent project! Please tell me how you graphed out the temp like that? I have a need for such telemetry. Thank you, subbed.

[@ElectricalPro]

Hi, hardware ESP8266, and sensor DS18B20... and my horrible "spaghetti code" with highcharts. I will make a video someday when I will be not so lazy.

[@danieltimisan6820]

what was the power consumption to freeze that water ? thanks

[@selfcaretoyou]

At what efficiency it works ?

[@henrywashington3732]

How long does it take to freeze a gallon of water with that?

[@changw_w3040]

Is it possible to control the temperature on the cold side? (let's say 25 Celsius)

[@glennjamessephton7593]

What would happen if you hook it up to a boost converter 12VDC--750KVDC

[@bobbylong4443]

I've always loved these things

[@abrarrazak6050]

Nice Can we use it as a solar panel?

[@vilas112]

Pls make a vid. on how to make this cool gadget...it's amazing

[@sirrayventures3482]

I would like to know all the things you used to make this so that I can make one for a project please

[@xaminexgamer267]

How did you provide power for it

[@asuthoshcr9581]

Quite interesting video, gonna make laptop cooler out of it

[@sennabullet]

Nice video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@gershonsoledad6920]

Hello sir can it all be submerged in water?

[@abdalrahmanbaseet3584]

is there a big one that can handle high heat?

[@mangkaw321]

can i stick this to engine block of my car to power another set of this to cool my car ac?

[@rustyaxelrod]

Could you put one of these in a cut-out in the side of a small plastic cooler with 12v plug and use it in a car for food and drinks? By not reliable do you mean when you get used to having it, the device quits working? Can the cooling effect be varied with a potentiometer or rheostat on the power input?

[@robertheinkel6225]

I have two coolers already equipped with this. One I bought 20 years ago, and the other about 10 years ago. The biggest drawback, is they only cool 30 degrees below the surrounding temp. Works great in a car for long trips.

[@rustyaxelrod]

Robert Heinkel - thanks for the input. Looks like a cool little weekend project and I could use a cooler like that. If the truck is air conditioned down to 70°f I could expect the cooler to get down to 40°? I’m thinking of just a small, hard plastic 6pack size cooler. I think I have a computer CPU heat sink that even has a small fan on it, that may work well.

[@TechsScience]

It can be used as instant ice maker

[@ImmortalShiro]

Correction... Micro instant ice maker, as in just one ice cube.

[@melkiorwiseman5234]

"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.

[@ckilr01]

One side makes heat..... so no. You would heat the room it is in. You could use it as a mini AC unit if you expel heat outside.

[@EngrJawwadSadiq]

in 0.6 v , can we use it in our water cooler to save electricity like refrigerator

[@gauripawar]

Its a good idea

[@speakerwild1189]

Not on 0.6v's, however on only a few AA or AAA batteries it will run perfectly. You just have to make sure that wires aren't coming into contact with the water itself.