Intake grid cooler?

DmaxHawk

DmaxHawk

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I don't know much about the intake heater so forgive me if I am way off. I had an idea about it a while back....

A few years ago, my dad had an ice chest too keep his water cool while we were on the farm. It was a chest that had an electric cooler/heater to keep the contents cool or hot and it would run off of the aux plug. I remember to switch it from hot to cold or the other way around, it would have a plug that I could reverse the polarity so it would work in the other way...

Now would this be possible to do something similar to the grid heater? Somehow reverse flow or something to make it cool the intake?

Any ideas?
 
paint94979

paint94979

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DmaxHawk said:
I don't know much about the intake heater so forgive me if I am way off. I had an idea about it a while back....

A few years ago, my dad had an ice chest too keep his water cool while we were on the farm. It was a chest that had an electric cooler/heater to keep the contents cool or hot and it would run off of the aux plug. I remember to switch it from hot to cold or the other way around, it would have a plug that I could reverse the polarity so it would work in the other way...

Now would this be possible to do something similar to the grid heater? Somehow reverse flow or something to make it cool the intake?

Any ideas?
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water to air intercooler does just that....
 
DAVe3283

DAVe3283

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What the ice chest had was a peltier cooler, which functions as a form of electrical heat pump. The direction it moves heat depends on the polarity. The intake heater is a resistive grid, and will only heat; it can't be made to cool.

You can read more about them here. They are/used to be very popular for overclocking computers, but modern CPUs put off such a high heat load it is almost not worth it. More feasible to use phase change cooling (air conditioning of sorts). But I digress (I'll bet you could never guess I'm a computer nerd :rolleyes:)...

Hope I explained it OK.
 
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