Comments on: Ion Cooler 3.0 (return of InventGeek) http://hackaday.com/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/ Fresh hacks every day Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:41:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: vladsinger http://hackaday.com/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/comment-page-1/#comment-29251 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:54:52 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/#comment-29251 Hey, is that an Arctic Freezer 7 Pro? I have one of those. :)

]]> By: MRE http://hackaday.com/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/comment-page-1/#comment-29250 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:11:00 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/#comment-29250 Jared.. wow.. 24C… quite a chunk of change..
and more usefull data than that ’4 pennies soldered to a copper pipe jammed through the case’ job I saw about 4 or 5 months ago.

]]> By: Jared Bouck http://hackaday.com/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/comment-page-1/#comment-29249 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:13:17 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/#comment-29249 MRE:
58 – Idle
76 – Load, System shut its self down, no final result…

]]> By: paragraph http://hackaday.com/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/comment-page-1/#comment-29248 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:30:52 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/#comment-29248 Umm… didn;t he say in 2.0 that he was concerned about the ramifications of pumping positively charged ions into a computer, and therefore reversed the airflow from intake to exhaust?

I’m no engineer, but charged anything + electronics = short in my mind.

Anyone got good science to back up how safe this is? I was thinking about making one as an exhaust, but never bothered because i didn’t like how far it had to protrude off of my case just to work :\

anywho, benchmarks plz?

]]> By: MRE http://hackaday.com/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/comment-page-1/#comment-29247 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:10:00 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/#comment-29247 damn.. what really irks me about every single heatsink mod I have seen on h.a.d. or anywhere else for that matter is temperature claims, when no proper baseline is established.
with the original heatsink and original fan “…The system idled at about 29C and we peaked at 41C…”
With our new fangled better technology ’cause we made it in or garage cooling system “…The system idled at about 34C and we peaked at 48C … …While these are warmer than say a gaming enthusiast would prefer this falls well within the standard users system needs.”
This data tells us absolutely nothing, unless you also state the temperature set with only the heatsink, no fan, no ion machine.
How do I know the heatsink by itself doesn’t perform around 34 to 48C? For that matter, what was the room temperature?!
I know were all hackers, but scientific method people!
The cooling effect of a fan or other device can only be quantified when compared to the lack of said device.
The only value that matters is “my device lowered the temperature by xx degrees.”
effectiveness of a cooling device is not a measured temperature, it is a measured **difference in temperature**

]]> By: matt http://hackaday.com/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/comment-page-1/#comment-29246 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:53:29 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/#comment-29246 This sounds stupid. I mean, making stuff is awesome, but I would hazard a guess that this thing puts out ozone and NOx, along with the ionized air. The ozone and NOx are bad for you. From the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_ioniser:

“Even in relatively low concentrations, they can irritate lung tissues, cause chest pain, coughing, throat irritation, and can worsen the conditions of persons suffering from asthma.”

]]> By: Danny http://hackaday.com/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/comment-page-1/#comment-29245 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:30:16 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/#comment-29245 From wikipedia: “Ionocrafts require many safety precautions due to the high voltage required for their operation and the risk of lung and throat cancer from long term inhalation of their ionised air product.” This thing works by the same principle as the ionic cooler. I spend a lot of time by my computer and I believe that most of you people here do too :) Sounds like it’s not to healthy to breathe the ionized air coming out of a PC using this cooler…

]]> By: ScrappyLaptop http://hackaday.com/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/comment-page-1/#comment-29244 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:27:41 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/#comment-29244 Sorry, I meant number 18.

]]> By: ScrappyLaptop http://hackaday.com/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/comment-page-1/#comment-29243 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:26:07 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/#comment-29243 In reply to #11, yes, he would need to clean it afterwards, but it would definatively show the airflow going *in* and put to rest at least that question. There would still be the question of how much cooling is actually provided by the ion flow, but that can be tested by cutting the high-v power and then resuming. And, yes, I am going to build one to check this out and not just gripe and groan, but won’t get it done before the thread gets stale.

]]> By: ivan256 http://hackaday.com/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/comment-page-1/#comment-29242 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:35:37 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/#comment-29242 Hmm… I think I might build one of these for a water-cooling rig. It seems to me though, that you should be able to use the radiator/heatsink itself as the grounding plate. This probably wouldn’t be desirable when the heatsink is in contact with your CPU, but if it’s not…

Also, does anybody know how dirty these things get, and how frequently you need to clean them? Every piece of dust and grime that goes through this thing is probably going to stick…

]]> By: Rob http://hackaday.com/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/comment-page-1/#comment-29241 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:01:25 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/#comment-29241 If you tried a video with smoke, wouldn’t he smoke particles stick to the +ve electrode? isn’t that how air purifiers work?

]]> By: strider_mt2k http://hackaday.com/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/comment-page-1/#comment-29240 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:08:43 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/#comment-29240 you there, turn out your pockets!

just as i suspected-ions!

You’re fired!

]]> By: Ross M http://hackaday.com/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/comment-page-1/#comment-29239 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:17:48 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/#comment-29239 Humm, i love the hackaday geek factor of this, but thats about all. I think you would have to be mad to install this in a system that you might have just paid several thousand dollors for.

]]> By: Dave http://hackaday.com/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/comment-page-1/#comment-29238 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:29:49 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/#comment-29238 great idea, i really don’t like the noise of my coolers… but also i’m not confortable with the idea of having 10kvolts into my cpu. and i’m not talking or afraid of short-circuits in the ion generator! is there any risk of electrostatic discharge, like when, e.g., accidentally i touch a motherboard without grounding my body?

and YEAH! i wanna see a video with smoke, too ;)

embraces from Brazil

]]> By: andrew http://hackaday.com/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/comment-page-1/#comment-29237 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:15:58 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/10/30/ion-cooler-30-return-of-inventgeek/#comment-29237 “Video! With smoke, so we can see the airflow! (pretty please?)”

I second that!

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