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by Chance Jackson
Fri Sep 19, 2014 10:27 pm
Forum: Stirling and "Hot Air" Engine Forum
Topic: Using Toy Stirling as a Heatsink on a lowish TDP CPU
Replies: 8
Views: 9048

Re: Using Toy Stirling as a Heatsink on a lowish TDP CPU

Chance, so if I put an ltd a top a processor capable of hitting 70C and I tried to hook up a 5v dynamo I wouldn't get much current out of it? That's right. The engine hasn't much power, so you can't put much load on it, and wo you won't get a usable amount of power out of it. I buy stuff from China...
by Chance Jackson
Thu Sep 18, 2014 10:49 pm
Forum: Stirling and "Hot Air" Engine Forum
Topic: Using Toy Stirling as a Heatsink on a lowish TDP CPU
Replies: 8
Views: 9048

Re: Using Toy Stirling as a Heatsink on a lowish TDP CPU

Thanks Ian and Triangle for responding Chance, the little LTD motor would probably run on the heat from a CPU, in the days of CRT screens, some people ran them from the heat from the screen's power supply. For computer work the Stirling Engine is used in reverse as a cryo-cooler, so it's driven by a...
by Chance Jackson
Sun Sep 14, 2014 10:51 pm
Forum: Stirling and "Hot Air" Engine Forum
Topic: Using Toy Stirling as a Heatsink on a lowish TDP CPU
Replies: 8
Views: 9048

Using Toy Stirling as a Heatsink on a lowish TDP CPU

I'm not thermal physics smart, all that jargon goes right over my head that said I'm a computer enthusiast and while wiki-walking (I started on heatpipes) last week I learned about stirlings and thought about their potential applications in PC cooling, while looking into that I discovered MSI had ex...