electric intercooling!!

[norbs]

I have finally found the site for electric intercooling. Now i know how they ae doing it, time to start getting creative at 1/5 the cost.

Kincaid Performance - Home of the Killer Chiller


What you think?

 

[BlackMetal]

Very interesting.

 

[mikestertwo]

The technical name for it is a Peltier Device. We use them at work for thermal cycling integrated circuits for life testing. I'm not sure how efficient they would be as an intercooler. They do pull a lot of power. It is interesting though. I wonder if anybody is using one.

 

[cstavro]

they're expensive and not very efficient.

wait for some honest dyno #s, in/out temps, pressure loss...

 

[bison]

There would have to be a substantial documented decrease in charge air temps for each application that is well below ambient temp for it to sell. With the air/air intercoolers available today and alky injection we are already seeing sub ambient charge air temps already. 40 amp draw will require a 160 amp alternator minimum and more than likely an expensive 200 amp unit. Ill hold onto my air/air and alky and throw a little N2O on top of that until i see some real world increases. Nice concept though.

 

[tthorngen]

Peltier devices will not effeciently cool it at all. This has been tried and tried again. You need way to much electricity to do it.
Do a search on google. Peltier Intercooler

Take a look at that crappy website. That should be your first clue that it wont work that well.


You would need many 200 watt devices to even start to cool that much air.

You can get a 200 watt peltier for fairly cheap (15 bucks on ebay). Buy one and start experimenting. One side gets hot. The other cool. The cooler you get the hot side... the colder the cold side will get. Thats why they have a heatsink.
On my computer i have the hot side cooled using water going through a radiator.

This is just someone trying to make money... I bet you 100 bucks it wont work very well if at all.

 

[norbs]

I will be experimenting with it, worst comes to worse i can use the parts to make big pop/beer cooler at the track. The system that i intend to build will draw about 200 amps, for a short durtation from a separate battery, with multiple stages of cooling, but its still on the design stage for now.

 

[tthorngen]

its not instant cool. your short duration will turn into a long one

 

[norbs]

I been reading some stuff, 200 amps won't cut it looks like. About 33% efficient. 3 watts in you get 1 watt cooling power. The RJC big intercooler is starting to look better..

 

[TurboTR]

I have one of the big V1'swith the super duper core. Maybe you'd be interested in that unit? I might want to "downgrade" to a more streetable (in S TX heat) PTE stock location unit.

Yeah 200 amps at 12v is only 2400W, which is only 3.2hp input power, so only 1hp of cooling power. Like a hair blow dryer set on "low"- easy to see that's just a drop in the bucket compared to the task at hand. Not nearly enough to cool the charge air of a hard charging 9 sec Buick at wot...

TurboTR

 

[Dreamcar86]

I been reading some stuff, 200 amps won't cut it looks like. About 33% efficient. 3 watts in you get 1 watt cooling power. The RJC big intercooler is starting to look better..

Sounds to me like methanol would be looking better. Bang for the buck, methanol is really a great way to go. Even if you are running race gas and a large front mount it really cools the intake temps.

 

[tthorngen]

where is my $100

 

[Dreamcar86]

where is my $100

Not sure I understand this reply.

 

[tthorngen]

This is just someone trying to make money... I bet you 100 bucks it wont work very well if at all.

:biggrin: heh.

 

[Dreamcar86]

:biggrin: heh.

Gotcha! Does not look like a very practical design in my opinion. I try to keep things as simple as possible and this looks like a potential headache that I would personally like to avoid.

 

[tthorngen]

anyone who havent played with a peltier though should get one. Fun stuff.

 

[buickboost]

Interesting find.