I am in the process of building a "chill chamber" for electronic experiments * and as primary part for cooling it I am going to use a peltier element. This means though I need to get rid of probably around 150W, and my first thought for that was to use an older CPU cooler which had heatpipes, but unfortunately the contact area of the ground plate was smaller than the peltier element. I then turned to look what is available on the market, and its overwhelmingly much, and besides specs often not being clear nowhere I could almost never find specifications of the size of the contact plate/area (or whatever you call it). So for this special application I search for a cooling system with the following needs:
- Contact area at least 40mm x 40mm
- Mounting ability for 120mm fan
- Fan must blow from the side
- Of course best price for performance, price should not really exceed ~40EUR
- Heatpipes
- If it has direct contact heatpipes, the typical gap between the heatpipes and the rest of the contact area metal may not be bigger than 0.2mm
- Size (without fans) should not exceed roughly 150mm cube
The following feature might be nice, but need not to be included:
- A fan (don't care about noise, can run at 4000rpm)
- Possibility for push/pull fan mounting
- direct heatpipe contact
- all contact area copper
- heatsinking fins copper
*well of course also for beer.