amiga cooling

[delshay]

problems cooling your amiga.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/01/09/strip_out_the_fans/


**do at your own risk** modification not recommended

[tokyoracer]

Fill an Amiga with cooking oil?! Insane! :crazy:  :crazy:  :crazy:

[Ral-Clan]

It might work, but doesn't oil react with plastics and break them down over time?  I'm thinking about the plastic in wiring insulation & IC packages.

Also, cooking oil tends to "polymerize" over time - i.e. get gummy.  It's a real mess then.

Neat idea though.

[Tension]

Madness.

[Damion]

Yeah, someone did this on hardforum a few years back, then actually cooked up some fries in the same tray he was cooling his rig... LOL

[rkauer]

ral-clan wrote:
It might work, but doesn't oil react with plastics and break them down over time?  I'm thinking about the plastic in wiring insulation & IC packages.

 Only mineral oil have solvents (who degrade plastics).

Also, cooking oil tends to "polymerize" over time - i.e. get gummy.  It's a real mess then.
Neat idea though.

 That's true, but it takes medium time to do it (a couple of months). But even in meantime there is a major problem: all vegetable oils have some degree of acidity. So they will corrode exposed metals (like chip pins, nude wires, solder pads, connectors, etc). :pancake:

[Rob]

@-D-

There's also that old classic, the fried egg.

[bloodline]

Thus one should use Motor oil.

[Argo]

And when you change out the oil you can use it to fuels your diesel vehicle.

[rkauer]

bloodline wrote:
Thus one should use Motor oil.

 Motor oil have solvents! You will destroy plastics inside a computer using it.

[AMC258]

Not all motor oils contain solvents!

In any case, the best possible oil I can think of for this application is Öl Held, from the company Hirschmann GmbH.  Of course, this is too expensive, so I'd probably opt to use distilled deionized water.

[delshay]

most of us know about water cooling..
maybe replacing it with oil will be better ( no short )

[AMC258]

Short?  Do you not understand water is an insulator?  The only problem in using water is electrolosys.

[delshay]

@AMC258

yes u are correct. my mistake.  

[Ral-Clan]

AMC258 wrote:
Short?  Do you not understand water is an insulator?  The only problem in using water is electrolosys.

Could someone provide a source for this information?  I've always thought that water was a conductor, hence don't use electronics around the bathtub, wet floors, etc.

[EDIT] Ah, I think I understand.  Pure water is not a conductor, it's the dissolved metals and minerals in water that make it a conductor.  That's why you guys are talking about using distilled water as an insulator.  Have I got it now?