The first made and ONLY in existence as of the time if posting.
I am disabling comments due to the idiots here on youtube who want to feel good about themselves by bashing others.
As for Condensation???
WONT HAPPEN!!!
explained better than i could by Zenshi from XoXide forums:
the air conditioner acts as a dehumidifier as well. The temperature gradient between the outside air and the inside air is really not an issue. The issue is the amount of humidity in the air. condensation can occur even in warm air if the % humidity in the air is high enough (just walk around in a warm foggy day). If the air is bone dry, you can be cool and you will not condense since there is nothing to condense. For any intermediate humidity, the condensation will occur at lower temperatures for lower humidity since it will require the lower temperature for the moisture to undergo a phase transition.
If you take a cold item and make it warmer suddenly, there will not be any condensation if the environmental air has not changed in humidity and you did not experience condensation when it was cold. If you, on the other hand change the amount of humidity by taking the cold object outside into humid warmer air, you will experience condensation since the water in the humid air surrounding the cold object will condense onto the surface of the object. This is more due to the change in humidity rather than the change in temperature.
So the ability for the local temperature to condense the humidity in the air is really all that matters. A temperature gradient will not cause condensation so long as the temperature of the coldest part does not cause condensation. If the temperature was low enough and the moisture high enough, you will get condensation even if it was uniform.
So take the situation for AL's setup. It is set inside a room that has a given humidity in the air. The air conditioner is blowing cool air into the PC. This is done by basically lowering the temperature on a cold head within the air conditioner and blowing air across it to lower its temperature. Since the cold head is the source of thermal absorption, the air cannot go any lower in temperature than the cold head.
So now consider if the humidity in the air was low enough that it did not condense at the temperature of the cold head. If that is the case, since the air is no colder than the cold head, it will also not condense any moisture. Since the surrounding air is even warmer but basically at the same humidity, it will also not condense any moisture. So basically no condensation.
Now, consider if the humidity in the air was high enough that it did condense at the temperature of the cold head. Well since the cold head is only cold for the air blowing across the head, it will condense the moisture right at the head (thus a dehumidifier). Once the moisture is taken out and condensed at the head, the air may be colder but it has in fact taken the moisture out at its coldest point (right at the cold head). Since it is warming up as it goes into the PC but still remainging at the low humidity after having its moisture removed at the cold head, it will no longer condense moisture.
So basically, so long as the system remains somewhat closed (no warm moisture leaking into the PC), it will not condense. Now if for some reason you are cooling the PC down so far with such a power AC that the PC is now at a temperature below the condensation temperature of the air in the room, then you will condense moisture but only at the surface of the PC case (since the air inside is still being de-humidified). However, if you see that, there is an easy solution for this...TURN THAT AC DOWN!
If the moisture in the room was sooo high it would condense at the slightest lowering in temperature, then the air is way to moist to safely be running electronics. If that happens, its best to run the AC outside so that it dehumidifies the air in the entire room. Now this will not give much advantage in cooling the PC since you are ACing the whole room but it will remove much of the humidity problem. Just make sure you have a water trap below the AC and turn it off occasionally if the moisture starts to freeze up. If you want to run the AC cooled PC, just get another AC and hook it up as AL shows. Then one AC will dehumidify the air in the room while the other directly cools the PC.
I am asked often about "the electric bill" for the record, this AC unit uses 240w the electric bill isnt really effected at all.
one more thing, THINK about what you are going to post! if you post something stupid, you might find yourself embarrassed on the internet for all to see.
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