138W peltier freezing water (running on 54 watts)

Sorry for the poor lighting. It was difficult to get the camera to see the water clearly.

This is my 138 watt peltier cell freezing some puddles of water. I am running this off the 12v rail of a computer PSU, and it pulls about 4.5A, bringing the power consumption to 54 watts. To run this device at it's full load, I would have to increase the voltage supply to the peltier's rated maximum of around 19 volts, and I currently do not have a power supply to do this with.

The heatsink I am using is an Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo. Its dual fans are also running off the 12v supply. I was using this since it was previously being used on my ATi HD4850, but after I moved to an HD5770, it doesn't fit. As such, it was lying on the workbench, so I grabbed it.

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[yyhaoyue]

how do i cool the hot side ?

[AlexOtter]

@yyhaoyue A large heatsink and fan. I was using an old dual-fan GPU cooler in this video, but you can use pretty much anything as long as it dissipates enough thermal energy.

[xiaoxiaoeun]

how many mL of water was placed on the Peltier cooler?

[Daegurth89]

only just got around to watching this for some reason, but damn, man, that's awesome.

now we're starting to get a bit more sun i need to start playing with my peltier cell again. just time and money, as usual...