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[–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

We are on a road trip right now. we travel with a 12v peltier cooler. (don't need to lug around water/ice), the night before we leave, the internal fan whines and freezes.

Wife, what was that? I check, fan just died.

Wife, fuck now what, if we move it to the other cooler i won't all fit with ice.

Me: TO THE BASEMENT.....(DAD-CAPE) Shelves, boxes, PC parts, dig dig, Intel stock cooler on it's heatsink. flush cutters, snip strip, tape.

If I had more time, I'd have bought a direct replacement from noctua (already replaced the eternal fan years ago)

Having parts around is a bad investment until that one time you need it now.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    You get a zonk for using the most inefficient cooling technologies, but kudos for giving me faith that my extra stock coolers will come in handy eventually...

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Oh the cooler is horribly inefficient, but it's super light. And for the price of a battery powered compressor cooler, it'll be many, many years before it makes up for the price difference in electricity usage.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    It's for a portable cooler though, you're not optimizing for heat removal per watt, you're optimizing for size and weight.

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