Today I will talk about one interesting device. They can heat the room by placing it under the window, like any other electric convector. They can be heated "wisely", according to any conceivable and unimaginable scenarios. He himself can easily control the smart home. You can play on it and (oh, Space!) even work. (carefully, a lot of large photos under the cut)
On the front side, the device is a single large aluminum heatsink of not a small weight. We come closer, we look from above:
Hmm ... it looks like a small-sized power supply for some kind of computer stuffing. We bypass the device and what we see:
... maybe it's a computer? ..
Indeed ... a computer. Here is the SFX format power supply, here is the SSD, the motherboard ... there is even a power button. And yet, something is missing...
Really. The processor does not have a fan for cooling. Perhaps some kind of atom or something similar is installed here, not heated? No, it's an Intel Core i3 7100. It's quite a capable processor. But how is this possible? And like this:
Instead of a standard cooler, heat is removed from the processor using a system of contoured heat pipes and removed to a large aluminum heatsink. All components of the system are attached to this radiator.
The result is an original "case" in the steampunk style. At the same time, it looks quite adequate on the office desktop.
A modern desktop computer, assembled from ordinary components with a completely passive, silent, cooling of the processor part, is the dream of many geeks.
I remember how some years ago I myself was installing a huge heatsink on the processor, which could cool a not very hot, not at all top-end processor without a fan. The case was no longer normally closed, but my joy from the silent operation of the resulting system knew no bounds.
With Loop Heat Pipes, silent systems can conquer new performance limits. The aluminum heatsink of the considered PC with a size of 20 * 45 cm is capable of removing 120 W of heat from the processor. That is, the use of the Intel Core i3 processor is not the top of the capabilities of the solution in question. Since the estimated power of this processor is only 51 watts.
Similar cooling systems are now a rarity. The only competitor I know is the startup Calyos, for some reason deprived of Habr's attention. Very successful Kickstarter campaign, raising β¬262,480 against a target of β¬150,000. But so far (it seems) without noticeable success in the implementation of the plan.
The system described here was produced in my native Yekaterinburg, and is in a state of readiness for production. Far beyond the bare idea. The purpose of this article is to understand whether silent solutions are of interest to Habr's Geektimes audience. If the topic turns out to be interesting, we will be able to talk a lot about "in the next episodes."
Source: habr.com