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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day 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...

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours 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.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Perhaps I'm missing why an Igloo cooler won't work here.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

They said they didn't wanna carry ice. There's no reason why it wouldn't work, they just didn't want to bother with ice.