TESTING OUR DIY REFRIGERATOR! - TEC/PELTIER

The second video of our refrigerator series! We show the completed fridge and demonstrate its cooling performance with a substantial quantity of food. We also describe further modifications and improvements that you will see in the upcoming TEC based freezer.

[sporkeh]

4:36 haha the feeling of touching that beercan you cooled down with your own labour. Thats a good feeling xD

[mackado]

Hi there, plumber who does hydronics here. This is awesome, as are the other videos of yours that I've watched.

Besides just exhausting outside, which is a great idea half of the year, you could water cool to a pre-conditioning holding tank before the inlet of a standard hot water tank. Cold water comes into some holding tank before going out to a traditional hot water tank but a parallel pipe circuit with a pump cools your fridge. This way the removed heat is used year-round to help heat your domestic water.

[dosgos]

Nice follow up and attractive design. It would be nice to know how much power this refrigerator needed and compare that to typical cube and typical full-sized home refrigerators.

[gwernette]

How about a KiloWatt meter to show actual consumption while you are developing this?

[aus]

The cold beer smile at 4:35 was a nice touch - great stuff, thank you!

[Don-sxxv]

Excellent video series, learning for me is not always easy, I truly require a good teacher. You are that. Nice to find a channel which brings these very complicated topics to life and home...Thank-You

[cplenny]

I have been designing one of these for the 2009 Toyota Prius that I am converting into a mobile living quarters. I am planning to sink the heat into the body of the vehicle. During the winter months I'd like to use some of the energy to warm my sleeping platform. I have been wrestling with the design for over a year and this video has given me exactly what I needed to move forward with the build. Thank you!

[corresandberg]

The craftmanship going into this build. The tutor explaining it all, just awesome. You make everything interesting, whatever you build. In the Norse countries our old fore-fathers used Earth-cellars, to make use of the cold months and to restore food. They basicly digged down in the earth and put stones on each other, we have some that still works all right, here in Sweden. Then that cellar got the average temperature in the region all year around. Without anything.

[Conservator.]

Very interesting as always!
My thoughts:
1 turn off the leds when the door is closed.
-2 some ventilation inside the fridge might help-
3 extra surface for the peltier elements might help.
Wow, that’s quite a beefy radiator you’re gonna use.
Looking forward to your next video! Tx!

[TYKA]

like your videos, not much effects, no click bait, simply educational

[petervanderburg]

I appreciate your knowledge and explanations. Your design concepts create scope to custom build for standard joinery. Looking forward to V2 but more so V3- which should incorporate the best ideas. Can you publish the electrical power consumption data over a 24 hr period (or longer) please?

[thomasneal]

Keep this series going. I've been thinking about building custom peltier cooled aquaria and seeing you solve the problems inherent in transferring heat with TECs has been helpful to me.

[rb]

Currently adding refrigeration to an antique icebox. This is my second conversion and love the idea on cutting down on the noise and inefficiencies of a conventional refrigeration system. More details on products used and efficiencies would be fab. Thanks for this project.

[hectorperez]

All an instructor and a teacher. Very Good professor

[Lukegear]

Finally, I was waiting a lot for this one :)

[Chrissy]

I love the way you teach and explain. So very practical.

[jttech]

The amount of polish you guys put into projects that are really just experiments is really fantastic. Most youtubers in this genre are jerry rigging stuff together and getting it to a "well it works" kind of stage. Your guys's projects could go into retail stores if you bothered with getting them UL listed. It really sets the bar rather high honestly.

[Allan-mfhe]

Love the extents you guys will go to to fail then to reflect and get back to it. Well done. We humans love to create problems to solve.

[Tetsuo_music]

"Real food!"..."A bottle of wine..." That's my spirit! I was waiting for this video, I love mini fridges.

[checkoutthatthing]

I've always wanted to do this, but I've never pulled the trigger. I should just do it. Awesome video, awesome channel, stay awesome and thank you!