Watercooled PSU?

[huesmann]

Any of you guys know of anyone who's modded their PSU for watercooling, or any vendors who sell watercooled PSUs?

 

[GAZZA]

Ask and ye shall answer This guys cooling rig is a work of art !
ZeronFanZone

 

[Peter D]

Thats kinda a scary thought.. a water cooled box of electricty..

 

[huesmann]

Kewl.

 

[DOSfan]

Originally posted by: Vegetto
Thats kinda a scary thought.. a water cooled box of electricty..

Kind of what people thought when the first person suggested watercooling his computer I bet.....

 

[Nebor]

You mean you guys don't water cool your PSUs? What a bunch of noobs. I'm almost done w/ my guide on how to water cool your monitor and speakers. Next project will be mouse (wireless.)

 

[EeyoreX]

Thats kinda a scary thought.. a water cooled box of electricty..

Kind of what people thought when the first person suggested watercooling his computer I bet.....

I still think it's lunatic, and I heard about it long ago. Water and the insides of my PC are not friends. I refuse to trust watercooling in my PC. IMO, there are already enough things that can go wrong, there is no need to add a destructive element. I further see no point to it, as I don't overclock, but that's a different matter...

\Dan

 

[Mark R]

Hmm. Consider that PC PSUs operate internally on about 400 V. Somehow, water cooling doesn't strike me as a particularly sensible idea.

 

[huesmann]

Why would they operate on 400V? They have an inverter built in?

 

[Mark R]

They are designed to operate of 230 V AC. They rectify this to DC and a simple rectifier will convert 230VAC to about 340VDC. When operated in 115V mode, they use a voltage doubling circuit to generate the 340VDC.

PSUs with active PFC achieve PFC by using a step-up DC-DC converter to produce about 380-400V. A voltage doubling circuit is not required in this case, the step-up converter will automatically produce the high voltage as long as the incoming DC is above about 100V.

The high-voltage DC is then passed through a step-down DC-DC converter to produce 12V and 5V.