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Viewer Challenge - Water cooled Blanket

pshlos

Dear Ben my name is George and I am from Greece. Forgive my English.

It gets very hot here, I cant sleep, and I had an idea of a blanket than you can sit or lay on that will keep you cool. I thought of a system like a computer water cooling system with peltier for cooling the water. There would be a very long hose which runs through the "blanket" which the water will cool.

Maybe even being able to reverse the polarity on the peltier's so it will warm the wife at winter!

I hope this sounds interesting!

Best regards,

George

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  • in reply to benheck

    How this idea came to me: After work I lay on my ikea couch and watch tv with my wife. The cushions of the couch do a great job of trapping / reflecting my own heat back at me, especially during summer. My wifes idea was to put  sheet on the couch to help.

    I believe her motives to be more on the side of my sweat not getting on the couch and less on the side of the couch being cooler to me.

    Anyway I figured what if the "sheet" could take away my heat. Then I thought of the way in floor heating/cooling works with pipes full of climated water going through it to regulate temperature. So why not fashion a sort of mat/blanket that you could lay on with hosing sewn in connected with a box that would cool / heat the water. Sort of a reverse PC water cooling solution.

    Nick Stewart above pointed out that a plastic hose is not a good cunductor of heat. Metal pipes are probably not going to be very comfortable. You say that peltiers are too wimpy for this. I have no experience with them so I'll take your word for it.

    So i guess we hit a wall? This can't have beaten us!

    Is there any other solution someone can think of?

    Thank you for all your feedback!

  • in reply to pshlos

    im about to post some videos in a week r so on youtube on what ive got