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Idea for cooling. Think this would work?
And just when I thought my tinkering days were over......
Been thinking of ways to get the heat out of the kitchen and came up with a concept, so feedback is more than welcome.
Idea is to have a one-way valve inlet/exit allowing heat to escape while protecting the interior from flooding. So I did a test with a mesh called Flow-Rite. It's very fine and resists water to a certain degree, yet air will pass through with a little force.
In the test, I used 15oz of weight from water and inverted the container with the Flow-Rite attached. Water would not come out if it was in a level to semi level position whereby covering the mesh, however if I were to hold the cup sideways, the weight of the water would begin to pass through. (more testing needed)
So then I thought of a one-way valve system (front and back) that when the EDF would run, the intake would open through vacuum as well as the exhaust.
A float switch and relay would break the connection if the boat were to invert, thus automatically closing the one-way valves and shutting down the fan.
A modified cowl could contain all the necessary parts. Small Lipo could be set into the hull.
I may be wrong by thinking a three channel transmitter/receiver would be used to activate the fan setup, but a better idea might be a small circuit that activates the system when the boat motor itself is running. A timer chip could be set to have the cooling system run for a few seconds longer after the boat is not operated (upright).
Looks good on paper, just wonder if there are any other thoughts on this?
air cooling 1.jpg
air cooling 2.jpg
Been thinking of ways to get the heat out of the kitchen and came up with a concept, so feedback is more than welcome.
Idea is to have a one-way valve inlet/exit allowing heat to escape while protecting the interior from flooding. So I did a test with a mesh called Flow-Rite. It's very fine and resists water to a certain degree, yet air will pass through with a little force.
In the test, I used 15oz of weight from water and inverted the container with the Flow-Rite attached. Water would not come out if it was in a level to semi level position whereby covering the mesh, however if I were to hold the cup sideways, the weight of the water would begin to pass through. (more testing needed)
So then I thought of a one-way valve system (front and back) that when the EDF would run, the intake would open through vacuum as well as the exhaust.
A float switch and relay would break the connection if the boat were to invert, thus automatically closing the one-way valves and shutting down the fan.
A modified cowl could contain all the necessary parts. Small Lipo could be set into the hull.
I may be wrong by thinking a three channel transmitter/receiver would be used to activate the fan setup, but a better idea might be a small circuit that activates the system when the boat motor itself is running. A timer chip could be set to have the cooling system run for a few seconds longer after the boat is not operated (upright).
Looks good on paper, just wonder if there are any other thoughts on this?
air cooling 1.jpg
air cooling 2.jpg
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