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Unread 05-02-2004, 05:05 PM   #12
Incoherent
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Originally Posted by Cathar
Where's the link?

Water's convection coefficient, depending on the design, can be >50000W/m^2K, or about 1000x more than air. This has a dramatic effect on just how thin a base-plate can be, and still be effective.
Cather, do have any idea what kind of effective convection coefficient you are getting with the Cascade? 50000W/m^2K seems a bit low to me, based on the kind of performance you are getting from it. After some playing with numbers I'd say that if you were getting an h=~50000, the baseplate would have needed to be at least 5mm thick to get near the numbers you are getting...

Dunno, thinking...

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