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Unread 05-02-2004, 06:52 PM   #13
Cathar
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Originally Posted by Incoherent
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...
You're quite right. I was just throwing a number out there at 50K as a comparison to water having around 1000x the convectional coefficient of air.

In another thread here I speculated that the Cascade is in the vicinity of 80-90K when flowing at 10LPM.
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