10-12-2005, 05:24 PM
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c00ling p00n
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Originally Posted by Swimming_Bird
the issue is solder is much worse conducter then pure copper, and you dont want to have another medium for the heat to have to transfer though to get to the surface, and coating the copper tube with another copper sheet with solder in between it doesnt seem efficent.
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Well depends on how you solder the flat fins. If you solder BETWEEN the fin and the tube then yes, that would suck. However, if the flat fins were flush against the tubes with just a tiny spot solder on the EDGE of the flat fin, that would not reduce fin to tube efficiency one bit.
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