[jtroutma]

In essence, your stating what I already was thinking...... you were just confirming it.

I knew that the best solution was to get an external PSU for the pelt and that I should probably worry about condensation. Hmmmm........

Well, then I guess my best solution is to try a 56W pelt at 12V and get what I get. A 56W pelt should be enough to pull the heat produced from a 250+Mhz clocked core and say 550+Mhz clocked RAM chips without too much trouble. Also I think with that much heat being produced, it will be just enough to not cause a large temperature difference to produce condensation. Suppose I should just put some protection on the outside of the plate just to make sure that nothing "drips".

Hmmmmm..... wonder if sysfailur would be willing to try that experiment for me...................

Thanks for your input Bigben.