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Unread 09-10-2002, 04:34 PM   #46
Skulemate
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Originally posted by bigben2k
I'm going to call you on what you wrote about that dual res setup. How do you figure that it would be worse? How would the coolant mixing make it "far worse"?
If your coolant is mixing together then you'll have warm water... the "cool" water returning from the rad would mix with the "hot" water returning from the block, and when they mix in the reservoir, voila, you have warm. This would hurt the effectiveness of both the block and the rad since you're lowering the delta T in both for no good reason. I could see this working in a two chamber reservoir setup, but then you'd have to match the flow in both loops or one reservoir would drain into the other. If I'm missing something, please set me straight folks.
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