hmm good advice!. the area is definatly not better than a big heatercore. the original plan was to be able to use this rad without any fans at all. seeing as the wattage coming off would be fairly immense anyway.
thanks for outlining the problems, i have come up with some problems of my own too.
time to kill the idea!
1) pressure difference due to height/volume of rad. a pump big enough to sort this would probaly be loud enough to outweigh the benefits of no fans.
2) radiator designed to perform with 60-80'C water in it! might just heat up slowly and hardly convect any heat away at all when only carrying 20-30'C water.
3)space. id rather have that nice looking serck one with all the right connectors and a couple of quiet 120's on 7v. and this will probaly perform better anyway.
thanks all
slop
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