[Tfug] peltier?

[Robert Hunter]

On 10/2/07, Sean Warburton <hl2addict at gmail.com> wrote:
> Around '3' or maybe even '2.5'
> (it's just a potentiometer with numbers etched in the side of the pump)
the
> temperature lowered about 5 degrees celcius, leading me to conclude
that the
> water was moving over the fins too fast to effectively transfer the heat.

Only speculation, but I would guess that the recycled coolant did not
have enough time to cool.

> I'll stand outside the PAS building and see who is interested:)
> John- I think I was following that train of thought ("My CPU under load
> consumes about 225 watts of power, and a portion of that (65 watts) is
> transfered into heat.

If you are taking physics classes, then you probably know about the
principle of conservation of energy.  If your system is consuming 225 W,
then you can probably assume that most of that is is converted into
thermal energy.

-- 
Rob