Heat pipes?

Patrick Lesher pl25 at ibb.gatech.edu
Mon Jun 4 20:13:01 PDT 2001


Looks like someone beat me too it.

http://www.octools.com/articles/submersion/submersion.html

Patrick



On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Eddie Lehman wrote:

> Part of the reason that you can't find it may be your spelling of it. I
> couldn't remember the spelling either and had to work it back and forth a
> bit. You should be able to still get it and I think the price is around $500
> a gallon.
> 
> Here is the 3M page for it:
> 
> http://www.3m.com/market/industrial/fluids/library/prodinfo/FC77.html
> 
> The general page for the heat transfer fluid is at:
> 
> http://www.3m.com/market/industrial/fluids/refheat/florliqu.html
> 
> Hope that helps...
> 
> 
> Eddie Lehman
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick Lesher" <pl25 at ibb.gatech.edu>
> To: <alvin at Mail.Linux-Consulting.com>
> Cc: "Donald B. Kinghorn" <kinghorn at pqs-chem.com>; <beowulf at beowulf.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 8:08 PM
> Subject: Re: Heat pipes?
> 
> 
> >
> > I've always been fond of the way Cray's did it.
> > Take the entire rack and submerge it in florinert (SP).
> > Then you could have some cool lights blinking and
> > make a show of it.  It bubbles when it heats up too.
> > If you've ever seen the stuff it is pretty neat.  One
> > minute you are soaked, about 2 later your are perfectly dry.
> > Royal pain to seal though since you can't find the drips.
> >
> > Too bad you can't buy the stuff anymore, or atleast no one
> > can tell me where.  Something about a little problem
> > with nerve gas or something.
> >
> > I've also thought of running our chilled water lines through
> > a rack mounted radiator with fans.
> >
> > Patrick
> >
> > On Mon, 4 Jun 2001 alvin at Mail.Linux-Consulting.com wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > hi ya
> > >
> > > am thinking of solving cpu heat problems too...
> > > for p4 and amd in 1Us..
> > > - add copper to the base of the aluminum heatsink ...
> > > - get a liquid cooled heatsink - copper pipes with antifreeze
> > > ( like a radiator ) --  seems like a fun project
> > >
> > > - heat pipes are expensive ?? ..as is peltier cooling
> > >
> > > c ya
> > > alvin
> > > http://www.Linux-1U.net
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 21 May 2001, Donald B. Kinghorn wrote:
> > >
> > > > Has anyone looked into using heat pipes for cpu cooling ... surely
> > > > someone has done this(?)
> > > >
> >
> >
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