Wind tunnel effect through house to cool electronics.

Not quite, as soon as the ever so pure water hits the PCB, it will start absorbing stuff, like metals, not much, but enough and will soon become somewhat conductive.

Water is a really good solvent, why do you think we need skin?

martin

It's called Cross-Ventilation, and people have been doing it since the back door was invented.

Cheers! Rich

Don't think too much off it. There was probably some heating device up there.

I also wrote the air might have been warmed down below as well I am not sure :)

Bye, Skybuck.

Yeah but it only works when the inside is warm and the outside is cold.

For example:

Hot summer days, followed by colder summer days.

The buildings were warmed up by the hot summer days/sun and need lots of days to cool down.

Thus the inside of the buildings still warm up.

So open both doors and let the colder air come in... too cool things down.

That's what I was talking about mostly ;) :)

Other situation can ofcourse be hot computers and hot people making the room warm/hot :)

Or even both situations at the same time ! ;)

However during hot hot hot hot summer days... people are switching to air conditioning systems which require power ;)

Bye, Skybuck.

As long as one has a wind tunnel, put on wings so you can really fly....

the

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fill your house with freon. very well behaved stuff. except in the atmosphere.

There is a liquid suitable for electronics, called Fluorinert. I saw a demo at an electronics show, where a TV set, with cover removed, is half immersed in the stuff, and the TV still works. (It cannot be fully immersed, because the dielectric strength of the liquid, is not high enough to take the HV on the red insulated wire.) This solves the water problem, but as a liquid, there are still things in the PC, you cannot use it with (the hard drive).

The stuff is pretty expensive, like $250.00 a gallon or so.

And I didn't know there were different versions. I see one of them, freezes at -110C.

Paul

On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:31:42 -0400, Paul rearranged some electrons to say:

Yes, we use it regularly in the items that we manufacture.

Due to a regulatory chance over a decade ago. Must be a very distinct sound.

Interesting. back when we were so carefree, we used to use freon in the lab as a terrific nonpolar solvent. what i didn't know previously was that there were different versions of freon as well, with different boiling points; what we used had a lower boiling point specifically so it could be used as a solvent at room temperature and pressure, not pitched as a refrigerant. and yet, easily evaporated off. it was a sad day when we had to give it up. maybe fluorinert would do the job. anyway, i'm out of the biz now.

Has anyone suggested transformer oil? It is designed to be an electrically insulating coolant... and its clear! Best of all it costs less than beer... £1/litre!

Rarius

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I was in a pinch in a repair for some underwater gear the other day, and lost the transformer oil it was embedded in. (don't ask).

I tested household oils, and the plain, non-olive cooking oil has conductivity in the transformer oil range. It was sufficiently low that I was unable to measure it. I poured it in, and the device works like a charm. We'll see in a year. (I tested soy and olive oil too. Measurable conductivity).

Max voltage 3.6V, but lots of sensitive sensors. They are all measuring within their toleranses. I wouldn't do this with higher voltages though.

-- mrr

Only thing is it gets really foul after a while...

Eric