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Re: Overheating

To: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
Subject: Re: Overheating
From: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 09:50:33 +0000
Cc: neil penberthy <n.penberthy@liant.com>, triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
Organization: UKAEA
References: <98May15.161731cdt.130860@jumpgate.liant.com> <199805160035.BAA29136@fuspcjcc.culham.ukaea.org.uk>
Thats compleat rubbish! 
The engins in actual fact running hotter, what you need to do to prove
you are correct is to take temperature readings at the bottom and the
top of the raidator.  The one with the most differnce is cooling the
engin the most.  DO NOT be stupid enough to think that because the water
comming out is cooler that the whole systems is cooler.  Infact you will
find the water coming out the bottom of the raidator is hotter, pushing
the average temperature way up!
I do not believe that you will be able to prove that the water
temperature differnce is more on a systems with to-fast a flow rate.  
Of couse if you widen the radiator you could push up the flow rate a
bit, but you will also need to fit a coolent cooled oil cooler to
increees the engin -coolent surface aria!

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James Carpenter
Yellow '79 spit wired by a trained marmot

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