Koolance's Response to Hardware Labs "The Copper Radiator Myth"

[rosco]

Okay, I'm going to have to withdraw this statement, as it's false. I had heard it a long time ago, and always believed it. Someone wrote to me an asked me to prove it.

Isn't that guy a certain called [FLOW] ? Ten hours ago, he showed me your replies here in commentaries on CM and I explained him exactly what you are talking about because I saw that lack in your explanations. I checked directly their values too into Excel to see if any aberration could be possible because of their results. Calculations are good but a bit too simplistic face to reality, it's only an average energetic equivalence from water to air, but reality is slighty different like on my quick drawing below (I let you imagine the more complex 3D repartition of the exhaust air temperature field for a 2-pass rad). But as you said rightly, the mean calculated T° is enough to make some preliminary assumptions, but for the Koolance rad, these values are effectively strange when we compare them to inlet water T°. The average exhaust air temperature value is already above the max temperature possible (other values for TC & Hwlabs are physically possible, I saw no problem IIRC). Max exhaust air T° can't never be above water T° at inlet, it will be anti thermodynamical, you'll create a blackhole lol