[time-nuts] LPRO Heat Sink?

[steve gunsel]

I'm new to this, but it sounded more like this is to be a thermal 
mass to minimize temperature swings.
Why would you want to efficiently cool something that you are trying 
to heat and maintain at a constant temperature?

just curious in Medina, OH


At 11:12 AM 9/23/2009, you wrote:
>At 10:51 AM 9/23/2009, J. Forster wrote...
>>Monsterously thick will NOT do it. All that does is increase the heat
>>capacity of the HS, not it's ultimate thermal resistance (W/deg).
>>
>>You need surface area...
>
>You need both. A 10 m x 10 m piece of aluminum foil won't do much, 
>either, despite having a very large surface area.
>
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