On Wed, April 4, 2007 8:42 pm, Gus Wirth wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: > [snip] >> This is an interesting construction. The spring that holds the heat >> transfer pad to the CPU has three (my hand to god) copper tubes running >> from it to a comb-like radiator that the fan forces air through. I >> figure >> the tubes are empty and just transfer heat by conduction. But it looks >> like refrigeration tubes. >> >> Because I losened the spring clamp, I figure the pad lifted and the >> grease >> contact was broken ... needs refreshing. > > > What you are describing is a heat pipe. See this article in Wikipedia to > see how they work. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pipe> > > Gus
Cool. I mean that in every sense. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
