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"The Heat Pipes are coming"... The Heat Pipes are

What is a Heat Pipe? and why you should care. A Heat Pipe( hp from hear on out)is a heat transfer mechanism that combines the principles of both thermal conductivity and phase transition to efficiently manage the transfer heat between two solid interfaces. And why should you in Audio-land care. In short the Heat Pipes (hp) transfers heat from audio equipment and audio listening rooms to make them both sound better. That's a bold statement for sure. But before you boil over and get ready to blast my post, remember there is Heat Pipe (hp) in the very computer or Laptop you are on right now. It's keeping everything in your computer cool inside so it can work as efficiently as possible. A hp contains no mechanical moving parts, and typically require no maintenance. The hp's are PASSIVE devices that are place on top of equipment and placed in your listening room. In short my dedicated listening room with sound reinforcement, diffusers, dedicated lines, and all kinds of isolation devices for my equipment. I Have never addressed the heat coming from my equipment. Since I have all solid state gear, I never thought it was necessary. But when I started putting the hp's on top of my amps near the transformer. There was a noticeable improvement. Then I did the same with my preamp near the power supply the same improvement. Then I put one on all 4 of my players, SACD,DVD-AUDIO,CD, CD 5-DISC players I was sold. The cherry on top was when I put the extra hp's around my listening room. IMPORTANT: I did not have to remove one piece of sound reinforcement when I introduce the hp's in the environment. They just make what's there work better. They look like Aluminum heat sinks with two copper tube coming out of them. I do have one that has 4 copper tubes in it, and looks to be all copper heat sinks included. I even have some that do not have any copper tubes at all , just all aluminium. The ones with the copper tube are better than the all aluminum ones everywhere I compared them at, which was everywhere. So let that Heat Pipe (hp) in your computer go to work and give me your feed back if you think like me that the "Heat Pipes are coming"... "The Heat Pipes are coming".
jejaudio

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inpepinnovations
134 posts
 
GS has it correct. The prime driver of heat is temperature difference. No delta T, no heat loss nor gain, regardless of the shape, size or material of the conductors.

The heat pipes are just a better heat transfer medium, but they won't work if there is no temperature difference, i.e. if the temperature at the 'rejection' end isn't lower than at the 'origin', then no heat transfer.

Salut, Bob P.

PS Kijanki's statements point to, however, a reason why one might hear an effect using the heat pipes, but cooling the room would also have the same affect.
inpepinnovations
134 posts
 
AlMarg, to answer your question as to what the final difference in temperature at the device we wish to cool, would be by using the HP in addition to the original cooling devices, I would hazard to say that there would be NO difference since the main driving force (delta temperature) hasn't changed. The temperature at the 'rejection' end of this heat removal system hasn't changed, therefore there is no increased temperature difference, hence no more heat transfer than before.
Of course, if the cooling system was only marginal and the device to be cooled increases in temperature then the addition of further cooling capacity (which is after all, all that the heat pipes are)might be needed.

Salut, Bob P.

inpepinnovations
134 posts
 
Audiofeil, you forgot the Rankin scale!

Salut, Bob P.
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