16 Nov
2005
16 Nov
'05
7:55 a.m.
On 11/15/2005 at 3:36 PM woodelf wrote:
Of course plain ordinary automotive antifreeze is a corrosion inhibitor
and toxic enough to prevent algae growing...
Gordon
So what is wrong with cheap water? I guess -
inert - says it all.
Well yes, but remember that Honeywell tinkered with direct water cooling a
bit back in the 70's. I think they used a copper diaphragm between the
water and the chip to conduct heat. I know they had problems with algae
growing in the tubing and that certain algicides had the problem of
corroding copper. IIRC, this was an ECL implementation of an earlier
machine that didn't do much better than 1.5x the original in performance.
As a product, a disaster.