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[DJ88]

Steve,

It won't be submerged. Part of the reason for chosing this is to use its capabilities with cooling as well as heating. Plus submering it would require some form of encapsulation to ensure no corrosion happens. I dont feel like getting this creative.

Just re-read your post.. I am assuming part of it was touching the water and part in the air right? Or else in a separate loop of water used for circulation.. Can you describe it more?? Curious now....

Shane,

With the device attached to the glass, the water on the other side of the glass will act as a massive heat sink. Ensuring that for the most part the heat energy is transferred through the glass. Some heating will happen but not to a sufficient degree to cause the glass to break. To ensure this doesn't happen as well, a proportional controller will be used to ensure that there isn't sudden treansferrance of heat in the plate touching the glass. To me the glass breaking isn't a problem unless the sump is run dry(which with baffles one side will be always full) or there are drastic changes made to the heating portion of the device.

Andrew,

The plate doesn't produce heat per say.. It moves heat in one direction or another. With current flowing in one direction it pulls heat from right to left(to give it a direction for you to visualize), reverse the current flow and the heat is moved from left to right.

This is another reason it won't be submerged. It won't have a differential in temperatures to move heat from one area to the other.

Titus n Victor,

I wont be getting much doen with it this weekend. Calculus n Physics midterms this week. Mind will be elsewhere..

I'll keep you posted tho..

[ 09 November 2001: Message edited by: DJ88 ]