Ira,
On my build site, you can see where I placed a computer case fan to
evacuate the rear of the panel, should I encounter a situation where the
equipment overheated. My thoughts were that it would pull out warm air
without really creating an air flow across the equipment. To date, I've
never had to use it. Go figure...
Jeff - Baby Blue
500+ hours
On 4/23/2010 3:42 PM, rampil wrote:
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> Just like cooling inside the cowl, cooling of the instrument panel
> can be non-or counter intuitive.
>
> In some engine cowls, the air pressure gradients and consequent flow
> can be stagnant or even flowing backward.
>
> The same is true, no doubt for the instrument panel depending on a
> myriad of custom factors like air flow up from the tunnel via the wiring to
> the fuel pump and how closely seal the bottom of the panel is.
>
> My panel is not currently cooled. In six years of flying, I have seen the
> need for cooling for a total of about 30 minutes of flying with my
> UPS Stack and my Blue Mountain. The BMA reports internal temp when
> it exceeds 135F (Auto shutdown at 145 or 150F if I recall correctly)
>
> Not a priority therefore, but somewhere on the to do list.
>
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> Ira N224XS
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> Read this topic online here:
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