On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 2:39 PM, David Roberson <dlrober...@aol.com> wrote:
In either of these three cases I would expect the active device to get > hotter than had it been subjected to open air cooling. The trend is the > same. > The device may be hotter than it would be in the case of open-air cooling. But since the water bath does not enclose the inner housing on all sides, I suspect there is a significant heat loss through the top of the inner and outer housing. Although I don't think you were addressing this point, it seems to me that this would lead to an underestimation of the true energy output. http://i.imgur.com/MoEJGv3.png [1] Eric [1] Taken from http://www.e-catworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Lugano-Confirmed.pdf
