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Re: Radiators: alloy vs Brass Fri, 07 October 2005 07:04 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Cool1 wrote on Fri, 07 October 2005 16:29


So where are these radiators that are primarily made of copper?


On brass/copper radiators, the fins are made out of copper. The fins are the important element when we're talking about heat transfer; it's easy enough to get heat from the coolant to the metal of the radiator, but transferring it from the radiator to the airstream is the hard part (which is the whole reason radiators have fins in the first place).

So, when comparing copper fins to alloy fins, the numbers posted earlier suggest the copper ones will get more heat into the airstream for a given surface area. If anyone has scientific reasoning to suggest otherwise I'm all ears, but the cynic in me isn't willing to take ARE's commercial web site as sole evidence.
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