Re: [SG,DS] Power Armour Weapon

At 5:51 PM +0100 3/11/03, KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de wrote:
>
>Which I read to mean 'good enough'.

Good enough to be the standard on modern high performance 
reciprocating engines.

>  > All but one of my
>>  vehicles has it as a cooling system. What about your cars?
>
>My car has a ventilator behind the radiator. Most cars I know of have
them.

And, based on an environmental system, as well as a need to cool the 
power supply, the user and other systems on the power armor, adding 
one additional cooling circuit to the system doesn't necessarily 
complicate things. Does a transmission cooler add that much 
complexity?

>Only engines with large areas exposed to the air (e.g.motorcycles) or
low
>power can dispense with it.

Rear engined Porche's were air cooled for a long time iirc. So were 
VW Beetles and a number of other cars.

>This started off with "A circulating system with a small radiator and
>reservoir could operate more efficiently". This depends on what exactly
you
>mean by 'more efficiently' (e.g.cost, weight, rate of heat transfer),
but
>for most purposes, allowing the cooling fluid to evaporate into free
air
>saves you the radiator, pumps, flow-back pipes etc.

But it incurs a penalty of having to add fluid to the system every so
often.
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