[SEL] Thermo-syphon Question

[jbcast at charter.net]

---- Edd Payne <edsengns at optusnet.com.au> wrote: 
> Got to contest this Reg.The IHC  screen cooled Moguls thermo siphon and the 
> water is well below the outlet.The water expands with heat and flows over 
> the screen.There is no pump.It works great.Anyone with one of these engines 
> will tell you this.Also the water tank on my tank cooled Stover W has the 
> top water outlet above the top water level.It does the same thing as the 
> Mogul and you can see the water flowing out of the top pipe as it heats up.
> EDD PAYNE
Your  engine isn't thermo-syphon, I would say it's percolating cooling, don't know if that's the correct term. Thermo-syphon has to have everything under water to work.
J.B. Castagnos
Belle Rose, LA