[SEL] Thermo-syphon Question

[Arnie Fero]

G'day Reg,

My 7 hp Crossley (aka Fat Bastard) is setup for thermo-syphon cooling.  A
couple of years ago I had it at Portland and it had a fairly large water
jacket leak.  I learned to my surprise that it would function on
"percolation cooling" as others mentioned.  There was steady steam out of
the uncovered top cooling pipe with a blurp of water from time to time.

I decided that what I actually had was "hopper cooling" with a VERY
strange hopper geometry.  8-))

See ya,  Arnie

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, R & M Ingold wrote:

> If ya aint got a pump, how can it "Circulate"?
> Gotta have water 'above' the curcuit.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Maples" <paulmaples at sbcglobal.net>
>
> > So Reg the top pipe has to be below the water level, right?
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "R & M Ingold" <randmingold at hotkey.net.au>
> >
> >> As long as the top pipe is below the water,and there is a difference in
> >> height of inlets and outlets, it will work ok.