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#5833
Condensation 10 Months ago Karma: 177
There has been a ton of talk about condensation on forum so I figured it time to make a sticky.

Cooling below ambient temperature may result in condensation problems, which is something you'll definitely want to avoid. Using insulating tape will prevent condensation on the parts you can insulate, but it won't protect you from condensation on cooled components themselves.

Whether condensation occurs, depends on the temperature of the cooled object, on the ambient temperature, and on the air humidity. Here is a table that will give you an indication whether you are risking condensation problems:



All values are in °C.
Example for using this table: Ambient temperature=20°C, air humidity=65%. Result: Condensation will occur at a surface temperature (CPU, Peltier cooler) of 13.2°C

I hope this chart will help everyone, if you still have questions feel free to ask them here.
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Re:Condensation 10 Months ago Karma: 4
What is the difference likely to be between the coolant temperature and the temperature of the block? That's basically what I was wondering...
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Re:Condensation 10 Months ago Karma: 177
The MTEC sensor is located on the FHE (Blue Block) so the coolant temp you see is really taken from the block.

Ive been meaning to pick up a heat gun for awhile now. Ill have my FZEs running by Dec.01, I will get a gun and run some tests once its up. Ill look into an inline temp sensor for the coolant.

Meantime if any1 else has a gun, feel free to measure the temps of the CPU block and FHE and list them along with corresponding coolant temp shown in MTEC but Im sure it will be very close to what is shown in MTEC.
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#5838
Re:Condensation 10 Months ago Karma: 1
I think I can contribute a little in this topic.

I dont have a thermal gun but for some time now I have attached a thermal sensor (of Zalman MFC-2) onto surface of one of the 4 blue FHEs (the one on the opposite side of the pump) and another sensor (of Sunbeam) on the surface of the CPU block.

I notice that the temperature shown by the MTEC Control Center software is usually 2C higher than the other 2 temperatures.
Eg Coolant Target temp = 25C, Temp on CPU block = 23C, Temp on the blue FHE = 23.5C

(BTW, I think youeffsee's table is the Dew Point table. Ambient temp + humidity gives you dew point temperature.)
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