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- Radioactive_Legos commented on Makersauce's instructable Student hacks: Sub zero any drink in 60 seconds with this gadget
- Radioactive_Legos commented on Radioactive_Legos's instructable Lithium Polymer Etiquette: A Comprehensive Guide to Working with LiPoView Instructable »
You can draw current at whatever rate you'd like, up to the burst rate.
- Radioactive_Legos commented on Radioactive_Legos's instructable Lithium Polymer Etiquette: A Comprehensive Guide to Working with LiPoView Instructable »
Great, so it sounds like we're in agreement that KofiA5 should stick with OEM batteries :)
- Radioactive_Legos commented on Radioactive_Legos's instructable Lithium Polymer Etiquette: A Comprehensive Guide to Working with LiPoView Instructable »
Ehhh, I wouldn't recommend it. It's probably a 1S2P pack, so there are two cells in there. The tablet could be reading voltages from both cells while in use, so dropping in a single cell LiPo could confuse and/or damage it. Unless it's an OEM part or you've read of other people doing this for your particular device, I wouldn't risk it.
Awesome idea! You've got about a quarter of the story as to why this works. The first bit, like you said, is that rotating the can continually exposes "new" fluid to the inside surface of the can, making heat transfer into the ice water more efficiently. In addition to this, the same is happening with the ice water on the outside of the can, exposing "new" cold water to the outside surface. Convective heat flux is described as h*(T_s - T_infinity), so the greater the difference in temperatures around the area of interaction, the higher the heat flux. But see that h in the equation? That's the convective coefficient, and that also increases when you spin the can. h is proportional (though not linearly) to the relative velocity of the two mediums, so spinning the can the…
see more »Awesome idea! You've got about a quarter of the story as to why this works. The first bit, like you said, is that rotating the can continually exposes "new" fluid to the inside surface of the can, making heat transfer into the ice water more efficiently. In addition to this, the same is happening with the ice water on the outside of the can, exposing "new" cold water to the outside surface. Convective heat flux is described as h*(T_s - T_infinity), so the greater the difference in temperatures around the area of interaction, the higher the heat flux. But see that h in the equation? That's the convective coefficient, and that also increases when you spin the can. h is proportional (though not linearly) to the relative velocity of the two mediums, so spinning the can thereby increases h as well! If you're interested in the specifics of this, look up Nusselt Number correlations.