vonkaar said:
It's still apples and orchards...
The statement, "I'm not using a heatercore, I'm using a radiator," shouldn't be made.
well, if you want to get into a semantic argument just for the hell of it...
ra·di·a·tor - n.
1. A heating device consisting of a series of connected pipes, typically inside an upright metal structure, through which steam or hot water is circulated so as to radiate heat into the surrounding space.
2. A cooling device, as in automotive engines, through which water or other fluids circulate as a coolant.
3.
Physics. A body that emits radiation.
4. A transmitting antenna.
As for heatercores, scratch the first (and most common) definition as they do not have a series of connected pipes...they have pipes leading to them but no pipes inside (trust me, I have hacked up several with a dremel just to see what was really lurking inside the core)
pipe - n.
1. A hollow
cylinder or tube used to conduct a liquid, gas, or finely divided solid.
no such creatures in a heatercore...
As for the second definition of radiator, almost anything could be classified as a radiator provided that you can run water or another coolant through it and it produces any cooling effect whatsoever. hmmm...you could take piece of fresh fruit, hollow it out, tap it for some 3/8npt x 1/2 barb fittings, slap a 80mm fan on it and it would fit the second definition of radiator.
Q: do you use a rad or a heatercore to cool your loop?
--no, I'm not using a heatercore to cool my CPU -- I use a grapefruit that I hollowed out, drilled and tapped for barbed fittings and bolted an 80mm fan thereto....
Q:a grapefruit?
--well, it was a grapefruit - now it's a radiator.
moving right along...
heat·er core - n. - a water-to-air heat exchanger that provides heat to the passenger compartment airstream. Hot coolant from the engine circulates through the channels in the heater core.
hmmmm. I hope no one was silly enough to yank a radiator out of the front of their vehicle and bolt it under their dashboard...a radiator might be a heatercore then.
a strict reading of the definitions:
1. a heatercore is
not a radiator as it lacks tubes (which are a prerequisite for the most commonly used defintion of radiator).
2. Under the second definition...well, I think the grapefruit covered that.
3. Third definition - holy all-encompassing definition from he11 --- I suppose my cell phone is even a radiator under that definition as it most certainly emits radiation. I doubt I will be plugging the cell phone into my cooling loop any time soon though -- that job is already being handled nicely by a hollowed-out grapefruit.
4. transmitting antenna....my heatercore had better not be sending messages to big brother. nah, my core is a '77, they only send messages to big brother if you use one that was made in
1984