NeoMoses
02-10-02, 02:59 AM
I'm your standard poor college student with lots of ideas. So I figured I'd put some of these theories I'm learning about to the test. (I'm a Mechanical Engineering Student.)
I'd like to make a CPU die simulator to test out some of my heatsink ideas. Unfortunately, I'm a poor college student. So, I'd like to put something together and stay under $30 US dollars, if possible. I'm gonna try to find some old appliances that don't work anymore and steal the heating cores from them (i.e. toasters, coffee makers, hot plates...) to heat up my "Die." Do you think this will work?
One more question. How/where do I attach the temperature probe(s)? I'm guessing I'll use thermocouples that will plug into a multimeter, but I'm not very experienced with setting up the instrumentation side of experiments. Any help in this area would be much appreciated.
Hopefully I can come up with a cheap and easy way to compare some of my ideas without using my computer as a guinea pig. :beer:
I'd like to make a CPU die simulator to test out some of my heatsink ideas. Unfortunately, I'm a poor college student. So, I'd like to put something together and stay under $30 US dollars, if possible. I'm gonna try to find some old appliances that don't work anymore and steal the heating cores from them (i.e. toasters, coffee makers, hot plates...) to heat up my "Die." Do you think this will work?
One more question. How/where do I attach the temperature probe(s)? I'm guessing I'll use thermocouples that will plug into a multimeter, but I'm not very experienced with setting up the instrumentation side of experiments. Any help in this area would be much appreciated.
Hopefully I can come up with a cheap and easy way to compare some of my ideas without using my computer as a guinea pig. :beer: