Bottlenecks and Interface Materials; Part 1 – Great Thermal Bedfellows

Bottlenecks and Interface Materials; Part 1 – Great Thermal Bedfellows

Probably due to the beer fridge, I now seem to be becoming the repository of broken electronic products with an…

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 6 – Baffles and Bottlenecks

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 6 – Baffles and Bottlenecks

For a blog series focused on thermal design there has been precious little design presented so far. Design is the…

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 5 – Time for a FloBEER

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 5 – Time for a FloBEER

All good things come to those who wait. For beer this entails a trade off between anticipation and satisfaction. If,…

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 4 – FloBEER

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 4 – FloBEER

As the ancient proverb goes; a beer fridge without beer is like X Factor, utterly pointless. You’d have thought that…

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 3 – Side Up or Upside Down?

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 3 – Side Up or Upside Down?

The futility of investigating the cooling effectiveness of any empty fridge is beginning to dawn on me, the irony of…

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 2 – TEC Effect

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 2 – TEC Effect

Beer drinkers are notoriously quiet people and as such would not want to be disturbed by the continuous hissing and…

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 1 – A Gift

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 1 – A Gift

My boss, Roland, relocated from Germany to the UK a couple of years ago and has taken to life in…