{"id":56562,"date":"2024-01-08T10:25:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T08:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lion-test-sites.co.za\/mica-new\/?p=56562"},"modified":"2024-01-08T10:25:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T08:25:52","slug":"a-cool-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lion-test-sites.co.za\/mica-new\/a-cool-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cool Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You will have noticed that we live in a country prone to power outages, even though they may well decrease somewhat as election time draws near next year they may well increase again shortly thereafter, and probably be with us for some years. Hence many of us have invested in alternative sources of electricity everything from back-up inverters, to rechargeable lamps, generators and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have had quite a large system installed, and it incorporates an 8kVa inverter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is mounted quite high on the wall, and generates heat when operation. Now, as we all know, warm air rises, and thus I decided to install a cooling flue that would allow that warm air to escape, to be replaced by cooler air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also decided that to ensure no rainwater could possibly drip on to the inverter or anywhere into the room that the cooling flue would not pass out through the roof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also used that well-known principle that when air is blown across the top of the tube or pipe, it creates a lower pressure in the tube or pipe and so air is drawn out. This would ensure a through-flow of air through the flue\u2026 warm air passing through and out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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