Fun bits of information - electric load bank
I subscribe to a couple of odd geek email lists and one of them had a thread on how to dissipate Five Kilowatts of electricity as heat.
A reply:
My day job is large industrial power supplies. The test racks have large resistive loads with big fans exhausting to the outside. Cheap & simple. Safety is by several strings of temperature cutouts wired in series. We usually get work experience students in to wire them up.
What was fascinating:
I met an engineer who made a battery charger for one of our submarines. This was tested by putting the load bank in a dumpster, and keeping it filled up with water using a firehose!
Now that is a lot of heat!
Posted by DaveH at October 3, 2012 8:19 PM