Hi Simon,

My experience with setting up new systems is that wattage has a direct relationship to heat production, even though the labels may be for peak power consumption.  Turnkey systems will provide you with a total wattage of the system, or you can go through each item and total it up.  Either way, total watts gives the heating/cooling guys a reasonable figure to work with.  Local heat sources, such as argon lasers or multiple power sources/computers in a rack can be selectively vented to avoid their contribution to the heat load in the entire room.
C


Carl A. Boswell, Ph.D.
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Univ. of Arizona
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Hi all.  I am putting together room specs for new microscopes.  Has anyone measured real heat production from all diode based confocals (no argon lasers, no mercury bulbs). Actually real heat loads from any microscopes would be interesting (probably to many of us).
S

Simon C. Watkins Ph.D
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