Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit 122° Fahrenheit

Re:Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit ... by azernik on Friday June 18, 2021 @11:15PM (#27557421)

That's a subsystem with three major sections, a working fluid, and its own heat rejection requirements. A resistive heater contains two parts - a properly placed wire and a switch.

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Re:Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit ... by catblast01 on Saturday June 19, 2021 @03:09AM (#27558451)

Still say “sophisticated reverse heat engine” is a needlessly verbose way of saying refrigerator or heat pump. Also how sophisticated is something that is mass produced for devices sold under $100 in every big box retailer.

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Re:Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit ... by mschuster91 on Saturday June 19, 2021 @04:11AM (#27558768)

A refrigerator for a kitchen has drastically different constraints. The outside temp will always be something between 15-30 °C, the inside temperature will usually stay relatively constant unless you dump hot stuff in there.

Cooling for active outdoor technology has extremely variable outside temperatures (basically anything from -20 to 60 °C, or more if you take direct sunshine into account) and a constant generation of heat to be taken away.

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Re:Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit ... by m4rtink on Saturday June 19, 2021 @10:22PM (#27566535)

Still I can't really think about any mass produced consumer item that includes a heat pump and is not either part of building/car cooling/heeting or a refrigerator itself.

Like mobile base stations of course have AC units and some amateur astronomers use peltier cooled sensors, but I would hardly call these mass produced consumer items.

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