You can use IR camera if you can find one...jk
At 05:44 PM 4/15/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Does anyone have any suggestions on how to best measure temperature of hard
>drive critical components?
>
>I am working from a more macro level, assembling hard drives into swappable
>sleds in electronic enclosures.  Enclosure design may or may not be
>providing sufficient air flow past the hard drive HDA, and other chips
>commonly identified as U14, U5, etc.
>
>I am duct-taping stiff thermocouple wires onto the chip outer surfaces, and
>flipping the drive over and mounting it onto a sled (the thermocouples and
>exposed chips are wrapped by my metal sled).  I'm then taking the other end
>of the wires, and with K connections, using a Fluke 52.
>
>Duct tape is horrendous for a thousand reasons.
>Adhesive with activator won't hold the stiff wire tip in place long enough
>to cure.
>I'm looking into thermocouple wires with self-adhesive tabs.
>
>Any added suggestions I'd greatly appreciate.
>
>Thank you,
>Sandra Davis
>
>Sandra R. Davis, Mechanical Engineer
>Artecon, Inc., 6305 El Camino Real, Carlsbad, CA  92009
>Phone: (760) 931-5507, Fax: (760) 931-5527
>email: [log in to unmask], URL: http://www.artecon.com
>
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