Comment by abound
5 hours ago
Not OP, but I asked Gemini 3.8 Flash this question (via self-hosted LibreChat) and got an excellent answer:
I'm trying to figure out how heat dissipation works. Specifically, I have a block of aluminum with extruded fins (as a heat sink) and I'm trying to understand how many 30-watt LEDs I can place on it. I have a fan as well, and I'd like to understand how fast I need to run it at different power levels (the LEDs are dimmable). I can gather measurements empirically (which I'll do), but I also want to understand the basic mathematical basis I should use for estimating these values.
How can you determine if it's explanation is good if you don't already know the answer? You are not qualified to know if it's answer is correct, by hypothesis.
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