DaddyG, you wrote....
>Good post Jon C, as you know I'm a fan of PCTC but I will NEVER >believe that AS, when applied correctly, has higher 'relative' temps >than Radio Smack.
Thanks for kind comment, and hope we understand higher 'relative' temp comment. Anyway...we didn't say bottom thermistor temp would "go up" with AS replacing RS stuff, just that it should not go down "as much" as internal temp goes down. It should go down, but not as much because the "temp drop" from internal to thermistor becomes less with the lesser bottom heat flow.
Also, additionally interesting, if you had a sensor "on the hs side of the interface", that temp should "go up", (proportionately to hs heat flow), for AS because of the "slightly increased heat flow thru that path" with no change in hs thermal res. Another instance of getting a technically correct result, but which most people would interpret as "AS is no good"...misleading if they don't understand "the heat transfer process".
>Hadn't really considered that by lowering the Thermal Resistance of >one pathway, you could infact, effect the ratios of the multiple >pathways.
Yes, most people don't consider that, and as above, can cause some temp location results to be misinterpreted.
Good dialogue DaddyG, John C.