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Can hydraulic brake levers get hot when brakes overheat?
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If your hydraulic brakes get hot, can this heat ever travel to your brake levers. Can your levers feel hot or is this my imagination?
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If your hydraulic brakes get hot, can this heat ever travel to your brake levers. Can your levers feel hot or is this my imagination?
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Your hands can get hot, from the muscles working, the friction between hand and lever, and the lack of airflow.
– Daniel R Hicks
10 hours ago
The fluid will expand a bit and your hands will feel the levers becoming stiffer which feels like they're pushing back out on their own a bit. Could that be causing a perception of heat ?
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If your hydraulic brakes get hot, can this heat ever travel to your brake levers. Can your levers feel hot or is this my imagination?
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If your hydraulic brakes get hot, can this heat ever travel to your brake levers. Can your levers feel hot or is this my imagination?
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Your hands can get hot, from the muscles working, the friction between hand and lever, and the lack of airflow.
– Daniel R Hicks
10 hours ago
The fluid will expand a bit and your hands will feel the levers becoming stiffer which feels like they're pushing back out on their own a bit. Could that be causing a perception of heat ?
– Criggie♦
1 hour ago
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Your hands can get hot, from the muscles working, the friction between hand and lever, and the lack of airflow.
– Daniel R Hicks
10 hours ago
The fluid will expand a bit and your hands will feel the levers becoming stiffer which feels like they're pushing back out on their own a bit. Could that be causing a perception of heat ?
– Criggie♦
1 hour ago
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Your hands can get hot, from the muscles working, the friction between hand and lever, and the lack of airflow.
– Daniel R Hicks
10 hours ago
Your hands can get hot, from the muscles working, the friction between hand and lever, and the lack of airflow.
– Daniel R Hicks
10 hours ago
The fluid will expand a bit and your hands will feel the levers becoming stiffer which feels like they're pushing back out on their own a bit. Could that be causing a perception of heat ?
– Criggie♦
1 hour ago
The fluid will expand a bit and your hands will feel the levers becoming stiffer which feels like they're pushing back out on their own a bit. Could that be causing a perception of heat ?
– Criggie♦
1 hour ago
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I've never heard of anyone having that issue before. The heat would have to travel all the way up the hose, even then still having to warm up all of the body of the brake lever before heating the part that you would pull. If you're pulling your brakes very hard for a long time, then it's more likely to be related to the strain of pulling them or cutting circulation.
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Since the brake fluid is constrained in a narrow tube, the transfer up it would have to be entirely by conduction: there'd be no appreciable convection. That conduction would be slowed by the cooling effect of air passing over the brake line. So I agree that it's very unlikely that brake heat will reach the levers.
– David Richerby
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No, the thermal conductivity of brake hose/fluid is way too low.
I've run the numbers on this -- very roughly to make the calculations simpler. I've assumed the hose isn't cooled by airflow for some reason and a solid hose or equivalently that the fluid has the same thermal conductivity. Even the lever is assumed not to lose any heat to the air. All these assumptions maximise the amount of heat delivered to the lever.
Lets assume the hose is PTFE, which decomposes at 200°C and has a thermal conductivity of 0.5 W/m.K (the highest value I saw). I'll take a hose outside diameter of 6 mm, length 1 m. To feel warm the lever would have to get to something like 40°C, giving a temperature drop of 160°C at the point where the caliper end of the hose got so it it would be giving off toxic fumes, i.e. the absolute maximum.
Working this through, you'd be conducting 2 mW of heat to the lever. If the lever is 100 g of aluminium with a specific heat capacity of 900 J/kgK, this 2 mW it would take 12.5 hours to warm by 1°C.
Some steels have 100× the thermal conductivity of PTFE. Brake cables could conduct 200 mW for the same caliper temperature, and only take 7.5 minutes to warm by 1°C - but still an hour or two of non-stop braking to get from ambient to warm.
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I've never heard of anyone having that issue before. The heat would have to travel all the way up the hose, even then still having to warm up all of the body of the brake lever before heating the part that you would pull. If you're pulling your brakes very hard for a long time, then it's more likely to be related to the strain of pulling them or cutting circulation.
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Since the brake fluid is constrained in a narrow tube, the transfer up it would have to be entirely by conduction: there'd be no appreciable convection. That conduction would be slowed by the cooling effect of air passing over the brake line. So I agree that it's very unlikely that brake heat will reach the levers.
– David Richerby
10 hours ago
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I've never heard of anyone having that issue before. The heat would have to travel all the way up the hose, even then still having to warm up all of the body of the brake lever before heating the part that you would pull. If you're pulling your brakes very hard for a long time, then it's more likely to be related to the strain of pulling them or cutting circulation.
answered 10 hours ago
Carbon side upCarbon side up
1,862316
4
Since the brake fluid is constrained in a narrow tube, the transfer up it would have to be entirely by conduction: there'd be no appreciable convection. That conduction would be slowed by the cooling effect of air passing over the brake line. So I agree that it's very unlikely that brake heat will reach the levers.
– David Richerby
10 hours ago
add a comment |
I've never heard of anyone having that issue before. The heat would have to travel all the way up the hose, even then still having to warm up all of the body of the brake lever before heating the part that you would pull. If you're pulling your brakes very hard for a long time, then it's more likely to be related to the strain of pulling them or cutting circulation.
answered 10 hours ago
Carbon side upCarbon side up
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I've never heard of anyone having that issue before. The heat would have to travel all the way up the hose, even then still having to warm up all of the body of the brake lever before heating the part that you would pull. If you're pulling your brakes very hard for a long time, then it's more likely to be related to the strain of pulling them or cutting circulation.
answered 10 hours ago
Carbon side upCarbon side up
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answered 10 hours ago
Carbon side upCarbon side up
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Since the brake fluid is constrained in a narrow tube, the transfer up it would have to be entirely by conduction: there'd be no appreciable convection. That conduction would be slowed by the cooling effect of air passing over the brake line. So I agree that it's very unlikely that brake heat will reach the levers.
– David Richerby
10 hours ago
add a comment |
4
Since the brake fluid is constrained in a narrow tube, the transfer up it would have to be entirely by conduction: there'd be no appreciable convection. That conduction would be slowed by the cooling effect of air passing over the brake line. So I agree that it's very unlikely that brake heat will reach the levers.
– David Richerby
10 hours ago
4
4
Since the brake fluid is constrained in a narrow tube, the transfer up it would have to be entirely by conduction: there'd be no appreciable convection. That conduction would be slowed by the cooling effect of air passing over the brake line. So I agree that it's very unlikely that brake heat will reach the levers.
– David Richerby
10 hours ago
Since the brake fluid is constrained in a narrow tube, the transfer up it would have to be entirely by conduction: there'd be no appreciable convection. That conduction would be slowed by the cooling effect of air passing over the brake line. So I agree that it's very unlikely that brake heat will reach the levers.
– David Richerby
10 hours ago
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No, the thermal conductivity of brake hose/fluid is way too low.
I've run the numbers on this -- very roughly to make the calculations simpler. I've assumed the hose isn't cooled by airflow for some reason and a solid hose or equivalently that the fluid has the same thermal conductivity. Even the lever is assumed not to lose any heat to the air. All these assumptions maximise the amount of heat delivered to the lever.
Lets assume the hose is PTFE, which decomposes at 200°C and has a thermal conductivity of 0.5 W/m.K (the highest value I saw). I'll take a hose outside diameter of 6 mm, length 1 m. To feel warm the lever would have to get to something like 40°C, giving a temperature drop of 160°C at the point where the caliper end of the hose got so it it would be giving off toxic fumes, i.e. the absolute maximum.
Working this through, you'd be conducting 2 mW of heat to the lever. If the lever is 100 g of aluminium with a specific heat capacity of 900 J/kgK, this 2 mW it would take 12.5 hours to warm by 1°C.
Some steels have 100× the thermal conductivity of PTFE. Brake cables could conduct 200 mW for the same caliper temperature, and only take 7.5 minutes to warm by 1°C - but still an hour or two of non-stop braking to get from ambient to warm.
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No, the thermal conductivity of brake hose/fluid is way too low.
I've run the numbers on this -- very roughly to make the calculations simpler. I've assumed the hose isn't cooled by airflow for some reason and a solid hose or equivalently that the fluid has the same thermal conductivity. Even the lever is assumed not to lose any heat to the air. All these assumptions maximise the amount of heat delivered to the lever.
Lets assume the hose is PTFE, which decomposes at 200°C and has a thermal conductivity of 0.5 W/m.K (the highest value I saw). I'll take a hose outside diameter of 6 mm, length 1 m. To feel warm the lever would have to get to something like 40°C, giving a temperature drop of 160°C at the point where the caliper end of the hose got so it it would be giving off toxic fumes, i.e. the absolute maximum.
Working this through, you'd be conducting 2 mW of heat to the lever. If the lever is 100 g of aluminium with a specific heat capacity of 900 J/kgK, this 2 mW it would take 12.5 hours to warm by 1°C.
Some steels have 100× the thermal conductivity of PTFE. Brake cables could conduct 200 mW for the same caliper temperature, and only take 7.5 minutes to warm by 1°C - but still an hour or two of non-stop braking to get from ambient to warm.
answered 6 hours ago
Chris HChris H
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No, the thermal conductivity of brake hose/fluid is way too low.
I've run the numbers on this -- very roughly to make the calculations simpler. I've assumed the hose isn't cooled by airflow for some reason and a solid hose or equivalently that the fluid has the same thermal conductivity. Even the lever is assumed not to lose any heat to the air. All these assumptions maximise the amount of heat delivered to the lever.
Lets assume the hose is PTFE, which decomposes at 200°C and has a thermal conductivity of 0.5 W/m.K (the highest value I saw). I'll take a hose outside diameter of 6 mm, length 1 m. To feel warm the lever would have to get to something like 40°C, giving a temperature drop of 160°C at the point where the caliper end of the hose got so it it would be giving off toxic fumes, i.e. the absolute maximum.
Working this through, you'd be conducting 2 mW of heat to the lever. If the lever is 100 g of aluminium with a specific heat capacity of 900 J/kgK, this 2 mW it would take 12.5 hours to warm by 1°C.
Some steels have 100× the thermal conductivity of PTFE. Brake cables could conduct 200 mW for the same caliper temperature, and only take 7.5 minutes to warm by 1°C - but still an hour or two of non-stop braking to get from ambient to warm.
answered 6 hours ago
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No, the thermal conductivity of brake hose/fluid is way too low.
I've run the numbers on this -- very roughly to make the calculations simpler. I've assumed the hose isn't cooled by airflow for some reason and a solid hose or equivalently that the fluid has the same thermal conductivity. Even the lever is assumed not to lose any heat to the air. All these assumptions maximise the amount of heat delivered to the lever.
Lets assume the hose is PTFE, which decomposes at 200°C and has a thermal conductivity of 0.5 W/m.K (the highest value I saw). I'll take a hose outside diameter of 6 mm, length 1 m. To feel warm the lever would have to get to something like 40°C, giving a temperature drop of 160°C at the point where the caliper end of the hose got so it it would be giving off toxic fumes, i.e. the absolute maximum.
Working this through, you'd be conducting 2 mW of heat to the lever. If the lever is 100 g of aluminium with a specific heat capacity of 900 J/kgK, this 2 mW it would take 12.5 hours to warm by 1°C.
Some steels have 100× the thermal conductivity of PTFE. Brake cables could conduct 200 mW for the same caliper temperature, and only take 7.5 minutes to warm by 1°C - but still an hour or two of non-stop braking to get from ambient to warm.
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Your hands can get hot, from the muscles working, the friction between hand and lever, and the lack of airflow.
– Daniel R Hicks
10 hours ago
The fluid will expand a bit and your hands will feel the levers becoming stiffer which feels like they're pushing back out on their own a bit. Could that be causing a perception of heat ?
– Criggie♦
1 hour ago