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7th February 2005, 11:45 PM
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Homemade heatsinks
Anyone want a homemade heatsink? About 12 x 3 x 1" and four pounds of cast aluminum.
   I can cut that backplane off, need to do that anyway... Tim
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8th February 2005, 03:26 AM
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Yeppers. Made this for the induction heater project, since I need some thermal mass for the transistors carrying a kilowatt or three...
- I can also make one with vertical fins, which would be a bit more helpful since no one seems to like forced air cooling. Tim
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8th February 2005, 04:14 AM
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Forced air cooling keeps me cool during the summer in my house. Context!
Anyhow, is that as smooth as you can cast the surface? Personally I think it's  to do your own metalcasting...But my wife would take one look and say  and make me 
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8th February 2005, 01:46 PM
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Yep, it's all on my website under casting:
http://www.abymc.com/tmoranwms/Metal_Casting.html The finned surface is *very* rough indeed, I'm going to try some finer sand. Those grooves are pretty tight and the coarse system sand I use isn't very good at it... How 'bout $20 each? Tim
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