help on choosing insulator

[rebojorge]

Hi all.... I am in the process of finishing a Zen V4.

I got both channels running and have the sinks already, so now, I am trying to figure out the chasis lay out and the best way to mount the transistors, since the way they are now are running a little hot

I am trying to decide between Kapton, Delta Pads or Sil Pads

any coments.

Another question... I know that Kapton and Sil Pads are Greasless... how about Delta pads?

thanks.

 

[Netlist]

Nelson did a series of tests here:
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37262&highlight=

Here's a second link:
http://www.bcae1.com/heatsink.htm

Hope this is of some help
Good luck with the Zen.

-=Hugo=-

 

[wuffwaff]

Hi,

if you can believe the specs the kapton ones have only 0,07°K/W wich makes them the best by far.
I´ve used them for my Aleph5 and X without problems. The big advantage is that they already have some grease applied so no messing around with grease all over the place.

William

 

[rebojorge]

thanks guys.... I think I will try a Kapton and silpads... and see the results.

wufwaf:
I found some specs on kapton and found the thermal resistance to be 0.4 .... Where did you get 0.07 from?

 

[wuffwaff]

Hi,

look at the fisher datasheet:
http://www.schuro.de/Daten/Fischer/Kapton.pdf

William