"Apply Arctic Silver 5 (pretty much the best available) heatsink goo onto the faces between the star and the body. Tighten the screws.
Now we need to remove resistor R04 because it is somewhat under-rated for the ~0.4 Watts it needs to dissipate inside a hot body... It is shown here:"
Posted by: mark2c
Posted in: Building L E D Night Lights
Posted on: Fri 24/Jul/09 12:15am
Views: 685
"Cover off:"
Posted by: mark2c
Posted in: Building L E D Night Lights
Posted on: Fri 24/Jul/09 12:05am
Views: 555
Posted by: jeremyb
Posted in: Building L E D Night Lights
Posted on: Wed 4/Jun/08 8:10am
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Posted by: Datsane
Posted in: Building L E D Night Lights
Posted on: Fri 2/May/08 12:01pm
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"CHECK THAT THE TORCH ACTUALLY WORKS NOW (much too hard to fix with goo everywhere)
Apply Arctic Silver 5 this time to the lip between the light's body and the LED carrier:"
Posted by: mark2c
Posted in: Building L E D Night Lights
Posted on: Fri 24/Jul/09 12:19am
Views: 460
Posted by: CleverNickName
Posted in: Building L E D Night Lights
Posted on: Sun 3/Aug/08 9:52am
Views: 1,339
"New too is the presence of heatsink goo between the LED and the star:"
Posted by: mark2c
Posted in: Building L E D Night Lights
Posted on: Fri 24/Jul/09 12:13am
Views: 593
Posted by: znomit
Posted in: Building L E D Night Lights
Posted on: Sat 23/Apr/11 10:19pm
Views: 730
"Swarf found already:"
Posted by: mark2c
Posted in: Building L E D Night Lights
Posted on: Fri 24/Jul/09 12:06am
Views: 991
"Here it is free & note the large piece of metal swarf:"
Posted by: mark2c
Posted in: Building L E D Night Lights
Posted on: Fri 24/Jul/09 12:10am
Views: 868
"Removing the retainer:"
Posted by: mark2c
Posted in: Building L E D Night Lights
Posted on: Fri 24/Jul/09 12:07am
Views: 731
"This is where we need to do something better:"
Posted by: mark2c
Posted in: Building L E D Night Lights
Posted on: Fri 24/Jul/09 12:16am
Views: 595
Posted by: ryda
Posted in: Review - Cheap Dx.com Lights For Night Riding.