Firebrand
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I have four of these chips/mods up and running, everything seems to be alright, but I do have a question.
How hot is too hot?
I used the CPU heatsink that I described in the original post, the Dell 9y692. I was hopeful that I could mount 2 mods on each, but the sinks are slightly smaller than what is needed to fit two mods, so I ended up with one mod per sink.
When these get warmed up the sinks get hot to the touch, not enough to burn skin when touched, but enough to make it uncomfortable to touch for more than a few seconds.
I'm not that familiar with heat ranges for LED's and I wonder, how hot is too hot?
Is what I described too hot?
Should I be looking at further, more active cooling? Muffin fans perhaps?
Input appreciated.
(As a follow up, I was able to finally solder the speaker wire to the mods)
How hot is too hot?
I used the CPU heatsink that I described in the original post, the Dell 9y692. I was hopeful that I could mount 2 mods on each, but the sinks are slightly smaller than what is needed to fit two mods, so I ended up with one mod per sink.
When these get warmed up the sinks get hot to the touch, not enough to burn skin when touched, but enough to make it uncomfortable to touch for more than a few seconds.
I'm not that familiar with heat ranges for LED's and I wonder, how hot is too hot?
Is what I described too hot?
Should I be looking at further, more active cooling? Muffin fans perhaps?
Input appreciated.
(As a follow up, I was able to finally solder the speaker wire to the mods)