If I have a small ic part that overheats, too small for a heatsink even, could this be used on its own to dissipate heat and prevent breakdown?
1880720
This product is a highly efficient thermal transfer interface material, to be effective, you would need something to transfer the heat to. I do not think you would find any significant difference using this on its own.
1880721
Arctic Silver cannot be used by itself. If you can cut a small piece of aluminum that you can fit in the space you have, and bond it with the Arctic Silver, this will help.
1382904
I don't know details about your application, but I doubt it, and even if it does, you have not solved the issue - heat dissipation. One side of this device gets cold, the other hot. You will still have to dissipate the heat with some heatsink and possibly fan. I would leave out this device and mount the LED to properly sized heatsink.
798433
It should be fine for any power transistors that are mounted with hardware to a heat sink. It is a grease compound, not an epoxy, so it provides no mounting strength of its own.
511621
Hi SenorFrog,Honestly I haven't done that before so I can't make any suggestion.You can visit Thermaltake website or ask their technical support.Thank you.
917303
Not unless you are planning to replace the heatsink as well. It has a little 40mm sunflower fan set into the heatsink that has already failed once for me.
1031437
Yes, it is necessary to use thermal compound for proper heat conduction to the heatsink, otherwise, the contact area would not be high enough. It's cheap.
1739790
Yes, you can if the power supply can deliver the current it consumes. Otherwise you require a separate power supply. If you look at the specs, the peltier requires around 10A. The heatsink you use requires a fan.
304
Not a good idea the heater draws close to 15 amps on its own, plus the current of the fan it might fry the circuit board. Not recommend
1962453
It most likely would over heat since it is not ment for that, but no it doesn't over clock by itself, you would have to going into bios to do it yourself
1442097
the airflow comes through about a half-inch orifice. If you're thinking of doing any kind of circuit board rework, I doubt that the airflow would be localized enough. You would probably re-flow about half the board if you tried it. This gun is for heat-shrinking and general high-temp heating. It is like other "heat guns" except it does not have the pistol grip.
1323385
Yes, but I would use a different method of mounting the cooler. Something like the radiator core support. Many times the heat cycles combined with any vibration can have disastrous effects on the radiator.
949423
Don't know exactly; we used it to attach fairly heavy heat sinks to the line drive ICs in a plasma TV and came back 24 hours later; the heat sinks were firmly attached. These ICs are mounted vertically and run hot; none of the heat sinks has come loose since they were attached about 6 months ago.
1029105
If you are using the stock heatsink then thermal compound is already applied in the packaging. If you are using an aftermarket heatsink, then you definitely want to make sure to use some if it doesn't already have it on it.
1031438
Thermal compound slightly dissipates heat and creates the necessary internal temperature within the bond between the heat sink. You will overheat whatever device within minutes, if not seconds if you do not create a sufficient bond. Look up some tutorials on the application of compound and you will get a second opinion. it will coincide with the answer I just gave you. Hope this helps you , Kev... Be safe, good luck.
937444
I wouldn't suggest overclocking with the stock heatsink I've always read that it is unsafe. You void warranty by overclocking so I personally wouldn't risk it.
1833595
Yes it can, make sure that your cooler is designed to convert to heat mode or else you will damage the cooling unit and fan.
627798
Relays do not generate heat based on load (unlike as transistors or solid state relays, which do) so heat sinks would be ineffective. Overloaded relays fail due to electrical arcing at the contacts, which sometimes causes them to weld and get stuck - this is why the rating should never be exceeded. Also, keep in mind this is the rating for the relay component only - I personally would avoid putting a full 10 Amps through the small screw-terminals and PCB traces of this board.