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Old 04-10-2009, 06:48 PM   #852 (permalink)
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Hey Ben! Now is the time I wish I would have made the control section separate, only plugged in, rather than soldered to the power section. Oh well! Version 2! ya!

Do you have like a couple pieces of wood, so that the controller can be suspended in the air by setting the bus bars on the wood, with the heat sink facing up?

Next, unscrew the 2 big screws from the top of the heat sink.

Now, the heatsink is screwed to a sheet of lexan. To remove that lexan (and the heatsink at the same time), just pull real hard on the heatsink! haha!

There aren't any screws attaching the lexan sheet (which is screwed into the heat sink) it to the rest of the controller body. It's just that clear caulking stuff keeping it stuck there.

Once the heat sink/ lexan sheet is off, you will see the capacitors/diodes/mosfets.
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