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Old 02-06-2011, 03:41 PM   #4326 (permalink)
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But you quickly find out why Paul chose the approach he did. You have to figure out where to put the electrical isolation. The thermal pad material is expensive, and the better you do widening the heat flow path, the more you have to buy. And the mounting hardware really wants to electrically bridge your isolation.
Actually, you quickly find out why Ian Hooper in Australia did what he did. haha. I just copied other people's work (with their permission) and bought a mill and smart people started helping me.

I like that bus bar idea!

With water cooling, is it bad if the water is in direct contact with an electrically live material? Really pure water is a terrible conductor.
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