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Flex 6600M Heat sin Issue - replacement

Wolfgang
Wolfgang Member ✭✭
edited June 2020 in FLEX-6000 Signature Series

Answers

  • David Decoons, wo2x
    David Decoons, wo2x Member, Super Elmer Moderator
    edited June 2020
    The new heatsink on the back of the ADC board will lower the ADC chip temperature enough for it to operate in the safe range of temperature. I have modified my 6600 several months ago as per the instructions and I have not had problems. Dave wo2x
  • Bill -VA3WTB
    Bill -VA3WTB Member ✭✭✭
    edited September 2018
    The back plain of the ADC board is a cooling plain, it has been discovered that the cooling from the back has a much better cooling effect then on the chip itself. This is in part that the chip has a plastic coating on it that hinders cooling. If they had realized this from the designe stage they would have done it this way from the start.
  • Bill -VA3WTB
    Bill -VA3WTB Member ✭✭✭
    edited March 2020
  • Wolfgang
    Wolfgang Member ✭✭
    edited September 2018
  • WQ2H - Jim Poulette
    WQ2H - Jim Poulette Member
    edited September 2018
  • Bill -VA3WTB
    Bill -VA3WTB Member ✭✭✭
    edited September 2018
    Un like many kinds of boards, the boards used in the flex have cooling back plans to cool components. As I mentioned, the 6500 needs no heat sinks on the ADC because the back plane cools the ADC more then It needs.
  • WQ2H - Jim Poulette
    WQ2H - Jim Poulette Member
    edited September 2018

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