DIY LED Hood: Prebuild Thoughts...

[Milad]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

I don't anyone has ever said you need a big finned heatsink, what I believe has been said is that yes with fans you can get away with smaller and cheeper forms of heat sinks, even 1.25x1.25 al tube.

what has been said though and provin is that if you have a fan failure and are not home to catch it or didn't build over temp protection into your design then that cheeper lighter heat sink puts your whole system at much more risk than a higher watt/in2 heat sink would.

got any pics of it with everything on full?

Steve

uh? Do you read all my posts or something, that you can say that for sure? Ive gotten flamed on other boards for saying you dont need the oversized heatsinks, you can use aluminium u-channel. I stopped saying it and started selling the oversized aluminium heatsinks but still tell people they can use the u-channel.