if you check, you'll find brass & copper both have a higher rate or co-efficient of thermal conductivity than aluminum - that was reason mfgrs like Henry Ford used brass for their radiators back in the early 1900s.
CF isn't hard to machine once laid up and cured, but it can be mold injected. Back about 2004 i fabricated a heatsink from CF simply by forming it into "C" channels and bonding them side by side onto the bottom of an aluminum oil pan - dropped my oil temps by 11 degrees F. Basically it was a flat plate of CF, with ribs standing about 3/4" tall and spaced 1/2" apart. For the purposes of a heatsink for these SSDs, i'd lay up CF cloth till it was 1/4" thick, cure it to 175F, then mill channels or grooves in it maybe .090" wide, leaving ribs standing .185" tall and .060" thick. Then cut it into squares the same dimensions or slightly larger than the controller.
but to give you an idea of how fast it conducts heat - i took a pc of CF cloth (think in terms of fiberglass cloth before it's been laid up with epoxy resin).
I laid it over a vice and with a propane torch (1400F) heated one spot. It was surprising that i had to hold the flame the exact distance from the cloth in order to get a spot the size of a quarter (or 25 cent pc) to glow cherry red. If i let the torch move forward or away from the cloth a few mm, the glow would immediately disappear. Finally when i had it glowing cherry red, i put the torch down, cherry glowing spot immediately went black like the rest of the cloth, I waited 1-2 seconds, and was able to touch the very spot that had been glowing red - it had transferred the heat away from that spot that quickly.
Diamonds are similiar but they're also carbon based, but the order, in terms of thermal conductivity is carbon, brass, copper then aluminum.
Back to your renders, those thumbnails wouldn't expand, and at 67 my eyes ain't what they used to be.
What also hit me - those mini or SFF computers like the NUC, I'm wondering what in the hell they do or how they control the heat with the M.2 socket on the bottom side of the motherboard.
CF isn't hard to machine once laid up and cured, but it can be mold injected. Back about 2004 i fabricated a heatsink from CF simply by forming it into "C" channels and bonding them side by side onto the bottom of an aluminum oil pan - dropped my oil temps by 11 degrees F. Basically it was a flat plate of CF, with ribs standing about 3/4" tall and spaced 1/2" apart. For the purposes of a heatsink for these SSDs, i'd lay up CF cloth till it was 1/4" thick, cure it to 175F, then mill channels or grooves in it maybe .090" wide, leaving ribs standing .185" tall and .060" thick. Then cut it into squares the same dimensions or slightly larger than the controller.
but to give you an idea of how fast it conducts heat - i took a pc of CF cloth (think in terms of fiberglass cloth before it's been laid up with epoxy resin).
I laid it over a vice and with a propane torch (1400F) heated one spot. It was surprising that i had to hold the flame the exact distance from the cloth in order to get a spot the size of a quarter (or 25 cent pc) to glow cherry red. If i let the torch move forward or away from the cloth a few mm, the glow would immediately disappear. Finally when i had it glowing cherry red, i put the torch down, cherry glowing spot immediately went black like the rest of the cloth, I waited 1-2 seconds, and was able to touch the very spot that had been glowing red - it had transferred the heat away from that spot that quickly.
Diamonds are similiar but they're also carbon based, but the order, in terms of thermal conductivity is carbon, brass, copper then aluminum.
Back to your renders, those thumbnails wouldn't expand, and at 67 my eyes ain't what they used to be.
What also hit me - those mini or SFF computers like the NUC, I'm wondering what in the hell they do or how they control the heat with the M.2 socket on the bottom side of the motherboard.
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