Inside the Quark 125, pics.

[Serum]

What do you mean with spider diff? you have got the (what UE calls) 8 spider?

[smhertzog]

Sorry here are the pics

[GriffinRU]

Originally Posted by smhertzog

Sorry here are the pics

Looks like your caps are dead already...

Originally Posted by BrianG

Lol, it is pretty funny.

I don't know if I'd leave them on there when running. That's a lot of weight to be bouncing on those sensitive FETs! BTW: why do you have a sink on the caps?? Caps should never get warm unless you are constantly charging and shorting them out, and that is simply from the current flow. The majority of the heat is most likely due to the FETs heating up, which heats the traces, which then travels to surrounding components (caps). Besides, caps, being round, don't have much surface area touching the sinks.

Like Serum said; it's not a bad job. If those don't keep it cool, the it's time to give up! :)

Caps will get warm, because they eating high-voltage spikes from FET's transitions left and right. And they have ESR value which will tell you how much power loss (heat) will be dissipated by cap. And their ESR goes up with temp...

[zeropointbug]

Originally Posted by GriffinRU

Looks like your caps are dead already...



Caps will get warm, because they eating high-voltage spikes from FET's transitions left and right. And they have ESR value which will tell you how much power loss (heat) will be dissipated by cap. And their ESR goes up with temp...

ESR, yes, the lower the better, it's kinda like inductance in an AC circuit, along with physical resistance. That's why audio grade caps have ultra low ESR, the very high end systems anyways...

That Quark looks VERY exposed! Too much for my blood!

I am going to try and make my heatsink mod get the top FET's attached to the bottom of the case for additional cooling.