Custom (very) Quark esc heatsink...

[BrianG]

I see what you're saying. However, I personally would prefer to remove the motor wires so that I don't have to deal with the endcap when trying to reassemble. It's really not hard to desolder/resolder the motor wires - just gotta have enough heat to melt the solder quickly while overcoming the heatsink qualities of the wires/PCB traces. :)

[zeropointbug]

Thanks Cartwheels, i removed it without the motor wires. Wow, that thermal pad is one sticky mother! Only 1/3 of the pad was actually touching the case, talk about useful/less.

I just ordered some Arctic Silver adhesive last night, so it should be here thursday or friday. Just imagine if i attached the PCB directly to the heatsink :018:

Also, i think heat will bleed through the PCB and trhought the bottom FET's and then the heatsink, as the traces and PCB are quite thermally conductive after all. The water cooled units only have tubes on the side of the PCB's, and they seem to work very well...

Here is a pic. Do you guys have that pink strip in each 'phase line'?

Originally Posted by BrianG

I see what you're saying. However, I personally would prefer to remove the motor wires so that I don't have to deal with the endcap when trying to reassemble. It's really not hard to desolder/resolder the motor wires - just gotta have enough heat to melt the solder quickly while overcoming the heatsink qualities of the wires/PCB traces. :)

I thought I'd mention the other way. Some people don't like to soldier and mine was brand new and wanted to disturb it as little as possible. This makes it quick and simple without soldiering.

After modded we could call it the 125C, C for cool.