Al Lorona wrote: > Here's a dumb question from a person with little thermal engineering > knowledge: As these various heat sinks are being compared, does 1° deg C. > really matter?
Not a dumb question at all. (There are no dumb questions, in fact. Just varying degrees of patience in answering them.) A 1-degree difference might matter if you were trying to eek out every last second of operating time before the KX3's firmware drops power from 10-12 watts down to 5 watts (or some other metric). For the vast majority of KX3 users, the factory-provided "slim" heat sink is entirely adequate, and an extra degree C isn't really relevant. Of 6000+ radios shipped, only a few hundred have felt compelled to add larger heat sinks. That's a good thing, since we designed the rig to be compact and lightweight. 73, Wayne N6KR ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
