Gents:
Please excuse my ignorance here but being a retired professional engineer and owning the complete KX? Series, it seems to me why rely upon natural convection alone? If you have the means (indoors) why not provide yourself a simple DC fan blowing over the heat sink and move the convection component to forced convection? Forced convection has significant higher heat transfer than the conduction/natural convection model that the Elecraft KX? Series uses. While going to extended surface area that the Pro Audio fins gives, nothing beats a blast of cooling air over these fins to move the heat transfer to a much higher value than natural convection alone. Another way of saying this is why does a car draw air over the radiator ( extended surface) ? Regards, Mike K8KE ______________________________________________________________ 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]
