Improving heat sinking on P60 style drop ins.

[PCC]

I won't need to wrap my drop-ins when I'm done with them...

 

[ledmitter_nli]

Can anyone chime in about using soda can strips wrapped around the P60...

The question is, will the thin interior anti-oxidizing coating and outside print coating impede heat transfer by any noteworthy amount?

 

[RI Chevy]

I use the soda can (thin strip) on most all of my drop ins. Works very well.

 

[Norm]

From post #1

I then polished off the print with steel wool

Can anyone chime in about using soda can strips wrapped around the P60...

The question is, will the thin interior anti-oxidizing coating and outside print coating impede heat transfer by any noteworthy amount?

I still use this method and find it far tidier than tape or foil.

Norm

 

[DellSuperman]

My personal experiences with aluminum or copper wrap is that when I want to change them between my other SolarForce host, they tend to have fitting issues.
Surefire host are much narrower as compared to other host that I have & hence require much less wraps.

I would wanna try the tin wrap since most reflectors are of standard size & the extra layers of metals follow the host and not the dropin. There should be less of those fitting issues when I swap dropins around.

- JonK

 

[thijsco19]

I think the best thing you can do is make a 'spacer' for the dropin to fill up the gap.

This is what I did,



The only thing left to do is mount it with some thermal paste so the thermal path is more increased.

It's a XML dropin for the ultrafire WF-501B.

Here's the thread: http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb...501B-P60-mod&p=4090730&highlight=#post4090730 .

 

[Norm]

I think the best thing you can do is make a 'spacer' for the dropin to fill up the gap.

A fantastic solution, one unfortunately not available to the majority.

Norm

 

[lunas]

they really should not have enough impact to notice

 

[1080]

Great old thread so l will give it a bump.......& ask.....

do you take off the sticker with the dropin I.D. on it....eg. like the solarforce ones

before you put them into the host????????

 

[DellSuperman]

Great old thread so l will give it a bump.......& ask.....

do you take off the sticker with the dropin I.D. on it....eg. like the solarforce ones

before you put them into the host????????

It will be best to remove them since those stickers will create some form of insulation of the heat, due to the adhesive on them.