I want to make a Mag mod with several Luxeons in serial connection. I have read about the heatsink on back of the Luxeons not beeing electrical insulated. How do you guys place the Lux's (emitter) on a heatsink, without making shortcuts. Relying on the thermic grease for insluation?
How to heatsink multi Luxeon flashlight
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chimo
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You will be safer with a non-conductive thermal adhesive (epoxy) such as Arctic Silver or Arctic Alumina.
Paul
Paul
IsaacHayes
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Plus if you're goign with white/blue/green/cyan/royalblue colors then it's negatively tied to the star, and the flash light body is usualy negative, so you're ok even if it does conduct...
It's usualy the red/redorange/amber ones you have to watch out for as they are postive connected on the slug/star.
It's usualy the red/redorange/amber ones you have to watch out for as they are postive connected on the slug/star.
VidPro
Flashlight Enthusiast
i thought that the WHITE luxeons, are not tied at all to the base? at least the 1W ones that i seriesed werent, or i was REALLY luckey /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
