Prestone Brake cleaner is very flammable!

Charlie Brown, it was already dead. i salvaged all i could from it.

there are more pictures of that tormented ZZ that decided to die.

The motor's going to make the same amount of heat (with the same usage) no matter what your heat sink is made of. Would you rather have all that heat right on the sink, which is specifically designed to deal with it, or would you rather it just stays right around the car's circuits?

Put the stock sink back on, they wouldn't have built it in if it was better to have something as simple as tin foil.

:rolleyes:
The heatsink should get hot, that means its pulling heat away from the motor.


And your car feels hotter to the touch than your brothers because he has the headsink, which is getting rid of the heat, while yours doesnt:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

The heat sink is wrapped around the freakin motor! The heat sink doesn't just "soak up" the heat?! :rolleyes:

It gets hot so that other parts don't have to.
I don't see what's so hard about this.

So you beleive that the heat sink absorbs the heat?

yes, that's what heatsinks are designed to do , that's all they do nothing more nothing less.

heat sink

n : a piece of metal specially designed to conduct (and radiate) heat

Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University

heat sink



<hardware> /heet sink/ (from "sink", electronics jargon for
something which takes in current) A piece of thermally
conductive metal attached to a semiconductor or other
electronic device and designed to prevent it from overheating
by conducting heat away from it and radiating it to the
environment. Heat sinks often have fins to increase their
surface area. They occasionally have fans attached. Heat
sink compound can be smeared between the device and the heat
sink to improve thermal conduction.

(1997-06-10)

Why do you think they call it a "heat sink" if it wasnt suppose to be used to gather heat. And why do you think that a mulit-million dollar corporation (RS) would be stupid enough to add something to their product that would just screw it up?

Dude, You need to learn a little before postin stuff here, At least terying to make someone else feel wrong. At least learn to read a dicionary like maikeru did for you. Why do you think on an amp, or even a radiator has all those fins on it? To disapate heat.....I thought it was known by all. Guess not.


By the way, Way to go Maikeru. If you didnt do the dictionary thing, I would have.

A radiator is nothing like the heat sink that come with RS motors.

What is the difference between the "heat sink" and wrapping the motor in foil?

The principal is the same....They both have fins of metal on them to disapate the heat that they collect. The heat sync on the xmod collects heat from the moter directly, A radiator collects heat from the water which is the conductor of the heat and then the fins, as well as the ones from the xmod disipates the heat acordingly. The aluminum foil does not work....... OHHHHHH never mind....some peoples children. AARRRGGGGHHHHH

I sudjest that you then wrap tin foil on your computer's CPU. See if it preforms the same. However if you smell a bunring smell unplug the computer.

Tinfoil is really thin, and cannot disipate heat as fast as an aluminum heatsink.

I don't know much about computers, but are the computers shell a heat sink?

dude, newbitowner, you are the most retarted perosn in this forum! the shell of the computer isn't the heat sink...open up the computer and look for somethig that is metal with metal fins on it...thats the heatsink. The reason the heat sink is hot is becvuase it is taking the heat away from the motor. That piece is supposed to be hot if its doing its job. the heatsink is hot so other parts aren't...do a little research before you start making post thinking you know stuff. You ask a physics professor...hell clear it up...till then, go read something:rolleyes: