Recent content by bigmeanie

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    Discussion What's the maximum usable thickness for thermal pads? (Before they become an insulator)

    Copper wire mesh works pretty decent as well, and if you get arts-n-crafty you can use it and paste to fill in very large gaps. I'll use thermal epoxy to glue down the edges of the mesh to my heat sink material, and fill the insides of it up with paste. I use to use this to glue heat sinks in...
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    Log Deskmini x300 "Turbine", a 12vDC brickless Vehicle build

    Maybe 4 of these in parallel if you wanted to have a wide input voltage range and still meet your power requirement. I've used those to run video cards and they do pretty alright all things considered, and these do have some pretty decent efficiency.
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    Log Deskmini x300 "Turbine", a 12vDC brickless Vehicle build

    I made an account just to reply to this (I was looking for a supplier of thin mini motherboards like those found in the beelink mini pc) I've done the solar/rv thing off and on for years and you are going to need one solid dc-dc converter between you and your battery, just for filtration, and...