bicit
Well-Known Member
I think it was bridgelux that put out an image showing that graphite pads don't fill the voids quite as effectively as thermal paste. I can't seem to find it anymore though.he suggested not to use a graphite pad on a Vero when mounted on aluminnum....Corrosion will set in more quickly or along those lines....He actually didn't go off on Cree kind of and mentioned that the Ceramic base would in theory work better with graphite pads on aluminum...Again I am paraphrasing very shittily and there might me more context....
I know I don't have the big fancy data sets that y'all are working on...
but I don't own or build lights for money...Just to facilitate my growing urges ....so the Datasets are slow to never happening in my case, simply because this ain't my job
That said....I have been using Graftech up to 25 watts Pd on variety of Diodes....Vero's the longest though @ 4-5+ months now @ 23 watt Pd rough estimate, currently in the flower tent too....
Few others are on the radar, especially the PLC ones, but I find no reason they are not functional. Anecdotally only unfortunately.
I may have to pick some up to test out. I wonder if there is an appreciable difference in temps.