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While setting and testing the currents of my dual driver 445 build, I noticed the test load I purchased from Modwerx got extremely hot and even produced some smoke at really high currents. Fortunately the load wasn't damaged so I decided better safe than sorry and applied a massive heatsink to it. I used a heatsink from my old AMD 3400+ CPU to do the job (it's a massive chunk of aluminum). First I had to shim the 1ohm resistor since it had a lower profile than the diodes with a piece of aluminum I cut off an extra motherboard slot cover. After that was done, I applied strips of thermal adhesive tape to the diodes and the shimmed resistor and then just stuck the whole thing to the old AMD heatsink. Normally I wouldn't document such trivial things but I'm trying to get used to the idea of pulling out my camera and taking pics of my work since I have a bad habit of forgetting to do that with my laser builds.