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Microboost question, well general driver question

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He'll yeah, I could ship it to jeff for you bhwollen and he could fix her up nice and neat
 





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how about $5.00 for my time and silicone wire that I'll be putting on there ;)
 
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I just bought 20 ft of wire from you!!!

Edit: sounds good to me. Give me a day or 2.
 
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Okay everybody heres another question!

I have a flexdrive, that I was trying to get off of a coin that I thermally adhered it to with some arctic silver.

in getting it off, the top "lid" to the 6 pin chip, was left sticking to the coin. Now it has exposed copper looking stuff, and I don't know if it's okay to use it still

Would it kill diodes? could i re-thermally adhere it to something?
 
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hey jake, I was wondering how'd you get a microboost to hit 1.3A??? I thought those were limited to about 1.1A max... whats the solder brigde configuration to hit such high currents. I just got 2 microboosts and was gonna run them in parallel at 700mA each, but if 1 can hit 1.3A then i got more lasers i can build!
 
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most of the chips are mounted upside-down. Chances are, that's just the heat-spreader and the chip is under it. Look at the part stuck to the coin. If it looks like it has a silver block imbedded in it, then you're screwed. If all you see is the imprint of that metal heat spreader, then it *might* still work.

If it still works, theoretically you could get better heat transfer from the chip die to a heatsink. Keep in mind, though, that the copper exposed metal is most likely not flaoting, but connected to ground.
 




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