Advice on this heatsink

[furrylaser]

Ok so i salvaged a heatsink out of an old computer, and i just want your advice/reactions and how you think it would perform. Im using this for a lab 1 watt 445nm laser.

edit: also do you think it would absorb a lot of heat? Could it increase the duty cycles substantially?


Thanks!

 

[bhwollen]

should be good. Looks cool too!

 

[ndrew2505]

lol i like the ones in the background better! looks like a nice sink though.. plenty of fins for good heat dissipation..

 

[furrylaser]

heh yeah i bought a lot of stuff from your site very quick shipping + quality.
Would i just bond the module to the sink with thermal epoxy used for bonding cpu chips to heatsinks?

 

[bobhaha]

Looks like you drilled out the hole too large. You are better off with a pressfit into the heatsink adding a bit of acrtic silver.

But if you can't do that (like now) it will be hard to get a setscrew in there to 1, hold it in the heatsink and 2, keep a constant contact point between heatsink and module. Try look for a point of enterance, other wise you might have to start over (I would... but that's just me. No offense).