Heatsinking the Groove 2

[rocket689]

Hey everybody. I'm putting together a LPC-815 right now, and I'm using one of the Doc's Groove 2 drivers. He's not the best with answering questions promptly, so I figured I'd ask here after searching the forum thoroughly.

What components on the groove need to be heatsinked? I have a flat driver sink milled out in the sink for the host. I was just going to use some Arctic Silver epoxy to set it there.

Thanks!

 

[DTR]

What current are you running? If you are under 400mA I don't think any sinking is required. But if you want to it is the large flat chip on the top of the driver. You can look to see how I did it here in this build where I used three of them in parallel.

http://laserpointerforums.com/f52/1...st-w-3xgroove-2-drivers-58497.html#post826958

 

[rocket689]

Sweet! I'll probably be running around 400ma, but I think I might be putting one of scopeguys lpc-826's in later on. I figured it was best to heatsink anyway. Plus, I need to epoxy it to the driver mount anyway. Thanks DTR! :san: