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Heck, you might even check eBay.
I disagree. As long as you use the same host for each one. Especially if you use a common host that has seen a lot of use.
That's just it, we already know all these things. What we want to know is which of those characteristics makes a better sink for our application. It is no problem to find out the thermal conductivity and heat capacity of the metals. We're just trying to see which combination of specific heat and thermal conductivity works better to keep the running temperature of a high power laser diode lowest.
I bold that because Cyparagon's sig is a good point, "A problem well stated is a problem half solved."
Again, this is not true for what we are trying to do. We aren't testing the metals, we are testing the different metal's ability to heat sink our application.
That might be ideal, but I think the differences are either going to be big enough that it is clear that one or two metals are doing such a better job that you won't need that level of detail, or you will have them so close that it will be clear that it just doesn't matter which metal you are using.
It is like your laser power meters. Ideally you should have different calibrations for different wavelengths, but we all accept the industry standard +/- 5% and ignore that if we are testing red or green or violet, that we aren't in the ideal zone of ~445. (I think that is right.)
We just accept that it is close enough for our application.
As long as he doesn't have a ceiling fan cranked up in one test or an ambient of 60F one day and 80F another, I don't think air currents are going to be abig factor.
With all due respect (and I'm not being sarcastic - I mean this honestly) I think you are applying some of the things that are important in designing and using your power meters to a test here that is much less delicate.
I think temp gradients are going to be significant enough that those elements will be negligible unless there are big differences in ambient or air flow.
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Well... I guess you are right and I am wrong....
I stand behind what I posted...
It must be because I'm a hands on perfectionist...:beer:
You guys can do the tests any way you want.... I don't
build Lasers and have no clue about heat transfer and
heat differentials...
Jerry
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