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Originally Posted by McGurky
So our team just finished building a t-shirt cannon, but the problem is that we seem to be getting our compressors really hot. we mounded fans over them to cool them down as seen in some of the pictures that I posted up, but I am wondering if there is any kind of heat sink that can be purchased to allow more heat dissipation?
Thanks for any help!!
-McGurky
Team 1716
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In 2008 397 was running compressors almost continuously for 30 minutes at a time (in practice). We didn't have major problems but decided that it was better safe than sorry and mounted the heat sink to a CPU on it using Thermal Paste. The upside, more thermal mass to heat and more surface area for the air to cool. The downside, those things are sharp and bad when you reach into the robot blind and catch your hand on it. However, we never actually took temperature readings with and without the heat sink and therefore cannot give you definitive answers on its effectiveness.