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    Big Heatsinks, where to find?

    Hey y'all, I have a project that is requiring a few big heatsinks like 7"+ long and 3-4+ wide. I been looking around and keep coming up with computer sinks but no extruded much bigger. Can anyone help or point me in the right direction?


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    what do you need them to look like? some basics might help.

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    projection tvs, and old recivers

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    How thick? I have seen them on Variable Frequency Drives. I may have some around here somewhere.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cummins View Post
    projection tvs, and old recivers
    +1 I just broke down a probably 30 year old receiver.. the heatsinks were so large I kept em.. just cause they are kewl!

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    The only place I've ever seen them is in the big 4 deck son cabinet servers on casters . theree is 4 ine on each deck.they are about 12" by 4 " extruded about 4 " high. some have a big chunk of copper on them some don't I have 5 or six around here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hiccup View Post
    Hey y'all, I have a project that is requiring a few big heatsinks like 7"+ long and 3-4+ wide. I been looking around and keep coming up with computer sinks but no extruded much bigger. Can anyone help or point me in the right direction?
    I found two today and thought of this post they are smaller than you need 2X6 but it made me think where I see them and I will look in the garage tomorrow.. you will see them on variable seed drives attached to the thin black box with the Cu plate with a ceramic PCB with gel all over it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kzscrapper View Post
    got some of these out of a ibm mainframe a while back but they are long gone.

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    The invertors off invertor heatpumps have a heatsink thats about 6 inchs wide by 10 or more long. Nice solid peice of ext Ali.

    The black box that was attached to it had transistors with heavy Gold plating on the board. Nice.

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    I checked last night & found the two alloy heatsinks off home stereos, they were 6 x 4+inch & the heatpump heatsink was 7 x 8 inch.

    Most heatpumps heatsinks seem to be about 6-7 x 4-5 inch.

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    I have several from old telecom equipment; be more specific and someone will surely have what you are looking for. Provide a list of: height, width, length, etc...

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    I offered to give him some large ones I have in a PM but no return to my message. they where off amps 6X9.

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