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In Reply to: In general it's a good thing... but... posted by Tweekeng on February 2, 2010 at 06:31:23:

I used a ceramic spacer with "silver" thermal compound. Overkill eh?

I thought the same thing you did and touched the chip to check. Just warm.

With my Jolida 1310 amp, the chips run super hot. Not much of a heatsink there though.

Thanks for letting me know that things are OK.

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Topic - Can an amp have too much heatsink? - tweakk 05:49:19 02/02/10 (5)

RE: Can an amp have too much heatsink? - Ric Schultz 10:47:03 02/02/10 (1)

Good thought ... but can you explain a bit more? - andyr 18:15:49 02/02/10 (0)

My Stratos always runs cool - Hyfi 07:42:43 02/02/10 (0)

In general it's a good thing... but... - Tweekeng 06:31:23 02/02/10 (1)

True... - tweakk 06:52:42 02/02/10 (0)

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