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Soldering tools | Miscellaneous hand tools | Bench top tools => Miscellaneous hand tools, Workbench improvements => Topic started by: Kiriakos GR on March 28, 2017, 09:51:55 AM
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From past decade I am aware of this special product SEKISUI 5760 ( special Double-sided Thermal Adhesive Tape for attaching heat-sink over IC and small power electronics)
Everything started by my engagement with desktop PC enclosure modifications, computer parts overclock, a chaser of max performance in a time domain (era) in which INTEL Celeror CPU this could be clocked from 266 Megahertz (default) up to 350 MHz.
In later years graphic cards them also started to offer this delusion (marketing game) in which few cycles of higher frequencies in their memory chips, this can seem as performance increment, which never was enough to transform one average performing graphic card in to something special.
Either way all this hunting for increased performance it does have and a positive side and this is that you getting familiar with the world of cooling fan.
Suddenly you are now getting interested at measuring temperature, fan speed, air-flow, voltage adjustments, also you become familiar with chip-sets and all electronics architecture that a computer motherboard this is using.
SEKISUI 5760 this is originally a Japanese engineering.
You may attach small heat-sink in applications with expected operating temperature of up to 75 Celsius.
Highest limit for this product this is 120 Celsius for few seconds.
Over the years I did discover and other applications in which this thin layer of SEKISUI 5760, this can solve a problem.
In electrical applications if you have a flat aluminum heat sink and you do require few degrees lower temperature then SEKISUI 5760 it can help by holding in place another heat sink this including fins ( as added help).
Other application this can be holding in place acrylic clear plastic (protective part of multimeter display).
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Thanks to SEKISUI headquarters, I have now actual information about 5760E thermal behaviour.
To clear up things, from all information's received, I am now aware that this tape it is not a champion product for heat transfer.
This is not equal to CPU thermal paste or thermal silicon glue.
But there is a positive side to it. ;)
For example, if you are interested to use a thermal sensor this raped with in Capton tape, 5760E this can cold the surface temperature sensor in place at a temperature range of -20C up to 70Celsius.
Temperature sensor this can be K-Type thermocouple OR Thick film Platinum resistance temperature detector (PRTD), which both has tiny dimensions and very low mass.