The external casing of the 8000A was running quite warm in the local tropical weather. Hence I search for suitably large piece of heatsink to assist with heat dissipation - inspired by the design of the casing on my long ago Musical Fidelity X1A.
After checking a number of websites, I had to give up my initial idea of acquiring a single largish heatsink. Discovered that could became a rather costly exercise, with possibly pricey postage too!
About a week later, I came across a PRC website which had some attractive looking heatsinks on offer but these were smaller than what I had in-mind. Then the idea hit me - I could arrange several of these smaller heatsink(s) in such a manner that they could assist with heat dissipation from the critical areas of the 8000A, as if a single large piece of heatsink was deployed.
Each heatsink is anodized aluminium and measuring 150mm x 70mm x 11mm. Used 6 of these heatsinks and arranged them (as per pix) with a spacing of 1-3mm between them. As most of the heat on the external casing were from the LHS of the 8000A, I arranged the heatsinks on the LHS closer to it's neighbour vs those on the RHS.
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| 8000A with several add-on heatsinks |
Aesthetically pleasing too, no complaints from the boss ... yet😁
Did note that the 8000A preformed better with the external heatsinks, after say 30min or so - easy to test on your own unit if you have spare CPU heatsinks from a dead computer (how I started the experiment)
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