Originally posted by dragon link=1102703274/15#21 date=1110504400
Great to hear from you by the way.
Was the tape you used a Thermal Conductive Tape or a straight Double-sided Adhesive Tape? From your "Journey" treatise, Im not sure if you used the tape to attach the PID box to Silvia or for the SSR.
Either way, It probably doesnt really matter a great deal when you oversize the SSR by a factor of two to three times, as a lot of people seem to do. Its probably more important that the SSR isnt sited within the Boiler environment, thereby thermally stressing the device unnecessarily. Always better to try and keep electronic devices cool.
I used the tape because my Mokita doesnt have a lot of spare room internally to mount the SSR using screws and nuts (Silvia is a bit bigger and seems to have plenty of spare room), and if I did fix the device this way, I would have ended up with the screw-heads visible on the outside of the s/s panelling... not a good thing.
Just to be safe, I tested the Thermal Tape on a couple of PC chipset coolers and a video card processor cooler. After quite a few months, none of the coolers even looked like theyre going to shift and the tape seems to do a good job of transferring the heat to the HSF units in each case. Good enough for my little Mokita upgrade I thought.
Anyway, to cut a long story short... the tape seems to be working quite successfully with the PID/SSR mod to the Mokita and may offer an alternative method of fixing devices to the internals of espresso machines where their owners had previously decided against such mods because of the need to drill mounting holes through the machines s/s panel-work. So far, so good and as soon as the film roll is ready to process, will post piccies up of the progress through the entire mod process. Until then,
Cheers,
Mal.


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