copperplated heatsink - Page 3

DraGula · #31 04-12-2003, 06:51 PM

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Originally posted by xatu
Would you be able to gold or silver plate it?

that'd be AWESOME xatu, but i'm not really sure you can. anyway, where would you get gold and silver?

xatu · #32 04-12-2003, 06:53 PM

Well, I learned in science class that everyone has about 2 dollars worth of gold in them, so if you killed off your best friend.... j/k

I am pretty sure you could use an old necklace that is gold or something, but then you would have wasted a 500 dollar necklace

I have a silver necklace though that I could use, but I want to keep it

DraGula · #33 04-12-2003, 06:54 PM

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Originally posted by Lord_Nick_D
I removed it it didnt work again
I checked at the whole thing was hooked up right at the begining
Anyone ever see a Black penny
I have one now pure black solid
my heatsink on the otherhand turned white yeah pure white total oposites
it is kind of speckeled it looks like rock
there is also a segment that is black but I think that might be from before or its from where the alligator clips touched it
I used a Kit racer heatsink
so i'm not wreaking my others tying this again
does the heatsink acctually do anything other then just hold the motor down because if not I will just paint this one and use it

White heatsink and a black penny? wow that's weird\cool.

wonder what results we'll get next

DraGula · #34 04-12-2003, 07:05 PM

oh, if you end up with a very odd result, you CAN clean the heatsink off. By the way nick, were you using a canadian dollar or something copper?

Lord_Nick_D · #35 04-12-2003, 08:10 PM

I used a penny
I tried it again with a penny from 1963 to make sure it was copper and it kina worked
i forgot about it and left it in for over 2 hours and well it is skin couloured but thier is still that black area so I will just paint it
In the procces I have destroyed 2 alligator clips used 4 batteries messed a heatsink and discolored all of my pennies

are you sure that the heatsink gives the motor power because I think your wrong no offence its not touching a power supply the tabs at the bottem of the motor well give it power

xatu · #36 04-12-2003, 08:26 PM

Oh yea, sorry! I forgot, there is a little tab on the bottom of the area where the motor sits. That is where it gets it's power from. The heat sink holds the motor down, and absorbs heat that gets produced by the motor, if there is any.

Duratrax · #37 04-12-2003, 09:05 PM

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Originally posted by xatu
Got any pics of your white heatsink? I wanna see it.

The heatsink doesn't only hold the motor down, it also supplies poer to it.

In clones the heatsink only holdes the motor. I have one. And a question, in bit chargs the motor recives power from the heatsink and wat more?

xatu · #38 04-12-2003, 09:21 PM

Let me clear this up, the motor DOES NOT receive power from the heat sink. There is a little tab at the back of where the motor sits, and at the bottom, and those two places are where the motor gets its power from.

#39 04-13-2003, 10:01 AM

Allow me to futher clear this up.

It's also not a heatsink!

It is only called that by the manufacturers to whip the uninformed masses into a froth and get them spending money.

Look real close and read up on "heat sinks when applied to DC motors."

If it were truly a heatsink it would be designed as one and it isn't. It is a motor clip because that's what it actually does, it clips in the motor.

None of the clips available today are designed to wick heat away from the motor, which on single cell cars doesn't even get warm.

DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE!!

xatu · #40 04-13-2003, 11:38 AM

Hmmm, I heard from some people that there heat sinks got warm.... Could be a lie though.

Duratrax · #41 04-13-2003, 01:04 PM

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Originally posted by xatu
Hmmm, I heard from some people that there heat sinks got warm.... Could be a lie though.

Ye, u right.. some times when u use 2 or more sell mode the motor gets warm, so does the heat sink, but it is only used to hold the motor. By the way, my heat sink can move a little, it doesnt firmly hold the motor.. What about others? And in ORIGINAL cars i think no wires go to the motor? I meen they are not solded to it?

BabyKiller · #42 04-13-2003, 05:44 PM

all it did was **** my penny up and copper plate the wire

batteries died

xatu · #43 04-13-2003, 06:34 PM

Yea, my heatsink moves also. This can be fixed by bending the tab up a little. It will hold it in better.

Actually, most cars don't use wires to give power to the motor. The odd car does, like motorworks, and hummers.

BabyKiller · #44 04-13-2003, 07:37 PM

mine came out black i used 4 AA's (6v) i thought it wouldnt be too much but i was wrong

Spanky · #45 04-14-2003, 01:48 AM

i was just wondering .. when your penny turned black and your heat sink white.. two things.. could you have reversed the polarity? would that have had an effect.. and also if you were using wire that was not solid copper.. or coated with silver or even some other metal wire to go to the batyterys... was any part of that wire in the water?
i would think that you would just want the aligator clip to go in far enough to cover the parts that you want materials transfered from. im a bit rusty on my chem.... so im not sure..