cooling for airspy mini

[navsec277]

here is a simple cooling solution for my airspy mini that is easy to setup. i salvaged some heat sinks from a desktop computer power supply. the spacing of the fins on the heat sink is around 10.75mm or 27/64ths. i cut the heat sink in half with my hacksaw and slipped the two pieces on to the body of the dongle. i know that there is some heat dissapation going on because the heat sinks warm up when the mini is in use, and when the quickly removed ,the dongle is cooler than the heatsinks.

 

[navsec277]

here is a simple cooling solution for my airspy mini that is easy to setup. i salvaged some heat sinks from a desktop computer power supply. the spacing of the fins on the heat sink is around 10.75mm or 27/64ths. i cut the heat sink in half with my hacksaw and slipped the two pieces on to the body of the dongle. i know that there is some heat dissapation going on because the heat sinks warm up when the mini is in use, and when the quickly removed ,the dongle is cooler than the heatsinks.

i hope the pics uploaded ,my first try.

 

[KE5MC]

Nicely done!

They can run a little warm with the go fast button firewalled.

Mike