MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Yeegads you are a veritable gold mine of help señor GordonThree! Mil Gracias! I'm sort of reluctant to exert a lot of compression on that 10 watt chip but if I made an arbor to contact the chip mounting ears? Maybe best continued via Private Messages :)
de nada my friend, happy to help. LEDs have been a passion and research subject of mine for over a decade. feel free to private message me anytime.
to compress the led to heatsink, you might see if a plastic bottle cap or scrap of tubing will cover the LED itself and transfer pressure around it and onto the mounting plate
