There are quite a few LED's on the board so the regulator will run hot with a small heat sink. I always like to use the larger ones remembering in electronics, "heat kills". There is plenty of room anyway. See picture. John -----Original Message----- From: n8vem...@googlegroups.com [mailto:n8vem...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Richard Cini Sent: Monday, October 6, 2014 5:46 PM To: S100-Post Subject: Re: [N8VEM-S100:5328] FP MIni Board heat sink What? Maybe I missed something somewhere. Where is there a risk of a short? I don¹t see where the HS would contact anything other than the pour under the HS. Rich -- Rich Cini Collector of Classic Computers Build Master and lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator http://www.classiccmp.org/cini http://www.classiccmp.org/altair32 On 10/6/14, 8:10 PM, "John Monahan" <mon...@vitasoft.org> wrote: >Just a reminder guys, be sure and use a mica washer under the 5V >regulator heat sink to prevent ground shorting on LHS front of board. >John > > >-----Original Message----- >From: n8vem...@googlegroups.com [mailto:n8vem...@googlegroups.com] >On Behalf Of Don Caprio >Sent: Saturday, October 4, 2014 5:24 PM >To: n8vem...@googlegroups.com >Subject: [N8VEM-S100:5319] FP MIni - International Shipments > >Guys, > >I completed the remaining international shipments today. > >I don't have time to go through the list and figure who paid shipping >and who are awaiting totals. > >This is on the honor system. If you pad sufficient postage ok, cool. >If not please send the balance. > >Matt Turner $9.50 >Ian McLaughlin 8.24 >Leon Byles 13.41 >Nik Brisevac 13.41 >Fabio Battaglia 20.07 >Malcom Macleod 26.73 > >Thank you. > >-- >Don Caprio >ilv...@gmail.com > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >an email to n8vem-s100+...@googlegroups.com. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >an email to n8vem-s100+...@googlegroups.com. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to n8vem-s100+...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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