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Fragger56 · 06-13-2004, 05:16 AM

im kinda new here, been reading alot though. ive been planning to make a die sim for a little while now, ive tried to step this up recently with the creation ofmy site that a few of my friends and I setup(www.x-tremeoc.com) got some stuff lined up te get reviewed from some less well known companies and got alotta local interst (there arent that many asian sites/places intrested in this kinda thing but there are quite a few overclockers over here).

so ive decided to make this die sim a reality, its gonna be something like the overclockers.com one, basically a big rectangular block of copper with a barton sized contact patch, now ive run into a problem. where in the heck am i suppossed to get the heating elements from?

i was origionally planning on using these "Minco #HK5578" heating elements but i have no way of getting them, i will be in indiana over the summer and plan to be making the thing there. now after a bit of reading around ive noticed that the watlow cartridge heaters quite commonly used also and am currently looking into them, so would anyone happen to know if i could find some of these in indiana or order them online somewhere?

also how much do die sims usually cost in general? i only mean the chunk of copper and the heaters though, not including power supplies as i can probably put togther one myself (dad is a electrican and has made his own audio amps that put out 2000+watts of power and if he cant make one i can probably find one for pretty cheap) finally, could someone point me to a decent thermometer/ thermocouple thingy that i could use to work out temps/ C/W?

06-13-2004, 05:16 AM	#1
Fragger56 Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Hong Kong, China (if you dig for long enough straight down you may reach my home!) Posts: 20	Die sim design and heating elements im kinda new here, been reading alot though. ive been planning to make a die sim for a little while now, ive tried to step this up recently with the creation ofmy site that a few of my friends and I setup(www.x-tremeoc.com) got some stuff lined up te get reviewed from some less well known companies and got alotta local interst (there arent that many asian sites/places intrested in this kinda thing but there are quite a few overclockers over here). so ive decided to make this die sim a reality, its gonna be something like the overclockers.com one, basically a big rectangular block of copper with a barton sized contact patch, now ive run into a problem. where in the heck am i suppossed to get the heating elements from? i was origionally planning on using these "Minco #HK5578" heating elements but i have no way of getting them, i will be in indiana over the summer and plan to be making the thing there. now after a bit of reading around ive noticed that the watlow cartridge heaters quite commonly used also and am currently looking into them, so would anyone happen to know if i could find some of these in indiana or order them online somewhere? also how much do die sims usually cost in general? i only mean the chunk of copper and the heaters though, not including power supplies as i can probably put togther one myself (dad is a electrican and has made his own audio amps that put out 2000+watts of power and if he cant make one i can probably find one for pretty cheap) finally, could someone point me to a decent thermometer/ thermocouple thingy that i could use to work out temps/ C/W?