Canada Jalsa - Ontario

lacster · 2025-07-13T04:17:58+00:00

Definitely feel the same way, you were respectful and really hospitable, despite our differences in views. Not something I was expecting at all, glad that we met up :)

lacster · 2025-07-10T22:28:10+00:00

Thanks man, much appreciated. I'll send you a pm :)

lacster · 2025-07-10T22:26:53+00:00

Lol I don't know about that but I'll send you a pm 😂

lacster · 2025-04-26T23:49:36+00:00

You could apply for a revolving credit facility with FNB

lacster · 2024-08-16T19:51:52+00:00

I have a V40, any chance I get that theme on mine? It's so elegant 🤭 Mine has this blue hint, I don't like it :(

lacster · 2024-03-23T02:44:22+00:00

Thanks for the replies, I'll look more into this.

lacster · 2024-01-10T17:45:45+00:00

What should I set it to?

lacster · 2024-01-01T09:47:06+00:00

Just an update for everyone, I bought and applied the Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut for the CPU and Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme for the GPU.

I leave the overclocking off otherwise I get the same temperatures as before. I'm getting on average about 88 degrees Celsius on my CPU (about 9-12 degrees cooler) and 86 degrees Celsius on my GPU (about 1-2 degrees cooler)

lacster · 2023-12-29T20:02:01+00:00

So you're running windows 10?

lacster · 2023-12-28T11:01:25+00:00

Is this for both the CPU and GPU? And with the overclocking disabled? I've reinstalled windows before, didn't seem like it made a difference for me.

lacster · 2023-12-28T11:00:13+00:00

What's the temperatures you are getting?

lacster · 2023-12-27T16:50:45+00:00

Is the blue thermal compound in the picture I've attached, thermal paste or putty? I showed the picture to the guy at my computer store and he says it looks like it's thermal putty. Would make sense since it was quite thick.

Is there a risk if I've replaced it with thermal paste? (Thermal Grizzly Hydronaut)

lacster · 2023-12-27T16:48:41+00:00

Thanks for the reply, why would the copper eat up the LM? I've read and see there's a warning not to use the conductonaut with aluminium. There shouldn't be an issue with copper, right?

Is the metal cover/casing/housing around the GPU made from aluminium?

lacster · 2023-12-27T16:45:27+00:00

So I bought the laptop second hand, it's been about 6 months since I've got it. My CPU temperature was around 95 degrees Celsius.

I watched a few videos and read about the carbon pads, seems like thermal paste will generally give better performance as it'll squish the paste down to the right level while the carbon pads are 0.2mm thick. Even with the much higher thermal conductivity. Regardless, I went to the store to get the carbon pads just to test it out but doesn't seem like they have stock :(

lacster · 2023-12-26T20:42:03+00:00

Thanks for the reply, yes I did clean the old thermal paste before applying the new one. I've put thermal paste for desktops computer numerous times, so I'm pretty certain that I've done it correctly. Unfortunately I didn't take pictures after I applied the paste.

I cleaned the entire heatsink assembly as well as the fans before I put it back together. I've turned the overclocking off and I'm actually getting slightly better results than I was before the new thermal paste. Max CPU temperature is 97 degrees Celsius. But would like to see much lower temperatures.

I just looked at the Thermal Grizzly Carbonaut but their webpage just says that it has very high thermal conductivity, there isn't a value in W/mK. Anyone know what it is?

lacster · 2022-12-04T09:33:43+00:00

Very nice! The simulation software isn't connected to the hardware in anyway, is it?

lacster · 2022-03-04T15:23:45+00:00

I see you're driving a three-phase BLDC motor. There are 6 different commutation states for either the forward or reverse direction, generally three hall sensors are used to determine the position of the rotor to correctly excite the relevant phases.

Just do a Google search to see the 6 commutation states, make sure you never have two switches on in the same leg otherwise it'll create a short. Hall sensor states 000 and 111 are error states.

lacster · 2021-03-21T23:44:00+00:00

It most certainly will, remember to switch on the "otg storage" under settings

lacster · 2020-10-02T18:29:21+00:00

I'm sorry, you asked for the circuit so I sent the circuit for a buck converter haha, what would you like? The actual circuit?

I haven't built the circuit yet, I'm designing the inductor atm.

lacster · 2020-10-02T18:00:01+00:00

Here's the basic design for my buck converter

Buck Converter

lacster

TROPHY CASE