Re:Great Wall Motor unveils $9k electric urban car with near...
by magduf on Friday December 28, 2018 @11:14AM
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Those things are pretty easy to replace with a hot-air soldering station.
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Re:Great Wall Motor unveils $9k electric urban car with near...
by bdonlan on Friday December 28, 2018 @12:06PM
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Unless they're conformally coated.
Re:Great Wall Motor unveils $9k electric urban car with near...
by magduf on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @10:36AM
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Why would they do such a thing? Conformal coating is good for harsh environments if the electronics are actually exposed to the environment (like liquids), but in a car that's not the case, it's protected in a box and usually put inside the cabin too.
Also, conformal coatings are very, very bad for heat transfer. Power MOSFETs usually need to be heatsinked; conformally coating them would work against that.