Thiel Owners

@tomthiel thanks for the information. Heat management was definitely on your radar when I did my build. You’ll recall an early solution that we abandoned. But it sounds like you continued to work things out. I hope you can share this with the world sooner than later (products or “how to” manuals).
 

@pieper1973 when I upgraded the sandcasts on my OEM boards (sourced from FST), I bought all Mills in identical values. But when I did the full rebuild, Tom had me parallel 60.4 ohm Mills for the 30 ohm position - more surface area for cooling that big resistor. The downside is it costs twice as much. But there is a sonic benefit to running in parallel, at least for bigger resistors. 

Some of the power resistors can benefit from 25 watt versions, thus 2x12watt. This resistor thing was a short suit for Jim (in my opinion), since the compact layouts can only afford so much real estate. Modeling software can ID those candidates; so can pink noise and a thermometer (or fingers.)

Beetle - I do remember the aluminum cooling bar mis-step. Moving air and greater distance work better.

pieper

have you tried Partsconnexion ? 

they list that they are in stock .

@vair68robert thank you. I'll look.

@beetlemania I'll keep that in mind when I get around to the 2.4's. I had my eyes on some hand made resistors from Poland.. think they would come down to 20-25 dollars a piece... 

@vair68robert ... I already checked there it seems. They don't have the 12 Ohm 12 Watt resistors, unfortunately..🤷🏻‍♂️