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Mosey,Your picture of the circuit board looks like the circuit board is between the transistor and the heat sink. If so you won't get much heat sink value.Also it looks like your heat sink is screwed to something which makes me wonder if the heat sink is electrically isolated from the engine and everything else. Assuming the engine frame is in the circuit somewhere the heat sink needs electrical isolation.Alan