EEVblog 1610 - Deye Hybrid Solar Inverter

[Phoenix]

So much thermal grease. Yuk!

Impossible to avoid in the teardown, it just gets everywhere.

That is what I mean. Using heat conductive pads would have been so much nicer from a service standpoint (and likely manufacturing as well).

It looks like there's both insulating silpads that sit in the routed recesses and thermal grease. In my experience it is still beneficial to have thermal grease even if you have the silpad as you still need something to fill the micro-voids.