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Heat sink design

Heat sink design

(OP)
Does anyone have information on the design of heatsinks. Im lloking at using heatsinks to dissipate heat from circuits but need to know more about how best to design them. I would be grateful for any advice or direction to useful websites!

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RE: Heat sink design

Aavid Thermalloy and IMI-Marston are both major manufacturers of heatsinks. Why on earth would you want to design one? Most people do the thermal calcs for their design and buy a suitable extrusion from one of the manufacturers.

Elsewhere in Eng-Tips I posted a link to Semikron's website. Thread238-119812

There are some thermal design notes in there.



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RE: Heat sink design

(OP)
thanks for the reply

My problem is not designing the heatsink, but how do i go about choosing which one i am to use.

thanks

RE: Heat sink design

Hi James.

The sites Scotty mentioned usually have tons of appnotes that explain the subject very well and in great detail.

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