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!
Cheers
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RE: Heat sink design
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
My problem is not designing the heatsink, but how do i go about choosing which one i am to use.
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RE: Heat sink design
The sites Scotty mentioned usually have tons of appnotes that explain the subject very well and in great detail.
RE: Heat sink design
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Link to paper 'How to select a heatsink' is about 40% of the down (scroll down) the page.