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| Thermal INSULATOR Pad to Reduce Housing Temperature? (Desperate!) |
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| larrybl:
How about this? https://www.thermalcontrolproducts.com/our-products/thermal-barriers/ I have used this stuff to prevent engine muffler from heating the hood. |
| Nauris:
If you are desperate, you can put a fan inside just blowing air around the enclosure without any holes to outside to keep it water-tight. That should equalize temps nicely. Smallest fans on digikey catalog are 10x10x3mm that is TINY. Put one blowing on that inductor... |
| Mr. Scram:
--- Quote from: Nauris on August 17, 2019, 06:12:37 pm ---If you are desperate, you can put a fan inside just blowing air around the enclosure without any holes to outside to keep it water-tight. That should equalize temps nicely. Smallest fans on digikey catalog are 10x10x3mm that is TINY. Put one blowing on that inductor... --- End quote --- That's a proper bodge. Having a nice solid state solution and then introducing moving parts that will inevitably fail. What happens when they do? |
| NiHaoMike:
Could it be possible to glue a heatsink, maybe as simple as an aluminum bar, on the outside of the case? |
| OM222O:
--- Quote from: TimNJ on August 16, 2019, 06:51:18 pm ---Active cooling as in a fan? This is an external power supply. Looks like a laptop power brick essentially. It does not have a permanent mounting location. It can be placed wherever the user wants...on the ground, in a corner, on a table, etc. I like your idea about using the PCB area as additional heatsinking. Maybe some fine tuning can be done there, though I think the thermal resistance from the inductor to the board is pretty high. --- End quote --- If it is an external power brick, then most of what I said will be useless :palm: regarding the thermal resistance, it's actually pretty low since the inductor is just a piece of copper which has really good thermal conductivity to the copper layers on the PCB. if you look at GPU designs, most of them use a thermal pad on the other side of the PCB (under the inductor) which transfers heat to the back plate of the GPU. the backplate gets quite warm and acts like a heat sink (i.e: helps cool the inductors if a fan blows on it). that is an insane amount of thermal resistance (1.6mm of FR4 material, 1 or 2mm of thermal pad and then the back plate itself not to mention the 3 different interfaces (boundaries between these layers)), but it still helps to a large degree. I think using copper foil tape as others suggested would be your best bet if you're running out of space. just make sure to use plenty of thermal vias (you can use vias in pad method if you're really out of space) and have the piece of copper foil tape directly under those vias. |
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