Wednesday 22 August 2018

Flat plate heatsinks – a rule-of-thumb and a calculator

While pondering the heat shedding capability of a 100mm diameter sheet of 3mm thick aluminium with an led on a star board bolted to it, I came across the rule of thumb formula: Rha = 50/√(area in cm2) I believe this is for ‘sufficiently thick’ plates Does anyone know where this comes from? And if ...

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