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Hot Air Rises and Heat Sinks: Everything You Know about Cooling Electronics Is Wrong
ISBN-10:
0791800741
No. of Pages:
236
Publisher:
ASME Press
Publication date:
1998
Our hero (the author) discovers that his new employer has written some engineering folklore into product design requirements. Should you measure the actual product temperature, or only the temperature of the air coming out of the vents in the back? Lesson: Junction temperature as the source of thermal trouble.
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