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attempt to resolve your thermal management
queries in-house. I hope this month's column
will help you with your thermal management
choices.
Look out for my next column, where I will
elaborate more on thermal management issues.
And please get in touch in the meantime if
you have any suggestions for specific areas of
discussion.
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Jade Bridges is global technical
support manager at Electrolube. To
read past columns from Electrolube,
click here. Download your free copy of
Electrolube's book,
The Printed Circuit
Assembler's Guide to… Conformal
Coatings for Harsh Environments,
and watch the micro
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5. Test, test, test! Select the most suitable
products based on the required heat
transfer and take points 1–4 into account.
Always test in end-use application
conditions.
Conclusion
To enhance your reputation in the market,
it is fundamental to ensure that the desired
efficiency of heat transfer is achieved over
the lifetime of your product. Deciding on the
right choice of material and/or application
technique can be challenging; however, many
companies have years of experience resolving
customer thermal management issues.
As always, I strongly recommend you get
some expert advice before you settle on any
particular material or method, rather than
by Dugan Karnazes
VELOCITY RESEARCH FOUNDER AND CEO
As far as engineers in the electronics industry go,
I'm still on the young side with 10 years of experience
com-pared to the veterans of the industry. I've been
around long enough, however, to understand firsthand
the
struggles that organizations (large and small) go
through when they're designing their own electronics.
I'll bet my last 555 timer that a lot of you have run into
these scenarios: the Wizard, the Wishful, and the Wise.
These scenarios are exaggerated for the points I'm
going to make, but they're designed to resonate with the
experienced.
To read Dugan's full debut column, click here.
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