My brother has programmed a very
nice heat sink calculator based on formulas from Fischer Elektronik
catalogue and we would like to share it with you.
The heat sink calculator
is very useful when you are choosing power transistors, heat sink etc. for
your project. The heat sink calculator is easy to use, enter the parameters
except the one you want to calculate and then press calculate (see example
below).
Updated! My brother's program are featured in
the Elektor February 2010 edition in the article "Tailored Cooling (online
help for dimensioning)" and are referred to as "...small but very handy" :-)
Below you can see some pictures of my brother’s program (click on the
picture to enlarge it):
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The
program splash screen. |
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The
program help screen, with a short usage description. |
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The
program in action, in this example I know all parameters except junction
temperature.
Updated!
Re-programmed in REALbasic and tested with Windows 7 x64 and x86
editions. |
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Download heatsinkcalculator V3 2010.01.09 |
This page was last updated
2010-01-29.
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