Skip to main content

All Questions

Tagged with
1 vote
3 answers
333 views

How to apply thermal paste on a large surface (between IMS PCB and heatsink)?

I've got a project that features an array of ultraviolet LEDs on an aluminium board. This board shall be screwed to a heatsink. My problem is that I'd like to apply thermal paste to improve the ...
Korbinian's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
418 views

Why are there no nichrome resistor pastes?

Nichrome wire is commonly used for wire coil heating elements. Other heating elements are formed by screen printing a pattern of "resistor paste" onto a dielectric coated substrate. These pastes are ...
EddieP's user avatar
  • 273
1 vote
2 answers
4k views

thermal glue or paste thermal resistance

Trying to calculate thermal resistance before heat sink for cooling MOSFET. MOSFET Rjc is given in datasheet. But heat sink will be glued using thermal glue like HC910 which has thermal conductivity ...
Artem Kuchin's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
325 views

Consistency of thermal heat paste

I want to use thermal paste for improving the thermal resistance between a semiconductor and a cooling element. But when I got it out of the tube, it was party transparent/fluid, and partly white/...
arc_lupus's user avatar
  • 724
1 vote
3 answers
3k views

calculate thermal conductivity for thermal paste

I'm trying to calculate the thermal paste joint between my pcb and the heatsink I found in the manufacturers datasheet is has a thermal conductivity of 1.6W/mK ( Watt / meter kelvin ). Whilst all ...
Den Uil's user avatar
  • 13