Hi If you want to set up a test jig, these devices are really useful for monitoring all over a board:
https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/app-notes/index.mvp/id/3892 In the long forgotten 15 m XDM of the South African KAT (it is installed at HartRAO), we used heat pipes very successfully. They are common, since most laptops use them these days. We also found that aluminium is actually not a very good transferer of heat...sometimes on has to go to the expense of copper. We also experimented with Peltier coolers for the LNAs, which worked as expected, with heat pipes taking the heat from the hot side to the edge of the feed enclosure. Regards On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 at 04:41, Jake Jones <jake.jo...@curtin.edu.au> wrote: > Dear All, > > We are exploring the possibility of mounting several SNAP boards > vertically side by side in a custom rack. Ideally we want to mount them as > close as feasibly possible by removing the stock fan. > > We plan on using only a passive heat sink and an external airflow > solution. Does anyone have any experience operating the SNAP board without > the fan installed? > If so, how did the SNAP board perform with respect to thermals? > > We also have concerns that cross-talk could be a problem when mounting the > boards in such close proximity. Any advise with respect to this? > > Thanks, > > *Jake Jones* > Engineering Graduate Intern | Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy > > Curtin University > Location | 610.115 > Email | jake.jo...@curtin.edu.au > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups " > casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. > To post to this group, send email to casper@lists.berkeley.edu. > -- Michael Inggs 10 Devon Street, Simon's Town, South Africa. Tel: +27 21 786 1723 Fax: +27 21 786 1151 Skype: mikings Cell: +27 83 776 7304 "Ex Africa semper aliquid novi" -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. To post to this group, send email to casper@lists.berkeley.edu.
