Hi Lauren:
At the risk of being shown otherwise... > Determining the actual heat dissipation of your product could be very time > consuming. It would involve, in part, knowing the electrical efficiency of I would argue that, using the law of conservation of energy, this is not at all time consuming, and is really quite easy. The product takes in electrical energy. All of this energy must be accounted for in terms of dissipation of that energy -- in some form other than electrical energy. Most of the components are energy transducers -- they change the electrical energy into some other form of energy. Resistors, semiconductors, inductors, transformers, and some capacitors all dissipate electrical energy in the form of thermal energy. LEDs and CRTs dissipate electrical energy into both thermal energy and light energy. Motors transform electrical energy into both thermal energy and kinetic energy. (The kinetic energy is then dissipated in friction which converts the kinetic energy to thermal energy.) Charging a battery converts electrical energy to thermal energy and chemical energy. The vast majority of the electrical energy is dissipated as thermal energy. Best regards, Rich --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected] (the list administrators).
