The following three resources were chose to help in designing the
best LED cooling solution. The resources are free, just click on the icons to access them:
LED Heat Transfer and Cooling Options: Lighting the Way for LED Development
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This article, written by ATS CEO, Dr. Kaveh Azar, Ph.D., covers different options available to the thermal engineer to cool LED Lights
Case Study: How to Determine the Right Heat Sink for an LED downlighter application replacing halogen style downlighter
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This case study covers how the calculations were made to choose the right cooling solution for a downlight application. Halogen bulbs were replaced with LED.
LED Luminaire Design Guide
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This guide, compliments of CREE Lighting, provides guidelines for the process of designing high-power leds into luminaires. This document uses an indoor luminaire design as an example, but the process described can be applied to the design of any LED luminaire.