{"id":772,"date":"2010-05-20T13:03:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T18:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatsinks.wordpress.com\/?p=772"},"modified":"2016-02-19T14:51:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T18:51:32","slug":"five-basic-steps-when-designing-for-a-cooling-fan-for-thermal-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/2010\/05\/20\/five-basic-steps-when-designing-for-a-cooling-fan-for-thermal-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Five basic steps when designing for a cooling fan for thermal management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comairrotron.com\/forced_convection.shtml\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-773\" title=\"Fans and Forced Convection Cooling for thermal management by Comair Rotron as seen on ATS thermal blog, heatsinks.wordpress.com\" src=\"http:\/\/heatsinks.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/forced_convection_cooling.png?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a> As alot of readers can probably tell this is fan week here at <a href=\"http:\/\/heatsinks.wordpress.com\">ATS&#8217;s thermal blog<\/a>,\u00a0 so we&#8217;re paying some special attention this week to our thermal management pals that move air over our heat sinks: fans and blowers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comairrotron.com\/index.shtml\">Comair Rotron<\/a> has produced a very succinct and helpful application note on the concept of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Forced_convection\">forced convection<\/a> cooling. In summary they cover:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Five basic steps when designing for a cooling fan<\/li>\n<li>What forced convection cooling is<\/li>\n<li>A diagram to show how it works<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Comair Rotron&#8217;s piece is to the point and well worth a visit to refresh the experienced engineer and introduce those who are new to forced convection cooling in thermal management, have a read here at this link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comairrotron.com\/forced_convection.shtml\">Introduction Forced Convection Cooling<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And before I forget, ATS&#8217;s thermal consulting team is ready to help you with <a href=\"http:\/\/new.qats.com\/qpedia\/August_Qpedia_V1_I7_PCB_layout.pdf\">PCB optimization for thermal management<\/a>, best fan choice for your application, and designing an overall thermal management solution, for more information, please visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/qats.com\/Services\/Design-Services-\/4.aspx\">Thermal Consulting Services Page<\/a> or email us via our handy <a href=\"http:\/\/qats.com\/Corporate\/Contact-Us\/Thermal-Analysis-and-Design-Services-Quote.aspx\">Consulting Application Form<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As alot of readers can probably tell this is fan week here at ATS&#8217;s thermal blog,\u00a0 so we&#8217;re paying some special attention this week to our thermal management pals that move air over our heat sinks: fans and blowers. Comair &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/2010\/05\/20\/five-basic-steps-when-designing-for-a-cooling-fan-for-thermal-management\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[71,661,129,674],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fan","tag-air-mover","tag-consulting","tag-thermal-design-2","tag-thermal-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}