{"id":1368,"date":"2014-03-10T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2022-02-18T15:05:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T15:05:16","slug":"heatsinks-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/geek-area\/electronics\/heatsinks\/heatsinks-general","title":{"rendered":"Heatsinks General"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>\nHeatsink Colour<br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<p>\nIn natural convection a black or dark colored heatsink will perform 3% to 8% better than an aluminum heatsink in its natural silverish color. This is due to dark colors radiating heat more efficiently.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn forced air applications, surface color does not increase a heatsink&#39;s performance due to the increase in convection. A color would be for cosmetic purposes only.\n<\/p>\n<h4>\nBasic Heatsink Temperature Calculation<br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<p>\nIf you have a 10&deg;C\/W heatsink and you dissipate&nbsp;5W&nbsp;into it, its temperature will be 50&deg;C + ambient temperature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heatsink Colour In natural convection a black or dark colored heatsink will perform 3% to 8% better than an aluminum heatsink in its natural silverish color. This is due to dark colors radiating heat more efficiently. In forced air applications, surface color does not increase a heatsink&#39;s performance due to the increase in convection. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heatsinks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1538,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions\/1538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}