Thermal management should not be considered at the end of the development process. If cooling is considered too late, the available installation space, airflow paths, and mounting points are often already fixed. Retrofitted solutions then tend to be more complex, less efficient, or mechanically harder to implement. It therefore makes sense to define the thermal requirements as early as the concept phase. These include the maximum power dissipation, the ambient temperature, the mounting orientation, the housing design, the permissible surface temperature, and the operating time. Load profiles also matter: Does the single-board computer run continuously under high computing load or do performance peaks occur only briefly?
The specialists at SEPA EUROPE will be glad to assist you in selecting the right cooling solution.