Orion Fans has expanded its line of fan accessories with the LFG120B and LFG172B louvered fan guards. These heavy-duty filtered units help prevent dust and dirt from entering enclosures such as industrial cabinets, server cabinets and server racks. The fan guards also protect fingers from injury by the fan blades. Available for 120mm and 172mm fan sizes, the louvered fan guards … [Read more...]
Miniature Environmental Control Unit for Electronics
Aspen Systems has completed the development and military qualification of ECU-Chill™, a ruggedized refrigeration-based environmental control unit (ECU) for cooling electronics in mobile applications. ECU-Chill™ maintains sealed electronics enclosures at or below ambient temperatures, enabling Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) electronics to be safely and effectively used for … [Read more...]
Forced convection cooling inside an electronics enclosure
Introduction One of the more complex thermal problems in electronics is the modeling of complete systems, such as an enclosure containing electronic components. A typical example would be a power supply, including heat sinks and a cooling fan. This problem becomes more difficult when there are multiple heat sinks and other large components arranged in an arbitrary manner inside … [Read more...]
