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What do you call this type of heat sink?
Hi Everyone,
I was wondering what do you call the kind of rubber/foam type heat sink you typically find attached on a IC in a small non/poorly ventilated casing (e.g. pager, cell phone)? Its typically gray in colour and feels soft and rubbery. I think some of the old Apple Powerbooks also use them to vent heat to the casing. Anyone also knows where I can buy them? |
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wrote in message ups.com... Hi Everyone, I was wondering what do you call the kind of rubber/foam type heat sink you typically find attached on a IC in a small non/poorly ventilated casing (e.g. pager, cell phone)? Its typically gray in colour and feels soft and rubbery. I think some of the old Apple Powerbooks also use them to vent heat to the casing. Anyone also knows where I can buy them? thermal interface pads. http://www.warth.co.uk/site2003/blue...ucts_fast.html do quite a range of different types The one called "Kool-Pads® HeatPath GTQ 2100 " looks like the same stuff I've seen inside CDROMs etc. |
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note these are not heat sinks by themselves,
they conduct the heat away to some other surface Mark |
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Hmm... actually the stuff I saw is much thicker (up to 3-5 mm thick)
and in some applications, I guess they act as a heat sink as the casing is plastic and I guess there isn't any place for the heat to transfer to. Anyone knows where I can this kind of heat sink? |
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