LED Thermal Management
LED Thermal Management
The LED is the current preeminent green solution that has many companies retrofitting their current product lines, as well as, developing new concepts to showcase the LED's design flexibility. LED's, also, present the most difficult thermal challenge, more than incandescent, linear fluorescent, compact fluorescent (CFL), Halogen or High Intensity Discharge (HID). This is because 75-85% of the total energy run through the LED is converted into heat that needs to be conducted through a PCB and heat sink before convection to surrounding air. The additional challenge is that LED's need to run at much cooler temperatures than past lamp types.
