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ATS Thermal Webinar: Thermal Management of a Datacenter August 12, 2PM

Here’s an open invite to all our readers to our next webinar, “Thermal Management of a Data Center”.  We’ll be hosting it on August 12, 2010 at 2PM EST.  Our webinars are no charge and taught by our R&D staff to keep them light on “mareticture” and heavy on the kind of technical details engineers and others can use to develop effective thermal management solutions.

Data Centers are effectively large scale systems composed of the “components” of racks of computers.  Novel approaches to cooling data centers of various sizes are being undertaken today to obtain the best and most green cooling possible.  This vertical webinar will consider approaches for small, medium and large scale data centers to achieve a given data centers cooling goals.

You can register for our webinar at this link: “Thermal Management of a Data Center Registration

Five basic steps when designing for a cooling fan for thermal management

As alot of readers can probably tell this is fan week here at ATS’s thermal blog,  so we’re paying some special attention this week to our thermal management pals that move air over our heat sinks: fans and blowers.

Comair Rotron has produced a very succinct and helpful application note on the concept of forced convection cooling.   In summary they cover:

  • Five basic steps when designing for a cooling fan
  • What forced convection cooling is
  • A diagram to show how it works

Comair Rotron’s piece is to the point and well worth a visit to refresh the experienced engineer and introduce those who are new to forced convection cooling in thermal management, have a read here at this link: Introduction Forced Convection Cooling

And before I forget, ATS’s thermal consulting team is ready to help you with PCB optimization for thermal management, best fan choice for your application, and designing an overall thermal management solution, for more information, please visit our Thermal Consulting Services Page or email us via our handy Consulting Application Form