It does contain fans.

Mark Skeels
Engineer
Competition Electronics, Inc.
TEL: 815-874-8001
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On 9/15/2010 10:28 AM, Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On
> Behalf
>> Of Mark E. Skeels
>> Sent: 15 September 2010 16:20
>> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
>> Subject: Re: [EE]: temperature issues
>>
>>
>>    This design is a battery charger/discharger and the discharge
> portion
>> of the device will dissipate around 100W-120W with both channels on.
>>
>> It is designed to give a measure of capacity of battery packs.
>>
>> The users expect it to handle a relatively high amount of power.
>>
>> It's not even close to green.   :-)
> With that amount of power dissipation some kind of forced air cooling
> might be a good idea.  Certainly the Li-Ion analyser I used to have
> (until an "acquaintance" borrowed it and never returned it) used what
> appeared to be a PC CPU heatsink/fan assembly.  Since many CPUs
> dissipate over 100W this could be a cheap and effective solution.
>
> Regards
>
> Mike
>
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