Timeline for LM317 Heat sink, how big?
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| Oct 1, 2011 at 3:22 | comment | added | markrages | Lower input voltage should work fine. | |
| Oct 1, 2011 at 0:16 | comment | added | Ashley Hughes | Think I might leave it on the heat sink that it has and lower the input voltage which in turn should low the amount of power it has to dissipate | |
| Sep 30, 2011 at 23:41 | comment | added | markrages | Yes, noise is the disadvantage of a fan. If you're not going to draw lots of power from your supply most of the time, you could arrange a thermal switch to turn the fan on only when the heatsink heats up. | |
| Sep 30, 2011 at 23:12 | comment | added | Ashley Hughes | I think I will look into switching power supplies, but then again it's is only for my bench top work. Adding a fan is one option that I thought of before but this would introduce a lot of noise would it not? | |
| Sep 30, 2011 at 4:17 | history | answered | markrages | CC BY-SA 3.0 |