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A heatsink dissipates heat into the surrounding air and thus provides cooling.

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How efficient are lab bench power supplies? (affected by output voltage?)

As how I understand it, there are two ways of converting DC. One is by using a voltage regulator (zener diode, feedback combination etc), and the other is by using a buck boost converter. Firstly, if …
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How does power dissipation for surface mount components work?

I know that with usual through hole components we can attach heatsinks etc. But how does it work with surface mount components? Is having a copper plate around the component the way to go? How do we g …
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