sponsoredTHERMAL MANAGEMENT CTX offers an extensive portfolio of standard heat sinks - The right type of cooling for any application

Are standard heat sinks just option B for cooling high-performance electronics? Not at all. CTX Thermal Solutions boasts a standard product range that provides the best fitting heat sinks for nearly all kinds of performance requirements. To the user, this means: the most suitable cooling with all economic and logistics benefits offered by standard production.

The technical key data that specify the power requirements for the cooling concept of an electronic application are the thermal resistance to be reduced, the installation space, and the ambient conditions. The corresponding thermal management does not necessarily call for an individual concept. “Suitable cooling concepts can also be created from our comprehensive range of standard parts,” says Thomas Windeck, Head of Sales at CTX Thermal Solutions. The company prides themselves on one of the most extensive portfolios of standard heat sinks in Europe.

From a multitude of options to the single best solution

CTX manufactures all common designs of these solutions. The classics are profile heat sinks, offering a large surface area for effective heat dissipation thanks to their fins. The manufacturing processes the company applies for their production are die casting as well as extrusion. “We carry a multitude of standard profiles, all selected to fit every specific application in terms of size and fin density”, declares Windeck. If the cooling capacity is not sufficient, CTX can, for instance, combine them with fans or optimize their heat transfer by means of CNC machining. Other heat sink designs included in CTX’s standard range are cold extruded pin heat sinks, modules for high-performance heat sinks, embedded and PCB heat sinks, as well as heat pipes.

An application-specific design is also applied to standard components. “This design is the starting point for our development work”, explains Windeck. “We use the application parameters to determine which of our standard heat sinks meets the requirements to a T.” With the help of a thermal simulation, CTX checks the performance data and optimizes the cooling performance if necessary, for example by selecting a component with a higher fin density.

Advantage of standard production: Reduced cost, faster availability

Users benefit from both suitable cooling and the advantages of standard production: There are no development costs for customer-specific molding tools. This leads to shortened project planning times, accelerating the availability of the finished cooling solution substantially compared to individual concepts.

“If standardized components turn out to be unsuitable, we devise an individual cooling solution in close customer coordination,” underscores Thomas Windeck from CTX. For this purpose, the company relies on what also comes into play in the selection of standard heat sinks: their technical expertise and almost 30 years of comprehensive project experience.

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