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Heat is the Silent Killer of Your PCB Design.

But the mistake isn’t ignoring thermal issues… It’s treating them as “cooling problems.”

By then, you’ve already lost.

Efficiency starts at the component level:

→ A 0.2 V drop across a diode looks small.

→ In a 20 A system, it’s 4 W of wasted energy.

Over time, that heat means derating, early failure or redesign.

Thermal management isn’t something you fix with a heatsink.

It’s something you prevent with the right diode choice.

Without efficiency at the source, every fix is just a patch.