John:

 

This will be my concluding note on this subject prior to the Symposium. I have tuned the analyses done yesterday and that data follows.

 

For a single 1.4mil ground plane with a single IC located 52mm from the Baseplate edge, a 1.0W dissipation results in a temperature rise of 38.2°C

 

For a double 1.4mil ground plane with a single IC located 28mm from the Baseplate edge, a 1.0W dissipation results in a temperature rise of 21.1°C.

 

For a double 1.4mil ground plane with TWO ICs, spaced 40mm and both located 28mm from the Baseplate edge, a 1.0W dissipation in each IC results in temperature rises of 26.1°C (one at 26.0 and the other at 26.2). Total dissipation here is 2.0W.

 

In other words, doubling the ICs, with this spacing, only added ~24% to the temperature rise. This shows you how this module design handles the kind of power situations that you have in the URx.

 

See you in Pittsburgh?

 

’73,

Dick Jansson, KD1K

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