Comparison of 5 heat sinks of LED lighting fixtures

Currently, about 30 percent of LED light is converted to light energy and the rest to heat energy after it is powered on.Therefore, to export so much thermal energy as soon as possible is the key technology for the structural design of LED lamps. Thermal energy can only be emitted through heat conduction, thermal convection and thermal radiation.Only by exporting heat as soon as possible can the cavity temperature in LED lamps be effectively reduced, can the power supply not work in a high temperature environment for a long time be protected, and can the premature aging of LED light source due to long-term high temperature work be avoided.

Because the LED light source itself has no infrared ray and ultraviolet ray, so the LED light source itself has no radiation heat dissipation function. The heat dissipation path of LED lighting can only be derived from the heat sink which is closely combined with the LED lamp bead plate.heat sink must have the function of heat conduction, heat convection and heat radiation.
Any heat sink, besides the surface that should be able to conduct heat from calorific source to heat sink quickly, basically still want to rely on convection and radiate to send out heat quantity to go to air. Heat conduction solved the way that transfers heat only, and heat convection is the main function of heat sink, come loose heat performance basically by come loose the ability of area, shape, natural convection intensity to decide, heat radiation is auxiliary action only.
Common heat dissipation modes are die casting aluminum heat sink, extrusion aluminum heat sink, stamping aluminum heat sink, plastic-wrapped aluminum heat sink, high thermal conductivity plastic heat sink.

Die cast aluminum heat sink
The production cost is controllable, the heat dissipation wing cannot be made thin, and it is difficult to enlarge the heat dissipation area.The commonly used die casting materials of LED lamps heat sinks are ADC10 and ADC12.

Extruded aluminium heat sink
The liquid aluminum is extruded through a fixed mold, and then the bar is machined into the required shape of the heat sink, which costs more in later processing. Heat dissipation wing can be done a lot of very thin, heat dissipation area to get the maximum expansion, heat dissipation wing work automatically formed convection diffusion of heat, heat dissipation effect is better.The commonly used materials are AL6061 and AL6063.

Stamped aluminium heat sink
It is through punch and die to steel, aluminum alloy plate stamping, pull up, make it into a cup tube type heat sink, stamping shaped heat sink inside and outside of the surrounding smooth, because there is no wing and heat dissipation area is limited.Commonly used aluminum alloy materials are 5052, 6061, 6063.Stamping piece quality is very small, material utilization rate is high, is a low cost scheme.
The heat conduction of aluminum alloy heat sink is ideal and suitable for isolated switch constant current power supply. For non-isolating switch constant-current power supply, isolation of ac and dc, high-voltage and low-voltage power supply needs to be done through the structural design of lamps, so that it can be certified by CE or UL.

Plastic-clad aluminum heat sink
It is a heat - conducting plastic shell with aluminum core.The heat-conducting plastic and aluminum heat dissipation core are formed once in the injection molding machine, and the aluminum heat dissipation core is embedded, which needs to be machined in advance.The heat of LED lamp bead is rapidly transferred to the heat-conducting plastic through the aluminum heat dissipation core. The heat-conducting plastic USES its wings to form convective air heat dissipation and USES its surface to radiate part of the heat.
Heat-conducting plastics are 40% denser than die-cast aluminum and ceramics, and aluminum-coated heat sinks of the same shape can weigh nearly a third less.Compared with all aluminum heat sink, it has low processing cost, short processing period and low processing temperature.The finished product is not easily broken; Customers self-provided injection molding machine can be used to design and produce different appearance of lamps and lanterns.Plastic - clad aluminum heat sink insulation performance, easy through the safety gauge.

High thermal conductivity plastic heat sink
High thermal conductivity plastic heat sink an all-plastic heat sink, its thermal conductivity coefficient is dozens of times higher than ordinary plastic, up to 2-9w/mk, has excellent heat conduction, heat radiation ability; Can be used in a variety of power lamps of new insulation heat dissipation materials, can be widely used in 1W ~ 200W of all kinds of LED lamps
High heat conduction plastic heat sink can design a lot of precise heat dissipation wing, heat dissipation wing can do a lot of very thin, heat dissipation area gets the largest expansion, heat dissipation wing automatically form air convection diffusion heat, heat dissipation effect is better.The heat of the LED lamp bead is directly transferred to the cooling wing through the high-heat-conducting plastic, and the heat is rapidly dissipated through air convection and surface radiation.