sfsuphysics
Supporting Member
So I asked the other day, somewhere else, why they don't incorporate fans into LED fixtures since they're really touchy if it gets to hot. Now I understand the argument of if the fan dies you don't want the LEDs to go belly up so you want it to be able to passively cool itself. But to me sounds like you can do that, AND add fans simply to kick it up a notch reducing temperatures even further.
Well one response I got was this...
"The reason LEDs are designed into fixtures that don't require fans is that LEDs are solid state technology and therefore they are designed to operate with passive heat dissipation instead of fans. Designing LEDs into packages which require fans would defeat and undermine the whole purpose of solid state technology."
Now to me it seems a bit like hogwash, or just poorly misworded, the whole "undermine the purpose of solid state technology"?? I thought the purpose of the LEDs was to have high output light at low wattage, period. Now it took a lot for me to to argue back, because for once I might be wrong So Tony, what say you o' expert of the diode that is lit!
Well one response I got was this...
"The reason LEDs are designed into fixtures that don't require fans is that LEDs are solid state technology and therefore they are designed to operate with passive heat dissipation instead of fans. Designing LEDs into packages which require fans would defeat and undermine the whole purpose of solid state technology."
Now to me it seems a bit like hogwash, or just poorly misworded, the whole "undermine the purpose of solid state technology"?? I thought the purpose of the LEDs was to have high output light at low wattage, period. Now it took a lot for me to to argue back, because for once I might be wrong So Tony, what say you o' expert of the diode that is lit!