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Old 04-20-2010, 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by sphelps View Post
As for fans, they are not needed, there are already plenty of LED lights for other applications which use high powered LEDs with properly designed heat sinks and no fans. It's a simple mater of cutting costs and the temperature gradient and heat transfer rate of LEDs is high and low enough respectively to eliminate the need for convective cooling. Computer components like CPUs run much hotter, their heat flux is way higher than an LED and require convective cooling. Computers are also built as cheap as possible, it's a huge commodity market.
So you want a fixture that looks stylish, has a long warranty but doesn't run any fans. I'm not sure all those are compatible criteria
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