Study on a cooling system based on thermoelectric cooler for thermal management of high-power LEDs

Abstract To improve the heat dissipation of high-power light-emitting diodes (LEDs), a cooling system with thermoelectric cooler (TEC) is investigated. In the experiment, the 6 × 3 W LEDs in two rows are used to compose the light source module and the environment temperature is 17 °C. The temperatures of heat dissipation substrate of LEDs and cooling fins of a radiator are measured by K type thermocouples to evaluate the cooling performance. Results show that the temperature of the substrate of LEDs reaches 26 °C without TEC. However, it is only 9 °C when the best refrigeration condition appears. The temperature of the substrate of LEDs decreases by 17 °C since the heat produced by LEDs is absorbed rapidly by TEC and dissipated through the radiator, and the junction temperature of LEDs reaches only 45 °C which is much lower than the absolute maximum temperature of LEDs (120 °C). The experiment demonstrates that the cooling system with TEC has good performance.

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