:An ATV package diagram is at
http://207.234.249.73/mwd/atv_package.gif
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:Who makes a heat sink for the "ATV" transistor package or equivalent?
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:Or is there another package / case style that's equivalent to the ATV?
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:Thanks.
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:William E. Miller, AS-EET
[email protected] † IN
What makes you think there would be a heat sink designed for the ATV package? It
is just a proprietary plastic transistor package devised by ROHM for higher
power devices than would normally be housed in a typical TO92 or TO 226 package.
http://www.rohm.com/products/databook/tr/pdf/transistorpkg_1.pdf
Other manufacturers such as Zetex have proprietary outlines eg. E-line
http://www.zetex.com/3.0/pack/E-Line.pdf
It is difficult to imagine how they can get these devices to handle continuous
currents of 5A or more in a plastic package smaller than a TO92 without a
heatsink, but they do eg.
http://www.zetex.com/3.0/pdf/ZTX851.pdf
Since the ATV package doesn't have a mounting tab or hole you can bet your life
there is no heatsink made for it. Consequently, you will have to fabricate some
method of clamping it to a suitable heatsink if it is required to dissipate more
heat than it is designed to do.
