Passive Cooling (Fanless & Ventless)
Passive cooling design is an important consideration in the environments rife with floating dust, blowing sand or other airborne particles. Though fan-assisted cooling is a more cost-efficient way to dissipate heat, its greatest disadvantage is that dust accumulation will clog fans and then reduce the cooling effect when the system is placed in a tight environment mentioned above. Users have to spend time and cost for maintenance and replacement. On the contrary, fanless passive cooling combining a ventless enclosure is free of such a problem. In addition, it can benefit users more, including silent operation and no vibration. In practice, the most common type of fanless passive cooling system is a heat sink.
To satisfy different requirements for passively cooled embedded computing, Kontron offers two categories of solutions as below:
(1) Totally Passive Cooling Design without Fans nor Vents
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Rugged Box PCs
QBOX-5000
Intel® Ivy Bridge Based Fanless & Ventless Box PC
QBOX-4000 Series
Intel® Sandy Bridge Based Fanless & Ventless Box PC
QBOX-2080 Series
Intel® Braswell Based Fanless & Ventless Box PC (extended temperature model available)
QBOX-1800
Intel® Braswell Based Fanless & Ventless Palm-sized Box PC
QBOX-2700 Series
Intel® Bay Trail Based Fanless & Ventless Box PC
QBOX-2070 Series
Intel® Bay Trail Based Fanless & Ventless Box PC (extended temperature model available)
QBOX-1700 Series
Intel® Bay Trail Based Fanless & Ventless Palm-sized Box PC
QBOX-210S/220S
Intel® Bay Trail Based Fanless & Ventless Palm-sized Box PC
QBOX-200S/200T
Intel® Bay Trail Based Fanless & Ventless Palm-sized Box PC (extended temperature model available)
QBOX-200H
Intel® Bay Trail Based Fanless & Ventless Palm-sized Box PC
Heavy-duty Box PCs
QBO-1000 Series
Intel® Skylake-S / Kaby Lake-S Based Fanless and Ventless Industrial Box PC
KUBE-8090 Series
Intel® Ivy Bridge Based Fanless and Ventless Box PC
KUBE-8080 Series
Intel® Huron River (Sandy Bridge) Based Fanless and Ventless Box PC
KUBE-8060
Intel® Calpella (Nehalem) Based Fanless and Ventless Box PC
(2) Passive Cooling Design without Fans
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OPS Compliant Digital Signage Players
Heavy-duty Box PCs
Rugged Panel PCs
Open Frame Panel PCs