Abstract The thermal performance of the Texas Instruments (TI) 1 -watt linear drive cryocooler was measured for coldtip temperatures varying from 23 K to 130 K over a range of heat reject temperatures (+50°C to −54°C), input voltage levels (7 Vrms to 10 Vrms), and operating frequencies (50 Hz to 65 Hz). The cooler was driven with a linear amplifier during performance testing to remove the effects of the cooler drive electronics to better understand cooler operation and thermal performance for a variety of environmental conditions that may be encompassed by different users. The wide heat sink temperature span provided a large variation in the refrigeration capacity of the cooler in terms of both the lowest attainable coldtip temperature and the refrigeration capacity at a given coldtip temperature. Over this large span of heat sink temperatures, the lowest achievable coldtip temperature varied from 45 K to 23 K, while the refrigeration capacity at a given temperature changed by as much as 650 mW. As one example, the refrigeration capacity at 77 K varied from 0.82 watts at +50°C to 1.45 watts at −54°C, with corresponding cooler input power levels of 31 watts and 27 watts, respectively. Additional cooler tests were performed using the TI voltage-mode cooler drive electronics and DC-DC voltage converters to measure the electronics efficiencies in a simulated spacecraft operating mode. The cooler drive electronics was observed to operate with a nominal 70% efficiency, while this particular set of voltage converters operated with an nominal 83% efficiency. The efficiency of the electronics plays a large part in determining the overall spacecraft power requirements to operate the cooler as well as determining the thermal dissipation characteristics of the various electrical components. The results of all the performance measurements are presented in this paper.


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    Title :

    Thermal Performance of the Texas Instruments 1-W Linear Drive Cryocooler


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    Publication date :

    2002-01-01


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    10 pages




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    Article/Chapter (Book)


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    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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