oof. thermal stuff is hard.

how do you get rid of 510 watts from something when you only have 55°C of headroom and want to not have to pay for liquid cooling equipment?

We might have to pay for liquid cooling equipment....

@starkatt I have no idea how to properly specify heat pipes, I'm looking at liquid cooling right now

If you know how to do heat pipes (particularly for IGBT modules) please, bestow upon us your wisdom

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@starkatt (it's not an IGBT module but it's a SiC MOSFET module in a standard IGBT module package)

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