LED lighting can certainly require cooling depending on the type of LEDs chosen. In this case, the strip lights in the engine section will get quite warm. They will be mounted to a custom-made aluminum heat sink and cooled by fans.
Even if the LEDs don't get warm, the resistors required to run them sometimes do. In my article for Sci Fi & Fantasy Modeler, Volume 30, I talk about heat being dissipated by the resistors and some of the problems that caused.
In the landing bays, there are custom printed circuit boards (PCBs) in very tight quarters. These were made by a third party. While I don't expect them to get hot or even warm, the cooling is there just in case. For a project this time consuming and costly, "better safe than sorry" is the rule to live by.
Even if the LEDs don't get warm, the resistors required to run them sometimes do. In my article for Sci Fi & Fantasy Modeler, Volume 30, I talk about heat being dissipated by the resistors and some of the problems that caused.
In the landing bays, there are custom printed circuit boards (PCBs) in very tight quarters. These were made by a third party. While I don't expect them to get hot or even warm, the cooling is there just in case. For a project this time consuming and costly, "better safe than sorry" is the rule to live by.
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