RE: Switch Fans - was Kiosk Touchscreens -CPU Fans

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Without fans my 16 port ran about 8-10 degrees above ambient acording to
the
little temperateure probe I stuck in the case...

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Malcolm Surgenor [mailto:malcolm@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 15 June 2004 10:45
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Switch Fans - was Kiosk Touchscreens -CPU Fans
>
> >> also found that my 16 port at least would run quite
> happily *WITHOUT*
> fans
>
> I've often thought that it probably would - by itself.  But
> with everything else in node 0 I'm not sure how long it would
> last!  :-)
>
> Malcolm
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]
>   Sent: 15 June 2004 07:02
>   To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>   Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Switch Fans - was Kiosk Touchscreens -CPU Fans
>
>
>
>   I'm pretty sure it's an FS516 that I have (can't be arsed
> to look to check
>   at the moment) - the two fans that are in it were labelled
> up as 5v units
>   rather than 12v so difficult to find replacements for but
> they just plug in
>   to a couple of headers on the board.
>
>   CPC do have some 5v 40mm fans and all I did was cut the
> cables for the
>   original fans and solder / heatshrink the new fans leads to the old
>   connectors. I'm pretty sure I got the MF6458566 units -
> they were the "Super
>   Low Noise" version and they seem to do the job but I also
> found that my 16
>   port at least would run quite happily *WITHOUT* fans - yes
> it got pretty
>   warm but it was running for months without 'em before I
> butchered the old
>   cables - I just removed the fans completely and let
> convection sort itself
>   out.
>
>   Phil
>
>
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