[net.micro.cbm] 1541 cooling

jhw@bunkerb.UUCP (Jack Weintraub) (08/24/84)

Several of my colleagues and I have taken on the cooling problem by mounting
AC muffin fans on top of our disk drives (drawing the heat out of the drive).
It's a lot easier to lay the fan on top of the drive and use 110VAC rather
than mount the fan inside the unit and eliminate all hope of ever sending the
unit out for repair, if necessary.  The only problem with using a fan of any
type, no matter how you mount it, is that you tend to draw dust into the unit
and over your diskettes.  Nevertheless, a fan is the best solution short of
keeping the covers off the drive.

                                   Jack Weintraub
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