jonah@amos.ucsd.edu (Jonah Stich) (08/09/90)
What with my memory card, modem, DMA SCSI card, and digitizer, my GS is has been getting a little toasty on the inside lately. I've deded that it's time to get a fan, but don't know which one to get. The two obvious choices are the AE Conserver and Kensington's System Saver. The AE unit has space to hold 2 3.5" drives, but the fan on the Kensington unit looks more powferful and robust (and I've heard nasty things about the Vulcan's fans.) If anyone has had experience with theseI would really appreciate some advice. Price isn't really an issue, because they're within $5 of eachother. And and all comments would be greatly appreciated. Also, if you know of another fan that I didn't mention, please bring it to my attention. Thanks in advance. Jonah Stich jonah@amos.ucsd.edu
UD041948@NDSUVM1.BITNET (08/14/90)
I have a friend who has both the System Saver IIGS and a Vulcan 100Meg HD. Well, the System Saver was blowing air up and out of the GS, while the Vulcan fan directly below the System Saver fan was blowing air down and _into_ the GS. Nevertheless, the two fans blowing in opposite was not only anti-productive, it made a harsh grinding noise to boot. We tried flipping the Vulcan fan around (not a difficult task really, it just involved removing the four phillips head screws holding in the fan and flipping it around), but it still made the grinding noise, as well as blowing air upward at 30 mph. We solved the problem by just removing the Vulcan fan (again, removing the four screws and nicely pulling the fan out of it's socket, no soldering required). He now has a nice quiet, and cool, GS. ------- *********************************************************************** Joe Carlin (FWA) Don't Panic! ud041948@ndsuvm1.bitnet "We have to go save the Universe, you see," said Ford, "and if that sounds like a pretty lame excuse, then you may be right. Either way we're off." - Ford Prefect, Life, the Universe, and Everything ***********************************************************************
bbean@pro-grouch.cts.com (Bruce Bean) (08/16/90)
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UUUUHHHH? I think we have a basic problem with convection here. I always
thought heat rises.
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