NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/sys/amiga/hardware/15164

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From: [e-mail] (Bernd Felsche)
Subject: Re: A3000: Heating up?
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Organization: MetaPro Systems, Perth, Western Australia
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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 03:19:15 GMT
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Dave Haynie) writes:

>Thing is, it's impossible to locate the hottest objects near the fan.  You
>need a good air flow going by each expansion card, and mechanicals being
>what they are, there's no way to have expansion cards near the power supply.
>Also, you don't want all your hottest parts concentrated in one place, or
>you're going to tend to need more cooling than distributed heat would require.

Is it illegal to have a fan in a place other than the power supply? ;-)

On our "big box", the power supply is one of the last things
to get cooling air. The VME gets first shot, then the drives
in parallel with the switchmode power supply.

Many systems nowadays have more than one fan for better
airflow where it's needed. Of course, it costs money and one
of the cheapest way to cool the machine is the way it's done
in the (standard) Amiga.

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