[plug] Re: thank you, fans...

[Leon Brooks]

> > From:         John
> > Darrington[SMTP:j.darrington at student.murdoch.edu.au]
> > There is a reltively simple cure.  Take the PSU out.  Pull out the
> > fan, and mount it
> > the other way around, so that it's pulling air in rather than pushing
> > it out.  Then
> > the inside of the PC has positive pressure instead of negative
> > pressure.  You also
> > need to buy a little filter, and a set of replaceable elements, and
> > chnage these on
> > a regular basis.

Shackleton, Kevin wrote:
> I've though of this but have been concerned about if the reversed
> direction will alter air flow and create hot spots within the case.
> Anyone got a multi-probe thermometer?

> Also of course you would have to have a fairly big filter.  Remember
> those old fans were much larger than today's fans.

Who remembers "fan cards?" (-:

If temperature really is a problem, strap a _BIG_ fan to the outside of
the case and use silastic around the gaps. A couple of layers of filter
from a domestic/commercial air-conditioner would filter nicely
(obtainable relatively cheaply from the roadside on council
rubbish-chuck-out days).