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Re: ...what happened to my SD-1?!?

2009-11-09 by somethingkillingyou

let's make something like that
http://www.route66studios.com/resources/_wsb_418x118_ecool1.jpg
but that doesn't cost 100 $ then...

--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, Sonic Amigos Support <sasupport@...> wrote:
>
> Maybe this is a dumb question, but should the fan(s) direct hot air  
> flow away from the heatsink fins, or direct cooler ambient air towards  
> the fins? Or to put it another way, which direction should the fan  
> point?
> 
> On Nov 8, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Eric Hall wrote:
> 
> > Find an old junk computer and take out the CPU cooling fan. Now find  
> > and old "wall wort" - a 9 to12 volt step down transformer/external  
> > power supply from something that you don't need. Hook that up to the  
> > old computer fan. Find some way of fastening the fan to the heat  
> > sink. I used expanding wall fasteners between the fins. From then on  
> > you will enjoy a very stable VFX/SD-1.
>

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