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Emax II cooling

2009-10-31 by Daniel Baum

Hi all,

My Emax II keyboard seems to have no cooling system at all. No fan, not even a grill. 

It gets fairly hot - not in the "you can fry an egg on it" league, but quite warm, mostly over the power supply on the panel with the lettering. Considering that there's a whacking great power supply in there with no cooling system, this seems unavoidable. 

Is this how it is supposed to be? Did they get that warm when they were new?

Tks,

D.

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Re: [emax] Emax II cooling

2009-10-31 by Ted Summers

My Emax 1 does this also. I have thought about building a cooling mod  
with its own power to avoid putting stress on the Emax Power supply.
But at this time its purely a thought and no research done into making  
it.... yet.

Regards,
Ted

On Oct 31, 2009, at 9:08 AM, Daniel Baum wrote:

Hi all,

My Emax II keyboard seems to have no cooling system at all. No fan,  
not even a grill.

It gets fairly hot - not in the "you can fry an egg on it" league, but  
quite warm, mostly over the power supply on the panel with the  
lettering. Considering that there's a whacking great power supply in  
there with no cooling system, this seems unavoidable.

Is this how it is supposed to be? Did they get that warm when they  
were new?

Tks,

D.

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Re: [emax] Emax II cooling

2009-10-31 by jammie

yes they did get that warm but some componants need to work at 30-50 oc to perform properly and most run upto 80oc and the military grade ones run upto 120-140 oc

the only things that die from excessive heat are capacitors but the lowest grade caps run upto 80oc for 10000 hours at this constant temp

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  From: Daniel Baum 
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  Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 4:08 PM
  Subject: [emax] Emax II cooling

    Hi all,

  My Emax II keyboard seems to have no cooling system at all. No fan, not even a grill. 

  It gets fairly hot - not in the "you can fry an egg on it" league, but quite warm, mostly over the power supply on the panel with the lettering. Considering that there's a whacking great power supply in there with no cooling system, this seems unavoidable. 

  Is this how it is supposed to be? Did they get that warm when they were new?

  Tks,

  D.

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Re: [emax] Emax II cooling

2009-10-31 by Daniel Baum

Thanks.

D.



    yes they did get that warm but some componants need to work at 30-50 oc to perform properly and most run upto 80oc and the military grade ones run upto 120-140 oc

  the only things that die from excessive heat are capacitors but the lowest grade caps run upto 80oc for 10000 hours at this constant temp

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Daniel Baum 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 4:08 PM
  Subject: [emax] Emax II cooling

  Hi all,

  My Emax II keyboard seems to have no cooling system at all. No fan, not even a grill. 

  It gets fairly hot - not in the "you can fry an egg on it" league, but quite warm, mostly over the power supply on the panel with the lettering. Considering that there's a whacking great power supply in there with no cooling system, this seems unavoidable. 

  Is this how it is supposed to be? Did they get that warm when they were new?

  Tks,

  D.

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