Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!jchin From: jchin@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (Joseph Chin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Dust & OD (formerly: Dissatisfaction w/ NeXT ...) Summary: ??? Message-ID: <1622@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 26 Jan 91 22:51:53 GMT References: <791@mara.cognet.ucla.edu> <1991Jan25.133302.4796@wam.umd.edu> <1059@tokio.cs.utexas.edu> Distribution: na Organization: USENET Public Access, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 42 >In article <1597@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> jchin@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (Joseph Chin) writes: <> >>back of the OD. There is also instruction on re-mounting the fan so that >>it sucks air through the back of the Cube and blows air out through the >>front of the Cube (and the OD). The filter will prevent any dust from >>getting into the OD. It is a very simple procedure and it works! > >Should owners of the older NeXTs take the above statement to mean that >the answer in "hardware.419" from NextAnswers may be safely ignored? > >hardware fan reversing cooling vents > >Q: Why can't I reverse the fan of my old cube so it blows the air like the >new ones to keep the cube a bit cleaner? >A: It will overheat the cube. Older cubes have bottom vents only in the >front of the cube; the vents in the rear are critical to cooling if the fan >is blowing air down rather than pulling it up. >QA419 >-- >John Garnett Good point! I guess there has been a change in opinion at NeXT ... As for me, overheating is not really a problem. Up here in the Great White North, the winter indoor temperature in my office is a COOL 62 degrees F (it goes up to 66 F after the laser printer has been on for a while ... and we wonder where the 100W standby goes to!!). The cool environment is great for staying awake. :-) Joe jchin@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca -- ************************************************************** * "Kill the body and the head will die" (Hunter S. Thompson) * * NeXT --> The ultimate electronic publishing platform! * ********** Joseph Chin --> jchin@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca *********