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From: bryan@cs.utexas.edu (Bryan Bayerdorffer @ Wit's End)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Quieter fan for the 2000?
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Date: 1 Feb 89 21:44:14 GMT
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In article <13057@steinmetz.ge.com> perley@trub.steinmetz.ge.com (Donald P Perley) writes:
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=-The Radio Shack fan is a 3" DC brushless, about $14.  I bought one but
=-haven't gotten around to installing it yet.  The posting I read about
=-it warned that this one is a tight fit.  The Panasonic fan someone
=-mentioned has a lower db spec so that sounds like a better solution.
=-
	Yes, that was my posting.  Except for three weeks at Christmas time, the
Radio Shaft fan has been running uninterrupted.  Dust accumulation has made it
somewhat noisier, but it's still significantly quieter than the original Taiwan
Turbine (not that the RS fans aren't probably also made in Taiwan).
	I agree that the Panasonic is probably better, but would you believe, on
the day I needed it, the RS was the ONLY 12VDC fan to be had in Austin?

=-
=-In article <2758@mibte.UUCP> jbh@mibte.UUCP (James Harvey) writes:
=->
=->Another trick you can do that is easier and cheaper than
=->replacing the entire fan is to put a Two Microfarad non-polar,
=->200 volt at least capacitor in series with the existing fan.
=->This will drop just enough voltage to quiet a muffin fan down to
=->reasonable levels.
=-
=-I think this technique would be more appropriate for an AC fan.
=-
	I'm glad someone had the guts to say this. :-)
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