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From: syap@cc.rochester.edu (James Fitzwilliam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hot monitor!  Yeouch!
Summary: Fan on top pulling air out will help natural convection.
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Date: 6 Apr 89 01:26:01 GMT
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In article <7675@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> mha@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder) writes:
*What does bother me is that my monitor gets very warm.
*...
*If I wanted to mount an external fan on the thing...
*...  Would putting it on top be good?  And, which direction should it
*blow?  Should it blow air in, or pull it out?

If your monitor is convection cooled, that would explain the top getting hot.
Your best bet would be to assist this process by putting the fan on top
pulling air up (out).  For things that are vented side-to-side, it would
seem to make less difference, though one hardware person I talked to suggested
I do the same there (pull air out) to prevent blowing dust into the unit.

A friend of mine who was cannibalizing a line printer was nice enough to give
me the fans; one sits on top of my Plus, the other next to my hard drive.
Both pull air out, and even in summer with extra RAM, it stays quite frosty.

Hope this helps.

					James

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