7 Dying Trees
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I had this problem where my rivera had no fans to cool the stupid amount of valves all generating heat. It should have had two fans built into it and a metal casing, but alas this was not built into mine which was some custom order for the previous owner's home cinema, so after it did overheat once (and took out the fuses) it became clear that i needed cooling.
The Problem:
Option 1: PC Rack fans. You can buy these at extortionate prices, say 1-200£ or so, and they all come in 1U mounting. Usefull if you have the space, rubbish if you don't.
Option 2: Buy a bunch of PC fans, a 12v adapter, one 3U rack panel with fan holes and get busy!
The fan assembly, 3U rack fan panel + 3 akasa 120mm fans
Next up, the rear view:
ant then, with a bit of clearing up and some tape to tidy the wires a little:
And now (the dull part) how to power it:
Simpkly buy a 12V DC adapter, figure out which of the wires is positive and which is ground(or negative), then wire this up to any PC connecter you have that'll fit the fan's power connector. Use this if you aren't sure which is which:
PC And other lovely pinout connection information
and for the lazy:
Power Supply plug 5.25-inch 4-pin Molex
Pin# Color Function
1 Yellow +12V DC
2 Black Ground
3 Black Ground
4 Red +5V DC
And you'll the after some soldering get this:
Now it just needs to be attached to the rack, and then connected with the adapter. Easy.
And now some gratuitous shots of it all in action and glowing red
frontal shot in the light
now in the dark
and then the rear view, reminds me of something from space
The Problem:
Option 1: PC Rack fans. You can buy these at extortionate prices, say 1-200£ or so, and they all come in 1U mounting. Usefull if you have the space, rubbish if you don't.
Option 2: Buy a bunch of PC fans, a 12v adapter, one 3U rack panel with fan holes and get busy!
The fan assembly, 3U rack fan panel + 3 akasa 120mm fans
Next up, the rear view:
ant then, with a bit of clearing up and some tape to tidy the wires a little:
And now (the dull part) how to power it:
Simpkly buy a 12V DC adapter, figure out which of the wires is positive and which is ground(or negative), then wire this up to any PC connecter you have that'll fit the fan's power connector. Use this if you aren't sure which is which:
PC And other lovely pinout connection information
and for the lazy:
Power Supply plug 5.25-inch 4-pin Molex
Pin# Color Function
1 Yellow +12V DC
2 Black Ground
3 Black Ground
4 Red +5V DC
And you'll the after some soldering get this:
Now it just needs to be attached to the rack, and then connected with the adapter. Easy.
And now some gratuitous shots of it all in action and glowing red
frontal shot in the light
now in the dark
and then the rear view, reminds me of something from space