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Re: Changing heatsinks
« on: September 06, 2003, 03:22:38 PM »
Superglue fails at extreme tempretures so as Doobrey says, freezing it should loosen the glue.  I used to superglue the tyres to the wheels of my radio controlled cars when I used to race them and the only way to remove them was to boil them up in a pan of water, thought I doubt doing the same would be good for your accelerator   :-P

You probably would be best to just use brute force though, if it's stuck with superglue it shouldn't be bonded too fast to it.
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Re: Changing heatsinks
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2003, 03:43:24 PM »
how do you intend to affix the new heatsink now?
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Re: Changing heatsinks
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2003, 03:48:31 PM »
Why cant you use the source that the old fan was wired to? is it 12v?

You would probably be best to just take the power from a molex connector on the psu if its in a tower, or from the floppy power connector if its a desktop.
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Re: Changing heatsinks
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2003, 04:09:40 PM »
Just out of curiosity, is this the 040 board that you were going to sell on a while back?
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Re: Changing heatsinks
« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2003, 04:14:58 PM »
You could stepdown the voltage from the onboard 12v source to 5v for your fan with a resistor, just use voltage/current = resistance.  It'll waste a little power, but not too much.
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Re: Changing heatsinks
« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2003, 04:17:52 PM »
Most people say I have a photographic memory, it would help if I could have remembered the useless crap that I needed for some of my final exams, but I think beer deleted all that, oh well.
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Re: Changing heatsinks
« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2003, 04:21:17 PM »
Hmm, a resistor should do the trick okay in this case.  Remember that you only want to loose 7 volts not 12 too  when you work out what resistor to use ;-)
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Re: Changing heatsinks
« Reply #7 on: September 06, 2003, 05:04:09 PM »
Hmm, Brian has a good point, with this in mind maybe you should pull out your multimeter and source 5v from the board.  You may want to slap a diode in there too to stop any back emf.
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Re: Changing heatsinks
« Reply #8 on: September 06, 2003, 09:45:15 PM »
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I've pulled this type of EPROM from PC's before so I'm not sure if this makes it a prototype.

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Re: Changing heatsinks
« Reply #9 on: September 06, 2003, 10:16:30 PM »
Be very carefull not to get the tracks too hot, I've taken tracks off in seconds before by having my soldering iron turned up too high and keeping it on thew board for too long.

Is it a DIL socket?
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Re: Changing heatsinks
« Reply #10 on: September 06, 2003, 10:31:21 PM »
Shouldn't be too big a deal then, but I'm not the one holding the soldering iron  :-P
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