CD32 internal fan?

[BozzerBigD]

I know this is an old thread but I wanted to be on record as saying it is possible to mount a 40x40x10mm fan inside the CD32/SX32. It was positioned between the hard drive (spinning) and memory simm. It is very tight so is held in place by friction and sits on top of an FPGA of some sort so it's in line with the grill! A fan guard with sections of the sides cut out was glued to the bottom of the fan to promote air flow sideways from the CPU/FPU and then blown out of the top grill!  Power came from a molex adapter from a spare CD32 psu I had. It keeps it stable unless it is throttled for an extended period of time playing something like Reshoot Proxima III!

I would recommend a IDE2CF card solution to reduce the heat further.

The fan was this model: Noctua NF-A4x10 FLX

[BozzerBigD]

@F0LLETT

When I said throttle I meant a system wide throttling that Proxima III puts an Amiga through. It's not really the CPU that gets pushed in that game it's the custom chips.The CD32 grill is tiny compared to an A1200 and with a spinning drive an 030 sysyem can get hot enough to cause the HD to shutdown!

[BozzerBigD]

Well it hangs on using Workbench anyway! Works again once cooled down. Works all day with less strenuous apps now with a fan. Guessing the heat has nowhere to go!

[BozzerBigD]

@F0LLETT

It used to hang Workbench after 30 minutes of playing an audio CD previously when hot weather! The fan has helped.