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Offline Clark KentTopic starter

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Removing the A4000 power supply fan?
« on: October 29, 2010, 02:31:41 PM »
Hi,
 
Just a thought. I like silent computing and my Amiga 4000 has a power supply fan blowing air the wrong way. It's a known problem that quite a few A4000s are constructed this way, the fan is blowing hot air into the power supply and not out of the chassis.
 
Now, my questione is this: is it a very bad idea to just remove the fan completly? This A4000 is quite cold, the CPU is a 68060 (CyberStorm MK2) clocked at 50 Mhz. What risk would I be running? I guess the 68060 wouldn't overheat, but what about the power supply?
 

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Re: Removing the A4000 power supply fan?
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2010, 07:41:38 PM »
Thanks everybody for the help. I think the way to go is to replace my PSU fan. Just to get this right, this should be a 120 mm x 120 mm 12 V fan? You can easyly find fans like this that only do 15 dB!
 

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Re: Removing the A4000 power supply fan?
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2010, 07:50:26 PM »
One more question. The A4000 PSU fan has only two connectors, right? New fans have three: red, black and yellow (ground?). What to do with the last connection, just ignore it?