Hot scandoubler

[BoingBoing]

I noticed that my Scandoubler/Flickerfixer gets really hot even after a short period of time. Is this an issue or it is expected?

[motorollin]

They will get quite warm. How hot are we talking? Too hot to touch?

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moto

[pierre]

are there flames?  that would be cool!

[pan1k]

Yeah those damn things get hot. I have an internal one in my A1200. If the central air is on, i'm fine, but if not the graphics start getting corrupted and the screen bounces. Which scandoubler do you have?

[BoingBoing]

I can still touch it. But I 'm afraid aI can't let it run all day, can I?

[Crusher]

My external SD/FF has drilled holes on the case. It gets pretty hot.  :-)

[tonyvdb]

I did the same thing to my external one I drilled holes and mounted a small fan to the outside it never gets hot now.

[nasty]

Thats what I was planning to do to my external scandoubler, drill afew small holes and fit a small fan to keep it cooled down!

[LoadWB]

Can anybody enlighten the masses as to what causes this extreme heat?

[B00tDisk]

LoadWB wrote:
Can anybody enlighten the masses as to what causes this extreme heat?

Molecular agitation.

[tonyvdb]

The Heat is caused because of the small enclosed space it is in and is not properly vented. All computer components get warm. to various degrees. Anything related to graphics will get very hot at times (remember that most graphic cards have heat syncs and fans to cool). The scandoubler has to do alot to flicker fix and also double the scan rate so it will get hot.