Hey Lance!
I figured out that my my TiVo Premiere is overheating. It goes from 35C at idle to 36C and 37C under load of a inbound transfer. It was locking up and rebooting.
I put a small desktop fan behind it and put it on an old cheapie USB powered laptop cooler tray with fans. It's holding at 36C now as I torture it.
I have a better laptop cooler on order.
What I'd like it add a thermal switch that kicks in the 12V fans at 36C and shuts off at 35C. (I'd wire it into the USB cable.) I have a disk enclosure that comes with some kind of thermal switch wired in with the fan. Do you know what that is and where to get them? It's a tiny horseshoe-shaped device not much bigger than the wire that you thermal tape to the hard drive.
Ideally I'd like a speed control but I'll settle for on/off for now.
These guys have such for PC cases, even fans with thermal probes. I guess I could make my own mount for PC fans or replace the fans in a laptop cooler.
http://www.coolerguys.com/searchres...olled+fan&x=0&y=0&catalog=yhst-24067115789173
http://www.coolerguys.com/840556086611.html
Ok, this thing
http://www.coolerguys.com/840556090885.html
Any ideas?
I figured out that my my TiVo Premiere is overheating. It goes from 35C at idle to 36C and 37C under load of a inbound transfer. It was locking up and rebooting.
I put a small desktop fan behind it and put it on an old cheapie USB powered laptop cooler tray with fans. It's holding at 36C now as I torture it.
I have a better laptop cooler on order.
What I'd like it add a thermal switch that kicks in the 12V fans at 36C and shuts off at 35C. (I'd wire it into the USB cable.) I have a disk enclosure that comes with some kind of thermal switch wired in with the fan. Do you know what that is and where to get them? It's a tiny horseshoe-shaped device not much bigger than the wire that you thermal tape to the hard drive.
Ideally I'd like a speed control but I'll settle for on/off for now.
These guys have such for PC cases, even fans with thermal probes. I guess I could make my own mount for PC fans or replace the fans in a laptop cooler.
http://www.coolerguys.com/searchres...olled+fan&x=0&y=0&catalog=yhst-24067115789173
http://www.coolerguys.com/840556086611.html
Ok, this thing
http://www.coolerguys.com/840556090885.html
Any ideas?
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