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Any horror stories from not properly ventilating a MAME cabinet
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TOK:

--- Quote from: boardjunkie on June 28, 2011, 10:10:00 am ---The vent tube is not overkill, but needed to properly displace warm air and bring in fresh air. If you just leave the pc in  there, it will recycle its own exhaust (there's no air movement inside a cab) and run warmer than it should. I've been involved in the amusement industry as a tech for over 20 years, and I know how much a monitor alone can heat up a cab. A PC dissipates far more heat than an arcade board and small switching supply.

So I guess its up to the builder what you want to do. But I would make the extra effort (its not that hard) to keep everything inside the cab as happy as possible if its expected to last and run reliably.

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I've been running the same PC in my original MAME cab since 2005, a Pentium 4 I built from used parts already laying around.
Never ran fans, never had an issue. Sometimes its on for an hour, sometimes it runs all day. Cooling fans would just be one more thing to go wrong.

Not running anything but standard fans (CPU, power supply) in their original spots on my other machines, either. No problems.
Donkbaca:
So I guess the answer is no, there are no horror stories.
leapinlew:

--- Quote from: Donkbaca on June 28, 2011, 06:26:38 pm ---So I guess the answer is no, there are no horror stories.


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I got a story. It's about a guy who worried about his cabinet getting too hot. So he connected a couple fans and ran dryer vent tubing inside his cabinet. After all was said and done, he lost several hours that he could've spent PLAYING ARCADE GAMES!  :scared :scared :scared :scared :scared
eds1275:
For what it's worth every single audio install I have seen and or worked on pulls cool air in from the bottom [with a fan] and lets it out through the top. And I am talking amplifiers, tube equipment etc - the hot stuff. I have never seen one installed with fans pulling air out from the top. Though it would work, maybe it wouldn't be as effective. I don't know the science behind it.



A pc though? I think adding some fans and or vents is more for piece of mind than really a requirement.
boardjunkie:


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I got a story. It's about a guy who worried about his cabinet getting too hot. So he connected a couple fans and ran dryer vent tubing inside his cabinet. After all was said and done, he lost several hours that he could've spent PLAYING ARCADE GAMES!  :scared :scared :scared :scared :scared
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Dude I've played arcade games for more than 30 years and repaired 'em for 20. Its not my top priority in life. Why do you care so much that I want my stuff to last? I'll do it the way I want to, so quitchabitchin.....

You can build a fire in your nifty MAME cab for all I care.....
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