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DrewKaree:
I have a solution to your problem, so you can take those 2 fans back. Remove the lower panel in the back of your cab. Somehow, fashion a bracket to install the fan shown below. This will take care of both your heat AND dust problems, and perhaps any frilly knick knacks the missus will have had lying around the house.
Payment may be rendered in cash only, and you're welcome. My work here is done ;D
Ed_McCarron:
Since it looks like a wide notch acreoss the width of your cab thats the 'intake' , perhaps buy a large, home, forced air heat type filter. The big, woven ones. Shouldn't cost more than a buck or 3.
Cut to fit across the notches (inside) and hold in place with a few staples.
SirPeale:
It's just something you're going to have to deal with. General maintenance on your machines to keep them running okay. Dust control is part of that. Vacuum the machine out at least once a month under heavy use. Less with less use, of course.
nostrebor:
If you think about it, those monitors were designed to be enclosed in a cabinet/kiosk, sandwiched inbetween many other hot games, and run almost 24/7. Many arcades back in the day were not or poorly conditioned, and packed full of people. = HOT
I would imagine that the slot at the top and bottom of your monitor area is double the cooling area needed by design for that monitor, and you will be running the unit about 1/4 of the time it was intended to be run.
Still, testing is not going to hurt anything.
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: nostrebor on December 07, 2005, 10:10:03 am ---If you think about it, those monitors were designed to be enclosed in a cabinet/kiosk, sandwiched inbetween many other hot games, and run almost 24/7. Many arcades back in the day were not or poorly conditioned, and packed full of people. = HOT
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I gotta say I disagree with these words. I think they tried to design as much cooling into them as possible, but they didn't put THAT much effort into it. True, they WERE designed to be put into a cab/kiosk, but they ALSO had to design those enclosures with as little access to the innards as possible, lest some ass hat without his helmet that day decide to see if he could get something for free by tinkering with the innards.....ZZZTTTTZZZTTTT!
I think they put as much thought into designing heat control into the enclosures as they did to what color they'd make the thing.
We also have the added benefit of hindsight and being able to learn and improve on the heat control, so why not overengineer the thing to make OUR stuff last longer? To an op, it'd suck to have something go down due to heat issues, but almost without a doubt, he'd have a replacement readily available. We often have to come up with the cash to buy a replacement part, and in some cases, it'd take several weeks to get the cash and the part, so I say the heck with it. Overengineer the snot out of it. Throw a low-noise bathroom exhaust fan into the top of the thing!