Monitor Cooler

[Iamghey]

I made my own monitor cooler, but now the question is.. should the fan suck hot air out or blow cold air in? Which would cool the insides of the monitor more effective??? (and why)

Thanx

[Iamghey]

Here's a picture of it taken with a webcam

[Yodums]

Well I don't know personally if this sounds right but you should be sucking the air out from the top and try to put some intake on the bottom(????) :)

[dugans]

Whenever possible don't fight nature: exhaust on top, and either let nature take care of intake or if you want to control it, put an intake fan lower down.

Of course these opinions are generated by all the experience I have with monitor cooling..........NONE!:p

Generally best not to fight with Mother Nature though.

[Silversinksam]

You dont want your monitor cooler to blow, as dust is extremely hard to clean out of a monitor.

Have it suck the hot air out.

PS nice job, my monitor cooler is a 120mm Nidec TA450dc @6 volts with a fan grate.....This particular fan out of the 15 I tested was the only one that didnt create EMI and didnt distort the screen

Justcooler Monitor coolers also didnt create distortion.


My monitor now runs roughly 20*f cooler. And Im sure yours will do the same.

[Yodums]

Just a question I've heard if you cool your monitor it will expand the life of it?

[Twyst]

What are the benefits of montiro cooling?

[Yodums]

Originally posted by Twyst
What are the benefits of montiro cooling?

Probably longer life spand less dust in the monitor so it won't get hot and blow anything in there soon.

[CrystalMethod]

I heard somewhere that some of the components in monitors and T.V.'s have to be at a minimum temp to function properly. So cooling too much would be a bad thing. Not sure how much validity there is to it, but it might be worth looking into.

[Diggrr]

Very true CrystalMethod, there is a heater in the picture tube.
I'm sure however the circuit board and the flayback circuit could use some cooling to prolong life. Heat is the main killer in these two components, but I surely wouldn't recommend a Delta 'cause you could lose picture brightness/sharpness.

[CrystalMethod]

Oh! ok, so my brother isn't full of s**t after all.
:D

[Silversinksam]

I actually stuck a probe on top of my monitor and realized that cooling would help its longetivity as it was 120-130*f


After I tested a dozen and a half fans for a well shielded fan my temps now are 90-100*f and I am just using a little prevenative maintanence as the monitor is the most expensive part of my pc and cooling it seemed like the right thing to do.

Especially since I was able to drop the temp so effectivly using a Nidec beta 450dc thermally controlled fan @6volts. (Completly silent yet effective) I used double sided tape to affix it.

[mw521]

Originally posted by tsunami


Probably longer life spand less dust in the monitor so it won't get hot and blow anything in there soon. I have serviced medical equipment for years and one of the facts of life is, anything with a fan on it accumulates dust faster. Whether you blow it in or suck it thru it still speeds up dust accumlation. Filtering is the best option as you can just change the filter on a regular basis instead of having to blow it out so much. Remember you just made a nice vacuum cleaner with that fan install!:beer:

[michael westen]

yeah ass long ass you dont over do it dust also kils them
ore you have to open him up and blow the dust a way otherwise you get a nice blanked of dust over it and that will also ceap the heat in
i open mine up and my computer once a year and blow it all away i use a compresor of a frend of mine he a hase a real small nice one for work (elec. repairman)
but you can also get at electronic shop's canister whit air in it for that gine job's
its amazing howe mouths dust you have after a year :eek: