RIP Panaflos x 2 ARGH!!!

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somegeek

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This is what happens when the modder neglects to install grills and accidentally picks up a case without paying attention to the fans w/o grills that the dumb *** neglected to install...

Pretty frustrating... this is the second one I've done this to in the last two months. This fan is kaput - after a few days it starts making noise since it's off balance - this happened to the last one. Can really put a deep gouge in your finger which I've learned for the second time.

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Grills installed now.

Not so bad though since my my case is running one fan short and the CPU temp is the same with the ambient being just 1 degree higher.

Time to order some more fans...

somegeek

 

MameXP

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wow your finger did that?

man you skin must be... metal or something

 

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The band-aid on my finger would suggest otherwise...

somegeek

 

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yeah it sucks, my 92 mm panaflo died by touching the carpet while on, those blades are so freaking brittle.
it sucks.
i feel for you bro

~Magick_Man~

 

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Ouch! Lucky that the blades are plastic. In the bad old days they were metal. Think Vegamatic.

 

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When life gives you lemons make lemonade.

When your fingers give you broken fans make fan spacers.

 

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Ive broke plenty of fans on my fingers.. Dont ask me how I keep doing it, its just the complusive feeling to touch the heatsink blindly. I remember one time my panaflo m1a blade when right under my nail left a deep cut hurt for days

 

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Look on the bright side...atleast its not like alot of deltas which use STEEL blades. What's worse? A $8 fan or a $8000 hospital bill

 

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OUCH

I have to second Sens statment. I don't use delta's anymore, one tends to develope a phobia of them after getting a taste of those steel blades.....

 

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well all I have to say is the 120MM panaflos will take your finger off. Those blades are not brittle.

 

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yeah, I did that to my zalman 92mm that I had on my HS. Luckily it was just a Zalman. I broke 2 blade but didn't even scratch my finger. I also learn the hard way the every fan deserves atleast a wire grill .... and a filter .....and just a little bit of love

 

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I just installed a three blade Delta today.You get to close to that and you pull back a nub

 

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somegeek said:

The band-aid on my finger would suggest otherwise...

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LOL!!!!

 

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dicecca112 said:

well all I have to say is the 120MM panaflos will take your finger off. Those blades are not brittle.

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They are not brittle, but my fingers can stop them (only happened once, free air testing and dropped one on my finger, Ph34r /\/\y Ph1ng3rz). The fans I would worry about are the huge metal Comair Rotron fans. Never really got into my tornado before decomissioning it, but there were a couple times when I was going to feel my mosfets...

 

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If your temps havent increased since you're one fan short, why do you want to get more fans? Won't it just be more noise?

 

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man, i got like 4 (REALLY SMALL) cuts right down my finger when i was checking my NB sink... i wanted to see how hot it was, and i ended up hitting the zalman7000-cu's stock fan... now, i have the panaflo 92mm, 56.8CFM model on there... once, i was changing the speed of the fan (i still use zalmans included rheo), and my finger touched the fan... but not a fan blade, the center... it started draggin, and i pulled my finger away instantly... i got scared to death... the suction was pulling my finger in lmao

 

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crash013 said:

If your temps havent increased since you're one fan short, why do you want to get more fans? Won't it just be more noise?

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Ambient is up by 2 degrees now that I've pushed from 3.37 up to 3.45... I'll prolly wait to see if I need to add one back in.

 

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somegeek said:

Ambient is up by 2 degrees now that I've pushed from 3.37 up to 3.45... I'll prolly wait to see if I need to add one back in.

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Thats not too much of an increase in heat. I'd rather have a quieter system.

 

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Beginning to think that Tim the Toolman would be right at home here.