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I like the sleek design of this so far, my vote for the power button location would be to hide it somehow as to not ruin the look. Maybe recess it behind one of the front fan corners using a small SMT switch like these (LINK) and you would just press slightly on the fan corner as these don't take a lot of movement to trigger but if set up right won't trigger on its own. Or depending on the material of the desk, if it's wood maybe do something similar but use a knot of the wood as the button. On the underside, or side of the desk of course, so you don't accidentally trigger it hehe. Or maybe even use a reed switch and magnet system, then you could have a magnet on an object like your keys, something with a magnet embedded into it, to turn on your system. It literally wouldn't turn on without the "magic" item. Just some ideas!
Am I reading this site right? I must be missing something about this item. It's $124 for basically a super-HEPA-filtered 6" fan that only generates 28CFM under ideal conditions with filter in place? And a sleeve-bearing at that? Wat. While I'm sure there's some government contractor explaining a reason for this item to exist SOMEWHERE in the world, a computer desk is not it lol. Totally worth it? Eh...high static pressure fans with ball bearing, FDB, or anything other than sleeve bearing and heck you could even splurge on DEMCifilters for everything and still be under what 1 or 2 of those would cost you. Sorry if I'm misunderstanding something, but looking at that site, I'm not sure if I am...
On the subject of the filtering of what seems to be an enormous amount of vape smoke, that's going to be a challenge for anything really, as unless the enclosure is actually sealed the oil vapor will find a way in, fancy filters or not. Now I do have another question, OP you said you've lost 2 motherboards due to humidity and condensation, and vape smoke. I gotta say after basically living in a swamp earlier in my life I've never heard of that, were you running a water loop in that/those build too? Chiller? There's gotta be more to this than humidity and vape smoke
I mean honestly if your house is THAT humid, you should really look into a whole-house de-humidification system, as wouldn't other electronics potentially be in danger? This has truly piqued my curiosity!
The Cooler Guys have some sweet filter fans for both intake and exhaust. The intake setup is a 10" fan with a Nema12 filter. $150 but to prevent dust buildup on expensive electronics? Totally worth it. I use cheap 4" wide homedepot anti-static filters on my pc but it's kludgy at best. You would prolong the life of not only all the fans in the system, but the rads themselves, incl. the mobo. Perfect for a custom build like yours.
https://www.coolerguys.com/products/pfannenberg-pf-22000-4-0-6-nema-12-filter-fan-11622154055
In reality any decent air filter that you could easily replace without having to modify would be ideal. $150 in filters would essentially get you further than a fan with filter. Still the pfannenberg (made in germany) is damn cool.
Am I reading this site right? I must be missing something about this item. It's $124 for basically a super-HEPA-filtered 6" fan that only generates 28CFM under ideal conditions with filter in place? And a sleeve-bearing at that? Wat. While I'm sure there's some government contractor explaining a reason for this item to exist SOMEWHERE in the world, a computer desk is not it lol. Totally worth it? Eh...high static pressure fans with ball bearing, FDB, or anything other than sleeve bearing and heck you could even splurge on DEMCifilters for everything and still be under what 1 or 2 of those would cost you. Sorry if I'm misunderstanding something, but looking at that site, I'm not sure if I am...
On the subject of the filtering of what seems to be an enormous amount of vape smoke, that's going to be a challenge for anything really, as unless the enclosure is actually sealed the oil vapor will find a way in, fancy filters or not. Now I do have another question, OP you said you've lost 2 motherboards due to humidity and condensation, and vape smoke. I gotta say after basically living in a swamp earlier in my life I've never heard of that, were you running a water loop in that/those build too? Chiller? There's gotta be more to this than humidity and vape smoke
I mean honestly if your house is THAT humid, you should really look into a whole-house de-humidification system, as wouldn't other electronics potentially be in danger? This has truly piqued my curiosity!