Going on about the fan...

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Eventually, the tape holding the fan in place against the back of my VAIO gave way, enough to let the cracks aroung the fan/computer "interface" supply most of the air being blown by the fan. As a result, the VAIO overheated. Repositioning the running fan saw an almost immediate jump in temperature of 10 deg F in the air going past the thermocouple. I've turned off the computer and let the fan continue to draw air through it, to help it cool down faster.

The cooking can't be good for the CPU or the components near it. Then again, this is the longest the machine has been on in some time. If I had been paying more attention...

In other news, an e-mail correspondent told me she had received the ATA Chronicle, the one with my article. Then Galina came home with a large envelope filled with about 10 authors' copies. As a result, I've had to accelerate the renovation of my "professional" web site. The files are ftp-ing to my server as I type this. Next step: go check the links and make sure everything works and that there are no stupid spelling errors on the pages!

Conventional wisdom says (as does conventional experience) that such a publication will increase calls coming in to ask about my services. I don't really have a great baseline right now to compare against, but what the heck... it's not as if I'm going to write a technical paper on the subject.

In still other news, I got a nearly illegible assignment to do for Monday. The good news is, though, that it's newspaper-speak about government issues, so the redundancy in the text is astronomical. Still, it'll be a bear, not to mention I have an editing assignment also due on Monday.

Off to relax... away from these computers!

Cheers...

Comments

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

I was looking at my friend's Vaio this afternoon. I'm not sure I follow exactly how you built your outboard fan, but if the square holes in the back are where you mate the new fan, I think I'd look at mounting the fan on a large sheet of posterboard big enough to fit under the whole Vaio and sticking out the back far enough to mount the fan. That way the weight of the Vaio would help keep the fan in position and the tape (Duct Tape Rules!) would mostly serve to seal the opening.

Actually, I'd probably look at just making a collar out of the tape, so it butted up against the back panel rather than stuck to it. That would make it easier to remove it, since you'd only have to pick up the Vaio, and (possibly) fold the cardboard along a taped joint so it would fit in a briefcase or something.

Just mental ramblings, not a complete design solution ;)