[Coco] CoCo 3 Voltage Regulator heat sink

John T Chasteen johnchasteen.2 at juno.com
Sun Apr 12 17:01:06 EDT 2009


Where can I get a 40mm fan? What voltage does it require?
Does the fan go inside the coco3 case?

John

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 14:44:11 -0700 "Mike Pepe" <lamune at doki-doki.net>
writes:
> While both of those options may reduce power consumption to some 
> degree, my real world experience suggests the best way to deal with 
> the CoCo 3 heat problem is to stick a 40mm fan near the PSU area. 
> I've had a 512k/6809 CoCo running that way for years and years 
> without issue. (Except maybe a little noise.)
> 
> If you're going to mess around with the PSU, I'd just (and have) 
> take the Gene approach and just rip out the PSU entirely and run the 
> thing off an external unit. I recycled an external switcher from an 
> old dead Telebit router and used it for a CoCo 3/Disto 2MB repack.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com 
> [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Adolph
>
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