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Article #3443Re: Rear fan spins, front does not?
From: Rick Baker
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 21:15
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 21:15
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Probably not common at all, but why risk it when there are inexpensive alternatives? A lower rpm fan, a modified fan with a low ohm pot, etc. kony wrote: > > Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:18:43 -0500, Rick Baker <rb2b@ti.com> wrote: > > >Connecting a fan between 12V and 5V is not a good idea. If the fan > >motor shorts out you got big problems to more expensive hardware > >than a $10 fan. > >If you more less noise, buy a lower rpm fan. > > Is it a common mode of failure (or even possible) for a brushless DC > computer fan to short out the power leads? I'm not aruging that this > isn't remotely possible, but it seems unlikely, without introducing a > power drill, pond, or some other overt act of destruction. > > Are there any relevant schematics you could link to? > > Dave > ___________________________ > Please Reply to Newsgroup, > Google ate my email address.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a2ed,d7652836a328a46f X-Google-Attributes: gid10a2ed,public X-Google-Thread: f5f89,d7652836a328a46f X-Google-Attributes: gidf5f89,public X-Google-Thread: fde4f,d7652836a328a46f X-Google-Attributes: gidfde4f,public X-Google-Thread: f70d1,d7652836a328a46f X-Google-Attributes: gidf70d1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-26 14:25:03 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sjcppf01.usenetserver.com!usenetserver.com!easynews!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!dfw-feed.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!nntp1.hal-pc.org!12.120.16.16.MISMATCH!attdl1!attdl2!ip.att.net!news.ti.com!not-for-mail From: Rick Baker <rb2b@ti.com> Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,intel.motherboards.other Subject: Re: Rear fan spins, front does not? Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:15:22 -0500 Organization: Texas Instruments Incorporated Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3BB2456A.775883F3@ti.com> References: <pYPq7.5228$3d2.410976@bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> <3baf1987.263199951@eurnews0.europe.nortel.com> <UVUr7.7919$WW.759794@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> <3bb0d09a.81869778@news.earthlink.net> <3BB0F4B3.A0E61443@ti.com> <3bb1ef2f.54102399@news.earthlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: asp0165673.pac.sc.ti.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: tilde.csc.ti.com 1001538819 9854 157.170.8.80 (26 Sep 2001 21:13:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.ti.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Sep 2001 21:13:39 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en]C-CCK-MCD Texas Instruments (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en