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Article #80Re: Is it okay to mount a PC power supply upside down?
From: Daniel M Ulanday
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 00:00
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firstnamehere@sv.net.au (Matthew McDonald) writes: >>Is this safe/possible etc? >I would not recommend this for a few reasons. >One is the heat, even with the fan running you still get a fair bit of >heat and with the power supply upside down the heat will go straight >back into the board. >The other is the components themselves, especially with cheaper power >supplies the heat generated and going straight back into the boards >could cause components to come loose or cause dry joints etc. >______________________________________________________________ >Matthew McDonald Brisbane, Queensland There are a few faults I'd like to point out: 1. Most of the heat is generated by the power semiconductors mounted on the large heat sinks, so heat flows from these components to the board, not from the board back onto the board. 2. The turbulence of the air in the power supply is
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,909cd5f342a52757 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: 1045b9,909cd5f342a52757 X-Google-Attributes: gid1045b9,public From: ucyberat@mcl.ucsb.edu (Daniel M Ulanday) Subject: Re: Is it okay to mount a PC power supply upside down? Date: 1997/11/05 Message-ID: <63qqba$qpe@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu> X-Deja-AN: 287305230 References: <01bce785$3cd3a060$4b18568b@bob> <346b84fa.23266471@news.sv.net.au> Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,aus.computers.ibm-pc