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Article #40536Fan for Apple RGB Monitor
From: Mark H. Anbinder
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 1989 00:34
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 1989 00:34
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I just bought a fan at Radio Shack to mount on top of my monitor to draw air through and keep the poor thing a bit cooler. The salesman said it would be appropriate for that, but in fact it causes a definite shimmer or wobble on the screen when it's on. This is understandable, of course, since there IS, after all, a magnetic motor in the fan. My question is, what could I do to shield the monitor from the magnetic field and still have the cooling work? Would a metal grille under the fan help? Should I put a cylinder between the monitor and the fan, holding the fan up a few inches? The fan is a 120VAC fan, rotating at 3100 rpm and with a 32 cubic ft/min airflow. The monitor is an Apple hi-res RGB. The fan actually does a VERY good job of keeping the monitor cool. If I don't manage to solve this problem directly, I may just let the fan sit there, and turn it on only when I step away from the computer. Could this fan damage the monitor in any way? How is Apple's internal Mac II fan shielded? -- Mark H. Anbinder ** MHA@TCGould.tn.cornell.edu NG33 MVR Hall, Media Services Dept. ** THCY@CRNLVAX5.BITNET Cornell University H: (607) 257-7587 ******** Ithaca, NY 14853 W: (607) 255-1566 ******* Ego ipse custodies custudio
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!mha From: mha@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Fan for Apple RGB Monitor Message-ID: <7699@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 9 Apr 89 00:34:19 GMT Reply-To: mha@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder) Organization: Department of Media Services, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 26