ATX power supply fan noisy.
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From: Franc Zabkar on 30 Apr 2010 04:11 On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:38:14 +0100, "Arfa Daily" <arfa.daily(a)ntlworld.com> put finger to keyboard and composed: >If you want long and quiet service, make sure that you get one with roller >bearings, not the cheapo sleeve bearings. > >Arfa Ceramic bearings appear to be even better: http://www.ceramicafans.com/whyceramic.htm - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.
From: Arfa Daily on 30 Apr 2010 20:34 "Franc Zabkar" <fzabkar(a)iinternode.on.net> wrote in message news:m54lt5demg9ddj1g4slrvsgmd9qut984ao(a)4ax.com... > On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:38:14 +0100, "Arfa Daily" > <arfa.daily(a)ntlworld.com> put finger to keyboard and composed: > >>If you want long and quiet service, make sure that you get one with roller >>bearings, not the cheapo sleeve bearings. >> >>Arfa > > Ceramic bearings appear to be even better: > http://www.ceramicafans.com/whyceramic.htm > > - Franc Zabkar > -- > Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. Haven't had any experience of them yet. Arfa
From: UCLAN on 1 May 2010 00:13 Arfa Daily wrote: >>>If you want long and quiet service, make sure that you get one with roller >>>bearings, not the cheapo sleeve bearings. >>> >>>Arfa >> >>Ceramic bearings appear to be even better: >>http://www.ceramicafans.com/whyceramic.htm >> >>- Franc Zabkar >>-- >>Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. > > Haven't had any experience of them yet. While ball-bearing fans have the longevity edge over cheap sleeve bearing fans, they aren't necessarily quieter. And newer sleeve bearing designs, such as Nidec's NBRX sleeve bearing, have made great strides in longevity.
From: Ian Jackson on 1 May 2010 16:45 In message <c1c6ebf7-891b-4fba-9f3d-11d31bc2b5c1(a)j36g2000prj.googlegroups.com>, Robert Macy <macy(a)california.com> writes >On Apr 28, 10:53�am, "David Farber" <farberbear.uns...(a)aol.com> wrote: >> I would like to replace this two-wire, 80mm square, �power supply fan. The >> power supply is used in an AudioReQuest music server and is powered on >> continuously. The part number is, NMB-MAT 7 followed by a model number of, >> 3110GL-B4W-B54. 12V DC, 0.30A. I've found a few places online that have them >> listed but when I call they, don't have them in stock or the price is >> prohibitively expensive. Is there some generic fan that will replace this >> and not cost more than the power supply itself? >> >> Thanks for your reply. >> -- >> David Farber >> David Farber's Service Center >> L.A., CA > >If you caught it in time, you can try relubing the bearins which will >get you by for a while. > >Remove from PC and soak in 30 weight oil, clean up, put back in > >I got another 6 months out of mine My PSU fan seized solid, very solid (nice and quiet, though). The replacement seemed rather noisy for my tastes. I eventually got the original fan freed off. [It needed the application of a hot soldering iron to the end of the spindle.] It ran for 18 months after being well re-oiled with WD40. It was still going fine when, some time ago, I doing a spot of once-in-a-while spring cleaning inside the case. So I re-oiled it again with some '3-in-1' oil. It's still running fine. -- Ian
From: Michael A. Terrell on 1 May 2010 17:44
Ian Jackson wrote: > > My PSU fan seized solid, very solid (nice and quiet, though). The > replacement seemed rather noisy for my tastes. I eventually got the > original fan freed off. [It needed the application of a hot soldering > iron to the end of the spindle.] It ran for 18 months after being well > re-oiled with WD40. It was still going fine when, some time ago, I doing > a spot of once-in-a-while spring cleaning inside the case. So I re-oiled > it again with some '3-in-1' oil. It's still running fine. WD40 isn't a lubricant. It was developed for 'Water Displacement', or in plain english, to spray on ignition wires that got wet. Which '3-in-1' oil. That is a brand, not a type. -- Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to have a DD214, and a honorable discharge. |