Make sure there's an air gap, that's about it.  You're going to have what,
1-2 degree difference between top and bottom at the most?


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On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 9:02 PM, TJ Trout <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't think it really matters, it's forced air ... put it at any angle?
>
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Just put one of these switches on a DIN rail, and I noticed something
>> curious. All the photos I've seen show the switch with the DC power
>> terminals at the top. This makes some sense when you see that the vents in
>> the side of the case are them at the top, which makes a natural path for
>> hot air to escape.
>>
>> However, it does not make sense when you also notice that this puts the
>> fan at the bottom. Well, not at first, until you also notice that the fan
>> (at the  bottom) is an exhaust fan, and not an intake fan. So the vents at
>> the top, let hot air out, but the fan at the bottom is pulling air in from
>> the top? Huh?  Shouldn't I be putting the DC power terminals at the bottom,
>> so that the exhaust fan can actually exhaust up?
>>
>> The other issue is that the DIN rail clips are spring loaded, and just
>> the cable weight seems to pull on the sprung clips, and I would think that
>> you'd want the fixed clips on top (the ones that don't retract), and that
>> to dismount, you would lift the unit, and rotate downward.
>>
>> Am I miss reading this?
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> bp
>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>>
>>
>

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