On Monday, January 02, 2012 11:52:14 PM Jon Elson did opine: > gene heskett wrote: > > How about this one? $219 > > > > <http://www.directron.com/extremevalue.html> > > > > only needs an optical drive for installs. > > > > I am tempted to get 2, one for the lathe. > > Yup, looks mostly OK to me. It has a plastic window on the side, and a > fan. You may need the fan with the magnetic hard drive. They systems I > picked out piece by piece were fanless, and used a small SSD. These > systems run amazingly cool. I ran one for a day and then opened the > case. The big CPU heatsink had a detectable temperature rise, > everything else was cold to the touch. I thought in a machine tool > environment fanless would be better. I certainly can't argue that point. Fans suck in everything. OTOH when I built a new box for my drive electronics, I used 1/3 & 3/16 thick alu panels & stuck a 6" rotron 120 volt noisemaker inside the mostly sealed box, then put a another much quieter fan to skim the top with shop air. At 99F in the shop, a probe stuck through an empty cable hole & inside about 3" said 107F inside the box after about 7 hours on time. That is good enough for the girls I go with. :-)
And it should stay relatively clean inside. I'll see how dirty it has gotten so far in the next day or so as I intend to check dipswitch #4 on the A axis driver, it is not powering down to 50% drive when idle, so that motor is running noticeably hotter than the other 3. If the switch is set, I'll bounce it back, as I bought an extra driver when I bought those. Precisely for that reason. :) > Jon Thanks Jon. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom. -- Mark Twain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
