begin quoting Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade as of Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 02:54:55PM -0700: > On Jun 4, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Stewart Stremler wrote: [snip] > >Get a $15 bathroom exhaust fan and $20 of plywood and hardware, and > >build a box to put your machine(s) in. Talk to the audio geeks about > >what to use as sound-proofing, and you could probably both cool down > >your room *and* make it quieter. > > Every bathroom exhaust fan I've heard is noisy. Seriously. Spend a > few dollars more and use a couple 120VAC 120mm biscuit fans and > you'll have much less noise, especially if you get ball-bearing fans.
They vary tremendously. Check the sones rating. Home Depot (at least the one near me) has a display of 'em, with power to each. Walk up, push the button, listen to the fan. The fan in my blade is louder than some of the bathroom fans. Some of the bathroom fans would drown out the blade, the netra, and the window fan (on 'hi') all at the same time. YMMV. > I keep working over a design for a built-in desk and work surface for > the home office, and putting all the computers (save notebooks) in > forced-ventilation, filtered cabinets, possibly with an exterior > exhaust vent (though I hadn't considered that part until today.) I need to build a built-in desk. . . although, putting all of the machines into a cabinet hadn't come to mind. That would be some long cable runs... -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
