On 3/8/10 7:58 AM, James Fraser wrote:
Hello,
--- On Mon, 3/8/10, David Colvin<[email protected]> wrote:
Okay, the MacChiminey is a new one on me. Are you serious? Did
someone actually make that thing? MacAlly? Kensington?
Kensington made the System Saver Mac, a small fan unit that sat on
top of the 128K/512K/Ke/Plus. I'm not sure how popular they were
originally, but I had a hard time trying to find one at a price point
I could stand in 2009.
I'm pretty sure these were pretty popular. It was a nice bit of work
that slid into the handle space and, IIRC, had two power outlets.
They had a version for the SE, too, which, IIRC, was simply a module
to plug peripherals into, as the SE had a fan incorporated into the
design (Jobs had left Apple by then).
If Macally made a cooling device for the Plus, I couldn't tell you
what it was. [shrugs]
Anyway, the MacChimney was made by someone named Tom Swain and sold
for $18:
Yeah, I think that must have got a lot of snickers. It was literally a
chimney that enhanced the convection flow of cooling air. No fan at all.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/idontlikewords/275104234/
Try as I might, I couldn't find more than a passing reference to it
online; I've always been curious as to how many units he sold. ،_،
My self I crafted my own method. I attached a small muffin fan
underneath one of the vents in the top rear. It connected to the logic
board using little spring clips on an electrolytic capacitor on the 12V
line. I put a resistor in line with it to reduce the speed of the fan
some to cut down on the noise.
--
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
"I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway"
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