I always wondered how drunk people are when they post on SPCR...

link to the duct install photos:

http://www.thermalright.com/a_page/main ... t_hr01.htm

...While Panaflo is cheap, there are consistency of quality issues... Cheap Panaflos mean surplus or reject fans which obviously have quality issues. That's the problem especially in north America with Panaflos. New Panaflos / NMB-MAT (non-surplus, non-reject, from the factory, that do have consist...

The Papst Sintec sleeve bearing really shouldn't be mixed with generic sleeve bearing. It's a passive hydrodynamic bearing, that has much longer lifetime even in higher temps when compared to generic sleeves. OK, it's classified a sleeve bearing, but it's a quality one like Aris pointed out. (the cl...

To address your first point, does it necessarily have to be a long-term solution? Considering how cheap sleeve bearing fans are, and that they are generally quieter than ball bearing fans, many here will opt for a quieter fan that they have to replace more often, rather than a noisier fan with a lo...

Tibors, First off, I was not commenting on your post. (Although I disagree with the reason for the ADDA / Loonie swap on the Seasonics.) If there is a case fan exhausting hot air then naturally a PSU with 120mm doesn't have to exhaust all the hot air alone, and as you say it doesn't "see" the heat g...

dutchman, I personally pretty much agree with you. I will not use anything else than Panaflo/NMB/Papst for "critical cooling", like the PSU. I've made quite a few posts about fan/bearing lifetime here on SPCR. If a person looks up proper data about sleeve bearings instead of reading marketing BS lik...

My pleasure, lets hope you get it sorted out!

Amjed, you have a PM waiting.

HTH

Damn... that's the exact same shop/item I almost bought!

Hi, I remember one poster saying that his NeoHE wouldn't start up when he connected the fan on the VF700 to 5V. When he switched it to the 12V it started working again. With some fans (depends on the implementation) the current consumption will go up a bit if the fan blades are "blocked" so that the...

Hi Amjed, sorry to hear about your trouble :? What seller did you get it from? There is a huge amount of SS-400's sold on germany eBay that are supposed to be an OEM model. I almost bought from one seller who was selling a "Super Silencer" in a bulk box, but oddly enough the model number wasn't for ...

http://stores.ebay.de/silencio-777

Shipping to the states is around 5€-6,50€ for the VM-102 if I'm reading it correctly.

Recommended vendor! Gives a SPCR discount.

I wonder how hard it would be to add a series inductor to form a low-pass filter so that the PWM noise could not pass through. Hi Rory, Actually the problem is not so much the PWM signal itself. The bigger problem is DC fans. This should require a long reply, but in short: The fan itself chops up t...

I remember one person sending me info about the Sony FDB... I have a funny feeling it is the "fluid dynamic bearing" that ADDA uses (yes technically it is that, but it isn't even near the real fluid dynamic bearing by Panaflo). I'll have search that mail and take a look at the specs when I get home ...

I agree with Aris, Dorothy will give you more information than you will ever want to know. The answer isn't as simple as many would think, so it really can't be brief :). She knows more different manufacturers and their bearings than I, simply due to her years of experience. She can give better comp...

Running a sleeve bearing horizontally will wear the bearing a bit faster. Papst specifies different L10 specs for their Sintec sleeve (it's called sleeve, but it's really a passive hydrodynamic) bearing when it is run horizontally / vertically. Many generic sleeve bearing fans have L10 figures of ~2...

These fans have been gathered during the two years. If the fans have been just sitting on a shelf the bearings don't like that. Although that will affect some fans / bearings more than others. Measuring them will be difficult (see previous) and just having comments on fans isn't probably worth the w...

Nice prices in the UK... You can get two from Silencio for the price of one from QuietPC.

If you're willing to get them from abroad you can get those for a good price from Silencio.

I think the common way to create the tacho is to use a hall sensor that usually gives two pulses per rotation.

the strobe was the first thing that came into my head after reading Jaganath's question. I don't see any other functional ideas posted? jmke, anemometers aren't exactly best suited for axial fans (it needs laminar airflow which isn't exactly the case with fans). But, in need of better funds that's p...

Nici,

I think it's from the ass and the accordion. Some finnish posters may get the joke....

No really, it looks very nice. You're on fire with your P150 and P180!

Jaganath, Sorry, but being finnish I really don't know when someone is being sarcastic. I hope you were... :? Anyway, I actually know people who deal with fans and use that method if they need to count the RPM without the tacho. That's how I know of it. I guess it could be an easy solution for an in...

If you're willing to order from europe, there is a sticky in the vendor forum about shops that ship to europe.

One way (OK, this isn't something you can just take from your top drawer) is to use a strobe light. You set it behind the fan and start increasing the frequency. When it seems the fan blades are still, you can count the RPM from the frequency.

Hi, If the PSU sits outside the case in ambient air the Nexus will most likely be OK regarding airflow and lifetime at those power levels, as the intake air is cool and the exhaust fan shouldn't see too high temperatures. Papst, Panaflo and NMB fans are good long lifetime fans for PSU fan swaps if y...

It's nice that SPCR has stickies on different subjects. It would be even nicer if people actually read them. Monitor the new fan's RPM. Most likely the PSU fan voltage is temperature controlled. If the new fan runs at full (or high) speed despite having the PSU outside the case then you may need a m...

Hi Nici,

nice looking setup. Oh, suites you Sir! oh!

What kind of glue did you use with that white Biltema soundproofing mat?

But if, hypothetically, I were to say that "incompatibility" is just blame-shifting by Antec, You can say that. It's an opinion / guess / personal presumption until you show some hard data to back it up. But, if you hypothetically said that... I think some users would hypothetically agree. Hypothet...