[Coco] Heat management 101

[Steve Batson]

I had an original Gray Case coco way back when and had lots of mods I'd 
done from magazine articles and such. If I remember correctly, I did manage 
to put a slim fan in the case but figured the air would go out case vents. 
I didn't drill any new ones. I may not have needed the fan, was just being 
cautious. :)

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From: "Rogelio Perea" <os9dude at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 8:49 AM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: [Coco] Heat management 101 

Was doing my daily Ebay stroll and came up to this:

http://tinyurl.com/5ts8rls

How bad could it be inside that CoCo to have the case "modded" like so for
ventilation? That is an avant-garde vents job.

I have a similar CoCo with the full 64k setup and while it gets warm 
during
regular use, I have not seen through all the years something that would
concern me to try something to manage heat build up. The CoCo in the 
auction
seems to have a video adapter board, even so I don't think such expansion
would make the CoCo run way hotter... could be wrong.

While on the subject of ventilation, years ago I added the second drive to
my FD-502 system and as it was a self procured upgrade it didn't came with
the cooling fan as the Radio Shack package did. I remember back then 
keeping
a close watch at the disk power supply the first weeks of use, eventually 
I
saw no need to install the fan and it has been like so ever since - even
under heavy OS9 LII use the power supply manages with room to spare.

The only mod I have done on heat concerns was in the CoCo 3: which after
installing the 512k RAM expansion there was a noticeable increase in the
heat output through the top vents, so I added one thin fan underneath the
keyboard to help in bringing in some air circulation from the bottom 
vents.
It has helped.

-- RP

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