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Hi, hoping I might get some advice on this.
I recently bought an upright Power Drift - works great - previous owner thought the monitor needed capping but turned out it was nothing that couldn't be sorted with the monitor pots so I got lucky there. Anyway, it has a 240volt (its a UK machine) fan bolted to the inside of the cabinet (it doesn't actually have a hole in the side, so its just circulating the air in the cab) which blows air over the game PCB's, which sit on a shelf in the cabinet.
This fan is (was) incredibly noisey - and really annoying. I say was, because when I was working on the machine the other night I wired it up incorrectly and killed it (thats what you get for working on these things when tired... Earth wire is NOT brown - doh!) But now its an absolute pleasure to run the cab without the fan - and the noise that thing was making.
So my question for anyone else with a Power Drift, do you run your cab with/without a fan blowing air over the PCB? Does it really need it? The obvious answer is that it wouldn't have one if it didn't need it, but after half an hour or so of playing (which is about as long as its ever on for) the cpus/chips on the top layer of the PCB don't even get warm to the touch (can't really tell about the bottom layer). Furthermore the only other picture of the internals on a Powerdrift that I managd to find, whilst difficult to make out didn't look like it had a fan - making me wonder if all machines even had them - and whether its needed.
Any advice/experiences from fellow Power Drift owners would be very much appreciated.
Thanks
I recently bought an upright Power Drift - works great - previous owner thought the monitor needed capping but turned out it was nothing that couldn't be sorted with the monitor pots so I got lucky there. Anyway, it has a 240volt (its a UK machine) fan bolted to the inside of the cabinet (it doesn't actually have a hole in the side, so its just circulating the air in the cab) which blows air over the game PCB's, which sit on a shelf in the cabinet.
This fan is (was) incredibly noisey - and really annoying. I say was, because when I was working on the machine the other night I wired it up incorrectly and killed it (thats what you get for working on these things when tired... Earth wire is NOT brown - doh!) But now its an absolute pleasure to run the cab without the fan - and the noise that thing was making.
So my question for anyone else with a Power Drift, do you run your cab with/without a fan blowing air over the PCB? Does it really need it? The obvious answer is that it wouldn't have one if it didn't need it, but after half an hour or so of playing (which is about as long as its ever on for) the cpus/chips on the top layer of the PCB don't even get warm to the touch (can't really tell about the bottom layer). Furthermore the only other picture of the internals on a Powerdrift that I managd to find, whilst difficult to make out didn't look like it had a fan - making me wonder if all machines even had them - and whether its needed.
Any advice/experiences from fellow Power Drift owners would be very much appreciated.
Thanks