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From: chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac II fan noise - an unauthorized solution
Keywords: Mac II fan noise
Message-ID: <5542@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 17 Jul 88 20:29:51 GMT
References: <309@cfcl.UUCP> <5998@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
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Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <5998@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Joshua Golub writes:
...
|no one yet has mentioned the 'extra protection' Apple provides.  According
|to my Mac II manual the fan will work harder if the machine gets hot.
...
|   Have any of the fan-hackers tested this fan power increase with their
|new fans?  Can I add some sort of LED to warn me when the Mac II gets hot,
|and then go ahead and install a quiet fan? 

I don't think the sort of an LED warning system is necessary.  As I
understand it, the Mac II has an temperature sensor which will automatically
cut power if the fan is unable to provide suffcient cooling.

Christopher Chow
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