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Laptop passive cooling idea
My laptop has always been just a little bit marginal in the cooling
department. In an office environment it's ok. At the nav station in a Florida summer, not so much. It has even been known to shut down from the thermal overload. After some fooling around, I decided that part of the problem was that the little rubber "feet" did not provide enough clearance for adequate airflow. Any flat surface it was sitting on would get hot to the touch. I thought about various ways of mounting a fan (feasible in my setup but noisy and probably overkill.) Instead,I picked up a sheet of Dri-Deck panel from West. If you're not familiar with it, it's a self draining plastic thingy that is the equivalent of a teak cockpit grate for a locker. It's about the right size, easy to trim, and placed upside down, provides terrific passive cooling. It's fairly non-slip and easy to secure anywhere you want it. Problem solved. Now, according to Usenet protocol, several people should be along momentarily to tell me * They thought of it first * It can't possibly work * It works too well * It destroys the environment * Screw the environment * I should've mounted a 12000 btu airconditioner under it * I shouldn't worry about it * Joshua Slocum only had a rusty clock with one hand * For only $8k, I could have a real maritime PC * People that want computers on their boats are jerks * Only an idiot would try to run a PC on a sailboat in a Florida Oh wait, that one is true. __________________________________________________ __________ Glen "Wiley" Wilson usenet1 SPAMNIX at worldwidewiley dot com To reply, lose the capitals and do the obvious. Take a look at cpRepeater, my NMEA data integrator, repeater, and logger at http://www.worldwidewiley.com/ |
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