Remember to hold your fans in place and prevent them from being spun by compressed air. If they spin fast enough they can generate enough current to cause damage.
This is very good advice, I like to spin mine with the compressor going “VROOM VROOM” but I guess it would make sense that they will back feed some voltage to the pins that way.
and if at any point you had to disconnect your fans for cleaning do not forget to connect them back in. the fans are not optional components. modern PCs and laptops will straight up refuse to turn on if they can’t detect the fans
Apple have a long history of making computers that rely on passive cooling. The Power Mac G4 Cube is the prettiest example, though to be fair it was not a good computer, with many people retro fitting fans into them later.
Remember to hold your fans in place and prevent them from being spun by compressed air. If they spin fast enough they can generate enough current to cause damage.
This is very good advice, I like to spin mine with the compressor going “VROOM VROOM” but I guess it would make sense that they will back feed some voltage to the pins that way.
Never had a problem tho
It will only happen if the fan has permanent magnets. Still, just stop the blades. No reason to put wear on the bearings
and if at any point you had to disconnect your fans for cleaning do not forget to connect them back in. the fans are not optional components. modern PCs and laptops will straight up refuse to turn on if they can’t detect the fans
Meanwhile, my laptop has no fans.
could you elaborate? i don’t think current technology with more computational power than a phone can survive without fans
I have an M2 Macbook Air, which ironically has nothing to move the air about.
It gets a bit warm if I play any reasonably demanding games on it, but it’s never thrown up any overheating warnings.
huh! interesting
Apple have a long history of making computers that rely on passive cooling. The Power Mac G4 Cube is the prettiest example, though to be fair it was not a good computer, with many people retro fitting fans into them later.
But they’ve got much better at it since then!
I doubt that. It’s definitely so the bearing doesn’t break.