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Re: HP 8970B noisy fan


 

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Farnell currently have suitable fans on offer at a pretty good price.

I just bought 6 to use in my collection of 66xx system power supplies currently being slowly cleaned up and fixed.

Farnell part number 1545836

Michael Kellett,
MK Electronics Ltd.,
On 18/02/2022 09:20, Christopher Tucker via groups.io wrote:

I have replaced noisy 115VAC fans with 12VDC Noiseblocker Black Silent Pro PL-2 fans from Germany. For my 140S, I bought a 120mm but they have other sizes. There is a retailer in Ireland that ships to the EU rather easily:


The fan is thinner than the original which made installation a bit easier. The caveat is you will need to create a small board to convert the 115VAC to 12VDC using four 1N4007, four 1/2W resistors to halve the voltage twice 110 -> 55 -> 27.5 to meet the upper threshold of the 7812, and a 1uF 35V electrolytic filter capacitor. The fan is so silent one can hear the subtle buzzing of the transformer. I opted to construct two aluminum 90-degree bends from the upper pair of fan-transistor plane bolts to attach the circuitboard parallel such that it was under the level of the cover.

I also had to make some custom bolts from a longer piece of M4 from a Bauhaus to attach the cooling planes for the four power transistors - also with some M4 washers, etc because of the difference between SAE and metric. The result is very nice but I had to run the fan from an external battery while testing/building the conversion circuit to keep the transistors cool.

You can get the datasheet from here:



Christopher

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