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:
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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