ISO oddball cooler (or repair thereto)

[D Yuniskis]

Hi,

I've got a SunPCi II (coprocessor board) that has a
noisey cooler. So far, I've not been able to find
a direct replacement -- nor anything else that comes
close to the same form factor, etc.

This auction has an illustration of the cooler:

http://cgi.ebay.com/SUN-X2132A-375-3051-SunPCi-IIpro-733MHz-128MB-NEW_W0QQitemZ400027271605QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCOMP_EN_Networking_Components?hash=item5d237bc1b5

Any suggestions as to how I could repair/replace/emulate
this and still fit in the space available (i.e., not
interfere with the adjacent cards)?

Thanks!
--don

 

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:23:40 -0700, D Yuniskis
<not.going.to.be@seen.com> wrote:

Hi,

I've got a SunPCi II (coprocessor board) that has a
noisey cooler. So far, I've not been able to find
a direct replacement -- nor anything else that comes
close to the same form factor, etc.

This auction has an illustration of the cooler:

http://cgi.ebay.com/SUN-X2132A-375-3051-SunPCi-IIpro-733MHz-128MB-NEW_W0QQitemZ400027271605QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCOMP_EN_Networking_Components?hash=item5d237bc1b5

Any suggestions as to how I could repair/replace/emulate
this and still fit in the space available (i.e., not
interfere with the adjacent cards)?

Thanks!
--don

The noisy part is most likely the fan. If you can remove the existing
cooler without damage, you can probably find an equivalent fan in
surplus. Try these dealers:

http://www.allelectronics.com/

http://www.surpluscenter.com/

http://www.skycraftsurplus.com/index.asp

John

 

[D Yuniskis]

news@jecarter.us wrote:

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:23:40 -0700, D Yuniskis
I've got a SunPCi II (coprocessor board) that has a
noisey cooler. So far, I've not been able to find
a direct replacement -- nor anything else that comes
close to the same form factor, etc.

The noisy part is most likely the fan.

Yeah, that seems pretty obvious! ;-)

If you can remove the existing
cooler without damage, you can probably find an equivalent fan in
surplus. Try these dealers:

http://www.allelectronics.com/
http://www.surpluscenter.com/
http://www.skycraftsurplus.com/index.asp

No joy in any of those places.

If you examine the photo, it is not a conventional fan
nor cooler. Even the CPU socket to which it mounts is
non-standard (else I could have just found a cooler
designed for *that* particular type of socket!)

 

[D Yuniskis]

Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

D Yuniskis wrote:
news@jecarter.us wrote:
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:23:40 -0700, D Yuniskis
I've got a SunPCi II (coprocessor board) that has a
noisey cooler. So far, I've not been able to find
a direct replacement -- nor anything else that comes
close to the same form factor, etc.

Why not post this on the Sun Rescue mailing list?

No luck, there. (I could replace the board but I would rather
*fix* it). Apparently, no one knows of a source for the coolers
themselves.

 

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

D Yuniskis wrote:

news@jecarter.us wrote:
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:23:40 -0700, D Yuniskis
I've got a SunPCi II (coprocessor board) that has a
noisey cooler. So far, I've not been able to find
a direct replacement -- nor anything else that comes
close to the same form factor, etc.

Why not post this on the Sun Rescue mailing list?

geoff.

--
Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM