[TriLUG] laptop cooling fan

Alexey Toptygin alexeyt at freeshell.org
Sat Oct 27 18:25:13 EDT 2012


On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Amnon wrote:

> I've been doing it for over 20 years now, to every machine that comes across 
> the bench, before I work on it.  Not a once did it damage anything :-)
> Now, you do need to watch not to get too close to the board, or you may 
> dislodge some components (160psi ;-)

Ditto. I don't see how the bearing could be damaged, and while the brushed 
DC motors that are in most fans do act like a generator if you spin the 
fan, they make a rather crappy one, so you won't get enough voltage out of 
them to damage the control circuitry.

 			Alexey



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