Everyone who gets into vintage audio sooner or later discovers that heat is perhaps the biggest threat to their equipment. Cooling vintage gear efficiently can be a tough proposition in terms of cost and convenience. There simply aren't any really small, efficient cooling fans that can be placed where they can do the most good.
Well, there are a lot of computers that have small cooling fans built into them to cool the cpu. Now, if you were able to design a circuit that would step down 120vac to 12vac these little fans could be placed in a very attractive, thin wood case and put on top of a receiver or amp to provide some much needed circulation.
And by using the switched plug in on the back of the unit, the little fan would only be in use when the gear was turned on.
So, knowing that there are some very talented electronics techs on this board, I'd like to ask if this can be designed?. You design it, I'll build it and make it available at cost to anyone who needs it and if there is any profit, it gets donated to AK.
Any takers?.
Well, there are a lot of computers that have small cooling fans built into them to cool the cpu. Now, if you were able to design a circuit that would step down 120vac to 12vac these little fans could be placed in a very attractive, thin wood case and put on top of a receiver or amp to provide some much needed circulation.
And by using the switched plug in on the back of the unit, the little fan would only be in use when the gear was turned on.
So, knowing that there are some very talented electronics techs on this board, I'd like to ask if this can be designed?. You design it, I'll build it and make it available at cost to anyone who needs it and if there is any profit, it gets donated to AK.
Any takers?.