[MLB-WIRELESS] AP Box cooling

[Gordon Staines]

And here am I thinking that a small fan at the bottom, power by one of 
those cheap solar panels from dick smith.

The solar reason: The fan would run fastest when there was the most heat 
- ie direct sunlight. and be off at night (when we use AP the most, 
hence less noise from the motor) also when its generally not too light 
when its raining and cold

Also can get those solar powered garden lights which have a mount, are 
weather proof etc, it wouldnt take much to take the light out and retro 
fit one, and they cost under $25 at bunnings

cheers

G


darrend at ndpgroup.com.au wrote:

>Mike would keep it cool by launching it into orbit (from the Hawthorn 
>Aerospace launch site) strapped to the side of a rocket. All the way moon 
>bouncing the 2.4GHz video footage back to earth, realtime encoded to 5 
>simultaneous media streams :P
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>Darren Dreis
>Vice President
>Melbourne Wireless Inc.
>vicepresident at wireless.org.au
>http://www.wireless.org.au
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>Michael Borthwick <holden at netspace.net.au>
>Sent by: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au
>03/10/2003 11:33 AM
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>>Steven wrote:
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>>Has anyone added a cooling system to their AP box?
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>There are a couple of ways of approaching this depending on your 
>point-of-view.
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>Darren would install the entire AP into a slotted waveguide and use that
>as an enormous ventilated heatsink.
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>Vak would run Liquid Nitrogen over Ethernet (LNoE) using specially
>reinforced and insulated CAT-5 cable containing glass fibre capillary
>tubes terminated with blue anodized aerospace connectors.
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>Clae would install a peltier effect cooling module from Oatley
>Electronics powered by an array of ex-Telstra solar panels suspended
>from a balloon filled with hydrogen created by electrolysis from a
>converted Kombi alternator that doubles as an arc welder.
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>Tony would point out that your cooling problems are trivial compared to
>those that hams fans running ATV in the same part of the band who could
>wipe your signal out any time they wanted too.
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>Rick would have a BBQ and pour beer over it.
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