[vdr] Re: Werkstofffragen

[Vincent Keßler <kessler@nscit.com>]

To silence my vdr completey i bought an old IBM PC 340
for EUR 40 at ebay. It has a Pentium 120 which is enough
for vdr with MP3 and DVD playback.
The CPU and powersupply dont need any fans and
netbooting the machine via tftp and nfs eliminates the
need of a hd.
So its completelly silent.



----- Original Message -----
From: "René Bartsch" <rene@bartschnet.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 1:25 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: Werkstofffragen


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Guido Fiala" <gfiala@s.netic.de>
> To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 11:11 AM
> Subject: [vdr] Re: Werkstofffragen
>
>
> > > You can also use some felt buttons usually used by furniture. I just
put
> > > them on the housings of my drives were they have contact with the main
> > > housing.
> >
> > How do they look like? (send PM picture please)
>
> Sorry, I don't have a digital cam, but you can get them at "OBI" and most
shops with household equipment.
> It's a little package with adhesive felt (German: "selbstklebender Filz")
buttons in grey or white of 1 mm height with about twenty
> pieces of 5 mm and about 15 pieces of 15 mm in diameter. The price is
about 1 EUR for a package.
>
> I just made little holes into them for the screws and used the 15 mm
pieces between the housings and the 5 mm pieces for the heads
> of the screws.
>
> I'm also going to attach my hardisks by thick rubbers used for camping
tents. So they won't transmit vibration and they can swing
> freely to avoid shocks.
>
> >
> > Eventually it's possible to place all fans (including the power supply
one)
> > on such buttons, i thought to use rubber-bolts (suggested on an other
site),
> > but they are to expensive about 3,50 per piece.
> >
> > One could also use oil as coolant - just make some cooling "blocks"
fitting
> > at the original places and interconnect them with plastic hoses, a pump
and a
> > small heat exchanger at the back side of the casing.
> >
> > The advantage of oil is it's electrical insulation - you can use just
one
> > circuit for all parts to cool inside the casing.
> >
> > Especially the high voltage parts in the power supply would be dangerous
to
> > interconnect with water hoses...
> >
> >
>
> Yes, but don't think about what will happen with your furniture and your
carpet it it will leak ...
>
>
>
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