How to Minimize Heat to your Nfusion

[arboristman]

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How to Minimize Heat to your Nfusion
Just in case some of you do not know, there are a couple of things that you can do to help reduce the effect of heat in your nfusion box.

1) the biggest and most important thing to notice is that when you receive your nfusion box new, the front panel is not the only place that the protective peel-off "skin" is applied. There is also a transparent film on the whole cover of the box that is a pain to peel off. It's a pain, but it's a good thing to do because it allows heat exchange from the box much better. With the film on, the film acts like a sort of "blanket".

2) There's a piece of plastic inside the receiver next to the power supply that serves to direct heat inward instead of letting it radiate out and away from the box.

After opening up the box, You first remove the screw from the motherboard as it appears from the layout of the plastic sheild that the screw goes through a hole in the shield. See the photos. Then you basically get a good set of pliers, get a nice firm grip on the plastic, and pull firmly but in a controlled fashion, and the card will come out.

put the screw back in and close up the box, and you're good to go.

Hopefully these two tricks will help keep the heat generated form this box to a minimum. it seems to run a little warmer than most boxes and i think the reason for that is there is not a lot of empty space inside compared to most FTA boxes.

I'm attaching detailed pictures so the process should be very simple.

Remove the Plastic Sleeve from the Nfusion this will give dit more air flow for cooling.

[arboristman]

adding a fan by julian59.

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Well I guess I have too much time of my hands, Anyhow Here's a picture of my modified Nfusion Nova that I upgraded to except a fan to relieve some of the heating problems, It was a task since the Nfusion does not have a good 12v source that will hold a load of a small fan. I had to add a small 12 volt power supply. I tested it and the fan noise is very minimal, Also there isn't any RF interference. Thx,




Actually I'm also new to Nfusion, I'm a coolsat user, but with all the downtime I decided to pickup one of these and see for myself what all the hoopla was about. If my 2 cents are worth anything I will say it's a great little system. Its well worth the money. As for the heat issue All I know about it is what I have read here. Anyhow after setting up this box and watching it for a couple of days I have decided I need wireless. After choosing Netgear XE102 Ethernet bridge and winning it on thEbay, shipping is going to take about 5 days, that's
when I decided to tackle the heating problem.
I'm using a small 12v fan that came off of a Pentium 3 CPU. It's approx 2 3/8" x 2 3/8" x 3/8" (60mm x 60mm x 10mm) I got the grill you see in the picture from a computer power supply fan. The fan has to be this thin because of the limited space allowed. After making sure I was centered on top, I cut a 3 1/4" hole. As for the power supply I was trying to find a 12 volt one but everything I found wasn't small enough to fit in the Nfusion case, I decided to use a plug in type. You know the type that plugs in a rechargeable tool and into the wall. Also I noticed that a 12 volt adapter made the fan spin at it's max and with a lot more nose than I wanted, so I went with a 9 volt at 500MA . This adapter was small enough to fit and allowed the fan to spin slower and with less noise. One other thing I did was to install the fan so the hot air was forced outwards instead of air inwards, this way it would draw cool air in via the slots in the case, cooling off the whole board. In my opinion better cooling. Back to the 9 volt adapter. I did have to cut the case and the blades of the 9volt adapter so it would fit nicely into a spot I picked out in the case, solder some wires onto the adapter, hot glued it all together and attached the wires to the power switch. The Fan is on when the box is on and off when the box is off. Note: Also installed a heat sink on the main processor. Hope this helps.