Re: Apple IIGS Cooling

["Geoff Weiss" <geoff.weiss@a2central.com.remove-3yj-this>]

  To: Rusty
I found that the best way to keep a IIgs cool is to run it with the cover off
(that also means that you can't have a monitor sitting over the computer).  I
am not convinced that the System Saver GS (or its equivalents) will make any
difference.

Geoff

 > Greetings everyone,
 > 
 > After a long period of frustration and disgruntlement (over not having
 > the money to pay GSE-Reactive or someone else to fix or replace it
 > despite their kind offer to do so), I have finally managed to repair
 > the Transwarp GS that has been sitting around dead in my apartment for
 > the last few years. It turned out that all that was wrong was that its
 > oscillator was no longer oscillating (maybe someone had plugged it in
 > in the wrong orientation at some point in time; who knows).
 > 
 > Anyway, I replaced the oscillator and the card works great. Now that
 > it is up and running, I am noticing that my IIGS gets quite hot while
 > in operation. I'm running a 40 meg Vulcan hard drive (with the cooling
 > fan that blows air upward in their power supply/hard drive mount combo
 > unit), and have the Transwarp in slot 3, the Vulcan IDE controller in
 > slot 6, and an Apple 1MB memory card in the memory slot.
 > 
 > I was thinking that maybe the Vulcan fan (which does exhaust a small
 > amount of air from the case via the top vents) would keep things cool,
 > but it does not seem to be doing the job. I have never seen a System
 > Saver GS for sale on eBay, nor do I know how exactly it worked in the
 > first place, so I am wondering how you all go about keeping your
 > IIGSes cool.
 > 
 > I suppose I could cut holes in the case and mount my own fans, but
 > since this is my "original" IIGS, which was the first computer I/my
 > family ever owned, I would prefer not to massacre it in that way. (I
 > suppose I could buy another one from eBay and use that, though.) I
 > have also heard rumors that the high speed CPU and GALs from GSE-
 > Reactive run cooler than the stock parts. My other idea is that I
 > could perhaps build some kind of a "fan tray" and affix it to the top
 > of the IIGS' case. This could have two fans blowing air into one side
 > of the case's top and two fans sucking air out of the other side. This
 > seems like a bit of a dubious idea though.
 > 
 > So, I am wondering what you guys do and/or recommend for IIGS cooling.
 > I am planning to install (at least) a larger RAM card in the near
 > future, so it seems that my heat situation will probably only get
 > worse unless I do something about it.
 > 
 > Warmest Regards,
 > Rusty D.
 > 
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