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What can i use without soldering anything to cool the 512ke instead of just passive cooling
Idk what exact temp it gets to but after 5 min it gets warmDo you have a reason to think your 512KE needs active cooling? I thought the Received Wisdom was that an unaccelerated toaster Mac doesn't really benefit from a fan.
It’s normal for a 512ke to run warm. The problems come when you run it that way for many hours every day. If you’re only using it occasionally you shouldn’t need to worry about active cooling.
Not possible to answer without a lot of study, but the analogue board getting too warm accelerates the determination of caps, and if it gets really hot, you can have flyback issues. Plus temperature cycles can lead to solder joint failures due to the board flexing (not the solder melting).I’m really curious what problems are associated with long-term use without a fan
Sorry, to clarify, I'm not saying your 512k needs cooling. Just explaining what impacts higher temperatures have.FWIW I’ve never entertained adding any sort of active cooling to any of my (unaccelerated) 128k/512k going back to the ‘80s and have never had any sort of problems except floppy drive wear and tear.
Weak solder joints on the analog board is the typical one that affects the pre-SE models, presumably caused by heat cycles as Phipli mentions above.I’m really curious what problems are associated with long-term use without a fan, and if we actually have any data indicating a fan would have helped or are just guessing.
It would reduce the impact because it is the depth as well as the number of cycles, but I'm still not saying you need a fan.Also it‘s a 5 minute repair that in my mind doesn’t merit the noise/inconvenience of a fan that might not actually reduce the likelihood that much