case cooling Horror stories
 

In this thread, i'm asking people to submit horrible/system destroying stories about case cooling.

my story:
i had just spent 3 hours making my rheostadt and i slapped it in my case. my fans (120mm radio shack fan, 120mm toyo fan. 2600/3000 rpm) where running ULTRA quiet and moving reasonable amounts of air. i descided to leave it on to see if it would work in the morning. i went to sleep. at about 3:00am i was awakened by the smell of somthing burning. i noticed that my rheostadt was melting the plastic faceplate, seconds later my # 2 rheo burst into flames (QUITE literally). after turning my comp off i realized my error. radio shack only had 3 watt rheos, i didnt think twice about it, now i need to rebuild my rheo...:(

I painted my Pioneer Slot drive face before i put it in my computer...

To my dismay, it reads every CD as a 99track audio cd... :(

so are you saying don't paint the drive, or you did something wrong? I was gonna do the same thing, but now i don't know if i want to.

he is saying that in the process he somehow stuffed up the drive, but then you can stuff up just about anything when you are modifying it

Haha, one time while I was still aircooled, I was workin on lowering temps by adding fans :D. I placed a couple of beautiful 92mm panaflow fans blowing freash air on the cpu balanced on the video card leaning outwards. They were taught on thier own power cords. Anyways, I was working in there and i bumped one which caused it to fall into the exposed corner of the video card instantly throwing fanblades everywhere.

So... I whipped out the super glue and glued the 2 broken blades back on. Amazingly enough, the fan came out just as balanced as it was before. It doesnt wobble or make any more noise than the perfect panaflow.

So I switched to water cooling. No more broken fans.

haha lol, this just makes me laugh. well i did one thing isreally shouldnt have done. it isnt a computer thing but its somethin g i destroyed anyway.

My stereo, an Philips FW-C83, has output for 2 speakers, i decided to put 6 speakers on it, in paralell....
my stereo almost started to burn.
thing learned: never put things in paralell, when ou know it aint going to make it.

Bahhahaha! I bet you were running under 1ohm of resistance. No wonder it started to fry. You gotta keep the Ohm load of the speakers above 4ohm at least for a home system to keep it from buring up.

Average resistance of 1 speaker: 8 ohm.
Average resistance of 3 speakers in //: 2.7 ohm (it'd draw more current)

speaker pair 1 resistance, 6 OHM, speaker pair 2 resistance, 6 ohm, speakerpair 3, resistance, 8 Ohm

6+6+8 in // = 2.2 Ohms.

ok, hwo do you calculate that?

1/R(total)=1/R(1)+1/R(2)+1/R(3)+...

No, what I was saying, is that the drive was probably shipped inoperable... All I did was remove the face plate and painted it... but now that I've painted it, I can't RMA it. :(

oh sonova! that bites. Buy another, switch faces, then return it.

lol meltman good idea