Other What currently makes your life awesome?

This. I've run CAT6 before, and it's a total ball-ache - and pretty much every installation of it I've ever seen (apart from the ones I've done, obviously) are out-of-spec when it comes to bend radius anyway. Stick with good ol' CAT5E, that's what I say. STP if you're in a noisy environment, otherwise UTP.

 

I've finally got a programming "spark" again. I've come up with a really cool idea and I'm actually programming for fun again outside of work which I haven't done much of since joining. I'm making fairly steady progress and I've also been able to solve a few problems we've got here as I'm motivated and doing it for myself.

 

Until the proper fan i ordered arrives, I've been doing a wee bit of MacGyvering with some PC bits as suggested by Snoop Doggy Mod.

First up the fan on the spare PSU i have had a horrendous rattle, which would not do at all while trying to sleep, so that would need swapping out. Only issue is the yate loon was a 2 pin jobbie, so i had to splice it's wires onto the shadow wings i was replacing it with.


Gave it a quick test and it was sooooo quiet

The only other non-LED fans that I have spare at the minute are some 140's that came with my Arc Midi, so i had tied them onto the 120x240 rad mounts i have using the fan wire i cut off the shadow wings. They were then hooked up to the PSU using 3pin fan to 4pin molex adapters.


With a couple of fan cable extenders i was able to sit one each side of the bed, with the PSU underneath the bed.


They're not immensely powerful, but they're really quite and i'd rather them than the Xigmatek LED fans which would light up the room like a christmas tree.

 

This is one of the best implementations of this I've ever seen. Not sure how I feel about a PSU under the bed. Next up is controlling them based on temperature

 

I could maybe have stuck it in the bottom drawer, but that would require a lot of fannying around feeding cables through and this way i can just reach down and turn the psu off if required. I've kept it on the rubber mouse mat, whether that makes anything other than my feelings better, i don't know.

 

Wonder how many you could power from a PSU

 

based on this PSU providing 456W/38A @12V, and the fans I'm using need 3.6W/0.3A, i could run 126. But i doubt you'd be able to pull that all through the 4-pin molex line without it bursting into flames. You'd probably have to do some clever wiring off all the 12v lines.

 

So when can we expect this to be done???

 

i'll start up the patreon page now

 

Used the bedside fans for the first time last night, absolutely brilliant. I thought they might not be powerful enough but they're probably just right. Nice little breeze across the back, a subtle hum that's not overwhelming and you might even call soothing. Best nights sleep I've had in ages.