On 07/14/2016 10:24 AM, Tony Jones wrote:
My 9010 started making a weird pulsing noise which I tracked down to the fan. Like it was trying to start but couldn't.
I've never given the fan any thought before, does it run all the time?
It's just two wires off the motherboard (which weren't pulsing per my scope) but these go to some kind of fan sending unit which feeds 4 wires to the physical fan. Is this some kind of temperature control? The fan blades didn't spin easily, quite a bit of resistance so I was assuming the fan itself was the problem rather than the sending unit.
I have the model# specs for the fan so I'll look for a replacement but that might be challenging, replacing just the fan part and connecting to the existing grey sending unit may be another option. I couldn't find any previous mention of this in the archives, curious if anyone has been here before?
Thanks!
Tony Depending the fan design there may be a removable rubber seal under the fan label (if in the middle of the fan). I peel back the label, remove the seal and then put a couple of drops of synthetic motor oil (around 20W) and let it soak in a while then spin the fan manually back and forth to work the it back into the bushings. Then seal it back up.
Usually works for years afterwards... John :-#)# _______________________________________________ Techtoolslist mailing list Techtoolslist@flippers.com https://pairlist7.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist FTP site is: ftp://ttl.arcadetech.org/TTL/Test_Equipment Archive site: http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/techtoolslist/