"When Heatsinks Attack"

[SteveC]

Messing about with sme cooling ideas tonight, when I accidentally let the spinning blades of a delta fan (from a FOP38) come into contact with a heatsink...



One and a half blades flew off somewhere and the fan tore its power cable from the mainboard and went on its merry way through the air to land on the opposite side of the toom.

The heatsink sustained some scratches, as did my finger

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[xortam]

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[Technoid]

My colleague has a compulsive behaviour against fans, he always hawe to check if he can lose a finger or two when he finds one without a fanguard.

[SCompRacer]

Like in racing, we should have scatter shields on these high speed fans. They can be dangerous to the operator or spectator in event of something letting go.

[xortam]

Probably due to some CUI (Cooling Under the Influence).

[WaR-ped]

could be worse... or better depending on you how you look at it, but i did something somewhat similar last week, except that it was my finger that came in contact with the fan instead of a heatsink

..ouch...