Well, Dedicated Micros actually.
Fan sounds like a chainsaw on the CCTV DVR.
DM offer a 'fan kit' at =A378.
Seller on Ebay offers a fan with DM plug for =A316.50
Shiny Hardware offers a fan for =A33.97, cut the plug off and attach the plug from the old fan, solder and heatshrink up.
DVR no longer sounds like a chainsaw.
That's a cuppa tea earned.
Owain
So what was the problem in the old fan, bearings or just crap manufacture? Brian
I suspect the real problem was a large quantity of dust which the unit has spent many years happily inhaling.
The separate power supply is going to get a similar treatment when the part arrives.
Owain
So not worth fitting a fan from a proper manufacturer then?
Do you know the manufacturer of the fan fitted? Can you give me next weeks lottery numbers?
MBQ
I replaced a Sunon with an Evercool.
They look similar in quality to me.
Owain
Only place I've seen Dedicated Micros DVRs is in a server room where you'd never hear a single noisy fan above the general din.
I have a few in service and they are not all that noisy, if they sounded like a chainsaw I would be getting nervous.
I once had a complaint that a paging system was making a strange screeching noise, when I got on site I could hear it all the way along a corridor and through a fire door, that was the hard drive though. Very fortunately it was one customer who did a regular weekly back up.
My server room is also the lounge. :-)
It no longer sounds like a chainsaw. I was thinking about hard drive replacement but hopefully I won't have to.
Owain
If you do, DM make Russ Andrews look positively cheap. Try and find them elsewhere.
=A325 used on Ebay :-) Plus a tenner or so for an adapter to USB to whack the firmware over.
Owain
My server room is on "The far side of the building" or at least that's what I told "Sam" from "Computer helpline" when I put him on hold after he told me my PC was infected.
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