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(More customer reviews)Please realize that this component cooling fan is only about 3"x3" across. Because of it's small size, I do not feel that the heat being exhausted by the fan is being pushed out well enough/powerfully enough.
This fan is so tiny compared to the size of the vent of my A/V receiver (and I assume this will be the case for most receivers), that I did not feel the tiny guy could do the job well if I just placed it anywhere on the vents.So I had to feel for the hottest spot on the vents and then place this product right on top of the worst heat source just so I could feel this tiny fan could do better work that way.
Then there's the "power" issue. The worst heat source happens to be in the back, right corner of my receiver, so I have the fan sitting on top of that area and I directed the exhaust towards the front of the receiver. The problem with that is that the fan does not propel the exhaust away from the heat source powerfully enough, so basically, I feel the hot air being pulled from within the vent is just being pushed to the top of the receiver and maybe 3-5 inches away from the hotspot. Unfortunately, that means the heat is still sitting on top of another portion of the same vent! That's what I mean by tiny and weak.
If the motor was more powerful/fan was faster it would be able to more efficiently exhaust the heat AWAY from the receiver (I mean that IS the point, right?). I would love if the the product was so powrful that you could feel the heat being extracted from the vents and being pushed out somewhere towards the front of the receiver (as opposed to feeling that "aura" of heat collecting in the back of the entertainment center); unfortunately, this lil fan does not have the power to do that.
I've actually bought USB fans (with plastic, flexible "blades"!!) that push air far better than this product (in fact I bought that fan from amazon and left a review for it as well here). If I had anything good to say about this product it would be that it operates very quietly and turns on automatically when the component gets hot. So you can leave it plugged in and never have to worry about turning it on/off as a separate component.
I've had this for a couple of months now and sometimes I wonder if it's helping at all. That's not piece of mind for $60. The plugs are made to be daisy-chained together so I guess you can buy 2 or 3 of these to place over the vents and then MAYBE that'll be enough to cover the venting area sufficiently. Maybe that multiple to $120 or $180 will be piece of mind for someone else but for me... I'm still looking for a better solution because I would NOT buy anymore of these.
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QUIET-COOL SERIESTM COMPONENT COOLER, FOR COMPONENTS ON OPEN SHELVING, SINGLE PIECE THAT PIGGYBACKS TO COMP-COOL-3, DOES NOT INCLUDE A POWER SUPPLY, 8 CFM, 120V
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