Cooling fans

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Originally Posted by aaxiss

Haha, I used to weld on my apartment balcony with my little harbour freight inverter unit and a valved torch and scratch start it while learning. Manager was even cool with it as long as the gas wasn't flammable. Just made a 1 foot high partition to block anyone from setting the arc and never had any complaints. Most of my major welding took place at my parents house and when my dad built the shop I do every thing there now.

Most of the stuff I did at my apartment was minor fix it stuff any way. 2 - 3 min of welding to fix a small part. Mostly my broken wheelchair foot rest hangers.

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Ya gotta do, what ya gotta do. So long as it gets the job done.

Ofcourse I know it would void the warranty. Im just theorizing and wouldnt do it anyways since the fan noise doesnt bother me, but for the modders anything is possible. You say the waterblocks would have to be custom made.... isnt that why we all bought welders...

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Originally Posted by sw2x

Ofcourse I know it would void the warranty. Im just theorizing and wouldnt do it anyways since the fan noise doesnt bother me, but for the modders anything is possible. You say the waterblocks would have to be custom made.... isnt that why we all bought welders...

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All you would need is a mill... I've thought about it.

Disconnect your fan on your welder then Just buy a cheap window ac unit put it on a table outside, build a plenum chamber to round dryer hose and pipe it to your welder never worry about over heat and the noise is outside. Paint ac unit green also. Wrap hose in carbon fibre tape for that racing look.

The ultimate mod rofl

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Originally Posted by Toby

Is there any sort of mod someone has came up with to setup the cooling fans to only come on at a certain temp? it would be nice for the machine to be quite unless the fan is needed. My buddy has a blue machine and his is whisper quite until it needs the xtra cooling. Just a thought

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Just turn the radio up

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Originally Posted by zoama585

There are no waterblocks for computers that are large enough or would take that much heat. Water cooling a welder would require custom blocks and void any warranty.

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I have a water cooled computer and it is quite it has a radiator 6W x 16H x 1.5 thick It keep it very cool I have look at it as a way to keep the noise down. Making a water block would not be hard I will have to wait till the warranty is up before I make one for my 250EX
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I see condensation problems with a setup like that.

With an "always on" fan you get used to hearing the noise and if you turn it on and dont hear the noise you know the fan is out/not working. If your trained without the noise you will start welding and only after damage will you find out that your temp sensor or fan is bad.

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Originally Posted by The4th

I see condensation problems with a setup like that.

With an "always on" fan you get used to hearing the noise and if you turn it on and dont hear the noise you know the fan is out/not working. If your trained without the noise you will start welding and only after damage will you find out that your temp sensor or fan is bad.

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You've got that right and with Murphy's law it'll happen just after the warranty has expired and will fry the most expensive parts of the welder. I'd rather have a welder with a constant on fan thank-you.

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Originally Posted by rwcme

Just turn the radio up

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Finally the correct answer :D On bose noise cancelling headphones, nah, helmet will not fit.

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Originally Posted by Mr120

You've got that right and with Murphy's law it'll happen just after the warranty has expired and will fry the most expensive parts of the welder. I'd rather have a welder with a constant on fan thank-you.

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Dirt, dust and grindings are hard on welder that move a lot of air thru them you should clean them once a year or so to keep them from over heating or short out from grinding dust. A plasma cutter in shop makes a lot of dust and smoke best keep all other machines off will cutting.

I use my fan to remind me to shut off the gas. When the welder gets turned off the gas gets shut off. Since it's loud, there's incentive for me to get off my lazy arse and shut it all down when I don't need it for a while.