[Elecraft] [K3] K3 fan noise, part XXLIV

[Stephen Prior]

All of this backs up comments I made on this list a year or so ago, and at
that time hardly anyone agreed with me!

It seems pretty clear that the early fans were indeed silent, certainly the
same cannot be said of the UTEC ones in my #980.  Gary kindly even sent me
some more but the difference was negligible.  I have spent a lot of time on
this, even mounting the fan panel on rubber bushes - all to no avail.

I wonder if I can find a source of the Elina fans in Eu?

73 Stephen G4SJP


On 28/05/2010 09:51, "Julian, G4ILO" <julian.g4ilo at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 
> Joe Planisky wrote:
>> From the responses I received, it looks like the Elina fans were used
>> on earlier K3s with serial numbers < 900 or so.
>> 
>> I received responses from 13 people (including myself), covering 13
>> K3s.  If the reporter used words or phrases like "quiet", "silent",
>> "never hear them", I counted their response as "quiet".  If they used
>> words or phrases like "loud", "annoying", "I can hear them", I counted
>> their response as "loud"
>> 
>> UTEC Quiet   3
>> UTEC Loud:   4
>> Elina Quiet: 6
>> Elina Loud:  0
>> 
> 
> I didn't reply since it would be a major hassle getting the K3 out to look
> at the make of fan, but since my S/N is 222 I guess my fans are Elina and I
> would definitely be in the "quiet" camp. If only the fan in my IC-910H was
> as quiet (and that comes on all the time.) I've also had computers that were
> noisier than my K3.
> 
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