CONVERTER LIFE
After four years my converter died. Considering we lived in it for four winters, if that matters, is that to be expected? Also, the new one is being installed today. Did I miss an opportunity to ...
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One might be surprised at the amount of Dust that can build up on fan blades and heatsinks, and how quickly it can build up.
I recently opened up my 11.5 month old MeanWell rsp-500-15 to which I added a 60 and 80MM fan to which run whenever it is on. The fan blades dirtied many a Qtip, and the internal heatsink also had collected a bunch of dust.
My compressor fridge now pulls filtered air through the condenser. The filter gets ugly fast, and the fan blades and condenser fins still accumulate some very fine dust, but once a year cleaning is fine, whereas at 6 months without a filter and the dust build up was performance degrading, and rather disgusting:
My Meanwell now has additional large finned heatsinks on the casing adjacent to the transistors, in addition to the 2 extra fans. This was done not only to extend its life, but to keep the very loud high rpm 40MM fan provided by MeanWell, from cycling and off when providing just 6 amps.
Now that loud fan only comes on after ~15 minutes at 40 amps, and shuts off when amps taper to ~34.
I kept the large Wfco finned heatsink when my Neighbor's unit failed @ about 3.5 years, and I replaced it with an Iota DLS-45 for his 2 wally world dc-27's
I recently opened up my 11.5 month old MeanWell rsp-500-15 to which I added a 60 and 80MM fan to which run whenever it is on. The fan blades dirtied many a Qtip, and the internal heatsink also had collected a bunch of dust.
My compressor fridge now pulls filtered air through the condenser. The filter gets ugly fast, and the fan blades and condenser fins still accumulate some very fine dust, but once a year cleaning is fine, whereas at 6 months without a filter and the dust build up was performance degrading, and rather disgusting:
My Meanwell now has additional large finned heatsinks on the casing adjacent to the transistors, in addition to the 2 extra fans. This was done not only to extend its life, but to keep the very loud high rpm 40MM fan provided by MeanWell, from cycling and off when providing just 6 amps.
Now that loud fan only comes on after ~15 minutes at 40 amps, and shuts off when amps taper to ~34.
I kept the large Wfco finned heatsink when my Neighbor's unit failed @ about 3.5 years, and I replaced it with an Iota DLS-45 for his 2 wally world dc-27's
