[BC] Re: Ill-starred Starguide

[KC4QLP@aol.com]

>The "rack" is a 24 inch kitchen cabinet base--door pulled off, couple of 
2X4's used to >shrink the opening to 18" and rack rails mounted to the 2X4's. A 
Middle Atlantic 3 1/2" >fan panel in the bottom two slots forces air into the 
cabinet.  Up top, the "kitchen >drawer" was removed and replaced with a vented 
rack panel to allow warm air out.  >There's some heat producing equipment 
besides the Starguide: power supply for the >Auditronics, and a BGW monitor amp, 
but everything was quite happy this summer. So >I can't quite figure why heat 
would have been the problem, or why the fan  just decided >not to move any air, 
then came back to normal. 

>The more logical explanation is that the cold weather chased the trolls in 
from their >caves. One holed up in the cabinet, and stuffed one of his socks 
over the fan opening to >keep things quiet....
>-- 





Hi Tom....

Well lets see, you mentioned there was a remodeling...so anytime gear is 
moved, rewired, reracked. etc etc...something is always bound to happen ...of 
course if something happens, it will be middle of the night or during a bad storm. 
[Mr Murphys law...hahaha!] And yes I know about that blizzard from 
Wednesday....we got hammered pretty good here in CNY.
Anyhow...how does the signal compare on the receiver that took a vacation 
with respect to the other working receivers? Maybe you can rule out any RF 
cabling problems. Other than that, heat build up could be a possible issue....but 
considering that the receiver was left to do a circus balancing act [ why would 
anyone leave a multi thousand dollar receiver to chance in taking the grand 
plunge to the floor is beyond me ]...I would also look for some external loose 
connections. A non-working fan in the receiver along with other heat generators 
probably didn't do that Starguide any favors. Keep a close eye on the 
receiver...and if you can get more air in and out and moving around all of those heat 
generators, the better. 

At any rate...keep some of those small fans on hand. It has been my 
experience that they will fail and the first sign of impending failure is a noisey fan. 
[buzzing rattling type sound...we've heard that tune many times with computer 
fans too]

  Bob Carter - KC4QLP
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