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"Dr. Personality" wrote: In article , Scott Peterson wrote: wrote: Regarding the two years, I think the problem is heat. I'm going to cut the back off my TV stand this weekend. That may help some, but not as much as you'd think because the fan at the back is an exhaust fan. If your TV stand is open to the front, go to an electronics store and get a 2 or 3 inch cooling fan, whatever will fit on the same shelf as the Tivo. Check the specs to make sure it's a fairly quiet one and moves as much air as possible. The store I was in had about 10 choices depending on sleeve or ball bearing, cfm rating and noise. Put it on the left side of the Tivo as you're facing it. Assuming yours is the same as mine this is where the Series 2 sucks in air. Getting cool air in there will help more than anything. I had one Tivo running almost 50C and adding that fan dropped it to 40C. It not only blows cooler air into the unit, but it blows cooler air across the top of it, which carries away heat and promotes cooling. Like you, I got very good results with a small (4") Radio Shack fan. In a perfect world, the manufacturers would have simply put in a more efficient fan. Also, this has been a particularly brutally hot summer for many folks. Where putting your Tivo in a more confining TV cabinet may not have been a problem during pleasant weather, things get exacerbated during record high temps. It was expensive, but moving to the beach in So. Cal. really helped me solve my Tivo cooling problems. -- To reply by email, remove the word "space" |
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