Good Evening,
I'm sick of buying routers every year or two and would like to just make them last longer. Did some reading and found that one of the major causes of failure is heat stress or overheating.
So, I just bought a new router and want to pop off at least one side panel and rig up a case fan to blow over the board. My question is, I have a ton of 1 Amp power supplies left over from old routers. I can see that most case fans require much less than an Amp of power. Will powering them with these 1 amp power supplies cause damage to the fans? If so, how would I go about reducing the Amperage? Would I add resistors because I= VxR? Thanks for any help. My gut tells me that too much amperage would cause a failure in the case fans sooner rather than later, but I'm no electronics genius.
Thanks,
Mike
I'm sick of buying routers every year or two and would like to just make them last longer. Did some reading and found that one of the major causes of failure is heat stress or overheating.
So, I just bought a new router and want to pop off at least one side panel and rig up a case fan to blow over the board. My question is, I have a ton of 1 Amp power supplies left over from old routers. I can see that most case fans require much less than an Amp of power. Will powering them with these 1 amp power supplies cause damage to the fans? If so, how would I go about reducing the Amperage? Would I add resistors because I= VxR? Thanks for any help. My gut tells me that too much amperage would cause a failure in the case fans sooner rather than later, but I'm no electronics genius.
Thanks,
Mike
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