Good afternoon Peter and All, My computers are in a room upstairs where it gets very, very hot. During the day when our Air Cooler is on downstairs, the room becomes less hot but I keep a smallish table fan pointing at the back of my iMac, making sure the air flow runs from the bottom to the top of the machine. I keep the fan running all night, when doing back-ups etc, to keep the machine within acceptable temperature range. This seems to work for me keeping the CPU temp to 56º C at the moment.
P.S. I do the same for my Power Shield UPS (Defender 1600) but with a much smaller table fan. Works well too. Best Regards, Philippe Chaperon Philippe dit la Grenouille ...🐸 On 29 Dec 2021, at 9:43 am, Peter Hinchliffe <hinch...@multiline.com.au> wrote: The hard drive on my Time Capsule died about 18 months ago, but the TC is still working fine as a WiFi hub. I was using the hard drive as my Time Machine disk. I have since replaced it with a 5Gb external USB Drive, but the WiFi is working as well as ever. The heat over the past few days did have an effect on my iMac though - yesterday morning iStat Menus told me the CPU was running at 95°C, which explained why the mouse had a mind of its own and very few Safari extensions were working properly, and I couldn’t connect to my Bluetooth headphones. Turned it all off overnight and everything is back to a normal 50-60°C today. Could have cooked bacon with it yesterday. > On 28 Dec 2021, at 4:13 pm, Adam Lippiatt <adam.lippi...@me.com > <mailto:adam.lippi...@me.com>> wrote: > > For what it is worth, I just bought a second hand airport extreme on ebay and > I love the ease of setup. I already have an older time capsule whose hard > disk is still spinning away for all of these years. >> On 28 Dec 2021, at 11:44 am, gary dorn <gd...@me.com <mailto:gd...@me.com>> >> wrote: >> >> hello WAMUG >> >> The heat over the last few days seems to have killed our 2012 Time Capsule, >> which we use to have a home Wifi network to connect all our devices too - >> phones, apple tv, macbook air and a printer. this time capsule was connected >> to a SouthernPhone wifi router for internet access. >> >> symptom is - no light (can hear and feel hardisk spinning) >> no home network connections via Wifi >> >> is there suggested replacement for this. >> >> We previously just used an Airport base station - which I have now >> reconnected to use in the mean time - but it tends to be a bit flaky and >> slow. >> Kind regards, Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml>> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>>
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