Yea Man, took about 10 minutes to pull apart. My guess is that it would cost about 50 - 100 bucks if you brought the body to a local shop as there was really no prep work aside from getting the ATI sticker off and wiping down with acetone.
Thanks Man!
Ya, they really do. I was also a little surprised when I pulled the fixture apart. There is a galvanized tray that the end caps, ballasts, wiring etc. is attached to. The body and end caps attach to the tray by what I *think* are 10-32 screws. All and all fairly stiff once assembled. This works fine but its not at all how I would have built a product that retails for $899. I don't want to bash ATI but I would have liked to see a little more thought put into the engineering.
Thanks, really no trouble at all. Came right apart.
It will take you 5 to pull it apart and 10 to put it back together. Very easy.
Thanks and yes it should. I have a dozen or so fans from a bunch of Dell servers that are controllable, high speed and whisper quiet. I'm planning on replacing the three fans on top. Not bad fans but I may be able to do a little better. Next week I'm going to mill a couple of 25 x 25 mm heat sinks with a cooling channel to place over the vent holes above the "labeled" endcap side of the tray and punch a set of cooling holes on the far side of the tray and add a cooling rail there as well. I have several 20mm 5v fans and will attach those to the new heat sink so that I have continuous active cooling rather than just the holes above the end cap. Its my understanding that using the dimming feature greatly reduces the life of the bulbs and of course this has to be from the heat generated. Hopefully this will be a workable solution.
Not as cool as its going to be ;)
A few of us disagree with ati on the dimming thing, were guys who change tubes for a living, and they haven't really explained their take on it in depth.Thanks and yes it should. I have a dozen or so fans from a bunch of Dell servers that are controllable, high speed and whisper quiet. I'm planning on replacing the three fans on top. Not bad fans but I may be able to do a little better. Next week I'm going to mill a couple of 25 x 25 mm heat sinks with a cooling channel to place over the vent holes above the "labeled" endcap side of the tray and punch a set of cooling holes on the far side of the tray and add a cooling rail there as well. I have several 20mm 5v fans and will attach those to the new heat sink so that I have continuous active cooling rather than just the holes above the end cap. Its my understanding that using the dimming feature greatly reduces the life of the bulbs and of course this has to be from the heat generated. Hopefully this will be a workable solution.
It may be best for me to do just the "label" side first and see what happens. I have an Arduino and two temperature probes but I may score a few more so that I can gather batter sampling telemetry. 180 is the target point?
That's what was quoted to me yes. We didn't have the awesome bookmarks at the time.
