Hello,
>
>I just saw a dutch technician mention the following possibility of damaging
>a motherboard when cleaning the PC of dust and I wonder if there is any
>thruth in it, in short the technician writes the following:
>
>"Be carefull not to make the fans spin real fast because then they could
>start generating electricity and damage the motherboard ?!"
>
>How much thruth is in that sentence ?!
Very true.
Should motherboards be equiped with
>fan-back-surge protectors ?
Not yours.
Very light magnetised plastic, like fridge magnets, inside the rotating part that surrounds the wound stator. There's a metal can shorts outside field, possibly increase magnet field inside.
Variable reluctance hard to control, not your average computer fan ;)
As far as wind from a can or vacuum damaging a circuit, some say it's due to static electricity. I generally use a brush and vacuum to catch what's brushed free, never lost a circuit board that way. Mainly to do with not bumping components with the vacuum cleaner end.
Whizzing a fan with air or vacuum is likely to wreck the bearings?
Grant.
John Larkin Inscribed thus:
Short answer is Yes !
Then how do you explain your utter imbecility, Nymbecile?
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