Part Number for a MicroVAX II Fan - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

24 Jan 2010

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  Finally got round to getting the fan out. It is a
120mm fan, marked as
 follows: 

 Nidec
 Torin
 TA450DC
 Model A 31728-10
 10 V.D.C
 30 AMP 
I do not believe for one instant that that fan draws 30A! 0.3A, quite 
possibly.

...

 The only readily available DC fans I can find are 12V, guessing these would 
I've seen 24V ones, but those are even less use to you.

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  run at a reduced speed compared to the ones I have in
the machine now, but
 would probably otherwise work OK. What do you reckon? If this would work I 
Well, if it was my machine, I'd have a go are repairing the old fan 
first. Officially I'd claim that was for originality, practically it's 
bacuase I've got more time than money :-). 

Seriously, you've got nothing to lose by trying to take it apart and find 
the fault. If you can't fix it, you can just fit a new fan anyway.

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  might replace them both with quieter fans (not sure
what the flow rate of
 these fans is any idea?

 The connector is difficult to describe. The fan has two tags that stick out
 and the cable has a plastic block on the end with a socket that fits the two
 tags. 
Yes,t that's the standard arrangemetn. The tags can have wires soldered 
straight to them, or you cna use faston terminals . Smoe manufcatuters 
also sold leads with mouteded connectors that fitted onto the tags on 
their fans, as you have here.

-tony