Modding Amiga case - where to fit a fan?

Hello. I'm about to realize a long term project, tidying up my 1200.

I've bought a new and un-interfered with case, a CDTV keyboard, and a SD-card floppy emulator and I'm about ready to strip everything out of my old chassis and bring it all together. Just hunting out a Dremel first so I can do all the cutting nice and neat.

What I'm going to have inside is:

IDE-CF hdd adapter, mounted at rear of case with card projecting through for easy access.
Internal CD-Rom, mounted to rear over towards floppy bay area.
SD floppy emulator mounted in floppy bay (internal floppy going, have external drive if needed)
Indivision AGA
Blizzard 1230 Mk IV

I'm confident all this will fit, once I jettison the internal floppy there's bags more room and I will be able to organise it all better. What I am pondering though is a couple of extra adornments, one cosmetic and one practical.

I would like to install a fan of some kind. I was thinking of mounting it underneath the grill on the top half of the case somewhere. I don't have the trapdoor fitted as with the 128MB stick of RAM on my Blizzard, it's too tight a squeeze, so a fan on the top would be able to pull a lot of air through the trapdoor hole, over the blizzard and motherboard, round the CD-ROM and out the top. Desirable, yes? All I'm unsure about is 1) what type of fan, 2) where to buy it and 3) where to plug it in to get power. Any pointers on these three will be appreciated.

For cosmetic benefit only, I was thinking of getting some neon lights going on, illuminating though the top grill. Any advice on what types of LEDs or whatever and how to plug them to the motherboard would be great.

Once I've got this all fitted and working nicely, I will be swapping the keys with CDTV ones and spraying the case matte black, and I think it's going to look awesome :-D Any solid tips on what paint is best would be lovely.

Last note, the floppy emulator (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SD-Floppy-Emul...14333421856354) has a movable screen. I/m thinking that fit the board in the floppy bay so I can access the card and the buttons, but what to do to be able to see the screen? I haven't got the emulator in hand yet so don't know how much play I'll have with it. Any experience chaps?

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S

one possabillity is a fan that fits the case exansion slots, have a look here http://amibay.com/showthread.php?t=4776&page=14

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Originally Posted by imnogeek

one possabillity is a fan that fits the case exansion slots, have a look here http://amibay.com/showthread.php?t=4776&page=14

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That's an interesting thing, but I'm keeping the desktop formfactor.

I was thinking along the lines of one of those small fans that you see on some accelerator cards.

oops sorry, didn't read post properly :oops:

No worries. ;)

Dude, if I buy this: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/80MM-INTERNAL-...item5add63bade How can I go about getting it powered off the Amiga? I'm quite sure that there won't be a handy little connector onboard to plug it into. Nothing is that simple! :whistle:

S

If you've taken the floppy out I wonder if you can just use the left over power connector (I think it's on the motherboard).
You may need to check that the voltages are right, and you may need to solder yourself a custom connector.

I have a selection of fans hanging around, for free.

you could pull power from the floppy power.

let me go have a look what I've got

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Originally Posted by wilsonsamm

If you've taken the floppy out I wonder if you can just use the left over power connector (I think it's on the motherboard).
You may need to check that the voltages are right, and you may need to solder yourself a custom connector.

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The floppy will be gone, but the floppy emulator that's replacing it takes over the power connector.

I was hoping to put the fan in the far left corner if possible, over the RF modulator. Is there anywhere on that side I can grab power from?

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Originally Posted by imnogeek

I have a selection of fans hanging around, for free.

you could pull power from the floppy power.

let me go have a look what I've got

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That's very kind, cheers! :-D

Could the floppy power run the emulator and a fan do you think?

Sorry if I'm being a dullard, I'm a noob at this sort of thing. :D

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Originally Posted by imnogeek

I have a selection of fans hanging around, for free.

you could pull power from the floppy power.

let me go have a look what I've got

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That's very kind, cheers! :-D

Could the floppy power run the emulator and a fan do you think?

Sorry if I'm being a dullard, I'm a noob at this sort of thing. :D

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Should be OK, I used to run a 3.5" HDD from mine with a floppy too.

I have a smaller fan available, it is 50mm x 15mm deep with a molex power connector (same as 3.5" HDD) as used on socket7 CPUs in the past, it is new, just old stock

I also have a chipset fan 40mm x 10mm which has 3pin connector again new old stock.

these might be easier to fit in a desktop case than the 80mm

Gary

I bunged a normal HSF fan from an old system into my case at the top by simply screwing into the ventilation slots already available. There was no modification required apart from making a floppy power cable with an extra connector.

HERE for Picture.

Looking at your system specs though, you won't actually need any extra cooling inside the main case TBH. The CF card and emulator run cool as does the Indivision.
The Blizzard is also a nice cool card, but you could easily ventilate it with a few holes or slots in the trapdoor, or even leave it off.