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Originally Posted by MrRoboSteve
If your "control system deck" is an enclosure that contains both the compressor and the roboRIO, you'll definitely want a fan to provide active cooling.
If I was building it, I'd have a small 40mm fan on the compressor heat sink, and a larger 80 or 120mm fan on the enclosure. Make sure your exit has the same area as the opening for the fan.
You can't go wrong by having some active cooling present. |
After some consideration we decided to go with 1 120 mm fan blowing back to front across the control board, and to mount the compressor externally. We also chose to utilize the talon Sr fan mounts ( yes those two screw holes are for mounting a fan, even though you shouldn't need one for the sr ) and mounted some small fans on those. The dam thing sounds like a jet engine taking off when it's on, but the amount of airflow is perfect. We also mounted a mesh grate over the 120 mm seeing as it's blowing from the outside in. Might get some debris flying out of the robot. Also mainly because i don't want to get my knuckles scraped off ( I hate those victor 888s for this specific reason )
The only question I have is what happens if we do overheat the compressor? This testbed tends to be on for long periods of time and in operation.