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Entertainment Center Cooling?
skubalon asks: "I have a decent bit of audio equipment for my home theatre. All of it is housed within a wooden entertainment center with a glass door. This doesn't do much for keeping my system cool. I have tested and found that the ambient temperature in the cabinet does not go higher than 100F (37.7C). I know that my receiver has a thermal shutoff, but is this safe? What have other readers done about cooling home audio equipment?"
Don't worry about it, the temperature is nice and low, and is unlikely to overheat unless theres a malfunction. The thermal shutoff too, is only likely to come into action as a result of malfunction, not as a result of normal operation.
This is not flamebait. The person asking the question should RTFM. All of his equipment has been tested for safe operating temperature ranges, and the information is in the manual for each component. If you've lost the manual, then call customer support and ask them. Either way, there is absolutely no way for the average Slashdot reader to know whether 100F is safe for your equipment.
Moderators, please mod up the parent; it is the only useful response to this question.
Editors, how in God's green Earf did this question make it in? Granted, it was at 4 in the morning, but grab a coffee or something for Chrissake.
If you don't want to take the door off, use either vents or fans. Pre-made vents and fans specifically for entertainment centers are available from several suppliers, including this one.
Try these vents, or these, or these. Put some vents at the bottom and some at the top along the sides or the rear wall and the case will draw cool air from the bottom while the heat rises out of the top vents. If you need still more cooling, add a power fan which includes a dust filter.