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An Affordable Air Purifier For Dusty Computer Labs?
Alcimedes writes "Our lab has a serious issue with dust. I've had a number of power supplies stop working because of dust clogging up the fans, and it's getting annoying. So I'm looking into some kind of small (under $500) air filtration system, and was wondering if anyone else out there has already gone down this road. If so, what did you buy and would you buy it again? I'd prefer something where I don't have to keep buying filters, but that may just be a pipe dream." Anyone with cats knows the feeling. Can you suggest a reasonably priced answer to dust-borne failure?
Since a large portion of the dust that we encounter comes from dead skin cells that are shed from our bodies, a clear solution presents itself:
Convice some of those dirty bastards using your lab to wash once in a while.
Need for air filter: GONE.
Anyone with cats knows the feeling.
Yeah, can anyone suggest a cheap filter to remove cats?
You've stumbled across the solution yourself.
Obviously the dust is collecting in these machines. How do you 'remove' dust? You collect it.
So, all you have to do is build a bunch of redundant computers*, and design them with really bad air flow, so dust gets trapped everywhere in them. Once a month, open up these machines and turn them upside-down over a dustbin (outside). Voila.
*Imagine a Beowulf cluster.
Malike Bamiyi wanted my assistance.
I once watched a co-worker use a shop vac inside a very dusty PC. The shop vac sucked a chip out of its socket ....
-kgj
You said:
:-)
That being said the ionic breeze uses the *best* technology for air cleaning, but the lack of a fan makes it completley useless
followed later by:
no I don't work for them, I'm just a fan
Hmmm... I see potential for a link-up here
Take the fans out of your computer, it wo
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