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05.31.2008, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by sleebus.jones View Post
Then it might fail from overheating, unless you put a different fan on it. FWIW, my fan failed, the monster is still going strong. I'm not running it tho, due to the fact I don't have another fan to stick on it at the moment.
That is a possibility, but at least for my setup a MM was used previously with no fan, only four 330uF low-ESR caps, and in my 1/8 buggy the MM didn't go above 140 F. The MMM even without fan shouldn't reach anything beyond 110 F, I think.


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