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Best use of a USB fan I've ever seen. ++

@Root could have used it to cool my head off in the 40+ degree heat

I found the bearings used on those kind of fans don't last long..

Well, the one I took apart only had half the bearings it should have !

I recommend an old CPU fan wired to a USB plug and screwed to a piece of wood, not only quieter, but designed to last for years !

I'm also reminded that fans off old mini-computers really last a long time too !

Though they do sound like a jet engine..

@Nanos there is no bearing in there even, its just a motor attached to a USB plug and cost me like 50 cents

@dudeking The one I took apart had a simple sleeve bearing, but only at one end of the motor, it looked like it had been designed that way on purpose.

As such, after a few days of 24/7 the motor started to wobble and then seized up.

@Nanos that's some upper class usb fan u have there

@dudeking

It was the cheapest USB fan from China. :-)

Your's looks to be the next mode up. :-)

Mine:

@Nanos how do they even do it for cheaper than 50 cents?

@dudeking

Wages..

Look at me for example, I'm on 1 US cent every 4 hours !

We need more posts like this

Where's the heat sink?

Are they connected with each other?

@TheOneFuzzyBit no heatsink because I lost them for both the pis

Also they aren't connected in any way, they are just plugged into the same USB hub for power

Its recursive

If only someone hadn't invented the law of conservation of energy...