Will a PSX-2 malfunction if the cooling fan has a locked rotor?

[sharkeeper]

My Brother-In-Law says that has happened and doesn't want to use it. How crucial is the chassis fan to keeping the microprocessor within safe operating thermal criteria?

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[dighn]

locked rotor? as in stuck? if a motor is stuck it'll draw much more power than normal. that might be bad to the ps etc in addition to the heat

 

[ThaGrandCow]

if the fan is not working the PS2 will overheat after 10-15 minutes and it'll either freeze, reboot, or just shut down. Basically it's worthless until it gets fixed.

 

[sharkeeper]

Well it's presumed locked as it does not turn.

With brushless fans designed for the last few decades, they do feature locked rotor protection. If you grab a PC fan (wear gloves if yours is a delta!) you will feel it vibrating similar to the brake pedal in a vehicle equipped with ABS. The circuitry senses a condition of tack loss and will not burn out or produce other anomalies related to itself directly. However, it is usually up to the engineer of (thermally) stabilised apparatus' to warn the user or provide redundancy when such a condition of anomaly prevails. Of course such engineering is not present in a video game.

I'm wondering how hot these processors get compared to a typical PC processor. The CPU is quite dated and probably has specs similiar to a coppermine 600 or so (thermally) so I would think that it is not too big of a deal...

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[dighn]

Originally posted by: shuttleteam
Well it's presumed locked as it does not turn.

With brushless fans designed for the last few decades, they do feature locked rotor protection. If you grab a PC fan (wear gloves if yours is a delta!) you will feel it vibrating similar to the brake pedal in a vehicle equipped with ABS. The circuitry senses a condition of tack loss and will not burn out or produce other anomalies related to itself directly.

i see. that's nice to know.