Thermaltake Mobile Fan II External USB Cooling Fan - Us
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Customer Review: great little fan
Summary: 4 Stars
I don't give five stars, except in truly exceptional instances. I wish I could give this 4 1/2 stars. It's very good.
I have a [brand/model excluded] laptop, not even a year old yet. When it's in it's docking station it runs a bit "hot". I suspected this was from impeded air flow, as well as hot air flowing from the exhaust port back into the intake fan. This laptop has burned out two CPUs from overheat in less than a year. (good thing work has a gold warranty!)
I placed this fan such that it pulls the hot air from the exhaust and surrounding area, and blows it away. The fan is adjusted to where it runs almost completely silently. The laptop's built-in fan now almost always runs at it's lowest speed and there are no more heat problems; the laptop feels cool to the touch.
The fan comes exactly as pictured in a clam shell pack with a USB power cord. The rheostat allows you to adjust from nearly stopped to full speed, from silent to "motor-boat loud".
Customer Review: Perfect for cooling modern electronics
Summary: 4 Stars
My Tivo was overheating during the summer because of poor air circulation around the built-in shelf on which it sat. I had tried other solutions, including a couple "laptop cooler" pads, but nothing worked particularly well. Then I bought one of these little fans, hooked it up to a USB port on the Tivo, set it to blow the warm air out of the shelf space to the front of the cabinet and watched the Tivo's temp drop a good ten degrees, well into the safe range.
These fans are extremely quiet (though I put it on a small rubber pad to cut down on vibration with the shelf.) As other's have noted, an on-off switch would be nice as I don't need it running all the time. Some kind of USB thermostat would make it perfect (but you wouldn't get it for anything like this price.)
Great product at a decent price. I'm going to order a couple more to cool a cabinet of network gear and the whole-house audio equipment I have in a closet.
Customer Review: VERY TOXIC PLASTIC USED
Summary: 1 Stars
This is a neat little fan and does work, but I had to throw it out, due to the fact that the insidious toxic plastic vapors emitted from it immediately gave me headaches that lasted for hours, every time I went near it.
I don't know if it is the fire-retardant, the BPA, plasticizers, the XYZ, or whatever. I am not a chemist. This offending vapor is in many fans and electronics (but certainly not all) and more in the past than it is in the newer stuff, since Europe impose consumer protection restrictions on toxic additives.
I did not return it, but threw away the fan, and kept the stand, USB chord, and variable speed switch. I sometimes feel I should have returned it.
But if you are the kind of person that craves that new-car smell, you might not have a problem with this fan, but I would not recommend it to cancer patients, Alzheimer's patients, or allergic people, MCS sufferers, etc.
Customer Review: good quiet cooling device for PS3
Summary: 4 Stars
During the warmer months my PS3's fans would spin up and become loud after 20 mins of playing games like COD4 and CoD world at war.
I decided to try this fan after reading the reviews. My ps3 is not in an enclosed cabinet but is on a 3 level TV stand and sits on the middle shelf. The stand is open on all sides.
Putting fan behind PS3 at the exhaust port to help draw hot air out, did not work.
What did work was aiming the fan across the right side about 3 inches away, my ps3 is horizontal, and letting the fan blow into the intakes and across the exhaust on the back.
The fan is very quiet on medium speed and runs on the USB port so it powers on and off with PS3.
I played 45+ mins last night and the fan did not crank up like it has before.
Seems to work well.
only complaint is it took way too long to get here.
Customer Review: Excellent Fan! Cooler PS3!
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this fan for the sole purpose of cooling my PS3, and it does an amazing job!
My PS3 is a CECHE01 80GB Fat model manufactured in early 2007. It gets VERY hot and acts as a space heater for my bedroom when it's on. I seriously have to open the window in the winter just to cool the room down from all the hot air it puts out. After taking apart the PS3, changing the fan inside it, and switching the thermal paste it still ran extremely hot.
Enter the Thermaltake Mobile Fan II. This fan drastically changed the temperature coming out of my PS3. It consistantly ran cooler and the fan puts out a large amount of air! I purchased two of these. One of them pushes cool air into the system and the other is positioned backwards on the back vent to pull hot air out of it. The fan in my PS3 doesn't even kick on now because the two Thermaltake fans work that well.
Truly an amazing product!