frostbite

If it is then you should make a fan assembly and place it on the back just above the neck of crt.
you will need:
1 spare 80mm fan, any speed will do. I used a 95mm from an old psu
a length of 2 core flex e.g from a desk lamp
10mm square dowl, i used 10 x 30mm
some insulating tape
a hot glue gun
wire strippers

first cut dowl 2 x 8cm and 2 x 6cm.to extend the chassis, glue them to the fan chassis making sure the fan is blowing outwards, you can tell this by looking at the little arrows on 1 of the corners.

Nxt chop off the molex connecter and bare the wires, inside your rig you should have a spare molex connector, I used a spare floppy line, pull out the yellow and the black directly next to each other, this will supply the 12 volts.

get the 2 core flex and bare both ends, you should be able to slip the flex through a little hole on the back of your case, i have mine through a vent on the rear. once you've found a suitable place tie a knot in the flex so it cant be yanked out, next twist the yellow wire to the red and the black to the black then wrap them in insulating tape so they dont touch.
then do the same for the fan matching up the colours.

once done you can glue the extention to the rear of the monitor just above the cathode ray tube, on the grill, the centre is preferable.
the fan should now be 1cm above the grill, glued securly.

now the momment of truth, the fan should now be blowing up if not swap teh wires round and there you go monitor cooling

Torched-Geek

hey ! i use my crt to keep my heating bills down lol nice faq anyway

X800

Nice Faq! Rep For You

Fishie36

And how will a fan blowing the heat into my room keep it any cooler? This is totally un-needed because crt's are designed to withstand their own heat. All this does is blow the heat out into your room.

Fellfromgrace

Yeah this is cool and I appreciate the points, but the title of this thing was Is your CRT making your room warm. Reading that I assumed this was a way of lowering that temp. But if this sucks the warm out into the room, well wouldnt that make the room warmer?

DutchBoy

if im right the air moves passed the copper coil on the back of ur crt and that cools it down just like fans work for cpu heat

Mr.N00bLaR

I use my CRTS as space heaters, some things gotta keep my room warm with these deltas ^_^

Sideburns

Do you people not realize that fans don't cool things down? They're just moving the heat elsewhere...so if your doors closed...the heat isn't going anywhere...and TECHNICALLY...the consumption of power by the fan...is adding heat.

frostbite

If you have the air thats being blown across the crt moving fast enough it wont heat up, I also did it to the monitor I have now but I used 4x 80mm fans at 12v and the monitor didn't even break a sweat nor did I.

ouroboros1827

My room does not get hot in the corners. It gets hot at the monitor and at the computer. If I can circulate the two pockets of air (cold corner + hot monitor = warm room!!). It *is* a good way of pulling the heat away from you, unless you sit 10ft from your monitor...O_o

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