Removing Heat from Entertainment Cabinet

[TheCrashMaster]

Like many of you, I jumped into the big screen picture with all the components. I also wanted an entertainment cabinet with glass doors to keep the dust out. Anyway, my cabinet sits below my wall mounted Sansung Plasma 63 inch. I have a cable box, surround sound, Blu Ray player, older DVD/VHS player, and a 900 watt backup power supply that everything is plugged in to. The cabinet is about 3 foot high by 3 foot wide, enclosed with two glass swinging doors in the front. I've noticed a lot of heat from this cabinet. Any possible ways to vent or cool this cabinet without drilling lots of holes? I was looking for either one or two quiet comptuer fans to mount in the cabinet? Has anyone done this? Does it interfere with the components? Would just a vent hole top and bottom be sufficient?

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

put one 120 mm fan in it that is temp controlled in the top back center of it

 

[thomsbrain]

Newegg sells some computer fans with rubber isolation frame mounts these days, but I can't remember the exact brand. I got a couple to cool a receiver, and they are silent from 6 feet. I wired them by hand to a 12v AC/DC wall wart from Radio Shack. Some recent changes in my setup will have me mounting them to the back of my cabinet (even though it is open on the front). But I need to get one of those drill bits that's a big circle with teeth around it in order to cut the holes.

 

[cheesehead]

If you can get some 120v industrial-grade fans, you're set. I've got a few Deltas I picked up at a garage sale somewhere.

 

[bruceb]

Like it or not, you will need to make one or two holes in the back of it. Then as noted, install 1 or 2 120MM 120VAC fans set to Exhaust direction

 

[cheesehead]

Originally posted by: bruceb
Like it or not, you will need to make one or two holes in the back of it. Then as noted, install 1 or 2 120MM 120VAC fans set to Exhaust direction

I would think that two fans - one intake fan at the bottom, and one exhaust fan at the top - would do a better job?

 

[alfa147x]

but wouldnt this just mess up the whole no dust thing ?

 

[bruceb]

Not if you fit the fans on the Intake with a filter.

 

[NEWKILLA]

go with 2-120mm pabst (whisper quiet) and matching snap on filters- intake
and another 2 to get rid of it, my old sony set up use to lock up, then i went to pioneer elite and u wanna talk @ a heat load--good lord -it used to heat the room in the winter
but in the warmer times of the year the 4 fans worked the best