Silent Ender 3: Quest for Quiet

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My final objective for this series of experiments is to accomplish silent part cooling, as that is the only weak point of the fanless machine. Need to use some kind of chimney, laminar flow, thermal engine, thermoacoustic engine, phase change witchcraft, re-radiator, contact coolers, or other such nonsense to pull it off, but we'll get there! If anyone has ideas for how to pull it off with a practical solution I'll build it, and make a video about it and give you mad kudos.

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OilSpigot • 03/22/2021 at 22:06 • 0 comments

My final objective for this series of experiments is to accomplish silent part cooling, as that is the only weak point of the fanless machine. Need to use some kind of chimney, laminar flow, thermal engine, thermoacoustic engine, phase change witchcraft, re-radiator, contact coolers, or other such nonsense to pull it off, but we'll get there! If anyone has ideas for how to pull it off with a practical solution I'll build it, and make a video about it and give you mad kudos.
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