In general wood dust does not affect computers that much. I have seen machines with piles of dust inside, still working fine day in day out. Heat is an issue so do as much as possible to keep it cool. Possibly fit an over sized CPU cooler.
If you want to enclose the computer in a box, fit a fan on the side pushing air into the box. In other words the box becomes slightly pressurized. That stops dust from creeping in through cracks or door seals. Filter the air coming in with an air filter from an older car, the type that is just a big round ring that sits in a frying pan shaped housing. Clamp it to the side of your box with a round disc of wood or metal. You will have to replace the filter fairly regularly but they are quite cheap. Many bigger commercial machines use air to air heat exchangers so the clean air inside the box and dirty air outside never mix. Les On 04/11/2011 14:16, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > Hello, gentlemen! > > I am in trouble with that double-spindle wood milling machine. > It has a tendency to freeze up. > > I have been trying to understand, what is wrong, but the symptoms are > telling that the problem is in the small wood dust, that gets inside > PC case and everywhere else, because the more machine is working, the > more errors it produce - let rest for few hours and it is back on > track. > > My proposed solution - put PC and monitor in a totally closed, dust-proof > case. > > But then there is a problem - how to cool the inside. > I was thinking that PC components could be cooled with water, but I do > not know, what to do with monitor. > > Could You, please, share Your experience and/or know-how about > cases/boxes of PCs in industrial machines? > > Viesturs > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > RSA(R) Conference 2012 > Save $700 by Nov 18 > Register now > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
