From: A.Lizard <ali..._at_ecis.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:47:02 -0800
I filed a patent application for an electronic gadget a few months ago.
Those of you who do your own computer maintenance and upgrades know
how much crap builds up inside a computer sucked in by the fans. While
one can get computer air filters at larger electronics retail stores,
forgetting to clean the filter turn a recurring annoyance into a much
bigger problem when the CPU can't get any cool exterior air. I also
discovered in the course of working on this that just because an
open-cell foam filter looks clean doesn't necessarily mean that it is.
I wash out the filter when the software alarm tells me to and don't
think about it otherwise. My computer stays both internally clean and
cool.
At the moment, the only available form is a bare PCB with user guide
and assembly instructions, I'm looking for an OEM. I figure that some
of you might find this useful (I designed it because I wanted one and
nobody sells anything like it that actually works) and because I figure
that anyone who reads this list is up to PCB assembly.
It took me a while to get around to mentioning this largely because
there was a design error in the first PCB and I wanted to make sure the
bug was stomped out before announcing it.
I figure the people who can really use this are ones who spend a lot of
time working on their computers and the ones whose computers *must*
work *all* the time. While this won't guarantee that since AFAIK, there
is no way to guarantee 100% computer uptime, it's one variable that can
be put under one's control.