In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Still good, Brenda?
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Still here. Fan seems to be doing the trick on the modem but I need a better one for the monitor.
How hot is it in your place that you're worried about it? Should I be more worried about you than your computer?
Do you have a large book or two to put the case on to get it off the carpet until you get a proper platform for it?
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Modems ... Yeah, ours gets hot too. Glad the fan is helping!
Sorry to hear about the last mahjong game but having fun with friends is the best part.
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So happy that you had a nice time with your dad, SIX! I'll bet your dad was impressed with the work you've done.
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Yeah it is SIG. I would like to move it but I am limited in space to do that. So the fan is the only thing that seems to work now. But I am using a little cheap fan. Need a better one.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Still good, Brenda?
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Still here. Fan seems to be doing the trick on the modem but I need a better one for the monitor.
How hot is it in your place that you're worried about it? Should I be more worried about you than your computer?
Do you have a large book or two to put the case on to get it off the carpet until you get a proper platform for it?
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I'm at the back of the building and I get the sun all day when it is out. I'll be okay and once I get this sorted out the computer will be too. I keep my curtains closed all day until the sun goes down.
I have the tower sitting on a low stool now and so that is seems to be fine now. The problem is the modem which is sitting on the tv stand. Moving it is limited so it needs a fan. I have sent a message to my internet provider and told them what is happening. See what they have to say.
Also I have little personal fans all over the place here for cooling.
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Out for my walk in a bit. It is cloudy and it was raining at some point. Road is wet and the roofs of other apartment buildings around.
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Back from my walk and did some rearranging around my desktop here. Moved the modem away from the tv and put it on an overturned container from the Dollar store. Also moved it's power pack and that seems to have cooled the whole shebang down. Still need a fan on the monitor though. Also moved my plug in fan to where the modem is and will see if I need to put it on.
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You don't have A/C? Is it getting hotter than usual for you up there? I don't remember you having an issue like this last summer.
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Fantastic day in the garage. 
There was no way I was going to do all of this in one day, but I worked until 10PM and made the most of it.
Before I built those shelves, I bent and ran pipe through the walls and put four boxes in and also ran wire through, but never did any more than that at the time. I also bent and ran the pipe through the back wall to put two boxes there. Today, all of that was connected to the main. It all comes in the garage with 12gauge wire, and it's on two separate 20 Amp circuits. All of the lights and the overhead door opener are on one circuit. All of the outlets are on the other circuit.
On the side wall and the back wall I now have 20 outlets. Obviously even with a 20 Amp circuit if I ran a bunch of stuff on all of them at once it would blow the circuit, but that's not the point. I want to be able to plug in stuff anywhere I want to without any hassle.
I also repurposed one of my two switches by the service door. One controlled the lights over my main work bench on the side wall opposite of the new outlets, and the other one controlled four outlets below the switch box. Now those four outlets are powered all of the time, and the second switch controls the overhead lights.
I've only installed two of the four I will be installing, but they are BRIIIIIIIGHT!!!!!
It was a good day.
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You don't have A/C? Is it getting hotter than usual for you up there? I don't remember you having an issue like this last summer.
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No I don't have AC and that would be great for the computer and such but would make me too cold.
Keeping the curtains closed last summer seemed to work but this year. I don't know what is happening. I've got the fan on the modem and that seems to have snapped the computer back into shape.
It was either yesterday or Thursday that I couldn't get the tower to shut off and that was when I brought out the fans for everything. That got the tower and stuff to snap back. So I am at it again today.
The wiring overloading is what set off the smoke detector a couple of months ago which is why the manager came in while I was out and turned it off which in turn turned off 3 outlets in my place. Doing that turned off my computer, modem and tv along with the HD box. So, I called my internet provider and they wanted to send me a new modem but I moved everything to a different outlet and it brought everything back. But still getting the over heating.
This is an old building I am in and also with all the work being done on the elevators and the electrical for that. I'm not sure if that is having an affect on my place or not.
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Just a lazy Sunday.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You don't have A/C? Is it getting hotter than usual for you up there? I don't remember you having an issue like this last summer.
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No I don't have AC and that would be great for the computer and such but would make me too cold.
Keeping the curtains closed last summer seemed to work but this year. I don't know what is happening. I've got the fan on the modem and that seems to have snapped the computer back into shape.
It was either yesterday or Thursday that I couldn't get the tower to shut off and that was when I brought out the fans for everything. That got the tower and stuff to snap back. So I am at it again today.
The wiring overloading is what set off the smoke detector a couple of months ago which is why the manager came in while I was out and turned it off which in turn turned off 3 outlets in my place. Doing that turned off my computer, modem and tv along with the HD box. So, I called my internet provider and they wanted to send me a new modem but I moved everything to a different outlet and it brought everything back. But still getting the over heating.
This is an old building I am in and also with all the work being done on the elevators and the electrical for that. I'm not sure if that is having an affect on my place or not.
Hmmmm...
I'm hoping that something isn't wrong with your stuff. Unless you get cold when it's very warm, you computer shouldn't be overheating, nor should your monitor or modem. My computer doesn't even begin to have problems unless it gets up to 80 degrees in the house, and it's been a few years since I've ever let it get that high with that A/C I finally got around to buying.
Before I got the A/C, it wouldn't be uncommon for me to crack the case open and have a fan blowing right into it, but never in my history of living here did I have to put a fan on my computer monitor or my cable modem/router, and I've had summers where my thermostat on the second floor maxed out at 99 degrees Fahrenheit day and night.
I'm just a little confused about the situation.
As long as you're okay, that's the important part.
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