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Re: [SLE] Cautionary Tales: lm_sensors for beginners
- From: Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 08:24:24 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <edttn9$lhl$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Basil Chupin wrote:
> Ok, if you want me to call it a "speed controller" rather than a
> rheostat then to make you happy I'll call it a "speed controller" :-)
Personally, I'd prefer potentiometer. I had to go lookup what a
"rheostat" is :-)
> One "speed controller" controls the fans in the Antec PSU and the
> 120mm case fans and the other "speed controller" controls the blower
> cooling the heat pipes on the Gigabyte heatsink. It was the latter
> that was making the high-pitched noise.
Because it was going at max revs?
/Per Jessen, Zürich
> Ok, if you want me to call it a "speed controller" rather than a
> rheostat then to make you happy I'll call it a "speed controller" :-)
Personally, I'd prefer potentiometer. I had to go lookup what a
"rheostat" is :-)
> One "speed controller" controls the fans in the Antec PSU and the
> 120mm case fans and the other "speed controller" controls the blower
> cooling the heat pipes on the Gigabyte heatsink. It was the latter
> that was making the high-pitched noise.
Because it was going at max revs?
/Per Jessen, Zürich
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