Shah Saad
Occasional Visitor
I just put these two fans on the back of my AC86U router (left). The bigger one is 140mm and the smaller one is 120mm. These were spare fans from my PC laying around so I thought of utilising these in this way. Connecting the fans to USB ports make the fans run very slow so I bought a 12V AC to DC adapter from the market and connected the wires of both fans to that adapter.
The router isn't even getting warm on touch when these are powered on. I tried to copy large number of files from the attached Hard Disk with my router to PC so as to put a load on router's CPUs for few minutes. Even then it didn't get warm let alone hot.
The fans are positioned in such a way that they are throwing air outwards.
On the right side is my ISP's ADSL router which is configured to act just as a modem. But it will still get too hot so I put fans for it as well.
I have two questions:
1. Is this safe for the internal circuitry of the router? Will this create any kind of static charge on the components which might degrade these components?
2. If it's safe, how much effect these fans will have on the router's life span? Because if these fans aren't getting the router hot or even warm, the electric components inside the router will work longer if no other issues happen, right?