Sorry for having letting you guys down a couple of days…
I won't rework on my Macminitosh for now. Whenever I find some time to play with my collection as of late, my main goal is to teach myself enough soldering skills in order to do some recapping job. Scoop: one of my LCIII is running just fine for the last two hours, with brand new caps. And the annoying whinning sound that came from the speaker from time to time seems to be gone for good! I'm quite proud of myself, since that was the first time I ever touched a soldering iron.
Now, back to the Macminitosh and airflow inside a SE case: Mac128 is right about mounting the Mini's elements open in the SE case not being a good solution. The Mini's inside is well designed, so the airflow passes everywere to cool everything. Basically, running it open just breaks the airflow. At first, I ran it without its cover inside the SE case, thinking it would somehow cool it. But I quickly noticed the fan would be pretty much always on. Now, with the cover on, the fan only starts up after about one hour, or when the Mini's on a processor intensive task.
As of the Mini running outside of Apple's specs, you're most certainly right. I never put a thermometer inside the case, but it does feel pretty hot in there. Certainly around 100º F. So as I said before, my best solution would certainly to put a big silent fan inside the case. Maybe I'll do it, someday!
I won't rework on my Macminitosh for now. Whenever I find some time to play with my collection as of late, my main goal is to teach myself enough soldering skills in order to do some recapping job. Scoop: one of my LCIII is running just fine for the last two hours, with brand new caps. And the annoying whinning sound that came from the speaker from time to time seems to be gone for good! I'm quite proud of myself, since that was the first time I ever touched a soldering iron.
Now, back to the Macminitosh and airflow inside a SE case: Mac128 is right about mounting the Mini's elements open in the SE case not being a good solution. The Mini's inside is well designed, so the airflow passes everywere to cool everything. Basically, running it open just breaks the airflow. At first, I ran it without its cover inside the SE case, thinking it would somehow cool it. But I quickly noticed the fan would be pretty much always on. Now, with the cover on, the fan only starts up after about one hour, or when the Mini's on a processor intensive task.
As of the Mini running outside of Apple's specs, you're most certainly right. I never put a thermometer inside the case, but it does feel pretty hot in there. Certainly around 100º F. So as I said before, my best solution would certainly to put a big silent fan inside the case. Maybe I'll do it, someday!