Keeping Time Capsule Cool with Legos

[FarSeide]

I've gone through 2 TC so far due to heat and PS failure so with my latest TC, I thought I would try something little different to keep the TC cool and its been working great.

All I needed was kid's lego block...the temperature difference was significant. Before if I put my hand on top of the TC, it would be extremely warm/hot and now when I touch the top, its nice and cool.

Hope this helps to prolong this TC and I wanted to share... hope it works out for you as well.

 

[Terry Smith]

Can't hurt! Why not buy a cheapo UPS for the thing too? That's what I'm doing with my recently replaced unit.

Apparenlty the power outages during writes is a serious failure maker.

TMS

 

[AdamA9]

Mine is on a TV stand, next to my cable and TV, which happens to be by a window to keep it cool.

 

[gonzaload1987]

very very nice job, knowing that TC issues with heat problems, all i do was putting 4 remove gum and it was great, nice and cool 24/7

 

[FarSeide]

I guess you could use whatever you have at home to keep the TC suspended... all I know is it works and makes a big difference in temperature.

 

[skorpien]

Great solution! If only the outer casing of the Time Capsule can be made to match .

I had mine sitting on four plastic pop bottle caps held in place by poster putty. The heat from the TC eventually made the poster putty completely useless and I had to remove the caps, but now it's sitting on the glass shelf of my new TV stand, which I believe is better at dissipating heat than the wood it was sitting on before.

 

[BeamWalker]

An ingenious solution to a problem that should never existed in the first place.

Those big Lego bricks are called duplo bricks in germany by the way. They are for small children and twice as big as normal legos.

 

[Alvi]

It looks very cool too! and i hope i'll stay literally cool

 

[Jaro65]

Pretty ingenious.

 

[GSX]

Nice solution to prolonging the life of your Time Capsule.

However, I can't help but think how lame it is that people would have to do this kind of stuff. What was Apple doing when they were quality testing Time Capsules?

 

[keeper]

My TC failed, I fixed it my changing it for a QNAP NAS.

Job done.

 

[toolbox]

My TC failed, I fixed it my changing it for a QNAP NAS.

Job done.

Same here, one day it was working the next now power at all. I dismantled and found the power supply had buldging caps.

I now have a 4 Bay Netgear Ready Nas NV+ with 4 TB of awsomeness

 

[KenOzz]

I've gone through 2 TC so far due to heat and PS failure so with my latest TC, I thought I would try something little different to keep the TC cool and its been working great.

All I needed was kid's lego block...the temperature difference was significant. Before if I put my hand on top of the TC, it would be extremely warm/hot and now when I touch the top, its nice and cool.

Hope this helps to prolong this TC and I wanted to share... hope it works out for you as well.

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Been looking for an idea to keep my TC cool its ok in the winter months but now the weather is warmer the TC gets warmer

So thanks for the idea, (now were is the grandkids leggo set)

 

[ljonesj]

? would the aluminum from old hard drives i have taken apart could i use those as like a big heat sink and use a fan from a switch board my dad got from were he works at when they stopped using them work also the fan uses ac current