Author Topic: My effort at reducing Rigol DS2072 fan noise  (Read 2804 times)

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Offline CirclotronTopic starter

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My effort at reducing Rigol DS2072 fan noise
« on: December 05, 2015, 11:00:54 am »
Cutting away metal grille on fan outlet reduces turbulent flow and noise. Degree of noise reduction is not as apparent in video because when the metal grille is removed the reduced rushing noise is countered by the increased audio sensitivity of the volume compression of phone taking video. Putting plastic case back on does reduce the improvement though.

Video -> https://youtu.be/frFZ5vPm7oo
 

Offline fanOfeeDIY

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Re: My effort at reducing Rigol DS2072 fan noise
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2015, 08:37:02 am »
Nice!
Thick designed fan guard is common to make the fan noise larger.
I used to remove them and replace it with circle wire type fan guard.
 

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Re: My effort at reducing Rigol DS2072 fan noise
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2015, 09:08:48 am »
Nice job, I hate the fan noise as well.  But what about EMI/EMC?
Will it affect sensitive measurements in a noisy environment?
Just thinking.
 

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Re: My effort at reducing Rigol DS2072 fan noise
« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2015, 10:53:48 pm »
EMI/EMC? I imagine that is possible. The frequency of what escapes would depend on the size of the fan hole. Maybe someone can calculate that, but 50mm is a full wavelength at 6GHz so it may not be a problem. Not completely sure, but you would expect things to be degraded maybe a tiny bit.
 


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