Upgrading the lab to something decent

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Thanks much Nanofrog    Had not been able to find that version of the User Manual.

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@NCTNico, that is such a ridiculously good suggestion as soon as I was done with dinner I rushed to take a look and see if it was possible to do that tonight and have what would amount to a whole new power supply (the noise really annoys me) unfortunately, it looks really tight in there. But as you can see, you are definitely right.

Also, this power supply is really built like a tank. Look at that huge heat sink in there.

So what I am thinking is that what is called for is a thinner 24v fan, and then it should be possible to isolate it much better. It won't take much. I am attaching some photos I took just now.

Thank you for the suggestion!

We should start a separate thread on this. Yes, I definitely want to fix the loud fan.

What helps a lot are rubber fan mounts. A couple of months ago I got a GW Instek PSP-603 bench power supply and it is nice but the fan resonates to the casing.

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The fan in the PS280 is a AD0612HS-C70GL 60x20mm, 12VDC 16.4CFM 0.16A.
The heat sink arrangement is very different in the PS280. It is very open.
It is also only held on my two of the 4 mounting positions.