Excellent, I am going to try getting one of those right now!
Oh wow when you try it please let me know how easy it was to fix etc.. as mine is quite noisey and if this is silent that would be amazing.
has anyone put up a video or tutorial or step by step on how to do the replacing? i want to do it, but i'm a bit tentative cuz it's a new printer and all and i don't want to do unfixable damage to the machine
I don't know of any tutorial.
the silent fan i suggested doesn't have a plug on it, just 2 wires.
If you know how to solder then it is very easy to do. you unscrew the old fan and unplug it. then you desolder the wires and plug, then solder them on the new fan. After that you can just screw in the new fan and plug it in.
if you can't solder then you will need some crimp connectors or a good way of joining the wires to the current ones in the machine.
But don't stress to much.
i'm very comfortable with soldering it's the taking the dive into the deep end this early in the relationship with my printer that had me a bit nervous.
but i took the plunge!
and what a difference it made!!! and really not that difficult. i was really worried about getting the fan out, it's hard to see back there and was not sure what needed to be taken out or moved to get the job done. but i can tell you, it's not that much, just moved the wires out of the way, two of the screws and bam! the fan was out.
i took some photos of the adventure, i have to figure out how to post photos if anyone is interested.
cheers
That's great. Yes I was worried about working on mine at the start but then found its not the complicated and most jobs are simple.
Loading photos is a weird process but you Click gallery on the left menu of the forum. Then click upload and create an album and upload to that. There is a tutorial for that somewhere.
thank you labern
ok, got them uploaded. with explanations as well.
you can find them in this gallery album:
Sorry to dig up an old post but man, I followed the suggestion and used the sunon fan suggested above and man the difference was massive! I bought the UM2 about 6 months back and it arrived that noisy to begin with (I kinda thought that was just how it was meant to be). It was so noisy that you could hear it across the room with the doors closed and staying too long in the room made your ears ring. But after changing to this sunon fan, what a difference!, makes almost no noise that I'm having difficulty getting used to the peace.
What is the best place to purchase the Sunon fan?
How to install it correctly?
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Labern 774
you can contact Ultimaker and they will replace it for you. But the only problem is that the replacement might be just as noisy or only slightly quieter as in my case.
its best to order this one http://www.digikey.c...1573-ND/2757803
you can also find it on ebay. Its so quiet that you don't even know that your printer is on.
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