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Multibridge Pro 2 Fan Noise
My Multibridge Pro 2 seems to be working fine, but after its been on for awhile the fan noise becomes very noticeable.
Anyone else experiencing this? Any BMD folks care to chime in? When I emailed tech support I was told that the MBP 2 fan can be a little loud, and the recommendation was to get another fan to blow across the back of it. I’m going to try that.
Other than the external fan, and outside of moving to another space with a machine room, I’d love to find out if mine is past the limit of being “a little loud” and find a way to resolve this.
Thanks,
Forrest
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9 Replies
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I have a multibridge extreme that had a noisy fan.
I decided to just leave it on all the time and now its silent.
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Interesting, maybe I’ll give that a shot.
Thanks, Chris.
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Hello Chris,
Yes my Multibridge Extreme, is very noisy. When you start working gets very noisy and frustrating! A low pitched whining sound. if I knew this I would of got a AJA capture card as this can work with Cineform which is ultimately what I want to use now for Compression.
Thanks,
Leo
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Might it be that your fans are just dead because of dust and cigarete smoke ? I change my computers fans once a year sometimes to have silent operation. All dust etc kills fans really fast.
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Margus
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[Margus Voll] “Might it be that your fans are just dead because of dust and cigarete smoke”
no, our edit suite is on a high end hvac system, not much dust in that room and our facility is non-smoking.
If the fans had seized up the unit would overheat and malfunction. It cannot function without the internal fan running. confirmed by a bmd tech.
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No smoking here, either. I think it just might be normal for the unit and my close proximity to it. I’m moving my office out of the house this week and will move the MBP as far from me as is feasible.
Forrest
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I have the multibridge 1.
Fan noise is really loud. Unless I give it a loving but robust ‘tap’ on the casing. Which seems to quieten it down for a few seconds.
But I don’t think this is in the manual.
It’s the loudest thing in the room.
I have another 2 8 bay raid running.
And an ‘air conditioner’ G5 or two.Blackmagic just don’t reply to support emails it seems. Which is a little frustrating. Because I only wanted to know if my warranty was voided by replacing the fan. I guess it will have run out by the time I get an answer.
Has anyone replaced their multibridge fan successfuly? And if so, any ideas of what size fan will work?
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hi,
this our third day of oferation on a new MacPro System, 2,8GHz, 8-core. Our Multibridge Pro’s (2) fan doesn’t stop working even after the Mac shuts down… When I disconnect the power from the MB (after powering down the computer), the MacPro sometimes, but really sometimes, start turning on it’s own fan to maximum and I can`t get it to reboot. The only way to reboot is to disconnet it from the power outlet…. strange stuff. Otherwise its a great tool.
thomas
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I had this same problem. The fan in the MB Pro is ARX Ceradyna Fan FW1251-C2033C 12 VLT .25 amp.
I found ours was not tightly closed. The two halves of the fan are joined by a plastic clip that was not tightly locked, which I fixed with super glue and cleaned it out with a air blower.
There is only one screw holding it in place and the other screw hole does not line up. This vibrating against the metal case causes all the noise. A piece of felt under it may help too.
Dave
Dave Beaty
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