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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 06:02:03 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   my PC crashed again, and I was finally ready to FLIR it.

   why is my 5.25" floppy drive running so hot while idle? this is probably not a problem most people have in 2024.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 06:05:55 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     the worst part of taking a bunch of FLIR images without having it in hybrid camera mode is that it's really, really hard to tell what you're looking at.
     I can tell that something is running at 50°C, but I can't remember what I was pointing the camera at

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 06:38:09 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Greg

     @gregdavis No, I don't think that would make sense for this design: it's an HD 5.25" drive, so it has to be able to run at different speeds for HD and DD disks

   • Greg (gregdavis@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 06:38:10 JST Greg

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     @foone Is there a motor running continuously in there, that a clutch engages to spin the disc? Just a thought, have seen that sort of design fail with a bad bearing. Would get hot, but also noisy.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 06:57:17 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • ejim

     @ejim well this is built into a smartphone and it's a shit phone for other reasons so... yeah I'm already annoyed at this thing

   • ejim (ejim@muenster.im)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 06:57:18 JST ejim

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     @foone FLIR are very overpriced and have Bad specs in comparison to cheaper Chinese ones. US based FLIR has to follow strict export regulations.
     China also made some new regulations that came into effect in August regarding multi spectrum cameras, but they are not as strict.
     Its because of war.

   • philpem (philpem@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 17:08:31 JST philpem

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     @foone if that's a serious question ... on older drives the read channel chip is usually some type of high-performance linear, and the ASICs are often TTL. both will convert a lot of electrons into heat... later drives switched to CMOS, when that became practical.