I know that my choice NOT to buy the $800 chiller will be frowned upon by some, and they may ultimately turn out to be right, but for now, I am going with a middle of the road approach. There are some pretty entrenched sides on cooling.

:) There is an issue that the pwm 3 wire cable runs the electronic panel, which I guess you don't really need, but there is supposed to be a way to wire a switch so you can use both, and I plan to do that. The mini gerbil works like a champ with lightburn (though, you do have to be careful and make sure the PWM cable is actually connected to the pin, or, you get 100% power all the time. Started with a sawsall and a metal blade, but it kicked like a mule, so I went dremel, and I got better results. I also took the exhaust duct out and cut it down to free up that inch of space. I tried it without it, and it worked, but the new one works better. To get the exhaust flowing a bit better, I added an inline 100cfm 4 inch vent fan.

I got the standard lightobject air assist with the recommended air pump. Mine was actually fine, but I had them so I changed them. The lens I needed because of the air assist head, I just decided to go with new mirrors because I had read enough about people having trouble with them or having to clean out metal from the mirror housings. In all honesty, I probably could have taken this unit as is, grabbed K40 whisperer and fired it up.

But I found it was activated with the multi-meter and then set about figuring out how to make the red plastic button work. I discovered the emergency stop has a twist lock and was off, so if I had just plugged it in without knowing about the twist lock, It would have seemed DOA because the button appears to still work when it is set down, and unless you twist it, there is no way of knowing it is in the lock out position. The machine was in great shape, and I looked over it and went over all the electrical with a multi-meter before turning it on. It came from Tennessee in just a few days. I bought the K40 with a digital panel on ebay from acautoparts04 for $360.

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