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My room gets hot any way without turning any computers on, I usually just end up sleeping downstairs.
Anyone else suffer from electrical heat overload in their bedroom?
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trying to picture it in my head and failing, got a pic?
do you mean something like this?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002W774...m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=1FFKPAEHMJV9QE82M1XW
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I have an electric alarm clock in the bedroom. That's all that is electronic that's allowed in there. Avoids excess heat and EM radiation affecting sleep patterns.
My gaming laptop and PS4 are not replaceable by a desktop PC, they are mutually exclusive and both serve carefully considered needs. TV is LED, yes.
There's nothing I can really "cut down on" unless I move my PS4 into my living room, and I much prefer gaming on it in my bedroom. The heat is just something I have to live with in Summer I guess.
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Doesn't that mean that when on the computer you're sitting in the room with the fans, the heat output and all the other electrical components?
For the cost of a few extension cables you can stick anything loud or heat producing(to a meaningful degree) in the spare bedroom and spend all your time in a different room.
£5 for hdmi extension cable, £5 for 2 dvi extension cables and £5 for two usb extension cables and my hot and relatively loud 2x290 computer sits in another room while my tv and two monitors, mouse and keyboard sit at a desk in my bigger room with better windows and view that I spend my time in. When I game, I can't hear it, when I watch a tv show/movie, I can't hear fans whirring away even quiet fans. In summer when it's warm the bedroom door is shut, the window is open and the heat is dumped outside of the flat. In winter the door to the hallway is opened a small amount, the window shut and the heat is kept inside the apartment.
Every house for 20 years should all have been designed with a 'electronics' room. With sound insulation, space for a few computers, cables to various bedrooms/offices/living room for network/mouse/monitors and the ability to vent the heat outside or push the heat around the house.
Maybe 5-10 years ago the inconvenience of getting up to change a dvd could be a consideration though I'd take that over sitting in a room with my computer. Today, a couple of months back I went to put a dvd install disc in for some uni software and realised I'd never plugged the cables back in after the last time I'd changed something around in the case so for pretty much a year I didn't even realise it wasn't plugged in. It's a non issue these days.
I feel your pain OP. The sun sets on my bedroom side of the house, so from 3PM on wards on a very warm day my room starts to bake. What helped me was changing my two desk lamps/lights for energy saving bulbs, just to reduce the amount of heat they emit. 
I had 42" plasma tv, virgin stb and pi2 and room got hot but most heat was from the tv.
Just changed the TV to a 48" lcd (led) which uses about 60w (not sure of efficiency) and room is much better now.
Not sure how much heat old plasma emmited but wouldnt be surprised if it was 300w
Just changed the TV to a 48" lcd (led) which uses about 60w (not sure of efficiency) and room is much better now.
Not sure how much heat old plasma emmited but wouldnt be surprised if it was 300w
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I have a 40" LCD and thats easily the most heat generating thing in the room it gets seriously warm if left on for hours. PC is nowhere near as much.
@OP: just open the window?!
Watercooling in your floor.
Get an inline fan exctractor with auto speed. Bang it in loft through ceiling and it will suck all the hot air out and keep it at a temp you set. Indoor growers use them in the tents to keep temp right.
Get an inline fan exctractor with auto speed. Bang it in loft through ceiling and it will suck all the hot air out and keep it at a temp you set. Indoor growers use them in the tents to keep temp right.
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Ah the problems with trying to cram all your life into one small room, really don't miss that at all!!!!
Main bedroom has a wall mounted TV, HDMI over Lan converter, 2x phone chargers, never slept better!
Office is for computers, home distribution rack and servers etc
Home cinema room is for projector, consoles, amps, plasma etc
Living room for daily use TV.
Main bedroom has a wall mounted TV, HDMI over Lan converter, 2x phone chargers, never slept better!
Office is for computers, home distribution rack and servers etc
Home cinema room is for projector, consoles, amps, plasma etc
Living room for daily use TV.
I've a wall mounted TV, Apple TV, Mini Zeppelin dock and a Roberts Alarm dock, that's it in our bedroom....oh and a bloody great AC unit. Fact is if you removed all the kit it would still be too warm in the summer so I would still want AC to ensure I can sleep at night. I tend to be in bed late and up early so I need to ensure when my head hits the pillow I fall asleep quickly and having the right room temperature is key to this. I think once you have had AC you struggle to live without it, if for no other reason that you get use to the noise it makes and miss it when it goes quiet.