Glad it’s helping others!

You’re welcome! Glad it’s helping others

You’re welcome! I was hoping it’d help others. The part number / link to the part I got is in the description.

Appreciate that! I was also thinking the same thing. I have an energy monitor and was curious if I could find any data on that. Unfortunately don’t have data prior to installation so would have to do a specific test to see how much kWh it’s using. Home assistant is an open source project for monitoring smart home devices in a central location, you can find here: www.home-assistant.io I can only assume it’s saving cost (cost of running attic fan offsetting the amount of time my Mini Split compressor is running)

Hey thanks for chiming in with your experience. Glad to hear we were probably seeing similar issues. As far as the rumbling goes, my unit ended up coming with rubber “feet” to go between the wood and the metal screw areas if that makes sense. I didn’t end up highlighting them in this video unfortunately, but that could resolve your issue? When it is on high I can hear a slight humming in the second floor from the attic but nothing distracting or vibrating. Maybe you could get some rubber stripping from Home Depot or something and put it in between the wood and feet? Hope this helps!

Thanks! I really appreciate it. I really have been liking it. I do notice that when I have it hooked up to the speakers and they are “on” prior to turning on the turntable, you will hear a “pop” upon pushing the button in the back and when you lift and close the lid you might hear some interference. This is something a few people spoke about in reviews, something about re-wiring the pre-amp can avoid these things. Other than that, no complaints. It’s been great, sounds good.

Hey thanks for watching! I’m glad so many people found interest in this process. I did have it hooked up to a kill-a-watt and now it’s on a UPS. I never wrote down the numbers, but if I remember correctly it was in the low 100-200 watts. Sorry that I can’t recall exactly! I just checked my UPS and it’s running right now at ~130w with multiple other rack mounted devices. So it’s probably idling under 100 watts at the moment.

@@WarnerDiscovers ~100w at idle is quite a lot for the relatively low end performance of that CPU (by modern standards). I am on a journey to build a budget Ryzen 5 or Core i5 level system with consumer hardware in the same Inwin chassis you are using. Not sure if it is possible or feasible but you’ve given me a lot to consider. My goal is to eventually build a “cheap” and low power Proxmox cluster for home lab use for things like Pihole, Home Assistant, etc. Thanks again!

No worries, I can promise you it wasn’t! I used this same method in the toaster oven with my oil bottles too, works great even around 200f

@@WarnerDiscovers Ok. Tx.

Not sure unfortunately. I’m assuming that’s within the FiiO specific app? I don’t use the app unless trying to upgrade the firmware

@@WarnerDiscovers thanks..

That’s to hold the corners of your phone. Sort of a fail safe backup in case it loses friction / pressure on the clamp

Gotcha, thanks!

Hey thanks for the feedback and suggestions! Glad to hear I went down the right route with the proper PWM fans. It seemed to be the right step to take at the time and glad I did rather than mess with the adapters.

Thanks for watching! Yeah it definitely was a consideration that the ram was blocking the fans. I noticed this in some of the more "server" mobo style boards that took this into better consideration. The first fans I had didn't have PWM and only had 3 pin so there was no mobo control for the fan speed so that had to run at 100% unfortunately. Yeah the second converted setup was definitely the way to go with the new Mobo but you're right turned out more expensive. I'm glad I ended up going that route anyway in the end. Much cleaner / neater and end up learning a lot in the process. I've been monitoring the temps for the past month or so and they seem to be good with the two for now thankfully! I was poking around with SAS drives and it potentially might, good idea. The reason I went with 1U is because I was planning on converting my seperate NAS over to a 1U as well. With this, my top rack is completely full now. I have another rack underneath that is 4U, but the last 2U that I have available I already have a plan for, so was sort of restricted unless I swap out the racks and remount a bigger one, but I don't think I'll end up doing all that.

Thanks!

Yeah, I end up utilizing the Dynatron K2 later in the video which sounds like you’re describing. Just a personal server running some docker containers and home assistant and such.

Pretty much. You only see CPU coolers in 4U racks. And sometimes not even that. Just larger heatsinks and intake fans.

Thankfully the second CPU cooler I ended up installing, the Dynatron K2 is moreso specifically made for 1U cases. It blows out the side / rear of the heatsink since the top is covered and it all gets sucked out the back from the rear fans. Take a look at the image of it here: www.dynatron.co/product-page/k2 I also have been monitoring the temperatures for the past week or so and they’ve been keeping down really well

​@@BrunodeSouzaLino you find active coolers (or massive passive) in 2u and up. Typically will have a 60mm fan pushing air through front to back

Yeah definitely could have customized something like that. I noticed one or two things online I potentially could have bought then cut out. Some of the other 1U cases on Amazon also came with customizable I/O shields which I wish this one did! Fortunately the new mobo I got had an I/O shield that fit the case perfectly.

Happy it helped!

Hey there, sorry for the delay. Right now I’m powering each pair with a system that provides 79w per speaker. It looks like the maximum capacity for these speakers would be 100w. But, you can power them with any receiver or powering unit that provides audio to some speakers. Not sure what the minimum would be. Hope this helps!

Dang, thanks for checking this and good to know! Thankfully these have been working well so far.

Friction, you can pop them out easily with access on the back while uninstalled but once they're in the ceiling you need a tiny tool or blade to get it out. A bit of a pain if you want to take off the covers after install.

Nothing so far, haven't had to adjust the mount since putting it on there. I don't ride super often though so YMMV

You're welcome! Hope it is helpful. I've only been able to use it with one zone so far, but planning on implementing more this year. I mainly have been using it for Spotify and it's been working well for me. I don't switch the sources that often, but may when I get a new zone in my office. Some of the software I hope will be improved over time but it's been pretty quiet over the holidays. Let me know if you have any other questions!

Hey glad it helped! Yeah I noticed there wasn't much out there for video on it so was happy to get something out for others. Definitely go to their forums / discourse and suggest KZbin Music if its not already there. Not sure if YT allows APIs to connect through it and whatnot but worth requesting. Good backup solution though. Or a headless chromecast or something with audio pulling via HDMI to analog

Sorry for the delay in response! Glad it was helpful! I'm sure whatever you got is probably fine, definitely don't overthink it! If you might think it could be a bit too hard, try a little more water

Sorry, it was a specific Android app it specified in the manual. Definitely not the greatest app. I don't have access to the manual anymore

Yeah it's definitely a strange material

Dang yeah, not sure why it got taken off Amazon. Very strange

Yeah I guess you could run into issues like this unfortunately. Has been good for so far for both UTWS1 and UTWS5

My utws3 are about a year old and are still working great unfortunately I work in a bakery and the mic has gotten lots of flour in them. Considering the utws5.

Got a UTWS3 for 45 bucks in a sale earlier this month. Hope it lasts.

The one under your elbow you gotta take out to get underneath. But the front one you can slide forward to access stuff underneath 👍🏻 they both just sort of sit in their place, nothing fancy. Worth it imo