Spraying My Motherboard wit CPL

[LanoX]

Hi all i was wondering if someone could help or show me some of the pics or guides on how to do this...

Well what i wont to do is use this Clear Protective Laquer to spray on my mobo to protect it from condesation. But i have been told before i do that i must cover mosfets, dim slots, cpu socket and other parts of the board and then spray it on i understand by saying covering the cpu and dimm slots but does that mean covering it from the front or from the back of the mobo ? and also waht is mosfets ?

plz some one help me

thank you very much Lano

[LanoX]

plz someone help common :( :smileysex

[berkut]

look for a guide over @ vr-zone, its in the forums on 100% (i made a topic about the article) and it also should be in the stick'ies

[sky]

Originally posted by LanoX
Hi all i was wondering if someone could help or show me some of the pics or guides on how to do this...

Well what i wont to do is use this Clear Protective Laquer to spray on my mobo to protect it from condesation. But i have been told before i do that i must cover mosfets, dim slots, cpu socket and other parts of the board and then spray it on i understand by saying covering the cpu and dimm slots but does that mean covering it from the front or from the back of the mobo ? and also waht is mosfets ?

plz some one help me

thank you very much Lano

i don't want to be a :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:, but from what i read here, it seems you don't know too much of what you're doing or wanting to do - and i have my doubts about the why aswell. this is NOT meant to insult you, but i'd wait with what you're about to do and start of reading, reading a lot!.
bowman has done an article on insulation over at phase-change.com -> HERE (http://www.phase-change.com/index.php?action=Articles_page&cat=Guides&id=25&page=1) plus there's a sticky about need to know things for phase changers HERE (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25956), and HERE (http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=230&s=1) is the insulation article at vr-zone.

k. the rest is plain thinking. if you want to spraycoat some part on the mobo to make it waterproof. what would you cover to keep that coating from entering the actual part / slot on the mobo? cover the rear of the board, where there's nothing where the coating could enter, or the front with the actual slot that would be unusable once the coat would cover its inner contacts? ;)

so yes, you'll cover parts on the front of the mobo then spraycoat it and afterwards spraycoat the back of the board aswell - without the need to cover stuff there (only warranty stickers or stuff like that).

mosfet are placed in several spots on your mobo, most are close to the coils around the socket. the mosfets are black blocks with 3 pins, mostly flat on the board - as said next to the coils should be a number of them... that's the mosfets you'd want to keep covered while spraycoating.

if i'm being an ass, forgive me, i'm just trying to make you see my way of thinking. :toast: to open your eyes for possible dangers, blabla

[LanoX]

Originally posted by sky
i don't want to be a :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:, but from what i read here, it seems you don't know too much of what you're doing or wanting to do - and i have my doubts about the why aswell. this is NOT meant to insult you, but i'd wait with what you're about to do and start of reading, reading a lot!.
bowman has done an article on insulation over at phase-change.com -> HERE (http://www.phase-change.com/index.php?action=Articles_page&cat=Guides&id=25&page=1) plus there's a sticky about need to know things for phase changers HERE (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25956), and HERE (http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=230&s=1) is the insulation article at vr-zone.

k. the rest is plain thinking. if you want to spraycoat some part on the mobo to make it waterproof. what would you cover to keep that coating from entering the actual part / slot on the mobo? cover the rear of the board, where there's nothing where the coating could enter, or the front with the actual slot that would be unusable once the coat would cover its inner contacts? ;)

so yes, you'll cover parts on the front of the mobo then spraycoat it and afterwards spraycoat the back of the board aswell - without the need to cover stuff there (only warranty stickers or stuff like that).

mosfet are placed in several spots on your mobo, most are close to the coils around the socket. the mosfets are black blocks with 3 pins, mostly flat on the board - as said next to the coils should be a number of them... that's the mosfets you'd want to keep covered while spraycoating.

if i'm being an ass, forgive me, i'm just trying to make you see my way of thinking. :toast: to open your eyes for possible dangers, blabla

Not at all i do know waht iam doing sorta but not to full 100% .
and you are not been an ass i know waht u saying its just that i never done this and i cant afford at the momment to stuff things up twice that is all ..

thank you very much ...
Lano

[sky]

if you got a piece of old hardware sitting around catching dust, try spraycoating that first.. and maybe testrun it in another ancient setup - just so you don't fry your current rig by accident.

oh and for the laquer. not just any laquer will do, some can actually shorten circuits. so it might be best to look for special board laquer - should be available at any bigger electronic parts reseller - maybe radioshack, dunno.