Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Ok im confused about Watts and Power a little...

drool.... EP600!!! maybe before the year is up I'll have the EP600. I'll probably upset the neighbors too. For those who have heard the EP350 and the EP600, how much is the difference???

Shag, in reference to your cooling fan on top of the 630, did you find the 630 running hot? Seems like it should have plenty of 'breathable' clean air on top of the entertainment unit. I haven't noticed my 635 running what I would consider to be hot at all, of course I'm not running the 80s from it either though.

I can feel waves of heat from my 525 inside the EC, and it's got 4 inches of clearance above it. I'm afraid of what will happen when I put the doors on...

Rick, yes I would say the M80s are the difference. On days when the room was warm I've had the receiver go into shutdown mode several times. I did have a factory defect that I had to bring it in to repair. Apparently some of the soldering joints were defective.

It did run hot and I bought the fan before I realized the defect. Since I've had it repaired I just kept using the fan. Not sure if it was running hot just because of the M80s or because of the defects. I'll have to shut off the fan and watch/listen to something to see how hot it runs now.

Ken there's a pretty good thread regarding cooling fans over on the Club Rotel site that I've been keeping an eye on. May be worth a peek for you. I think maybe Thyname has already mentioned this particular thread in another thread here on the Axiom site somewhere.

I'm not too terribly worried about fans as of yet but here in a couple or so months whenever the addition get completed and the equipment is going inside an enclosed area I'll probably look fairly hard into getting a cooling fan or two.

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Rick, yes I would say the M80s are the difference.

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I thought maybe so, well anyway good luck with the 630 and hopefully now with the fix and fan you'll not have any more problems with the unit. I certainly hope not!

Maybe one of these days I'll connect the 80s up to the 635 just to see if they do make that much of difference, would be interesting to find out.