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I made a template to hold the Power, reset, and speed fan buttons and Floppy drive all together. Plus
it'll have two2 USB ports and one Firewire.
And here's everything mounted on R2.
To jump a bit ahead, I got all the parts inside. Then I pushed the button and waited. The Vapochill
starts to cool the processor and when it gets to -10C it boots the system.
As you can see the Vapochill came on and got all the way down to -52C, but my system never booted.
I did many tests, but the board was dead.
The replacement motherboard is the IC7-G (The Max3 was impossible to find). After I remounted
all the parts and placed it in R2 it worked just fine.
Next, I wanted to work on the external Temp sensor to show the processor temp. This sensor actually
came from AF1, where it was factory installed.
The room temperature is 24.5C
I cut away it's new home. The mesh in view is the Vapochill's front grill.
I had to do some rewiring. The PSU only has female molex's so I had to add an extra male to the Y-Cable
with a little soldering.
After what seemed like hours of feeding wiring into place I got the Sensor mounted and the probe on the
edge of the processor.
I then booted up R2 and the temp dropped to -38C
Go figure. R2-D2 was so cold that the sensor broke. I looked into it and found that these sensors
weren't designed to read below freezing. The above pic shows where it stopped reading. It actually dropped to
-48 Celcius!
Here's a few pics of R2 running just fine. After all this work it's a wonderful sight.
I thought that the front projector looked too small compared to R2's overall dimentions, so I replaced it
with a larger one.
Lastly, I wanted my satellite speakers to be mounted in R2's feet. So I cut some holes.
Set in the speakers and rerouted the wiring up and out his legs.
Then I covered the whole thing in mesh.
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