Valve To Steam Deck Owners: Stop Huffing Its Vent Fumes
Valve To Steam Deck Owners: Stop Huffing Its Vent Fumes
The company behind Portal, Half-Life, and Steam isn’t amused by all the vent smellin’
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Is it possible it could be producing ozone and that it is reacting with the plastic? Ozone is not good to smell.
Electronics release all sorts of non-cool chemicals... plastic related, and flame retardants.
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That’s actually really funny.
This is not a helpful feature.
But where were the ants removed to?
That's Lemmy.ml for you. Could swap to an instance like .world that doesn't use the profanity removal feature.
What a removeded feature.
Solder and flux, too.
Does solder actually emit fumes below melting point? I did not know about that.
depends on the solder, honestly. I doubt it would be an issue with consumer/mass produced electronics, but there's a possibility. But if you're doing your own with rosin-core solder (which is most solders,) the rosin/flux can. (you can remove it with stuff meant to remove it. which you should do because flux is freaking nasty.)
Oh, interesting. I did not know about that. Thanks for the info. I will be looking into some cleaning stuff for my personal soldering projects.
They make fume things that are basically a fan with a charcoal filter attached, if you want to buy it… they’re great, if you want to make it… “inspiration”
I'm planning on making one of those. With maybe a hose to it so I can point it out the window.
Thanks.
Honestly, short term, an old pc fan and acheap carbon filter duct taped to it will do it.
More optimally, a noctua high-static-pressure fan and a filter with a 3d printed housing/duct does the trick- the exhaust hose out a window is… overkill and “inconvenient” (unless you’re in a purpose built soldering station and can work it into a vent.)
Probably not, that would require fairly high voltages. It's probably plastics off-gassing.
I will be using that word now what my body needs to gas off.