Belkin F5L001 Laptop Cooling Stand

Belkin F5L001 Laptop Cooling Stand | On Or Off

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highly recommended

The Belkin Laptop Cooling Stand prevents your laptop from overheating. The unique patented wave design uses natural convection to enhance fan cooling. This stand has low power consumption via your laptop's USB port with no bulky power adapters.

The cooling stand

Well I love it keeps the laptop off my lap, and keeps it from over heating and from burning my leg.

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I use this stand pretty much all the time. It is especially useful if I want to use my Macbook on a soft surface as it tends to get warm. I have found that the ergonomics of the stand alone provides capacity to cool the computer equally as well without the fan on. As I check CPU and computer base temps, I get identical readings with the fan off or on. This is fine with me as the stand passively achieves my purpose in providing cooling circulation and the fan is a bit noisy. It's inexpensive and it works - with or without the fan. What more could you ask for ?

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When it works it works, but it doesn't always work

That is to say, for me, this cooler succeeds in cooling my laptop when the fan is functioning correctly. I have had it for about 3 months and use it daily.

After the first week or so, it stopped working. But I opened it up (unskrewing a bunch of screws) and saw that some debris had been sucked into the fan. So, I cleaned it up. Then it was back to normal. Lesson learned: place the cooler & laptop on clean, solid surface. Even if I'm on the couch, I place the cooler on something like a thin children's book so it's not sucking up more than air.

Over time, though, the fan stopped working consistently. This time it's not debris stuck in the fan (I tried cleaning it again). Instead, there's some wiring problem. If I hold the power wire in at different angles it will work again. Sometimes if I let go of it, it stops working. It's finicky. You have to get it just right.

I imagine it will go completely kaput at some point, but it does an okay job so far. I'm not enthused about the product, but like I said, when it works it works.

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