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Just started to play with Macs Fan Control.

To what does the ambient temperature refer- is the room temperature?
My imac has been on all morning in a room that is at 23deg C.
The software says the Ambient is 8 deg C and fan speed 1392rpm - normal imac fan speed.

So again, what is the Ambient temp referring.

iMac is the latest 2012, 20 inch version.
Im running the software as a trial as I think it will help sort a diagnosis problem on a 2009 imac thats coming to me.

Steve 1812

Please copy technical information from the About dialog
A screenshot of main window would be also great
Thanks

Just want to know what the Ambient refers to - is it the outside air temp, though as you can see it shows 10 deg C in a room at 25 deg C - very warm day here in the UK near Manchester.

Ambient usually tells about air temperature in the iMac case. 10 is really strange

Please press the button "Copy technical info" and share the output

As requested here is the techie bit.

Steve

ps current room temp 21 degC and ambient reads 5 deg C.

Think I forgot/ or failed to attacment the word dock of techie stuff so here it is pasted in.

Steve


Macs Fan Control 1.1.0, iMac13,1, Mac OS X 10.8

Fans:
Main-min{1394}curr{1392}max{2789}mode{0}

TempSensors:
TA0P (Ambient) - 5.25
TA0V () - 19.4883
TA0p () - 25.25
TC0E () - 191.645
TC0F () - 193.543
TC0J () - 1.89844
TC0P (CPU Proximity) - 35.75
TC0T () - 0.0625
TC0c () - 37
TC0p () - 35.75
TC1c () - 37
TC2c () - 39
TC3c () - 36
TCGc () - 39
TCSc () - 36
TCXR () - 192.375
TCXc () - 39.375
TCXr () - 192.375
TG0D (GPU Diode) - 39
TG0E () - 38.6523
TG0F () - 39.4023
TG0J () - 0.75
TG0T () - 0.00390625
TG0d () - 33
TG0p () - 34.125
TH0A () - 129
TH0B () - 129
TH0C () - 129
TH0F () - 129
TH0O () - 249
TH0P () - 249
TH0R () - 129
TH0a () - 129
TH0b () - 129
TH0c () - 129
TH1A () - 28.875
TH1B () - 28.875
TH1C () - 129
TH1F () - 200.914
TH1O () - 9
TH1P (Drive Bay 0) - 129
TH1R () - 200.875
TH1a () - 28.875
TH1b () - 28.875
TH1c () - 129
TL0P (LCD proximity) - 12.6562
TL0p () - 28.5
TL1P () - 29.4375
TL1V () - 27.2773
TL1p () - 29.4375
TL1v () - 27.3008
TM0P () - 32.125
TM0V () - 36.5977
TM0p () - 32.125
TMXP () - 32.125
TPCD () - 44
TS0V () - 27.8672
Tb0P () - 32.3125
Tb0p () - 32.3125
Tm0P (Mem Controller) - 32.3125
Tm0p () - 32.3125
Tp2F () - 31.5898
Tp2H () - 31.625
Tp2h () - 31.625

thank you, it looks like this value is not correct on imac 13,1, just checked another iMac.
What is min, max value for Ambient on your iMac? (approx)

Excuse my understanding but how do I find the min/max ambient for my iMac?

Is this part of your software or new imacs specification in general?

Steve

Just empirical, visually. Does it change actually?

Came across a thread regarding iStat - a similar thing I believe and several people with new 2012 iMacs have an ambient reading of around 9 degrees - their gurus suggest its a programme thing making the software incompatible as far as ambient readings go.

Steve

ps I have just installed the same version of Macs Fan Control 1.1.0 (imac13,1) on to a 2008 intel iMac with Mountain Lion and the ambient there is 25 deg C - room temp is around 24 deg C.

Hhhmmmm

me again, over the last hour the ambient has flicked from 9 degC to 7 deg C and back again.

As far as I can tell the room has stayed at a constant temp too.

Steve

It looks like this sensor should be removed when running MFC on iMac13,1, as its value is not correct (9 deg C is not possible inside a computer)

Will you be able to correct this in a later version of this overall excellent bit of software?

Steve

Well, шt's very simple to remove this sensor, for now you can simply ignore its value. Currently need some more data to remove it - ithere're only 2 computers with the same issue. If it's systematic - the sensor will be removed.

Fixed in 1.1.1