Is the fan you're using pulling the hot air out from the top of its shelf location? It should be.
You may want to experiment with fan location to try and achieve the best results for cooling.
Just an FYI from an old submariner here. While pulling hot air out may provide sufficient cooling in typical HT applications, you will have better air displacement in a closed space by forcing cool air in than you will pulling hot air out.
I've heard both schools of thought on this. How cool is the ambient temp? How efficient are the fans? Does that matter?
I'm thinking a small fan should be used in combination with the radiation cooling that it's already been designed to accomplish on its own. Pulling hot air out, allows the cool air to be pulled in from the bottom vents, as its designed to do. Pushing air down into the device, well, where is the heated air going? Back upward. It just seems the heated air would be fighting the air being pushed down into the unit.
You may be right, or either way is just as effective. We can agree, cooling fans make a difference where radiational cooling isn't enough.
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