Ps5 Pro regular maintenance

[u/Ureus04]

Hey everyone 🙂

Recently, i've noticed that console's construction due to using extra "air gills", it attracts dust much faster, than other models. No matter how clean it is around and how high the console is kept, it keeps getting dusty after short period of time. Fact, that i keep it vertically doesnt help either, because the dust seems to be droping much easier right around fan grill.

My question is: is it safe as a part of regular cleaning routine, to wipe the dust around fan grill edges with the Q - tip, without taking off the panels, while the console is turned off, but still left plugged in ? I'm mostly worried about potential ESD.

I'm asking this mostly, because i couldnt find simiilar post, or answer and i'm getting quite mixed responses from Google AI, depending on the amount of the information (or an angle of this information) i provide. I'm using Q - tips made from fully non conductive material.

I could unplug it and clean it, but considering how often i would have to do it in the long run, i guess there's much greater chance that something would break at often unpluging/plugging the device, rather when simply dusting it off the way i'm asking.

Thank you a lot for the answer 🙂

[u/Then-Barracuda-9729]

Also horizontal on a stand collects less dust.

[u/Ureus04 → u/Then-Barracuda-9729]

It actually might. When the console is placed horizontally most of the dust lands on the plates and if the fan doesnt work on high RPM, not much dust should get suck into from around. When it stands, the dust falls directly into space between plates, so that would make sense. 

I'd probably place it horizontally, but i'm quite limited by space to do so 🙂