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Title: Quick, simple circulation fans
Post by: Zephod on August 03, 2017, 10:49:39 AM
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170803/e8abbc119adb24dfecef370d7e55becb.jpg)
It's really cheap. A $2 CPU fan, four number 8 bolts, some leftover aluminum strip, some wire and some black paint.

Just screw it in place and power up for inexpensive cooling. I have a battery powered fan that runs on D cells but this is way better, cost way less (my battery fan was $6) and the battery powering the fan is charged from the sun.
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Push comes to shove, my o2cool fan can still be used when there's no juice in the solar batteries.


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Title: Re: Quick, simple circulation fans
Post by: windtrader on August 03, 2017, 01:08:38 PM
I've used these for various applications. They work fine in very low loading situations but they are very low amp units and will not push much air. For that matter in a negative pressure situation, they might even blow backwards.  ::)
Title: Re: Quick, simple circulation fans
Post by: Zephod on August 04, 2017, 08:51:25 AM
Weird. I responded to this but it's not showing up...

Anyway, I find them pretty good. They shift more air than my $6 2D powered desktop fan. The aim is partly to assist my extraction fans by circulating the air a bit.


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Title: Re: Quick, simple circulation fans
Post by: windtrader on August 04, 2017, 10:42:07 AM
Here's a CPU fan setup for laughs. MY hillbilly fan on top of my fancy door desk. LOL
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/atx4il2hnajbors/20170804_102336%20%281%29.jpg?dl=0)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/atx4il2hnajbors/20170804_102336%20%281%29.jpg?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/atx4il2hnajbors/20170804_102336%20%281%29.jpg?dl=0)
Title: Re: Quick, simple circulation fans
Post by: Zephod on August 04, 2017, 05:12:17 PM
Quote from: windtrader on August 04, 2017, 10:42:07 AM
Here's a CPU fan setup for laughs. MY hillbilly fan on top of my fancy door desk. LOL
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/atx4il2hnajbors/20170804_102336%20%281%29.jpg?dl=0)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/atx4il2hnajbors/20170804_102336%20%281%29.jpg?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/atx4il2hnajbors/20170804_102336%20%281%29.jpg?dl=0)
Nothing wrong with that. I knew a guy who had a scaffolding plank pinched from a builders yard placed across two rusty filing cabinets he pulled out of a skip as his office desk.


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