April Fools' Day and the new Enermax fans

Felger Carbon · Post by **Felger Carbon** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:10 pm

Supposedly arriving in Virginia on Apr 1. Several models, several sizes. Office has a street address but it's not a storefront:

http://www.eastluna.com/hardware/listin ... yl&id2=327

That's less than a week away. I might order a couple for luck, once I review the RPMs of the different models (not listed by East Luna).

April Fools' Day??

edit: No 92mm versions (available pre-order in Italy but Enermax not marketing 92mm in the US of A). 80mm available via pre-order but delivery is expected July, 90 days later. I ordered the Cluster PWM and Magma (2ea) 120mm - 1500RPM max but the Enermax Marathons, also with removable blades, undervolts very gracefully. Cluster and Magma both 9-blade fans, just like the Slipstreams. Be interesting (if they eventuate) to compare noise @ equal airflow...

Felger Carbon · Post by **Felger Carbon** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:53 pm

I love fan specifications. The new Enermax Magma 120mm has USA specs of 1500RPM, 69.15CFM, and 18dBA. (Get by clicking on fan pic on either the Enermax site or the EastLuna site)

The same Magma offered in Italy (eventually) is 1500RPM, 69.15CFM and 29.58dBA - 11.58dBA higher than in the USA. Must be the Italian air!

The 1200RPM Scythe Slipstream fan has specs of 68.54CFM and 24.00dBA. I really like the 0.01 resolution on the dBA spec! So the Slipstream, if we believe all of the above specs, is roughly 5.5dBA quieter pushing ~69CFM if the Magma is in Italy, or 6dBA noisier if the Magma is in the US of A.

Sigh. I'm glad I have my equal-airflow test fixtures and an SLM.

Bluefront · Post by **Bluefront** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 4:39 am

Heh....finally some good news. But I'll reserve judgment till someplace I've heard about actually has them in stock.

dr4gon · Post by **dr4gon** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:41 am

wow those specs are nice. Eastluna is a reputable site, bought a silverstone PSU there and then had to RMA which pretty easy.

edh · Post by **edh** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:30 am

Are these the same fans used in the Enermax Pro82+ and Modu82+ PSU's? The 120mm with a top speed of 1000rpm matches the top speed of the fan in my Modu82+, though I can't verify that as I've never seen it break 480rpm.

If they are the same fans, then they will be very quiet.

Post by **NeilBlanchard** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:15 am

Hello,

I think they are very different fans -- the PSU fans are clear blades and pretty conventional. These are anything but conventional.

cpemma · Post by **cpemma** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:28 pm

Felger Carbon wrote:The same Magma offered in Italy (eventually) is 1500RPM, 69.15CFM and 29.58dBA - 11.58dBA higher than in the USA. Must be the Italian air!

Wasn't it an American who said, "There are lies, damn lies, and fan specs"?

Avalanche · Post by **Avalanche** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:15 pm

I don't get it. Do they want you to take the fan apart?

Michael Sandstrom · Post by **Michael Sandstrom** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:36 pm

edh wrote:Are these the same fans used in the Enermax Pro82+ and Modu82+ PSU's? The 120mm with a top speed of 1000rpm matches the top speed of the fan in my Modu82+, though I can't verify that as I've never seen it break 480rpm.

If they are the same fans, then they will be very quiet.

Those fans are not the same as the fans in the Pro and Modu82+ lines. Mike Chin posted in the forum thread related to the Modu82+ review that the new PSUs contain a patented bi-voltage fan which cannot be replaced by a PWM or three pin fan without damaging the SpeedGuard circuit.

BTW, the minimum fan speed in my Modu82+ 425 watt is 650 rpm and the unit seems loud in my low power non-gaming rig even at idle. I am considering requesting a RMA from Directron.

Felger Carbon · Post by **Felger Carbon** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:19 pm

Avalanche wrote:I don't get it. Do they want you to take the fan apart?

That's the easiest way to clean the dust off that 9-blade fan... Hmm?

Felger Carbon · Post by **Felger Carbon** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:47 pm

The Italian site Isy has been reporting "delivery late" (translation) for some time now. Today, that was switched to 04-04-08, or next Friday. And East Luna is supposed to receive their shipment tomorrow. April Fool??

Avalanche · Post by **Avalanche** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:34 am

Felger Carbon wrote:That's the easiest way to clean the dust off that 9-blade fan... Hmm?

I guess, but whenever I've tried to do that before, either for cleaning or lubrication, I snap off a fan blade. Never had an Enermax fan before, though.

Felger Carbon · Post by **Felger Carbon** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:50 am

The East Luna web site shows "new arrival" for the delivery status of these fans, and "not in stock" (unchanged). They were supposed to arrive today. This would be consistent with "Yes, the boxes arrived just now" and "No, we haven't yet unpacked them and put them on the shelf". So my fingers are crossed that my 3 fans (1 PWM) will be shipped soon.

Felger Carbon · Post by **Felger Carbon** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:09 am

Has anybody here ever been on a snipe hunt? I'm beginning to think these "Enermax fans" are snipes...

The ISY (Italian) site that originally had Jan 4 2008 delivery went to "late delivery" for 4 months, returning a week ago with Apr 4 2008 (today), but today the delivery is Apr 30 delivery. As noted earlier, East Luna now calls these fans a "recent arrival", and has since April Fools' Day, but shows no stock - which leads me to wonder what "recent arrival" means. East Luna has some other "recent arrivals" but they show stock...

Is "recent arrival" a synonym for "snipe" in VA? Or is it "April Fool!"?

Felger Carbon · Post by **Felger Carbon** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 3:26 pm

I just got an email from East Luna that my shipment of the new Enermax fans, all 3 of them, is out the door. Expected delivery is 10 Apr or this Thursday.

Felger Carbon · Post by **Felger Carbon** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:34 am

Newegg now has the new Enermax 120mm fans in stock:
Search "Enermax case fan uc-ma12" for the Magma (3-pin fixed RPM)
Search "Enermax case fan uc-ev12" for the Everest (thermal)
Search "Enermax case fan uc-cl12" for the Cluster (PWM)

Felger Carbon · Post by **Felger Carbon** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 6:47 pm

I got the Enermax fans today (Thur) as advertised. How did they get here so fast from VA when I went cheap with UPS ground? Simple. They weren't shipped from VA (or East Luna), they were shipped from a shop in Rowland Heights, CA. Which explains why East Luna continues to show 0 parts in stock although I ordered parts from them, and got them promptly.

The plastic display package on the Enermax fans is the toughest ever, apparently designed to survive nuclear war. I tried my usual large, sharp scissors. Couldn't cut it. I tried an X-Acto knife. Nada. I tried a 5" (small electronic) pair of dikes (diagonal cutters). Uh uh. So I got out the big gun: a set of sheet metal cutters. This allowed me to cut the corners off the package, after which the large sharp scissors were able to do the rest (using some elbow grease):

A closeup of the Magma:

The magma hub assembly pops right off and clicks right back on. Obviously the person who designed this is not the same person who packaged the product. Alas, it is incompatible with the pop-off assembly on the Enermax Marathon 7-blade fan. No mix-and-match. *Sigh*.

Right now I'm comparing it to a Marathon and a Slipstream. I'll post the results in the User Reviews forum.

[The first pic doesn't seem to load at the moment. I've had problems with newly posted ImageShack jpgs before, they seem to fix themselves in a few hours.]

[Mod: There were two line returns in the links of the first image -- I fixed it.]

tc93 · Post by **tc93** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:47 am

April Fools' Day and the new Enermax fans

April Fools' Day and the new Enermax fans

The new Enermax fans arrived!