Monster fans?

nannygoat · Post by **nannygoat** » Fri May 14, 2004 8:54 am

In the quest for ever larger air-shifters, has anyone ever come across a (quiet) fan larger than 120mm diameter? I'm looking for something roughly 150mm but haven't found anything yet.
I have a ridiculous casemod in mind...

SpyderCat · Post by **SpyderCat** » Fri May 14, 2004 9:49 am

I think Jerry Springer has a nice slow revving fan in his studio.

Ask him

loren_brothers · Post by **loren_brothers** » Fri May 14, 2004 9:07 pm

or I heard Geraldo used one to blow open Al Capone's safe!!!

...but seriously there was a post about a week or so back about a 150mm fan(?)... but I will leave the searching to you....

...all's fair in love and the search of knowledge...

(I am just lazy right now

) Actually, all the new 'flashing banner ads' here have sent me into a severe cataleptic state and I am not capable of searching between my convulsive epileptic fits..

and my tongue keeps getting in the way

OOOHG OOoGH Aaargh! there it goes again!!!

(just kidding Mike and Ralf!!!)

fmah · Post by **fmah** » Sat May 15, 2004 8:47 am

I have a bunch of those 172 mm Comair Rotron fans. They are okay, but not quiet. Although they are probably better than 120mm at full speed. I tried running 24 V ones at 12 V. I think if you have a new one and run it at low voltage it might be reasonably quiet.

SD-Plissken · Post by **SD-Plissken** » Mon May 22, 2006 7:56 am

I have a rotron feather fan 7" 115v model while not built to SPCR spec's (NOT QUIET) it does move some massive cfm, If your looking for quiet you may want to look at 120mm or if you can find one 145mm 12v-24v models.

jaganath · Post by **jaganath** » Mon May 22, 2006 8:48 am

In the quest for ever larger air-shifters, has anyone ever come across a (quiet) fan larger than 120mm diameter? I'm looking for something roughly 150mm but haven't found anything yet.

You can get 140mm Yate Loon and Aerocool fans. Apparently the Aerocool Streamliner isn't very quiet though. I would expect the Yate Loon 140mm to be very quiet:

Yate Loon D14SL-12 @ Silecio-Ebay

BrianE · Post by **BrianE** » Mon May 22, 2006 11:16 am

I'm with Jaganath. Unless it really has to be 150mm, I would look at 140mm models instead. The problem with larger fans is that any you can actually buy are usually for industrial use, so they start off with the simple problem of running too fast to start with. Part of the reason (but not all) why fans such as the Nexus brand are so quiet is simply because they are capable of running very slowly.

qviri · Post by **qviri** » Mon May 22, 2006 11:20 am

Psst, look at the dates of the posts, folks.

BrianE · Post by **BrianE** » Mon May 22, 2006 11:56 am

qviri wrote:Psst, look at the dates of the posts, folks.

AARRRGH!!!

"Hmm... May 14. Okay, I'll bite...."

kangolo · Post by **kangolo** » Fri May 26, 2006 7:52 am

BrianE wrote:
qviri wrote:Psst, look at the dates of the posts, folks.
AARRRGH!!! "Hmm... May 14. Okay, I'll bite...."

2004

BrianE · Post by **BrianE** » Fri May 26, 2006 11:49 pm

kangolo wrote:
BrianE wrote:
qviri wrote:Psst, look at the dates of the posts, folks.
AARRRGH!!! "Hmm... May 14. Okay, I'll bite...."

2004

Umm.... yes, I am aware that was what I did not notice. I saw that the thread was started at an earlier date in May, which is why I replied, but the year was overlooked. I'm not sure why this is important enough to point out several days after the fact....

fhj52 · Post by **fhj52** » Tue May 30, 2006 2:04 pm

At the risk of getting even more posts to a two+ year old original post, the problem could be mostly eliminated if the board administrator would add the date/time function to the "Author" so the original post date is shown by default.

...just a suggestion.